Nei ho! The children returned from the break ready to work! Lessons have included “The Coming of Humans”, “The Flower”, “Sentence (Logical) Analysis”, “Brownie Baking”, and “Powers of Numbers” (just to name a few). We’ve also started learning more about “Knitting” and “Crochet” as well as constructing “Labyrinths”.
Recognition:
Thanks to Eliseo Davis’ family for the books and resources about Caribbean history. They will be incredibly helpful with our Cayman research and timeline.
Barev! What an interesting and fun filled week! Once again our lessons have been based on the cosmic world of the Elementary classroom. Our lessons have ranged from “The Black Strip” (an impressionistic lesson illustrating how long humans have been on Earth compared to the age of the Earth itself), “Suffixes and Prefixes”, “Handwriting” (using calligraphy pens and ink), to various art projects, including work with pastels and cabin crafts/ handwork with crocheting. Timeline and country/ culture research work is continuing and coming along in very interesting ways! We are all learning a lot!
On Wednesday, we had a special treat with Mr. Guy coming in to give a lecture on ‘Viruses’. On Thursday we enjoyed pumpkin carving. Shopping, cooking, and baking work is continuing and is very popular with everyone- especially during snack time! J
Recognition:
We would like to offer a sincere and hearty thank you to Aidan Hew’s family for helping to supply our lab with a great hair dryer and to Connor Child’s family for giving us their pumpkin to carve. Thank you!
Hafa Adai! We have had another fabulous week, with diverse lessons, experiences and lots of interesting follow-up work. We started the week enjoying another Great Lesson, “The Story of the Coming of Life”, and many of our activities have been derived from this. On Tuesday, we enjoyed our second ‘Beach Clean-Up’ and came back with some very interesting specimens, shells, and a lot of trash. In Language, “Compound Words” have been the talk of the class and Math facts with our “finger boards” have been in constant use.
Several of our students have started on local Cayman Islands studies as well as exploring our seafaring history by making antique “compass roses”. “Timeline work” is also continuing, including the study of how and why we tell time in increments of five, to the larger aspects of looking at civilizations and countries and how they evolved over time. Our study of the roots continues with a variety of engaging experiments as well as research into the different kinds of roots both globally and here in Grand Cayman.
Bonjour! Well, it’s been another eventful week in Lower Elementary! We’ve made lots of changes that we’re all excited about and certainly looking forward to what’s to come! Our week started with an entertaining and educational assembly about keeping the ocean clean by the Middle Years students, and lessons this week have been on everything from “Roots” to “Five Kingdoms” to the “Story of Numbers” (the Fifth Great Lesson).
Journal work has also been fun and several of the children have asked if they would be allowed to bring in their own journals. We would like to let parents know that we encourage children to take pride and ownership in their work and would welcome any personal journals that the children would like to bring in. We do ask that if the children choose to do so that the journals have no cartoon characters on the covers or pages. For most children, lined paper also works best. We do want to add that this is certainly not necessary; the school provides journals for the children, and this is simply an additional option if children would prefer. Please note that if they choose to bring in a journal, it should be clearly labeled with their names and it would have to remain at school.
Please remember every child should have his/her own bottle of sunscreen at school for recess and PE.
