Newsletter December 10th - 14th

Hello,
We have only one week left till the end of the Term 2. Next week is going to be really fun and full of activities. We have Talent show on Thursday morning and Pizza/Movie party on Thursday afternoon. 

• Talent Show
• Thursday, December 20th morning 
• Please send to Ms. Dana the link of the video if your kid is a participant.
• It should be at most 4 minutes long.
• Please send an email to dconn@abroadschools.jp with your child's name in the subject line and the link needed for the talent show performance. 

• Pizza Party and Movie
• Thursday, December 20th afternoon 
• Here is the link to the permission form
• Pizzas are from Domino's pizza
• Flavors are 
• Margherita
• American
• Plain
• If you need more information about the pizza please don't hesitate to contact me.
• Student allergy and food restrictions were checked and taken into account.
• Movie is 
• Emoji. (絵文字の国のジーン.) It is rated as PG by MPAA. Here is the link to the Parental Guide.

UoI:

We continued to focus on the first line of inquiry " Why we need governments/laws". Students responses were almost the same. It will be a chaos if there is no law or government. It is amazing how they feel the need for an organization which will support order. At the beginning, students were confused by the second meaning of the word "order" which mean clarity. peace, organization. Almost all of the students used the other meaning, which is authoritative command or instruction. Next week we will focus on the second line of inquiry "Types of governments". 

Math:

This week students learned how to draw and measure angles. At the same time we eased into drawing triangles with given angle measures. On Thursday, we had the final test. It contained 10 questions from topics like

• Fractions and operations on them
• Decimals and operations on them
• Angles and triangles
• Percentages
• Word problems
• Probability

There were 5 bonus questions. They were easy but tricky. Here is one of them. Please take your time and try to solve if you are interested.

Art:

Students tried to follow a youtube video which taught how to draw manga characters

• girls
• Dragon Ball Z - Goku

Thank you very much.