Latest News

In case you’ve forgotten, it’s the festival this Saturday!

Let’s make it a day to remember!

The following website allows you to choose from a variety of online English tests to gauge your level of English and improve on what you already know.

http://www.easyenglish.com/

Try a few … and then try a few more.

K. Rhodes

Join “Digger and the Gang” as they travel through many different lands requiring your help with some difficulties they encounter along the way. These adventures are a great way to refresh your skills in English, Math, and Science. There is also a link at the bottom of the page for Geography and History. The link below leads to adventures for ages 9-11, but notice you can change the age level on the left side of the page. Also available are ages 5-7 and 7-9. However, older students can participate as well. I quite enjoyed these adventures even though they don’t quite make it up to my age group.
Make sure to turn on your speakers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/digger/9_11entry/9_11.shtml

Hope your journeys are successful!

K. Rhodes

For the past 3 weeks the p1-1 class have been busy learning about and taking trips. We have been to Fuji Grand for lunch and to the Disaster Prevention Center to learn about emergency procedures. Tuesday next week we will be visiting the Children’s Museum. Needless to say the students have been really enjoying this unit. We are still deciding on the place for our last field trip…..If you have any good ideas please let us know.

Central idea: People take trips for different reasons

An inquiry into: The reasons we take trips
Planning a trip
What do we need to do before we take a trip
Documenting our trips

If you would like to come in and share some of your trip experiences with the kids we would love to have you. Please just let me know and we’ll arrange a time.

Fuji Trip Pitures

Read more »

Do you ever feel a little “put off” while learning English because as you learn more and more new words you realize there are more and more words that you don’t know? While these feelings are a natural part of learning a language, there are ways to discover the meaning of words you don’t know through parts of words that you do.

Word roots are words in their simplest form, yet the meaning of these words change with added affixes. Prefixes and suffixes are examples of affixes that, when added to word roots, create new words.

Look at the following website to learn some of the common word roots and affixes. There are even some math and science words included.

http://academic.cuesta.edu/acasupp/AS/506.HTM

Now your English vocabulary might double!

K. Rhodes