AIAN will be a widely respected school providing a model US based educational program with an internationally minded community. December 9, 2011 Dear Community, Week sixteen of the school year ended today. Over the week the PTA kindly organized an appreciation breakfast for the faculty and staff to celebrate their work and achievements so far this year. This was supported by a number of positive written reflections and comments offered by the students about their teachers. This show of support for the employees of the school was much appreciated by all of us. Thank you. Other items for you attention are, HIGH SCHOOL EXAM SCHEDULE FOR JANUARY 2012 Indicated below is the High School end of semester examination schedule that all Grade 9 to 12 students will be involved in. The High School students have been informed. When classes resume in January there will be one full week in school before the examinations start. Students will need to spend time over the holiday period reviewing the work completed over the semester. We hope that parents and students can ensure that the necessary preparations occur.
STUDENT COUNCIL As you know, the Student Council is hosting a ˇ°Lock Inˇ± at school today Friday, December 9. This event involves all three levels of the school to varying degrees. Elementary School students will not being staying in school over night, but will be involved in a movie event from 3.00 p.m. until 6.00 p.m. and then go home. Middle and High School students will be in school from 3.30 p.m. until the following morning and leave school at 7.00 a.m. Thank you to those students who are involved and for returning the necessary permission slips. The Student Council is organizing and running the event. There will be adult supervision provided by the school throughout the evening DRAMA - MACBETH During the ˇ°Lock Inˇ± a production of Macbeth will take place. All parents are of course still invited and welcome to be in the audience. The performance starts at 7.00 p.m. Please see the information below. We hope to see you here this evening! Please review the information below provided by Ms. Jenkins. Macbeth, an adaption of the beloved play by William Shakespeare AIAN ~ December 9, 2011, 7:00 pm CAST of CHARACTERS (in order of appearance) First Witch Anna Shortes Second Witch Alison Seok Third Witch Lisa Lee Macbeth Thomas Wu Banquo Edward Wu Ross Alex Seok Lady Macbeth Cara Lamug Servant Won Ji Chae King Duncan Kirill Chelombitko Porter David Biksolt Macduff Keir Daly Lennox Alison Seok Malcolm, (son of King Duncan) Lisa Lee Donalbain, (son of King Duncan) David Biksolt Three Murderers Charm Yoon Kirill Chelombitko Lisa Lee Fleance, (son of Banquo) Alex Seok Banquet Guests Alison Seok Anna Shortes David Biksolt Alex Seok Doctor Kirill Chelombitko Gentlewoman Charm Yoon Messenger Alison Seok Appreciations Sound Effects Richard and Kathryn Ruhe Support for Costumes PTA English Language Coaching William Wallace Technological Assistance Tom Xu Ordering of Props Elaine Jin Programs and Translation Support with Tailor Cora Lu and Lavender Yu Stage Set Up Assistance Jacky Huang Solving Problems & General Support Lisa Ren Help with Bussing, Phone Calls and General Support Susan Chen Help with Bussing, Phone Calls and General Support Lilian Chen General Support Wendy Chang Director Elaine Jenkins A very special thank you to the Head of School for much support during all production aspects Mark Bretherton One more very special thank you to President of the AIAN STUDENT COUNCIL for her flexibility and help Emily Amahdi THE DIGITAL SPOT Are you an adventurous person? Most of us are! Most of our community have moved and traveled to many places in the world, enjoying and appreciating different cultures and languages. Children also like to look for adventure and a great way to do this is in computer or laptop classes. The fact is that students enjoy discovering new places, countries and planets. This sense of exploration is triggered during Social Studies. Here is a list of useful social studies based websites and freeware that provide an opportunity to your child(ren) to be an explorer and adventurer!
The Technology Term of the Week Interactive Map: A map is a visual representation of an area; a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, regions, and themes. An interactive map will adjust and show different categories according to filters and queries. I hope you have an adventurer during the Winter Holiday, please have a great time. Daniela Silva MCP, M.Ed. AIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL NEWS Vol. 6 Dear Parents and Middle School Students, The Middle School Teachers want ensure that WE as middle school teachers have constant communication with our parents and students. Please be sure to activate your Edline accounts at www.edline.net to check progress in classes. Parents, if you are not sure how to activate your account please contact Ms. Silva the IT coordinator. Quarter two is coming to an end and there are still Middle School students that have not returned their progress report envelope. Parents, please make sure to ask your student if they have any papers or mail that you need to sign or review. Next Friday, all Middle school homerooms will have holiday parties to celebrate the winter holiday in homeroom from 3:00pm -3:30pm. Please feel free to join us for our celebrations! Congratulations to the following students for being NOVEMBER Pride Assembly Winner for Learning Outcome #3: Collaboration 6 th grade: Georgia Sutjiadi 7 th grade: Gaoxin Zhang 8 th grade: So Yeon Kim Physical Education: Mona Lamug Check out our pictures of school events at: http://www.aian.org.cn/photos.asp Middle school Subject news: Core Values Last Month Our Core Value was Cooperation. Students made poems and compassion cards for this Value. This month the AIAN Core Value is Honesty . We will work to learn more about the idea and skills of honesty. There are three weeks left of this course for the 7/8 th graders then they will switch to Health class with Mr. Carroll for the remainder of the year. The 6 th /7 th grade will finish the year with Core Values. http://aianmiddleschool-corevalues.wikispaces.com/ Math Grades 6, 7, 8 and Social Studies Grades 6, 7 Be sure to check out Mr. Jack's NEW website: www.aianjack.org Middle School General Science Grades 6, 7, 8 Be sure to check out Ms. Higley's website: http://www.teacherweb.com/CH/AIAN/MsH Middle School General Science Grades 6, 7, 8 BIG Idea: Matter 6 th Grade: Student's have started to study weather and they will examine the essential question, ˇ°How is matter connected to weather?ˇ± Students will be completing their Severe Weather Project next week (December 15), where they were assigned to investigate one type of severe weather and to educate their classmates. Over the winter vacation, students can challenge themselves with extra credit current event articles, where they can read a current event article related to science and fill out a worksheet. In addition to their science book report, they can do an extra credit book report. They can make use of books that they checked out, Raz kids, and Tumble readers. These websites are located on my website on the icon with the flying book, www.teacherweb.com/CH/AIAN/MsH , the AIAN website www.aian.cn.org , and for 6th grade science collaboration go to http://higley6science2011-2012.wikispaces.com/ 7 th Grade: Students just completed a quiz on matter and continue to investigate ˇ°How matter applies to Geology Last week they completed a lab that investigated chemical and mechanical weathering. This week we have started to study minerals and rocks. They will begin a project entitled ˇ°Mighty Mineralsˇ± and have a writing assignment coming up entitled, ˇ°My Journey through the Rock Cycle.ˇ± Students will continue their scientific collaboration by posting their top three questions for the Science Fair project on http://higleyscience7.wikispaces.com/ , and continue their science book reports Science Fiction, Non-Fiction or Biography. Over the winter holiday, students can make use of their time by completing extra credit current event articles, where they can read a current event article related to science and fill out a worksheet. In addition to their science book report, they can do an extra credit book report. They can make use of books that they checked out, Raz kids, and Tumble readers. These websites are located on my website on the icon with the flying book, www.teacherweb.com/CH/AIAN/MsH or the AIAN website www.aian.cn.org . 8 th Grade: Students are continuing to investigate the essential question, ˇ°How matter applies to soil?ˇ± Last week they completed a lab that investigated chemistry of soil. Students also continue to work on the Poison Project. They have been creating a blog/WIKI on a poison of their choice. Some have chosen to do extra credit and translate into Mandarin or their native language! Great work! Next week, students will vote on the most dangerous poison. Next week Thursday, eighth graders will have a quiz/test on Chapters 18, 19 and 20. Students will continue their scientific collaboration by posting their top three questions for the Science Fair project on http://higley8science2011-2012.wikispaces.com/ . Over the winter holiday, students can make use of their time by completing extra credit current event articles, where they can read a current event article related to science and fill out a worksheet. In addition to their science book report, they can do an extra credit book report. They can make use of books that they checked out, Raz kids, and Tumble readers. These websites are located on my website on the icon with the flying book, www.teacherweb.com/CH/AIAN/MsH or the AIAN website www.aian.cn.org . For Seventh and Eighth grade Parents and Students, A science fair project is expected of ALL 7 th and 8 th grade Science students. The Science Fair is an exciting event that encourages students to think like young scientists. The project will be started and completed the second semester of school and be due March 15 or 16, 2012. A science fair project involves the use of the scientific method to answer a question or solve a problem. The scientific method, like a recipe, has several steps. Each step must be completed before starting the next step. These steps include: 1. A question or problem 2. Obtaining background information & research (and bibliography) 3. Construction of the hypothesis (a scientific prediction of what you think will happen) and identification of the variables. 4. Experiment design (write the procedure steps and material list) 5. Test the hypothesis (the experiment!) 6. Analyze data and make conclusion 7. Complete the abstract (summary) and written report, and construct the display board 8. Submit and prepare for judging For more information for due dates, websites and library resources go to http://www.teacherweb.com/CH/AIAN/MsH/h4.aspx DATES IN DECEMBER FOR YOUR DIARIES December12th to 16th Activities suspended, children go home at 3.30 p.m. On Thursday, December 15 the students say in school from 3.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. to watch the performance of Scrooge. December 15th Scrooge Production, dismissal is at 4.30 p.m. December 16th School closes for the holiday break, dismissal at 3.30 p.m. This will be the last Eagles Eyes Newsflash published before the Holiday Break. Please have a super time wherever you go, stay safe and we look forwards to seeing everyone in the New Year. Thank you. Regards, Mark Bretherton , Head of School. |
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