11/12/14

11th December 2014

The final week before the winter vacation is always filled with extra activities outside the normal routines. Next week is no exception for Grade 1. Below is a few details of the week’s plan to help you prepare your child for the change’s accordingly.

Wednesday 17th December

Obviously, the school concert is on Wednesday. The children will not be going home before the show. This means that they will need lunch and an extra snack packed in their bags. It should also be noted that the children will be walking to the Asker Kulterhus, so please make sure their backpack is one they can carry on their own. Regarding costumes, the children will need to wear the following:

Trees: Green top and brown/black trousers

Trolls: All black (can make a tail)

Family: Jeans and lumberjack style top

Thursday 18th December

Unless we have really icy conditions underfoot, we plan to visit the forest behind the school for some outside fun in the snow. Please make sure your child is wearing a woolen underlayer on that day and dress appropriately.

Friday 19th December

School finishes at 12:30 on Friday, as is the last day before the Winter vacation. We will be having a ‘celebration party’ from 11:30 - 12:30. If you would like to provide any traditional celebratory food for the classes to share, please email to let us know. The food and/or drinks can be brought in on Friday morning. At 12:15 we invite parents to join us for the end of the party to give the opportunity for the children to show you their classroom and the learning that has taken place during this semester. From 12:30, it is dismissal time and we encourage all parents to clean out their child’s locker with them. We will not be walking the children out for collection on this day, so you will need to come into the school and collect them. SFO will be running as normal. If you need to make arrangements, please do so through the school office.

Regards,

Mr Brent & Miss Angie

27/11/14

27th November 2014

House photo competition

Category winners

Category 1 – Grade 1-2

Category 2 – Grade 3-4

Category 3 – Grade 5-6

Criteria for competition

Relevance – it has to be related to the IB attitudes.

Appreciation	Empathy
Commitment	Enthusiasm
Confidence	Independence
Cooperation	Integrity
Creativity	Respect
Curiosity	Tolerance

Originality – How unique or special is your picture? This could be the use of colour, angles, lenses or other techniques.

Submission date

No later than 19th December 2014

Submissions sent

Electronically to photocompetition@askeris.no

Submission must include

A jpg of the photo – no bigger than 2MB

No hard copies – digital only

A message explaining why the picture relates to one of the IB attitudes

Parents can help but you have to take the picture yourself

Prizes awarded

40 house points

A certificate of achievement

Pictures framed and displayed in school and displayed on the school web-page

Important points

 We would prefer if the pictures didn’t contain people, but if the picture contains a person, you must have that person's permission. Pictures will be posted on the internet.

10/11/14

10th November 2014

Please see below the Welcome to Unit letter for Unit 3 and the information letter regarding the 'Celebration Box' project that your children need to complete at home during this unit.

Unit 3 - How we express ourselves

Dear parents,

For our next unit of inquiry, the children will be required to complete a research project at home. As you know our new unit is all about Celebrations. For this project, the children will need to choose one celebration and create a ‘Celebration box’ all about their chosen celebration. The children will need to research to find out facts about their celebration and then using this information create their box. We suggest that they use a shoe box and include in it any things that they think tell us about their celebration. They can draw pictures, print pictures, make objects, write labels and include written facts all about their celebration.

The children will need to bring their ‘Celebration box’ into school on Monday the 8th of December. During that week of school, they will share their box with the class.

Important facts you could find out are:

1. Who celebrates the celebration?
2. When is it celebrated?
3. What do people eat during this celebration?
4. Do they wear any special clothing?
5. How do people celebrate this celebration?
6. What are they celebrating?
7. Why is this celebration important?
8. Do other cultures celebrate the celebration differently?

List of possible celebrations:

• Birthdays
• Diwali
• Eid al Fitr
• Christmas
• Saint Lucia
• Easter
• Halloween
• Chinese New Year
• Weddings
• New Year
• May 17th
• Bonfire Night
• Other

This is simply a guideline, please feel free to add other information or resources to the box that are relevant. This is an independent project where individual creativity and thinking is encouraged. If you have any queries regarding this project, please do not hesitate to email us.

Best wishes,

Angie and Brent (Grade 1 Teachers)

07/10/14

07/10/2014

Dear Grade 1 parents,

Please be reminded that tomorrow is the scheduled day for parent meetings. If you would like re-confirmation of your time, please let me know and I will respond as soon as possible. Please try your best to be on time as meetings will be kept strictly to 10 minutes.

On Thursday 16th October, the students will be enjoying a trip to the Folkemuseum in Oslo. We would like to request some parent assistance for this event. The bus from school will be leaving shortly after 9:00 and returning at approximately 14:30. As seats on the bus are limited we are only able to take a select number of parents, with the first one’s to respond chosen first. If you are available to help on this day, please let us know if you are able to drive a car and meet us in Oslo, if all seats on the buses are taken.

Thank you and kind regards,

Miss Angie & Mr Brent

23/09/14

Today your child will have all brought home a letter regarding Parents' Meetings on Wednesday the 8th of October. We have allocated you a 10 minute time slot, so please return the bottom slip as soon as possible and inform us if this time suits you or provide us with 2 alternate time slots.

Thank you and we look forward to hopefully seeing all of you on Friday at 12:30pm to celebrate our International Day.

18/09/2014

International Day in Grade 1

On Friday the 26th of September we will be hosting our first International Day and we would like to invite all the parents to take part in celebrating the cultural diversity in our school. You are all welcome to join us in our classes at 12.30pm. You will then have the opportunity to enjoy our International Food Feast and have a look at what the children have created to try and capture how many countries and cultures we are all a part of. This day is also about acknowledging and being proud of our unity despite all our differences and we really hope that you can be involved in this important day.

Once the celebrations have finished we then would greatly appreciate it if all involved help us with tidying up and preparing for the autumn holidays. When the classrooms and cloakrooms are looking ready for the new term, the children will be able to go home at the usual finishing time.

18/09/2014

Please note that we have added page links to the Grade 1 Performing Arts blog, the PE blog and the Grade 1 Norwegian blog. Please explore these blogs to learn more about your child's learning at school. For your convenience, we have also added a page link to the school's Parent Guide and Calendar Overview.

12/09/14

On Thursday the 25th of September we will be taking all the Grade 1 students to the local forest behind the school for a ‘Teddy Bear’s Picnic’. The picnic acts as a celebration to our unit on learning about friendship. Make sure that you pack your child’s lunch in an easy to carry backpack. Can you also remind your child to bring a teddy bear to join us at the picnic.

Please note that this trip is dependent on weather and so if it is pouring with rain an alternate program will be provided at school.

08/09/14

Firstly, apologies for the mistake in this weeks home learning - we accidentally created two labels that say 'Step 3' for the unit task. Please just cross one out and change the 3 to a 2.

We hope that all of you by now have had an opportunity to help your child log in and play both
Reading Eggs and Mathletics. You can find their username and password for both these programs on the inside of their blue home learning folder.

In addition, you can also download a variety of reading egg apps for free on your smart phone and/or tablet. The two apps that we currently use at school are 'Reading Eggs Sight Words' and 'Eggy Alphabet'.

Another great website to visit with free phonics games is http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm
The children are currently on Phase 2.