Happy Summer Holidays!
We are celebrating the closure of a year of success, personal growth, and friendship!!! The last weeks have gone so fast and we already ended this school year! Unbelievable! Children have been shining with their own light, showing the best of themselves. Responsibility, patience, caring, happiness, joy, and a passion for what they do. There is […]
Building the summative…
We began our week with Ms. Patricia & Ms. LiYan presenting the Creation Story. We all really enjoyed the narrative and the experiments presented to help us see it in a different perspective. We are continuing to grow as readers and writers in our Literacy Circles and some of our friends are now choosing their […]
Fun under the sun
For the past three weeks, our toddlers have explored so much about the world. First week of May, our lovely Qingdao turned pink with all those beautiful cherry blossoms. The weather also started to get warmer and we didn’t hesitate to walk around the campus with a basket in hand and improvise a cherry blossom collection. […]
April Discoveries.
Art is an important area of work in our class. Children have opportunities to develop eye hand coordination, and sensorial through color and texture exploration and most important: art incentives creativity. The world is constantly changing and we all need to have the skills to adapt ourselves to it. Creativity is the tool, it creates individuals with independent […]
Language, self confidence, relationships and fun!
Many things have happened during the past three weeks. Toddlers are busy discovering new materials, enjoying new activities and putting to practice new skills while improving others such as communication skills. These children are really talkative. They are creating such sweet and hilarious conversations. They are able to retell a true story, share emotions, have conversations between them, […]
Field Trip to Road Transport Museum | 校外考察之道路交通博物馆
Thank you Steven for sharing your book about different types of boats, which is connected to our current unit of inquiry How We Organize Ourselves: Transportation Systems. 感谢Steven跟我们分享了他在阅读时了解到的各种各样的船，这也恰恰与我们正在学习的探究单元息息相关，即我们是如何使生活变得系统化：交通系统。 In preparation for our field trip to the Road Transport Museum we made predictions in our UOI notebooks about what we thought we would find. […]
Unit celebration and Happy New Year!!!
What an eventful week! We had so much fun preparing our learning space to share all of our learning from our unit of inquiry, Where we are in Place and Time: Inventions and Innovations. We had a great start to the week by celebrating Chinese New Year and the Grand Opening of our new campus. […]
Simple Machines简易机械
After enjoying the movie of Ferdinand, we became book & movie critics. We began by doing a compare and contrast with a Venn diagram to identify the similarities and differences. Then we each shared our opinion about which one we preferred and why. 看完了《公牛历险记》的电影之后，我们都变成了电影和小说的评论家。我们先是用维恩图解对小说和电影的相似之处和不同之处，进行对比和比较。然后再一起讨论，我们更喜欢小说还是电影，以及为什么喜欢。 We unscrambled our third line of inquiry: Inventions and innovations that […]
A QAIS jazz session with musician and composer Michael Zsoldos与音乐作曲家Michael Zsoldos的QAIS爵士盛会
At QAIS we talk about language a lot. As a multi-lingual community, we are all constantly working to communicate, deepen understanding and make connections with each other. It came to my attention this week that our students have another significant “language” connection to each other and to the world; the language of music. This should […]
Inventions and Innovations发明和创造
One of the five essential elements of our PYP curriculum are the key concepts and in this unit of inquiry, Where We are in Place and Time, we will focus on change, responsibility and reflection. To help us better understand these concepts we shared questions that we wonder about related to the concepts and put […]