Quick Reminder 2 - Homework

Hello everyone,

Let's make it short this time :)

1. Homework

This week's homework is English, about initial sounds.

First year student (K) will have to match the cards given based on its initial sound.

Example: (picture) ball and (picture) bean

Below is the homework sheet that's been given to each student today (August 18, 2011)

Second year student (1) will play some games about initial sound on the internet with parents. The result will be written down on a piece of paper (from home)

Please click the link below to get into the game's page

- Game one

- Game two

And here's the homework sheet that's been given to each student today (August 18, 2011)

2. Please provide your child with HighScope blue folder (as pictured below) in order to keep the homework neat when it's given or submitted.

3. Make sure each homework is submitted before the due date.

Have a blessed day, everyone!!! :)

17 Agustusan

MERDEKA!!!

Pada tanggal 16 Agustus kemarin, sepertinya seisi kelas hanya terdiri dari aksen warna merah dan putih. Yup, karena pada hari itu ada perayaan "Hari Kemerdekaan Indonesia" di sekolah. Sebagian murid (dan guru, tentunya) mengenakan atasan merah dan bawahan putih. Bahkan beberapa orangtua pun mengenakan kostum yang sama.

Acara pada hari itu dimulai dengan upacara bendera. Bagi beberapa murid, mungkin itulah saat pertama mereka mengikuti upacara bendera. Rasa penasaran pun terpancar dari wajah dan sikap mereka. Sepertinya mereka sama sekali tidak ingin tertinggal untuk menyaksikan tiap-tiap detik dari upacara itu. Berjinjit dan keluar barisan menjadi senjata utama mereka. Para guru pun hanya sesekali menegur karena memahami rasa penasaran mereka.

Setelah upacara, kami pun menonton dan membahas beberapa cuplikan klip-klip perjuangan dan bertukar pikiran dengan para murid, termasuk berandai-andai tentang apa yang terjadi jika masa sekarang masih seperti dulu. Ide-ide pun bermunculan dari celotehan mereka.

Lalu, permainan pun dimulai. Permainan-permainan khas 17an dimodifikasi dan dipadukan dengan materi pelajaran di kelas. Ada permainan membuat rantai angka terpanjang, lompat suku kata, mengelompokkan dan cerdas cermat phonics.

Semua yang terlibat sangat bersemangat untuk melakukan yang terbaik untuk kelompoknya. Sampai saatnya pulang pun, tak terlihat rasa letih di wajah mereka masing-masing.

Sekali lagi, MERDEKA!!! Semoga semangat seperti ini terus mereka bawa dalam membangun masa depan bangsa di hari depan mereka.

Quick Reminder

Today, your child received several letters:

- Notes to Parents

The one that describe what have been done and learned in the past week (August 3 to 9, 2011)

- Independence Day Reminder

Here is informed that on August 16, 2011, we are going to have an independence Day celebration, including flag ceremony at 8 AM in the morning. therefore, please make sure your child come before the ceremony begins.

- Homework

Your child is having a Social Studies Weekly Project that will due on August 16, 2011 (the one that stated on the paper are wrong :p) On this project, your child should order numbers from the smallest to the biggest. Your child will get the numbers from things they like to clean up (for 2nd year students) or things that can be used for cleaning up (for the 1st year student). For further instructions, please refer to the homework sheet.

To keep the homework sheet neat, we would like to ask you to provide blue folder for your child's homework. The folder can be found (and bought) in SHI Store. Next, all homework will be given and submitted using the folder and will also be completed by homework card in order to keep track of each student's homework and feedback from parents or teachers regarding the homework.

We also would like to remind you that tomorrow, Group 1 (Achmad, Amanda, Callista, Farrel) and Group 2 (Aqilla, Arya, Ezra, Faiz) will have Swimming. Please bring swimming equipment and wear the swimming suit from home.

See you tomorrow!!! :)

Career Week

Career Week was the very first High Scope event in this academic year of 2011/2012. This event started on Tuesday, August 2 and ended on Friday, August 5. The purpose of this event is to introduce students to varied career that they can choose to fulfill their hopes and dreams in the future.

On this Career Week, we had 4 guest speakers that have different occupation. For our grade level speaker, the school had invited one of the Ragunan Zookeepers. His name is Mr. Untung and he takes care of aves, one of them is Rocky, the eagle, that he brought along to school. Students are informed about the animal's environment, how the animals live around it, including how they breed. All explanation are related to our big question, "What makes a family?"

The next three guests are none other than our classroom parents. First to come is Mrs. Susan Emir or, as she likes to be called by other student, Mommy Ezra :) She is a safety officer. In the classroom, she exposed students to what she does. With a little help from Mrs. Elisabeth Tri Aryanti, she led students in having a fire evacuation drill. This was the most excited activity on that day. Before she went back to her own activity, she gave away a drill attendance certificate for each student.

The second parent-guest speaker was Mrs. Elisabeth Tri Aryanti, Elan's Mom. She exposed students to an occupation called lecturer. She also explained the difference between teacher and lecturer, shared about her students and even about one of her professors :) The most excited activity on this day was when each student had the chance to explore counting in a different way. They learned numbers by trying to press each number in the mini-calculator, that later being gave away for the students.

The last day, we had our last speaker, Mrs. Timsy. She is Laudza's Mom and an artisan. She designs many artistic things in the workshop in her house. In the classroom, she shared about things she does and makes in daily basis, including the tools that she uses to make all that stuff. In the end, we had a chance to decorate our own photo frame with colorful pearls to make them more beautiful. :)

Well, there were so many fun activities and interesting exposes. All of those made the students have even more hopes and dreams, including to be zookeepers, safety officer, lecturers, artisan and many other occupation to build on their careers in the future.

Thank you very much for each and everyone who participated in this event. We couldn't make it without you :)

Greetings from K-1 F

Time flies and it's already our third week being in the classroom together. We have known each other a bit better right now. Students, parents and teachers, all have their own special fun characters that ready to work together and create good times throughout this academic year of 2011-2012.

Days have passed and we have done various activities together. We did outdoor activities, such as going around the school, and many kinds of indoor activities as well. Those activities were not just for fun and but also make the students feel more comfortable in their new environment, but also to expose students to things that we are going to learn this term.

We also exposed students to classroom expectation, including classroom rules and some procedures that will be used during the school hours, such as what to do before going to the restroom, have a drink or line up.

Well, many more to come from and to all of us...!!!

Until then,

K-1 F