Ms. England's Class Finishes 2017 with a bang!

Wax Museum

What a wonderful way to finish our community helpers unit! This unit we learned all about community helpers and what it takes to run our community (from getting to school to keeping the school safe). Also, we had to learn interview skill and conduct our own interviews. Finally, we practiced and completed a presentation honoring many of the community helpers at Graded. Our wax museum was a great success! We hosted over 7 classes and many special adult visitors. Some of us believe we presented almost 40 times! The hard work was well worth all the effort! Thank you to all the parents and grandparents who were able to come out and support our museum.

Gingerbread House

We want to say a big "THANK YOU" to all the parents who came to help us celebrate Ms. Purdie's birthday! Also, an extra big thank you to Sebastian's mom for bringing in gingerbread houses for us to decorate. Decorating the houses was an amazing exercise in communication, sharing and compromise. Overall, we really demonstrated the principles of the Eagle Way to make some amazing houses!

Lower School Update - December 11, 2017

Lower School Spirit Week

LS Spirit Week has begun! Each day all students will have a special day to dress up. Here is a little more information about the theme each day:

Monday:  Multi-Color Day Can you dress in as many colors as possible? Can you dress like a rainbow?  Let's see you be bright and colorful.

Tuesday:  Dress Like an Athlete Day Be a tennis player.  Be a ballerina.  Be a gymnast.  Be a horseback rider.  Be a surfer.  How will you dress like an athlete?

Wednesday:  Party Clothes Day Let's all support our Pre-Primary and Grade 1 students and wear fancy party clothes in honor of their holiday concert.  Sparkles and ties are welcome.

Thursday:  Crazy Day Maybe you want to wear your clothes backwards.  Maybe you want to wear crazy clothes.  Maybe you want to do your hair crazy.  Maybe you want to wear all neon.  Dress crazy.

Friday:  Pajama Day Wear your comfy pajamas and get ready for comfort all day long.

Pre-Primary and First Grade Holiday Concert

On Wednesday our Pre-primary and 1st grade students will present in the auditorium at 8:30 am. Doors will open at 8:00. We hope you can join us for this special presentation!

Les Fotografias Escolares will film and photograph our Holiday Concert. If you would like to order a DVD or pictures, please submit a form to Les Fotografias Escolares’s representative at the event, in the auditorium entrance or do it online, using this link. On the day of the concert there will be three photographers and three cameramen in the LES uniform so you will find them easily. For DVDs the price is: R$129,90. For photos, a pen drive will be available with all the pictures taken in high-resolution for R$69,90 (payments can be made in cash, check or credit on the day of the event). If you have any questions please contact the studio at (11) 3862-1763.

Happy Holidays

Friday is our last school day of 2017. This will be a half day for all students, dismissal time is 11:30 am.

We wish you and your family a wonderful holiday season and look forward to seeing you in 2018!

Upcoming Important Dates

December 11	LS Spirit Week:  Multi-Color Day
December 12	LS Spirit Week:  Dress Like an Athlete Day
December 13	LS Spirit Week:  Party Clothes Day Pre-Primary and 1st Grade Holiday Concert 8:30 am (auditorium)
December 14	LS Spirit Week:  Crazy Day
December 15	LS Spirit Week:  Pajama Day Students Dismissed at 11:30 am (holidays begin)
January 23	Classes Resume

Around the Lower School

K and 1st Grade Holiday Concert- Dec 13th at 8:30 am

Ms Burnquist We received the Golden "G" for following the Eagle way in the hallways!!!

Ms. England's Class Wax Museum

Dear Parents,

On Thursday, December 14th at 9:00AM our class will be presenting our Wax Museum. During the wax museum we will pretend to be wax sculpture of a Graded community helper. We'll act as someone else and can only move or talk when a pretend button is pressed. As seen on SeeSaw, we have interviewed a community workers at the school and the wax museum is our opportunity to present the results of our research. We'll be discussing which community worker we are, what the job entails, who we work with and associated cooperation skills, and how this job helps the school community.

Parents and relatives are welcome, as well as siblings. Classes will be coming in and out to see our wax museum, but parents/relatives may stay as long as they wish.

We are allowed to dress up and bring things from home. This is optional and not required, but if we decide to do so please remind us that we need to dress up before school starts.

Optional:

• Dressing up like community workers.
• Please dress up before coming to school

We are really excited and we hope to see you Thursday!!

Love,

Ms. England's Class

Ms. Keane's Summer Challenge

Happy Holidays!
Here is a bit of summer work and educational websites your child can practice.

https://www.kidsa-z.com/main/Login

http://us.mathletics.com/signin/

http://www.abcya.com

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm

http://www.softschools.com/math/games/

http://www.funbrain.com/FBSearch.php?Grade=1

From the library website: From the Graded website, go to Quicklinks>Library Catalog. Choose the Lower School Library, and click "log in." If you haven't set up a parent library account, you can log in using the username: graded, password: graded. You will then see the list of subscriptions we have, with all passwords included.

Brain Pop JR- https://jr.brainpop.com/

Bookflix- https://educator-slz01.scholasticlearningzone.com/auth/intl/Login/BRA6C48

National Geographic- http://natgeo.galegroup.com/natgeo/archive?p=NGMA&u=capesnatgeo

Tumblebooks- http://www.tumblebooklibrary.com/Default.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f

Thank you,
Shannon Keane

Holiday Concert and Party!

Dear Parents,                           

                                                                                                   

Please come watch our amazing first graders singing in the auditorium on Dec.13th at 8:30 am. Students should dress up for their performance. (For girls dresses or skirt and blouses are suggested. For boys, a shirt with collar and pants or bermuda shorts.) Children may change into regular clothes after the class party.

Parents are all invited to attend our class party right after the Concert. Students will be waiting to serve and celebrate the end of the year with you. Your presence is very important. If you cannot attend, please send another family member of friend.

Warm regards,
The First Grade Team 

Curriculum Update: What's Going on in First Grade

Literacy: Students are completing the non-fiction units for reading and writing. In the upcoming weeks students will work on publishing a non-fiction text.

Math: Students are telling time to the quarter-hour and being introduced to place value

Social Studies: Some classes visited the cafeteria and learned about the community workers that help in the cafeteria, what they do and what tools they use.

Science: Some classes are studying parts of a plant and their functions.

Portuguese PLA: Nas últimas semanas de aula, os alunos trabalharão com atividades de leitura a partir da parlenda "1, 2, feijão com arroz". Depois, escolherão uma parlenda ou cantiga para criar uma nova versão que farão parte de um livro da classe.

Portuguese PAL: In PAL, students have been practicing the song Borboleta Pequenina for the Holiday concert and writing Christmas cards for the school staff. They also continue to work on their book of vowels and to read books in Português.

Ms. Keane's Wax Museum Reminder

Dear Parents,

On Friday, December 8 at 10:30AM our classroom will be presenting our Wax Museum. A wax museum is a museum in which they pretend to be wax people. They act as someone else and can only move or talk when a pretend button is pressed. Students have interviewed community workers at the school and will be presenting themselves as a community worker they have researched. They will be discussing which community worker they are, what the job entails, what tools you need for the job, and how this job helps the school community.

Parents and relatives are welcome, as well as siblings. Classes will be coming in and out to see our wax museum, but parents/relatives may stay as long as they wish.

Students asked if they could dress up and bring things from home. I told them this was completely optional and not required, but if you decide to do so please have them dress up before school starts and bring the tools on Thursday.

Optional:

• Dressing up like community workers.
• Please dress up before coming to school
• Tools- Bringing tools from home that their community worker uses.
• Please bring on Thursday, December 7

The students are really quite excited and we hope to see you all there.

Sincerely,

Shannon Keane

Ms. Keane's November Birthdays

We had a lovely time celebrating our November birthdays with Seunghyun and Ana! Happy Birthday Girls!

Ms. Keane's Community Assembly

 Hey All,
Last Friday our kids did a fun PE task showing how they use body movement skills. Check out the pictures below.

Spirit Week!

Monday, December 11

Multi-Color Day.  Can you dress in as many colors as possible? Can you dress like a rainbow?  Let's see you be bright and colorful.

Tuesday, December 12

Dress Like an Athlete Day.  Be a tennis player.  Be a ballerina.  Be a gymnast.  Be a horseback rider.  Be a surfer.  How will you dress like an athlete?

Wednesday, December 13

Party Clothes Day.  Let's all support our PrePrimary and Grade 1 students and wear fancy party clothes in honor of their holiday concert.  Sparkles and ties are welcome.

Thursday, December 14

Crazy Day.  Maybe you want to wear your clothes backwards.  Maybe you want to wear crazy clothes.  Maybe you want to do your hair crazy.  Maybe you want to wear all neon.  Dress crazy.

Friday, December 15

PJ Day.  Wear your comfy pajamas and get ready for comfort all day long.

Learning how to use commas- Ms. Heineberg's students

Today students worked with partners and practiced using commas  in their writing. Mr. Lockhart prepared a fun and challenging activity in which they had to put the words in the correct order and use commas when needed. First graders are using commas while writing their teaching books.