Week 13

It has been a short but very sweet week in 1BeM. On Wednesday, we enjoyed our first visit to Happy Lodge Home for the Elderly in Tampines. The whole grade performed four songs for the residents, including Chan Mali Chan, which has long been a Happy Lodge favourite. After our performance, the children moved out into the crowd, introducing themselves to the residents and sharing cards, poems and gifts they had made at school. This was quite challenging for some of us but 1BeM did us proud and the residents seemed to really enjoy our visit . We are already looking forward to returning in a couple of weeks to get to know our Happy Lodge friends a little better.

A massive THANK YOU to everyone for joining in with Thursday's Workshares with such enthusiasm and interest. As I mentioned on the day, we wanted the focus to be about how our Units of Study combine content based learning with more conceptual, hands-on and open-ended research. From what we observed, many of you went home a little (a lot?) more knowledgeable about the names of our bones and their locations and, hopefully, the sessions sparked some collective thinking and discussions about the importance of joints and function in the Skeletal System. Some of you might want to work on your dance moves though!! Your dancing was really PEEDOODLE.

Next week, we will begin to shift our focus to another important body system, namely the Circulatory System. We are very excited about our upcoming visit Khoo Teck Puat Hospital the week after next. Please return the permission slip asap if you have not already done so. 

This morning, our Border Buddy, Lana, dropped by the class to say "Hi" and to share some of her favourite poems with us, in line with out "Poetry" units. Poetry is a big passion of Lana's and she had us mesmerised as she shared an enormously long poem all about her homeland in Russian...entirely from memory! It was beautiful. She also shared her favourtie poem in the English language, "If." It is always lovely to see Lana and she has already promised to come back again soon.

Do not forget that I am away next week. Katy Kay (kak@uwcsea.edu.sg) and, of course, Ida (zubaidahuwc@uwcsea.edu.sg) will be with the class all week, so, please contact them directly if you have any queries or requests, particularly if there are changes to end of day pick up arrangements. I will not be able to send out a Blog next week but I am sure the children will keep you to to date on all the latest happenings.

Reminders

*UN Day-Thursday 3rd December-11.30am-Auditorium

*Parent Teacher Conferences Day-Wednesday 9th December-No school for students

Have a great weekend.