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Emersyn’s last Concordia Idol of her middle school career! She was going to sing a song with Bella, but Bella changed her mind and decided not to do Idol. Bella and Emersyn were too busy to get together to practice. On Sunday evening before the performance, Emersyn picked a song. She played it for […]
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ES field day stated with Lulu spending the night on Wednesday night. Thursday was a Chinese Holiday with no school. Friday was field day. Field day has a theme of twin day – to dress up with a friend. Lulu and Eleri found matching Justice outfits of Eleri’s to wear for their twin day. […]
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Concordia has a charity of the month. This year Concordia’s theme is “Discoverâ€. Emersyn charity of choice is Baobei. Baobei means “precious childâ€. Baobei is an organization that provides surgeries for children with special needs. Baobei places many of these children into “Healing Homes†as they await adoption. Plastic water jugs are located throughout […]
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Eleri’s last ES Spring Carnival was a beautiful, sunny, but very windy afternoon. The Moms of Eleri’s class volunteered to work our assigned game, the Ring Toss. It is fun to see all the excited faces as they played the games. After my morning shift, I waited for Eleri’s time to come […]
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Grade 4s field trip was to the Hongkou, also known as the Jewish Ghetto, was an area of approximately one square mile in the Hongkou District of Japanese-occupied Shanghai between 1937-1941. During this time, more than 18, 000 European Jews seek refuge from Nazi Germany. Visas were not required and the government did not […]
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Model United Nations (MUN) is an academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about current events, topics in international relations, diplomacy and the United Nations agenda. The participants role-play as representing a country in a simulated session of an (committee) of the United Nations, such as the Security Council or […]
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The girls had conferences today. After getting the usual glowing report for both girls, Emersyn went off to Bella’s home (her second home in Jinqiao). Eleri and I had time to wait for her friend, Paige, that was spending the night. Time to play on the playground. Eleri’s favorite is the tire […]
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Emersyn had an assignment for language arts which was to put together a 2-5 minute video on a Genocide war. Jim remembered a paper Ernie wrote about his time in the Vietnam War. Nancy scanned the document over to Emersyn and she began her project. When she finished her video, she was at 12 […]
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Concordia’s Middle School Bands in a “Musical Journeyâ€. The music was performed by the Middle School Bands which included combined 5th-8th Grade Intermediate Band and 7th & 8th Grade Concert Band. The Intermediate Band played three songs and the Concert Band played four songs for about a 40 minute concert to enjoy the “musical […]
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Emersyn has become our expensive child! She takes full advantages of all the opportunities at Concordia…which is great and expensive. This school year, she will go to MUN in Kuala Lumpur, the leadership trip in the Taklimakan Desert and the dive trip in Thailand. I pay for all these trips in cash […] |