Elementary News September 2016 - International School of ... Dragon Chronicle September 2016.pdf · ISM’s New Look PTA Although separated into three campuses due to the large numbers

Some words from our Principal Mr. Clive.

Dear Parents,

As we come to the end of the first quarter it is time to reflect on how much learning has taken place in

what seems like such a short period of time. As I visit classes around the school I see students engaged in

learning activities. Some of these are group discussions, using manipulatives or tools to help with

understanding, role plays, researching, whole class activities, going over guiding charts, following

instructions, thinking about bigger issues, discussing local and global events, relating school work to real

life and these are just a small sample of the things that are happening here at elementary. Of course, it is

also important to remember that we can learn when things don’t go as well as we had hoped. As an

educational institution full of adults who are lifelong learners we are constantly reviewing what and how

we teach thus enabling us to continually improve as educators.

I want to thank the parents who have made positive contributions to our school through giving their time,

helping out in some way or by attending coffee mornings. Schools are always more successful when we

are all working together. Or as that old quote states, “It takes a village to raise a child.”

At coffee morning the concern was raised again about tuitions. I would like to remind all parents that

sending your child to ISM will give them every opportunity to be successful. Once they go home allow them

the time and space to be children. They will end up being far more successful than spending much of their

free time going to tuitions. At ISM we cannot control whether your child attends or does not attend

tuitions, that is your decision.

Throughout the second quarter there are a number of opportunities where you can be involved with your

children. Sports Day, coffee mornings, teacher respect day, parent conferences, Kahtein, International

Day, help with after school activities, be a coach, write something for the Dragon Chronicle, and winter

concerts. These are just the bigger activities. Keep checking your email, class newsletters, class blogs or

class websites to see how you can be more involved in your child’s education.

Have a great week.

Elementary News

Dates to remember: Wednesday 5 October Coffee Morning

Wednesday 5, 19 ASA

Friday 7 October Teacher Respect Day

Monday 10—14 October Thadingyut Holidays—No School

Thursday 20 October Parent/Teacher Conferences 11:30 dismissal

Friday 21 October Parent Teacher Conferences 11:30 dismissal

Thursday 20 October and Friday 21 October No school for PS

Monday 24 October to Friday 28 Scholastic Book Fair

Friday 28 October Student of the month

Wednesday 26 October PTA meeting

Character trait for September

September 2016

ISM’s New Look PTA

Although separated into three campuses due to the large numbers of students, ISM, as a whole embodies unity and functions as a family. Therefore, the PTA, who reflect the same characteristics as those mentioned above, will willingly continue to assist the school in multiple ways that will benefit both the staff and the students. The committee members of the PTA have planned monthly meetings for the whole school to take part in. We will continue to alert parents likewise as events come along. For example, our first activity, “Teacher Respect Day” will take place on Friday 7

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October. This event was designed in keeping with the Burmese tradition and culture of taking the time to express gratitude towards one’s educators. We ask for donations with this activity, in the hopes of preserving our tradition of providing foreign and local teach-ers who provide valuable lessons to our young students. We believe parent participation and general involvement of different parties are key in the success of this day. With deep respect ISM PTA committee

PTA

Communication Process If you have a suggestion or a concern the lines of communication are as

follows:

First, talk to your child’s teacher

Second, talk to the Principal

Third, talk to the Director

Fourth, talk to a member of the Board

Tardiness

Unfortunately we still have a number of children regularly arriving late at school!

“Students who arrive to school, after the starting time (8:15 am) are considered

tardy. Tardy students miss out on important morning routines and instruction, which

can cause a disturbance to others and create unnecessary difficulties for the

teacher. Parents are expected to bring their children to school by the starting time”

Students from room 207 Sequencing their daily activities

I.S.M နင မခငဘာသာစကား (၁)

နငငတကာ စာသငေကာငးမားတြင ၊ အဂလပဘာသာစကားက အသးျပျပး သငၾကား ေလရသည။ ေနာကပငးတြင မခင ဘာသာစကား၏ အေရး ပါမ ၊ အျခား ဘာသာစကားက သငၾကားသည အခါ ထေရာကမ ပ ေကာငးသညက ေတြ႔ရလာၾကသည။ ထ႔ေနာက ၊ မခင ဘာသာစကားက သငၾကားဖ႔သငယဖ႔ အေရးေပးလာၾကေလသည။ျမနမာ မဘမားက ကယသားသမးတ႔က နငငတကာ တကသလမားတြင အဆငျမင ပညာရပမား သငယဆညးပးေစလၾကသည။ အေျခခ ခငမာေအာင အငတာေနရငနယ စကး မားမာ ကယသားသမးတ႔က အပနၾကသည။ တစခနတညးမာပင ျမနမာစာေပအေရး အဖတနင ျမနမာမတ က လညး နားလည တတေျမာကေစလ ၾကျပနသည။ သ နင ျမနမာစာ ျမနမာမသည I.S.M ေကာငးတြင အေရးပါလာသည။ I.S.M မ ကေလးအမားစသည ၊ ျမနမာျပညဖြား မဘမားမ ေမြးဖြားလာၾကသ မားသျဖင ျမနမာစကားက ေျပာနငသည ေကာငးသား အမားစ ျဖစေလသည။ သ ရာတြင ျမနမာစာ အေရးအဖတမာမ မားစြာ အားနညးမ ရသည။ လြနခေသာ ၁ဝ နစေကာ ၊ I. S. M သ ေရာကခနကတညးက ျမနမာစာ သငၾကားမ က ရနငျပး ျဖစပါသည။ အျငမးစားပါေမာကၡ ဆရာမၾကးနင ၊ စနယာ ဆရာ မတ က သငၾကားေပးၾကၿပး၊ သငရး ညြနးတနး ဟ၍ အေသအခာ မရေသးေသာလညး ျမနမာယဥေကးမ ဓေလထးစ ၊ ျမနမာမတ႔မ ေကာငးနးရာရာမားက ေရြးထတျပး သငၾကားေပးသညက ေတြ ရသည။ သညေနရာတြင အေရးအဖတထက ၊ ဗဟသတ ၊ အေၾကာငးအရာ သမတ ဖြယ ရာ.၊ ပျပင တ႔က နားလညေအာင ရငးျပျခငး ၊ ေျပာျပျခငး ၊ နားေထာငေစျခငးတ႔ျဖင သငၾကားမ ပစက ျမနမာစာသငခနးမားတြင ေတြ႔ရသည။ပထမပငးတြင ကၽြနမက သငၾကားမ အေပၚ ကညလပကငေပးျပး ၊ ေကာငးသားတ႔၏ အေျခ အေနနင ေကာငး၏ အေျခအေနက ေလလာရေလသည။ မလတနးဆင သငၾကားနညး က ကၽြနမ တကသလေကာငးသဘဝ ကတညးက ( ညေနပငးအခနတြင ကၽြနမက တကသလ စရတအတြက ကေလးငယတစခ ကနစမားစြာ သငၾကားေပးဖးသည။) ေလလာေတြ႔ရခသည။ သ ရာတြင အငတာေနရငနယ အဆငမာဘယလ ခဥးကပျပး သငၾကား ေနၾကသည က ပထမ ေလလာျပးမ ၊ ေကာငးသားေတြ၏ ျမနမာစာ အဆငအတနးနင ကၽြနမ လပနငစြမး ၊ လပနငခြင ဘယေလာကရမလ ဆသညက ဒတယ ဆင ေလလာခသည။ အမမာ ဆရာမနင သငယသ မားကသာ ေရးနငဖတနငစြမး ရၾကျပး ၊ ေကာငး မာသာ သငယသ ေကာငးသား အခ မာ အေတာအားနညးမ ရသည။ သ နင ဆရာမၾကးက ေျပာျပ၍ သငပနးၾကး ဖတစာက မေကညကေသးေသာ ကေလး အခ က ထတနတျပး ျမနမာစာ အေျခခ အေရး အဖတတ က စတင သငၾကားေပးသည။ သငၾကားခနမာ တစပတ လင ၄၅ မးနစ နစခနမသာျဖစသည။ သညတစပတ သငလကသည သငခနးစာတ က ေနာကတစပတမာ ကေလးအေတာမားမား ေမပစလကၾကသည။ ဒါက ေကာငးသားတ ၏ အျပစမဟတေပ။ အရြယေရာကျပးသမားပင ဘာသာရပတစခက အခနပငးေလး ေလလာျပး ပစထားလကပါက ေမသြားနငသညမာ ဓမၼတာ ပငျဖစသည။ တစခနတညးမာပင…. ေကာငးမ ဒါရကတာ ၊ေကာငးအပဆရာ ၊ဆရာမမား ၊ သငရးညႊနးတနးမ စမအၾကေပးနငသမား နင ျမနမာဆရာမ သးဥး ပးေပါငးျပးေနာက၊ MYANMAR LANGUAGE CURRICULUM FRAME WORK တစခ ထြကေပၚလာသည။ ၂ဝဝ၆ ခနစ၏ သငရးညြနးတနးတြင Grade 1 , Grade 2 တ မာ သငၾကားရမည အေျခခ အေရးအဖတ အရြတအဆ တ က ထညသြငးေရးသားထားခသည။(ေနာကတစပတမာ ဆကလက ဖတရေပးပါရန )Nyo Nyo Tin Hla (Ms San San Myint)

Good Citizens

Room 303

Exploring Landmarks of

Yangon

Room 306

Respect Quotes From Room 401 Respect means:

giving hope and joy

saying thanks after being helped

don’t write on school desks

treat people the way you want to be treated

helping the elderly across the street

being kind, gentle, sharing and not rude to others

During the school year the character traits Respect, Friendship, Citizenship, Cooperation/

Sportsmanship, Kindness, Empathy, Courage, and Honesty are integrated into the students

learning. The month of August was time to have a focus on the trait Respect and the second graders

presented a song and shared stories that gave examples of Respect, to the elementary school.

Ms. Jemay with Gar Garr and Patricia

Ms. Kate and Yi Sheng and Phu Phu

Ms. Marsha with her

students Lilian, Tony and

Isabella

Students From Room 403 Interviewed and Wrote Biographies for Important People in

Their Lives

Room 307 Explaining their Favorite Holiday Destination

Angel

Gloria

Htun Zaw

Htoo Pyae

Joshua

Main Main

There was a group of boys that bullied everyone or any living thing they saw, which was easy to be cruel to. They spent all their time planning mean and evil deeds. They often made traps in front of doors, when people from the house were out. While people were trapped the evil boys would enter the homes and steal all the things they wanted. They lived on a spooky island with a mountain at one side. One day, when they couldn’t find any more people to har-ass, they sailed to another island, which was full of trees like an evergreen forest. They entered the dark woods. Suddenly, a little snow figure appeared. It ran so fast, leav-ing sparks behind. The gang of boys ran after the sparks. When they reached the largest, tallest tress they saw a small white rabbit. It ran into a little hole under the tree trunk. They went back to research information about the rabbit. After they researched they found out the rabbit was magi-cal. If they ate the rabbit’s meat they would be able to con-trol the weather in any area. They decided to capture the rabbit. No one was aware of their devious plan. They made many attempts. After about three months they caught the rabbit. They placed the rabbit in a cage. Then, a little girl came into their clubhouse and freed the cute rabbit. As the rabbit reached the mountain, the bullies returned to their clubhouse. The rabbit, being master of the weather, made ice and snow fall over the clubhouse. The boys were trapped in it, and they starved to death. The people living in the village, the little girl, and the rabbit lived happily and peacefully ever after.

Isabella

A Magic Sword

Once upon a time there was a kingdom called Win-

dom. In Windom there was a king named King

Balor. He had two sons, Thor and Bor.

King Balor had special powers. He also had a

magical sword, which was very powerful. When

King Balor died, Thor and Bor both wanted

to become the king. The sword was stored in a spe-

cial safe. The town decided that whichever brother

could crack the code to the safe and open it would

become the new king.

They both gathered mathematicians to try to deci-

pher the code. They spent months trying to open

the safe to remove the sword. Finally, one of Thor’s

men got the safe opened. Thor became king.

There was a huge celebration with a festival. Bor was jealous, and he was not going to give up. He

joined forces with a nearby kingdom. One day they

launched a surprise attack, but Thor had the magical

sword. Windom won the skirmish and Thor became an

even mightier king in the eyes of his kingdom.

The Magical Rabbit

A Magic Sword

How Students Learn in Room 208

Room 205

showing their

knowledge of

Myanmar’s different

landforms

Nicky

Yoon Yoon Alizah

William Lucas

Students from Room 203 Showing What They Have Learnt About

Landforms and Safe Environments

Students from Room 405 Explaining and Showing What Good

Writers Do

Students at ISM will be : * Involved Citizens

* Academic Achievers

* Effective Communicators

* Critical Thinkers

* Self-Directed Life Long Learners

Over 70 parents attended the Elementary Coffee Morning. Dentists from the Evergreen Dental

practice gave a most informative talk , modeled teeth cleaning and showed a Power Point on teeth

and mouth hygiene. Mr. Clive discussed the success of the Myanmar Studies program,

Tech Integration and the Information Center as well as answered questions raised by parents.

Here’s three of our PK 4 students, Ethan, San Thu Ta and Ivy using their own self made binoculars to

look at animals as part of their Senses Unit.

19-23 September

Health Week started off with an interactive informative workshop given by Evergreen

Dentists. They showed the students how to look after their teeth. Our nurse,

Ms. Thu Thu visited elementary students, showing and talking about germ protection,

personal hygiene, looking after your body and she will be carrying out eye checks. On

Thursday the students had a visit from Ms. Thinza who is a dietician, she spoke about

eating healthy foods , having treats occasionally and doing physical activity.

Stacy demonstrating teeth cleaning

Dietician

Ms. Thinza

Nurse

Ms. Thu Thu

Students from Room 401 making their own Improvisations

The students were given the opportunity to present the poem Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too, by using two different

types of instruments, one or more persons can speak the poem, add movement using different levels, add something original

and work together with other group members.

Room 209 wrote about friendship

Friendship Quotes from Grade Two Students

Friendship means:

sharing with each other

playing together

apologize to your friend when you make them upset

show sympathy

be there when your friend is in trouble

work together

be kind

enjoying a magical time and teamwork

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Art and Craft

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Naing Naing Room 305 and

Lin Htet Kot Room 203

Games

Neil Room 403 and

Tony Room 307

Cindy Room 209 Sanidhie Room 306 Jeevika Room 306 Farhan Room 208

Min Thit Room 205 and Gar Garr Room 207

Yoga

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