North Pole Rock and Roll!!!!

Do you wanna Rock at the North Pole??
I  was so proud of the way your children performed today at the Holiday Program. They sang the song over and over and never seemed to get tired of it. I was also really impressed at their behavior when sitting for so long on the stage. I have a few photos in this album, but you are welcome to send me more and I'll add them (email me 2 or 3, or put them on a thumb drive.)

Ruoyan

We are sad to be saying goodbye to Ruoyan on Friday as she leaves us to attend a Singaporean school. She is a hard-working girl who always smiles! Come back and visit us Ruoyan!

Merry Christmas
Have a wonderful, restful holiday. I leave on Friday night to have 3 weeks in New Zealand where it is summer and should be nice and warm (but our summers are very unpredictable!)
I will see your children again on January 10 when we start at 10am.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

This week our classroom has been transformed for Christmas. We have a Christmas tree with blinking lights, a fireplace to read by, and advent calendars hanging all around. Every child wears a Christmas hat each day. Carols are playing and video clips of Santa in his workshop have been shown. It's so much fun! Here are some photos of it.

Messy Kids! Tarush celebrated his birthday on Friday. His Mom brought in cupcakes from the American Club which had LOTS of frosting on them - here's proof!

Science - last week, rolling cups were used on ramps for the children to discover how wheels of different sizes roll. Here are 4 video clips of that activity. This week we used marbles on polystyrene tubes to study the motion of spheres, We ended up joining all the tubes to create one long roller coaster for the marble. After several attempts the children finally worked out how to get the marble to travel all the way along their 'roller coaster.' Photos and video clips are here.


Technology - the children had their first try at making "Photostories" in the computer lab last month. They are gorgeous! I have emailed them to each family. If you want to see what the other children did, you can see them here (but they might take a long time to load!!) Hover the mouse over each icon to see the name of the child.