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ES Field Day was a beautiful, blue sky day in Shanghai. Eleri’s team was Japan, therefore, she needed to wear red and white to match her team. She found a red shirt and the only sports shorts she has are her “Black Dog” shorts. She only wears jean shorts. She skipped off to school […]

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Eleri’s 3rd grade is study rocks and minerals. They have two field trips this week. One to the Shanghai Museum of Glass, which I attended. The second field trip was to the Mineral and Rock Museum. This was my first time to the Glass Museum, also.

Eleri spent the day with So Yeon […]

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Spring festival is always a fun day for the ES students. We had a beautiful day in Shanghai. It had been raining and cold, but the sun came out for the festival.

The Moms of Room 406, Eleri’s class, volunteered to work our assigned game, Whack the Duck. The hardest part was keeping […]

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This year, Emersyn and Eleri wanted to run the Jinqiao Charity Run. The run is 8k and the walk/run is 2k. Concordia’s charity for this run is Baobei. Other schools run for different charities as BISS students ran for Heart to Heart. Emersyn picked up our t-shirts and gear for the day – pink […]

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Concordia has a charity of the month.This year Concordia’s theme is “Serve”. Emersyn charity of choice is Baobei. Baobei means “precious child”. Emersyn’s home room teacher, Mr. Stone, has an adopted Baobei daughter.

Baobei is an organization that provides surgeries for children with special needs. Baobei places many of these children into […]

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Grade 7 & 8 students had a fund raiser dance for Heart-to-Heart. The dance was a semi-formal dance with all funds for the Charity, Heart-to-Heart.

In total teen fashion, Avery and Emersyn went to Puxi last Saturday shopping for new dresses. Mr. Nie took them as Faith and I trust him more […]

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Concordia’s Middle School Bands presented “An Evening of Music”. The music was performed by the Middle School Jazz Band, Sixth Grade Band and the Middle School Band which includes Grade 7 & 8. Each band played three songs for an hour concert to enjoy “an evening of music”.

The Middle School […]

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Eleri’s 3rd grade class has been studying poetry. Eleri enjoys poetry and is having fun writing her own poems. The 3rd grade had a poetry reading at school. Eleri was very excited to have us come to hear her recite a poem.

Eleri’s invite to her poetry reading had two poems by Eleri.

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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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This week the ES Students have Book Week. Book Week ends with a book character parade on Friday. Eleri decided last month she was going to be the little sister from the book, “Big Sister, Little Sister”. It is a very easy costume and once Eleri makes a decision, she is done. Friday morning, […]