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I love Emersyn’s writing. She loves to read and it reflects in her writing assignments. This assignment was due before we left for the Christmas break. A Christmas Story by Emersyn Lyon “Dude! This Christmas is going to be so awesome!†Ty exclaimed as he and Dylan were skateboarding down the hill […]
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Emersyn had her first band concert of the year. She dressed in her band concert attire of black pants and a white shirt. She looked very nice. Eleri dressed in a Christmas dress for the performance. The 6th grade band played four songs: Ding Dong Merry On […]
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For the 5th grade Science Fair, Emersyn did an experiment to see which water bottle kept liquids coldest at room temperature. She used a thermal insulated bottle, a glass bottle and a plastic bottle. She did three different tests by add ice and testing the temperatures at various times. With no surprises, the insulated […]
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The PSO sponsored Concordia International School’s 2nd International Festival in the Middle School Gym. The Concordia Community has families representing over 34 countries. This year, 19 countries provided samples of regional foods, educational information and activities related to their cultures. The girls left for school all red, white and blue. […]
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Though some of my work connections, I had a chance to get tickets to the Shanghai Tennis Masters tournament. It is one of two professional tennis tournaments played in China. Again this year, the world’s top tennis talent was featured. This was a great opportunity to Emersyn to see professional […]
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Bindi sent a text to me today telling me Emersyn had one of her school paintings in the Shanghai Daily – “Did I know?” – “No.” It was in the supplement section on education. Jim was able to pull the photo of her painting from the paper’s web site. Emersyn painting in the […]
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At Concordia, all middle and high school students required studies include an interim trip. Emersyn’s 6th grade interim trip is to Xian. Xian (西安) in the name Xi’an literally mean “Western Peace”. One of the oldest cities in China, with more than 3, 100 years of history, the city was known as […]
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We have a new Chinese workout area located next to our building. This area had old workout equipment with sand. We called it the “sand pit” as our children dug and played in the sand. No one used the equipment, but kids. Over the summer, the workout area was replaced with all new equipment. […]
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It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon. The girls and I took Roxi out to play soccer. The teams were Emersyn and Roxi against Eleri and me. Emersyn and Roxi out scored us – how did that happen!! Average Rating: 5 out of 5 based on […]
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At Back-to-School Night for the parents, we met Emersyn’s teachers for the year. We already know all about Ms Poppell. We enjoyed meeting her other teachers. Emersyn LOVES her teachers this year and LOVES everything about school. When we went to the art room, we were able to see the self portrait she […] |