Thomas plays the Piano

Several weeks ago Thomas shared a "You Tube" video which showed a pianist performing this piece - quite fast, and Thomas told us he had been practising this particular piece as was becoming "pretty good at it". We asked him to play it for us when he was ready - last Thursday just prior to the Music lesson Thomas played his piece for us. Enjoy ............. as we did!
http://voicethread.com/share/1930644/

HAIKU PERFORMANCES

Here is our session with Mr Owen, Mr Fred during our time with our first Haiku session.

Click on the link below:

http://voicethread.com/share/1755421/
After many issues with putting this video clip together it has finally arrived on the BLOG! Enjoy the Haiku performances of our class in front of all the other Grade 3 children.

Please click on this link below to view our HAIKU PERFORMANCES:

http://voicethread.com/share/1930400/

Request for nappies to be sent to Japan.

Yuma's Mum is organising a nappy / diaper collection which will be sent to Japan, because there is no water in Japan in many places and nappies / diapers are an excellent and practical way for everyone to help!
There will be flyers put around the school for extra information, but if you can send them along to school, there will be a box to put them in at the Entrance foyer. The collection will last until April 14th when all those nappies will be sent off, so you do have a chance to buy some in that time and help.
You can also bring them along to the benefit concert on April 3rd OR the Japanese Market on April 7th.

SPIRIT WEEK

 On 29/3/11 it is Twin Day, so Izak, Sanjiv, Francesco and Alex dressed up in are Taekwando kit it was funny because our German teacher got mixed up with us.  It was not very fun for everyone  because at the end of the school day two of us had to put on their real pants on (they had their Taekwondo pants under there real pants).    by Alex,Izak

It was too bad I had a scarf on me and the others did not, so we were not exactly the same.

By Francy

 

I loved Twin day with Maxime(BFF) because we called each other Hello Twin!

Mr Phil came into our room, he thought we looked FANTASTIC in RED, he took our photo and then we decided we needed another one looking silly - which one do you like?

Japanese Concert

There will be a superb concert on Sunday 3rd April for the Japanese fundraising effort that the ISD community is supporting in a variety of ways.

Please find attached the information sent out from the organisers.

 

A CONCERT

In aid of the

JAPAN EMERGENCY

ISD Dahms Theater

Sunday, April 3^rd

17:00 hrs

Entry is free, but you are requested to make a donation at the end of the concert,

towards the school’s coordinated fund-raising effort for the Japan Emergency.

Bring your family, friends, colleagues, neighbors

Performers:

Susan Borofsky (USA): Voice

Yaromyr Bozhenko (Ukraine): Piano

Claire Joanne Thompson (Germany/UK): Voice

Mariko Kageyama (Japan): Piano

Marlon Titre (Netherlands): Guitar

All the performers are donating their music towards this cause.

We are also grateful to

Klavierbaumeister Masahiro Yasuda

For his generous donation in tuning the piano for this event.

SPIRIT WEEK

18 March 2011

Dear ISD Families,

Spirit Week is coming soon!  This year Spirit Week will be during the week of 28thMarch-1^st April. Spirit Week is a time for ISD to increase our school spirit by dressing up.  Each day of the week has a theme.

Please see the Prep blog for their plans for Monday and Tuesday

The days this year are:                    

Monday – PJ Day

Wear warm night clothes.

Tuesday – Twin Day/Triplet day

2 or more people dress up in the same clothing. Whole classes could dress the same.

Wednesday – Dress up IN RED in support of our JAPANESE friends.

Thursday – Dress up as you want day

You can dress up in your best clothes, as a clown, superman or anything else you can think of!

Friday – Career Day

Dress up as what you would like to be / a job that you think is cool.

Please encourage your child/children to participate in Spirit week!

Best regards,

Student Council

Unit 5

This current Unit we have started working through is titled " Choices are difficult to make", and just before Ski Week break we had a session were the children had "free time" - although they needed to complete two tasks BEFORE snack time. Many chose to have "free time" and then needed to do the task DURING snack time, then after the break we have experienced a "No Choice" session where several  tasks were completed one after the other and there was no choice - which book you read, when you went to the bathroom, where you sat ( single tables of boy/girl), and organised games during recess.  The "headlines" on our door read - "Morning destroys Class". Today was 100% bad", "Cool", Painful Day", "A very, very different was to spend the day", The day we had to listen to the teacher even at recess", "3.1 needs freedom". So we have experienced the two ends of "CHOICES" now we move on to the next stage .........