What's Up Lower School 1 2014/2015

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WHATS UP LOWER SCHOOL?

Whats

Up Lower

School?

Issue Date

COURAGE COMPASSION SENSITIVITY INTELLIGENCE VITALITY

Our Lower School AssemblyBefore the break, we had an

exciting assembly in the Lower

School. Everyone gathered in thelobby of the school. Mr. Page, our

new principal, explained about the

ESLR tickets. We get ESLR tickets by

showing our ESLRs. Our ESLRs are

Vitality, Courage, Sensitivity,

Intelligence, and Compassion. We

get Vitality tickets when we try our

best to do a new thing. We get

Courage tickets when we are brave

to try new things. We get Sensitivity

tickets when we are nice to each

other. We get Intelligence tickets

when we are thinking and learning.We get Compassion tickets when we

are caring about each others

feelings. Many classes got many

ESLR tickets already. Mr. Page was

impressed with all the classes!

Mr. Page also showed us a film

that showed what to do in QISS and

what not to do. Like how to walk in

the stairs and how to not to walk in

the stairs, how to enter the library

and how to not enter the library.

Everyone was an excellent actor in

the film. They had so much fun being

in the film! Almost everyone was inthe film, and they acted so nicely!

The assembly concluded with two

little performances by the first grade

and the Pre-K and kindergarteners.

QISS Open House

On August 27th, we had our Open

House. Open House is when our

parents come to see our teachers and

classrooms. They talked to the

homeroom teachers and our

specialists. Now, they know more

about our school. They are also closer

to our staff in QISS.

Dr.Teston and Mr.Page made a

presentation in the auditorium. They

talked about the future of QISS and

about amazing students in this school.

They introduced all of the teachers.

Then the PTA gave a talk. Then we all

went to the classroom to talk to the

teachers. Amy, Leeann, Roy, and I

visited Mr.Bertholet in the library. I had

so much fun at the Open House. I play

outside until my parents came to pick

me up. I am sure that everyone liked

Open House.

Coming Up

Key Assignment DayOctober 19.2014

International DayNov.15.2014

LS Round UpbyYuri Sung, Grade 3


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Angela recently got thechance to interview our new

music teacher. Lets find out

more about Ms. Muller!

What is music?

Music is a universal

language. Music is a way for

everyone to communicate and

express how they feel. It does

not matter where you comefrom or what language you

speak, everyone can listen to

your music and understand.

How long have you been a

music teacher?

This is my third year teaching.

Before coming to China I

taught for two years in SouthKorea at Chadwick

International.

What does it feel like to be a

music teacher?

It is beautiful when a career

and a passion come together.

Teaching music to young

people gives me the

opportunity to share

something I love with future

generations.

What instruments do you play?

Depends how wellInUniversity, to be a music

teacher we were taught how to

play many different

instruments. I can play the

flute, trumpet, and piano the

best. I would love to learn to

play some Chinese

instruments as well as the

harp!

Do you enjoy singing?

I enjoy singing very much! I

love singing music from

Disney music, or sing along to

some of my favorite songs on

the radio while driving. I also

love teaching students how to

sing and singing with them.

What do you have to do to

become a music teacher?

I went to University for 4 and

years in America. I was

taught by other teachers, how

to teach, how to play different

instruments, how to sing, and I

was given time to practice

being in different classrooms.

Is it different teaching music to

International students?

At QISS, I always need to

remember that my students

are learning English whilelearning music. Instead of

some parts of the world wher

I can just say, Play louder,

here it would be better for me

to show what I am asking the

students to do. Is it different t

other parts of the world? No,

we are all here to learn, make

music, and we all progress at

different levels.

Do you have music in your

dreams?

I dont know if I dream about

music, but many times a song

that I am teaching to one of m

classes will be stuck in my

head all day. Then I will still

be thinking about it when I

wake up!

What do you wish to bring to

humankind with your music?

I wish to bring joy and

laughter. I hope to give my

students a way to express

themselves.

QISS SpotlightbyAngela Lu, Grade 4


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Angela gets to know about music and the amazing Ms. Muller.

Shark Art


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Self Portrait, AdeleKavaliauskaite Grade 4 Imagination Portrait,Ye Seul KwagGrade 2

Self Portrait, Mia Hathout Grade 3 Self-Portrait, Eric Wang Grade 1
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Baseball and soccer areimportant sports, but many

people dont knowthe rules of

baseball.

Baseball is hard to play. There

are many rules. For example, if

you have 3 strikes youre out. If

you dont hit the ball, you cant

score. If your 3 out your cant

hit in these.

In the 3rdgrade we are always

playing soccer, especially

Alex, Amy, Yuri, Colin, Kevinand Luke. My favorite sports

are soccer and baseball and my

favorite baseball player is

Kershaw. Im always playing

soccer and baseball!

SwimmingBy Leann Kim

Students at QISS love

swimming. Some of my friends

are good at swimming. Welearned some swimming rules

and sometimes we have free

swimming times. Last month,

we went to the swimming pool

each Saturday. It is called the

Director`s Swim. Dr. Teston

goes swimming with us.

Sports Cornerby John Hwang (Grade 3)


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Do you know that swimming isfun? Of course! Why not? Mr.K

is our swimming teacher. He

makes sure that we are safe and

good in the water. We learned

how to free style and do the

frog kick. In our class, we had a

swimming contest but we didntget to see the score!


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Grade 3 Updateby Alex Chung

3rdgrade students are enjoying learning about shadows. In the third grade, all the

students are very smart. They use vitality, compassion and sensitivity very often.

Right now, we have 15 ESLR tickets, so we will have the big train party soon. I

really hope we get the big train.

3rdgrades students really like Art and Ms. Nadine says Art also likes us. Our class is

made up of Yuri, Leeann , Kevin, Mia, John, Stephanie, Bella, Mike, Alyssa, Amy,

Colin, Luke and Alex. Do you know who Alex is? Its me!

We have 13 students in total. We are all kind and nice. We love all the teachers at

QISS!

Family Catches Croc!

By Mall Wang (Grade 4)

Recently, my dad had told me about a real and amazing thing. He said

that in America, somebody trapped a huge crocodile. It was an amazing

21 feet long! In the pictures, his mouth is taped and he looks tired. The

family that caught the crocodile had special things to catch it. Its really

unbelievable that they caught a 21 foot long crocodile!!!


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At the 2014 Brazil World Cup, there was a biting

attack.

On June 24th, there was a soccer match

between Uruguay and Italy. The Uruguay

striker, Louis Suarez, bit an Italian defender

named Giorgio Chiellini during the match. It

was not the first time he bit someone, it was the

third time. He bit so strong that there was a

mark on the player. The referee didnt give

Suarez a red card because the referee didnt

see it.

Uruguay won the match. The score was 1-0 with

Diego Godins goal. Fifa said that Suarez cant

be in soccer matches until October.

Giorgio Chiellini said to Fifa that the

punishment was too harsh. But Fifa still gave the

punishment. His English professional team,

Liverpool didntwant him, so Suarez moved to a

Spanish team called Barcelona. And now,

people call him Vampire.

Vampire Attack at the

World Cup


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Cool Websites for Kids:

Study JamsBy Roy the Cheese

For looking at cool videos all about

Math and Science check out Study

Jams(http://studyjams.scholastic.com).

You can learn about topics in Math

and Science that you choose! There

is an Android App for Study Jams

and there are quizzes also! It is all

free, You DO NOT HAVE TO SIGN

UP. Checking it out is easy. Firstyou open the page, then if you

wanted to look for multiplication

and division, you would go to math

category and look for numbers.

There you will

find the

categories for

multiplication and division and you

can click the category that you

want. Pretend that we chosemultiplication. If you want, click

play video and you`ll get to watch

a video about that category. After,

you can quiz yourself by clicking o

the test yourself button.The more

you use it, the more youll enjoy it.

If you want to hear and enjoy the

music of each category, then you

have to sign up. This web site

makes me want to know everything

about math and science and my

brain is becoming bigger and

bigger. I hope you go to this

website! If some subjects do not

have a song, you can go to another

category to learn and enjoy the

song! Studyjams at scholastic.com

is FANTABULOUS!
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