Twin Day, Twin Day!
As part of our community building experiences, students in each grade decide on a dress-up theme for the secondary students. Last month the tenth grade students choose Pajama Day. This month, the ninth grade students chose Twin Day. Students found another student or small group of students and decided how to dress similarly so […]
Buddy Class Visits Lotus Cottage
Today we had a wonderful visit from our Buddy Class – Grades 4/5/6! Older students brought a wide variety of books in Chinese and English, and were each paired up with one of our children to read the stories. Our children were captivated! Lotus Classroom children also enjoyed showing their buddies around our classroom, explaining the […]
Sharing Poetry
In the Grade Two classroom we have been talking about poetry as a unique and powerful form of expression. The students have been learning about poetry devices, including, but not limited to, rhyme, personification, alliteration and simile. They have been challenging themselves to use these in their own writing. For the lesson in the photographs, the […]
Big Ideas in Small Packages
On Thursday, December 11, MYP 4 students were afforded the opportunity to step out of Humanities and enter the world of similes and syllables, rhythm and rhyme… grade two style! During this unit’s program of inquiry, Mr. Bradley’s second grade students have been exploring poetry, focussing on expressing themselves, and their perspective of the world, […]
MYP Students Lead Their Parent Conference
Do you remember your parents going to school to find out how you were doing as a student? Did you ever go with them? At QAIS, our students not only come to the parent conference, they actually prepare and lead them. The student is always the center of the conference. Our students can explain their learning and […]
Sensorial Activities in the Lotus Cottage
Montessori education follows children’s natural interests and sensitivities for each age group. Young children naturally love exploring the world around them with all of their senses. The Sensorial Area of the Montessori classroom is full of materials that isolate a particular quality to explore: dimension, size, shape, color, sound, texture, smell, etc. Young children engage […]
How Do We Really Know Where “Here” Is?
As I’m sure Douglas Adams would agree, the notion of whether time, place, and space are absolute, relative, ephemeral, or enduring, is essential to one’s understanding of life, the universe, and everything. Ultimately, time, place, and space are all human constructs, developed by societies to help them in their quest to determine where and how […]
Reflections of Qufu
Secondary students in grades 9 and 10 visited Qufu on November 18 and 19 as part of their participation requirements for the International Baccalaureate focus on service in action in the Middle Years Programme. Qufu is the birthplace, hometown, and final resting place of Confucius. He died in 479 BCE. Our students left at 6:30 […]
Halloween in the Lotus Cottage
Halloween was a really exciting time in our classroom! Children came to school in costume, and we had several special arts, crafts, and games for the children to participate in. Here are pictures from our fun day!
Celebrating, Sharing, and Reflecting
The theme of our fist unit of inquiry in Grade 3 was Who We Are, and as a class we explored the central idea of how people’s cultural background has an impact on their beliefs, values and actions. This past Friday we invited the parents in to share and celebrate the completion of our newspaper […]
