Dear Primary 1 Parents,                                                                               27^th November 2010

First, we would like to thank all the parents who made time to come and see us for the Parent-Teacher meetings. It’s very heartening to see many of you involved in your children’s school life. However, if you feel that there are further issues to discuss, please feel free to make another appointment.

We are coming to the end of our second unit of ‘Who We Are’. This week we will continue to discuss friendship and conflicts. We hope that many of you are now aware of the steps on how to solve a conflict! We will be making a friendship wreath where, all the children will get a chance to reflect and write something positive about each member of their group.

“我是谁”的第二部分将结束，我们将继续讨论友谊与冲突，如何解决冲突，如何建立友谊。 所有孩子要写他们这团体其他的成员好的一面。

From Chinese perspective, students will describe a variety of conflicts that happen commonly in school. Teacher will list them on board and choose two of them to discuss how the steps and rules can be used to solve the conflicts. Then students will discuss if the steps and rules can be applied to other situations.  Rules like using “I message” instead of “B message”. “I message” focus on how I feel and how I was bothered, while “B message” focus on blaming the other person. Students will be asked to role play and write a reflection which type of message is better for solving conflicts.

在学校中，有多少类型冲突会发生。老师会把这些一一列在黑板上，然后让二个同学讨论，那些步骤以及原则可以使用，来解决冲突。 其他学生可以讨论，这些步骤以及原则是否可以用在别的情况。

原则比如使用“I MESSAGE”替代“B MESSAGE”。 “I MESSAGE”将关注我的感受如何，以及我是如何被打扰的。 而“B MESSAGE”关注指责别人的不是。 学生被要求做角色扮演，以及哪些“MESSAGE”更加有利冲突的解决。

Christmas is around the corner, and, in case you were unaware, many of the children already have their wish lists ready! So, to add on to the cheer, we will soon begin our preparations for the Christmas concert, to be held on the 17^th of December. More details will be sent to you closer to the time. Another event coming up is the Jewish celebration, Hanukkah which begins on the 1^st of December. We are privileged to have Mr. Loren (Nate’s Dad) who will be coming in on the 1st to share a bit about this celebration.

17TH，将有圣诞音乐会，我们将准备排练。 届时，会有进一步消息。在12         

Through Ms Lynn’s huge and appreciated effort, we recently received a huge stack of books from the National Library. I am sure that many of you noticed that your children came home with two books to read on Friday, one from our school library and the other from the National Library. School library books will continue to be handed out on the library days but the other books can be changed when the children have completed reading them. We are quite keen to instill the reading culture in our students, so we ask parents to ensure that the children do actually read the book as opposed to just flipping through the pages and then exchange for a new one. There are lots of books related to our PYP topics and we will try to ensure that we hand out books that are at your children’s level.

This week in language arts the students will review verbs, adjectives and nouns as well as long vowel sounds in phonics.  They will also get their weekly spelling words along with the test.

In Math the students will continue to work with measure and this week’s topic is volume.  We will also begin learning about graphing. 

朋友开玩笑说，我们小时候也有PYP教育。

就是“我是一个螺丝钉，党让我拧到哪，就到哪."