Morgan Rothschild Toddler Room October News 2012

Morgan Rothschild Academy Toddler Room October News 2012

 

What a fast month it has been!  This October was short but sweet at Morgan Rothschild Academy.  We had a long vacation, celebrated many birthdays, went on our first field trip of the year, and got to celebrate Halloween!

 

The field trip to the Organic Farm was a big day for our toddler class.  It was all very exciting, even the bus ride to the farm was as fun as could be!  The favorite activity for all the kids was definitely picking tomatoes, followed closely by going to see the chickens, geese, and ducks!  Thank you to the parents who came to learn with us!

 

The children really enjoyed our Halloween festivities at Morgan Rothschild Academy, which included making bats, paper Jack-O-Lanterns, decorating small pumpkins with melted crayon and glitter, and carving a large Jack-O-Lantern as a class!  Allegra very much enjoyed her the small pumpkin project; taking care to pick out colors and painting the glitter onto her pumpkin very carefully with true artistic ambition.

 

The Jack-O-Lantern was a big hit with the entire class.  Shota and Jules especially enjoyed describing the smell, feel, and look of both the inside and outside of the pumpkin during our class investigation and discussion.

Jacob and Shota have taken a liking to our song called “Peanutbutter” and the whole class has enjoyed learning the B-I-N-G-O song.

 

The class is making progress on the Morgan Rothschild set goals.  Our letter recognition by sight and our vocabulary words are going very well.

 

November Plans

During November, we will talk about fall and winter.  Our art projects and story lines will match these topics.  Our goals of letter recognition, playing with new friends, and understanding rhyming still remain.  Our class will talk about all things that have to do with American Thanksgiving including tradition and foods.  We will be moving on to prepare for the Annual Morgan Rothschild Christmas and New Year Concert this month as well. (Very Exciting!)

 

Birthdays!

We had many birthdays in October and we enjoyed celebrating each one! 

This November our friend Jules is turning 4 years old on the 17^th!

Year End Farewell from Morgan Rothschild Academy

Nursery News 2012

School’s Over Already!

I am so sad to see the end of the year here at Morgan Rothschild Academy. I have really come to know your children so well and each of them has touched my life in ways that I cannot even measure. I love them and I’m so glad to have been their teacher. Unfortunately, I won’t be here next year but I will be at Morgan Rothschild until the end of the summer. Thank you to all parents for supporting me and our class. I couldn’t have been such a great teacher without your loving care and guidance.

 

Parent’s Corner

·     I can provide more supplemental materials to practice ABC’s, shapes, and numbers to those interested. Please let me know if you need more help.

Goodbye Ayi!

We are sad to say goodbye to our classroom ayi. She has been so helpful to our class in more ways than we can count! She is moving onto a new job and we are so glad to have her in our room.

 

What’s This?

In the past month, our class has started to be full of questions. We have been engaging in more pretend play as well at Morgan Rothschild Academy. While waiting to brush their teeth, YangYang, Lucas, Valentina, and Aston took the pop bottles that were filled with colored water and pretended to drink from them. Aston had apple juice while Lucas said he had “pizza juice” and then he laughed. It is so funny to our class to say that something is different than it actually is. Ms. Ashten will point to Shota and say, “Hello Gabriel!” and he will respond: “No I’m Shota!” So don’t be surprised if your children try to fool you.

 

Morgan Rothschild Important Dates

June 1-Children’s Day Carnival at MRA

June 10-Last day to sign up for Camp Frolic for discounted rate of 1600 RMB/week

June 17-Father’s Day

June 27-Nursery Graduation/Potluck

June 29-Last day of school year

July 2-First day of Camp Frolic

Morgan Rothschild Academy Parent Teacher Conferences

Thank you to all of the parents who attended the Morgan Rothschild Parent Teacher Conferences. I am so proud of all of my class advancing socially, academically, and linguistically. This has been a fun year and we have learned so much so far at MRA. One more month for school…unless YOU ENROLL YOUR CHILD TO OUR SUMMER ADVENTURE!

Come join the fun with Ms. Wynneth and Ms. Ashten as we take an adventure through our action packed Summer Camp Frolic!

 

Celebrate the Holidays at Morgan Rothschild

Dear Parents，

 

Greetings!

It is here again! We are sure you know by now that Santa is coming to town. It is a time of sparkle and festive partying, and of the warm glow of family and friends. 

This holiday season, come and experience for yourself the incredible magic of our seventh annual Christmas and New Year Concert at Morgan Rothschild Academy.

We cordially invite your family and friends to come and celebrate this joyous holiday tradition with us. We will be having the concert on December 19th, 2012. The concert will start at 10:30 a.m. and ends around lunch time. The school will have an early dismissal at 12 o’clock.

 

This year we are going to have our concert at the Ballroom 1 of the prestigious Four Seasons Hotel again. The parking is RMB$ 50 per 3 hours. Please register with us if you will be driving to the hotel to obtain the discounted fare. Don’t miss this opportunity to see your child caroling and dancing in this fanfare! All the children and staff look forward to welcoming you at the concert.

Morgan Huang

Ed.M. Harvard University

Director

Morgan Rothschild Academy Kindergarten Room News May 2012

Morgan Rothschild Academy Kindergarten Room News May 2012

At Morgan Rothschild Academy, this month has been very exciting and full of a lot of preparations for the Spring Concert! The children were so happy to share their hard work with family and friends. We are very proud of the Morgan Rothschild Academy, MRA Kindergarten class and all of their friends in other classes for their wonderful performances! Thank you for attending our special event

Apart from preparing for the final Morgan Rothschild Academy Concert, we also celebrated the Easter holiday together this April. The Kindergarten class and Preschool class came together to have an Easter egg hunt! Some eggs were difficult to find, while others were a little easier to look for. Our class was very helpful to the younger ones, and some of the Kindergarteners even found some eggs that were very well hidden long after the egg hunt had ended. We have some good, strong eyes in our class! The kids had a ton of fun!

Morgan Rothschild Academy, MRA also visited the zoo this past month, as well! Our kids were extremely excited about seeing all of their favorite animals and more. Some of the animals we saw were monkeys, tigers, and elephants. The children already knew some facts about the animals, but were pleased to learn even more by seeing them firsthand.

At Morgan Rothschild Academy, there has been a focus on reviewing sentence structure, which we have previously covered in our class. Part of our MRA curriculum has recently been about asking questions, and the Kindergarten class has caught on nicely. We have spent time working on correcting sentences that are wrong, and creating a question when it is necessary. They have also been able to remember which word is a noun, and which is an action word (verb) when looking at a sentence. We will continue to work with nouns and verbs. I will begin more review about plural and proper nouns, which we have also previously covered at school. The children have been doing very well with our review sessions and continue to learn the new content without much issue.

The children have been enjoying different phonics games we have been playing. One of the games we play is a phonics scavenger hunt, in which the kids search the room for different words that contain the sound we are studying that week. Once they find a few words, they must tell the class and we work on sound blending and reading these words, as well as their meanings. It is very amusing!

This month, we will continue with review and new content in all the subjects at Morgan Rothschild Academy. We have been reading many books about different homes and areas of the world. The kids are extremely interested in travel and learning about other cultures, which does not surprise me! I am making sure to use this interest as a focus, as we are all able to learn from each other and the many different places we come from and have been to in our lives.

REMINDERS:

Morgan Rothschild Academy Parent Teacher Conferences will take place between May 21-31. More information will be given soo

Morgan Rothschild Academy 2012 Kindergartener Graduates

Look! We are going to the First Grade!

Morgan Rothschild Academy 2012 Kindergartener Graduates

Dear Parents,

We are very excited to inform you that all of our 2012 Morgan Rothschild kindergarteners have entered their desired elementary schools in 2012-2013. Congratulations! Kindergarteners and your families have made us at Morgan Rothschild Academy so proud! Please see the attached table of the schools they entered.

As you may have noticed, entering prestigious elementary schools in Shanghai has become very competitive with the increasing population of students from all over China and the world.

This year, our students have passed rigorous entrance exams of Shanghai American School (SAS), Shanghai High School International Division (SHSID), Fudan-Vanke Primary School (FVPS), YK Pao School, International School of Beijing (ISB), Dulwich College, Shanghai United International School (SUIS), Shanghai Singapore International School(SISS), Soong Ching Ling School and Western International School of Shanghai (WISS).

For the parents of future graduates, please continue to help you children in following our Morgan Rothschild Academy program guidelines and doing home works to foster good habits. You will be rewarded tremendously in the years to come!

Cheers!

Morgan Huang

Ed.M. Harvard University

Director

Morgan Rothschild Academy

 

Student	Name of Elementary School
R. de Geyter M. Yang K. Yu	Fudan-Vanke Experimental Private School 复旦万科实验学校
K. Hosoe (also accepted by Dulwich, FDV, SSIS)	International School of Beijing 北京顺义国际学校
A. Liao	Shanghai American School 上海美国学校
T. Jing (also accepted by YK Pao) S. Xu	Shanghai High School International Division 上海中学国际部
A. Endo A. Zheng	Shanghai Singapore International School 新加坡国际学校
Y. Kawabata E. Ma	Shanghai United International School 协和双语学校
L. Van de Ven	Soong Ching Ling School 宋庆龄小学
T. Leong (also accepted by SAS)	Western International School of Shanghai 西华国际学校
K. Mogi	Returning to Japan 回日本

 

Morgan Rothschild Academy Toddler Room Newsletter May 2012

Dear Toddler Room Families,

 

This was another busy month in the toddler room at Morgan Rothschild Academy...April flew right by!

 

The first exciting event at Morgan Rothschild from April was my parents visiting from America. They loved spending time with your children and they had so much fun getting to know them. The children enjoyed their visit as much as my parents did! (I think mostly be-cause of the chocolate they brought :)
 

 

We also had a great trip to the Shanghai Zoo! Everyone thought the animals were so cool and we even learned about some new ones. Thank you to all the parents who were able to come!

 

The most recent excitement we had was our Morgan Rothschild Academy Annual Spring Concert. The children practiced so hard and they really did a great job singing and dancing!

 

Not only did we do some great things, we also practiced some new things at MRA. We have been working on being good friends and solving problems with your friends. We have been encouraging the children to seek help when resolving problems instead of lashing out physically. We’ve been working very hard and making great progress.

The last note is a bit of sad one...April was Naoki’s last month at MRA. He is moving to Japan to go to school and be with his family. We will all miss him very much and we are sad to see him go!  April was a great month and I can’t wait to see what May will hold!

Morgan Rothschild Academy Reminder:

Our Spring Parent Teacher Conferences will be held the third and fourth week of May. We will send home a reminder with specific dates and ask for your preferred time slot!

*Mother’s Day—May 13th

 

Ms. Andrea

Morgan Rothschild Academy Nursery Room Newsletter May 2012

Happy Mother’s Day!

What’s New in Nursery

In our classroom this past month we have had a lot of interesting opportunities. Not only did we go to the Shanghai Zoo, have our annual Morgan Rothschild Academy Spring Concert, and had a visit from a pet rabbit, we learned many important tasks.

At Morgan Rothschild Academy, this past month we have really learned to be helpers in the classroom. We now can wash our hands almost independently, line up better, and also pass out forks and spoons at lunch time. Students like Valentina and Jules like to play teacher and help Ms. Ashten when we are doing lessons. Also we have learned how to help clean up after our work time. We are still working on how to solve problems between friends but every day is a new success at MRA.

Summer Camp at Morgan Rothschild Academy

If you are interested in enrolling your child in MRA Camp Frolic, our summer camp is from July 1st-August 24th, please let the school know before June 10th to get the discounted rate. I look forward to seeing your children this summer to have new experiences to remember.

Spring Concert

Thank you to all of the parents who came to our Annual Morgan Rothschild Spring Concert. The students worked very hard to learn the songs and the dance moves. I am very proud that this concert was much better than the last concert we had in the winter. It’s very hard for the student to see their parents and then to go back and sing more songs. Thank you again for support and I hope you enjoyed the performance.

Parent Teacher Conferences

Our final Morgan Rothschild Academy Parent Teacher Conference 2011-2012 will be at the end of this month. We will be sending out a notice as the time comes closer concerning the times available to meet with Ms. Ashten, Ms. Duan, and Ms. Xu together. The projected days for the meeting are May 21-31st. Be sure once the notice goes out to contact the school to reserve your time.

Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day is on May 13th and we will celebrate it during the week of May 7-11th

• Without our moms, we wouldn’t be here and we thank you for everything that you do.

This Month’s Highlight

Ms. Ashten’s mom sent a box to our class!

Shanghai Zoo

On April 12th, 2012, Morgan Rothschild Academy visited the Shanghai Zoo. At first when we had a lesson about the zoo, the kids didn’t know what the zoo was until we went and now everywhere we go in the school is about what animals we see. Our students are fascinated by the way the animals eat and what their babies look like. In stories that include animals that we seen, students like Yangyang will say “Miss Ashten, this one is a lion” and Julian will tell me “Momma likes tigers.” We have been singing our “We went to the Zoo” and we pretend to point at animals all over. Recently we like to act like animals by crawling in the hallways like animals walk or growling like bears or jumping like a kangaroo.