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The free dress for last day of school before Chinese New Year is Chinese Dress. Eleri is wearing her costume from preschool 4 performance at Dulwich. The costume was made for her, but did not fit at all. I think there was a mix-up and we pinned the dress on her when she was […]
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On this Saturday, Emersyn was inducted into the International Thespian Society. To be eligible, she earned “points” for her work in theatre over the past year. Black was the dress attire. Luckily, Emersyn bought this black dress for a dance last year…it still fit! Shoes – she has none, but we made […]
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National History Day is required participation as part of history class for all Freshman. The first and second place winners go to Washington DC to compete in the finals. At the beginning of the year, the students complete a form and indicate if they will go to Washington. If one person in […]
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When the students go to APAC competition, they stay with a homestay from the school hosting. Concordia was hosting APAC band this year. Emersyn’s Japan homestay, Esther, from the Canadian Academy was coming to Shanghai for APAC band. We requested to have Esther and a friend stay with us. Esther, Emersyn and Nicholle have […]
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Emersyn returned from APAC Forensics to One-Act play performances on Thursday & Friday of February 5 & 6. Emersyn is taking an advance theatre class. In the class, each student wrote an one-act play. They were randomly assigned another students play to direct and cast. Emersyn was given the play written by […]
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Emersyn auditioned for the High School Forensics team. A upperclass-MUN friend, Christine, wanted her to give it a go. The competition was tough this year with most of the prior years’ team returning. Emersyn did not make the team – no freshman was part of the team this year. Emersyn was first alternate. After […]
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Eleri’s 5th grade is studying the American revolution. As part of the study of this unit, the students do a Wax Museum. They can pick any character from the Revolution War/time. When Emersyn did the Wax Museum, she chose Deborah Sampson. We told Eleri she could be any character as long as she wore […]
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The 5th grade Mandarin classes put on a short performance of a Chinese Taiji dance. An instructor worked with the kids to teach and practice the dance. First, he did the Taiji dance performance alone. Then, we watched four different Mandarin classes perform. The students are assigned to […]
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For 5th and 6th grade, drama is a required class. The students have drama one semester and art the other semester. Eleri finished her drama semester with a drama showcase. Eleri’s class put on the play, “The 13th Zodiac Animal”. It was written by Mr. Lyon, a 6th grade teacher. Directed by Eleri’s […]
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Eleri had her first band concert as a middle school beginner band member – the Christmas Concert. The Christmas concert was performed by the Middle School Band – 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade. Eleri has chosen to play the oboe, the hardest instrument to learn to play. She is working hard, […] |