Health unit on Body Changes and Puberty

In the next couple of weeks Grade 6 will start a Health unit looking at Growth and Development and body changes associated with Puberty.

This is an essential Health topic treated respectfully with a Biblical view and clear information about the changes that our children will experience.

It may be useful to have a conversation with your child before this unit to help your child feel at ease.
Boys and girls together will be finding out about reproductive body parts and other body changes in puberty.

Here is a website we will use sometimes in class.

http://kidshealth.org/kid/grow/body_stuff/puberty.html#a_Time_to_Change

It contains clear and useful information for kids and teens.

It also has a section for parents:
http://kidshealth.org/parent/growth/#cat20183

Feel free to review the website and use it with your son or daughter.
We will not be looking at everything on Puberty in this website, but it is a useful resource for future information as well.

"Change" for Good

Grade 6 students have been asked to bring in coins over the next couple of weeks (until December 20).

Change for the Phillippines

From today until December 20th (last day before Christmas Break) homerooms will be in a competition to collect coins to send to Samaritan’s Purse for their work in helping with the typhoon relief in the Philippines.  

(If you click on the links you will find information on what Samaritan's Purse is doing to help the typhoon victims)

How can you help?    If you have coins at home, we would love to take them as a donation.
You can send them in to school with your son or daughter in a ziplock bag to me (Mrs Pearse)and I will keep the coins safe.

Samaritan’s Purse has been on the ground helping ever since the typhoon hit.  TCIS will send our offering to them.

Updates to pages...

Happy Friday...

There have been some updates to the PE page about gymnastics this week. Click on the tab to find out.

The students have had a fun and very successful week overcoming gravity in gymnastics...

Page updates...

Please have a look at The Arts page and The Humanities pages for updates over the weekend.

 Today (Monday) we actually had snow, mini hail and sleet all in one day.

Stay warm and I hope you all have a great week!

3 Pages have been updated...

THREE pages have been updated this week...

- PE+Health (Update by Mrs Pearse... me)
- Science (Update by Ms Kim)
- Bible (Update by Mrs Norton)

Click on each tab to see what students have been learning about in each of these areas.

Student of the Month for October

Congratulations to the Grade 6 SOM for October:

Nicole (Nahyoung) Yang

She is very conscientious with her own work and takes responsibility for her learning.  She is always polite and respectful, greeting others when she comes to class and again when she leaves the room.  

She demonstrates she is a servant to her peers by often staying behind to clean up after class.  She is also willing to work with others and assist them with their lessons by translating, listening to their questions patiently and generally taking the time to make sure other students can also succeed.

In Science, she never fails to show her caring attitude toward others in need, whether recognized or not. On their latest summative laboratory assessment, she made sure her team members were on task by helping them to the best of her ability. She helps others because she wants to, not because of personal gain- truly the heart of a servant!

She also has a great attitude in other classes such as P.E., English, Humanities and Spanish, demonstrating an inquiring mind and perseverance towards all tasks and activities.  Her recent formative and summative assessments for Spanish were outstanding. 

She is a student who consistently demonstrates her commitment to excellence and works to make not only herself, but her classmates better. 

She is making TCIS a stronger community through her care and service towards others.

(Apologies for not getting a picture of Nicole with her certificate...)

Science and Music updates...

I hope all parents had the opportunity to participate in the Fall Parent/Teacher conferences and to meet and share with teachers.
If for some reason you could not attend or the teacher you wanted to speak to was not there, then please contact the teacher to make an appointment. Teacher emails can be found on Powerschool.

Ms Kim and Ms Lee have updates on Science and Music. Please click on the Science page and The Arts page to check out the progress of your children!