Due to grade 4 and 5 outdoor

education trips taking place next

weekend, the following ASAs

have been cancelled:

Writing with Ms. Snyder (Kg-

grade 3)

Community Development

with Mr. P and Ms. Eaton

(grades 4 and 5)

Gymnastics with Ms. Stock-

dale on Wednesday (grades

2-5) and Friday (Kg and

grade1)

In This Issue

Waste of paper.

Smartphone Problems.

S.S.I.S. get beaten!

A talk about Tet

A new. S.R.C. presi-

dent

Upcoming Events

Dear ISHCMC Community,

This week was full of learning opportunities for all ages of students both inside and out-

side the classroom. Grade 2 paid a visit to a local chocolate factory to learn from where

one of our favourite treats originates, grade 1 has loaded our hallways with numerous

creations, while grades 4 and 5 prepare for their outdoor education trips. In addition, we

had a lovely meeting held by the PTO on our rooftop where teachers and parents had the

opportunity to discuss everything from the upcoming Great Gatsby event to principles of

learning. Thank you to the PTO for hosting this event.

Perhaps the biggest news from the week was the accomplishments of our gymnastics

team. Our team wore the school colours with pride and ended up winning the city cham-

pionships on Wednesday. Congratulations for a job well done and special thanks to Ms.

Stockdale for all of her effort in coaching the team to victory!

The primary side of the school will be a bit quieter than normal next week as grades 4

and 5 leave on Tuesday and don’t return until Friday. Please note that both Mr. Sherratt

and I will be away; please address any concerns you may have towards Mr. Adrian

Watts. Good luck to the grade two students and teachers who have their sleep-over to-

night in the school—have a wonderful time!

Kurtis Peterson

Feb 21st

2014

Event For Whom? Date/Time Location

Grade 2 Sleep Over Grade 2 Students Feb 21st School

Lower Primary Photos EE2-Grade 1 Feb 24-25th School

Grade 4 & Grade 5 on

Field Trip

Grade 4 and 5 Stu-

dents

Feb 25-28th Gr4 to Matagui

and Gr5 to Cat

Tien Park

Primary Parent Coffee

Morning

Primary Parents Mar 6th Meeting Room

Visual Art Exhibition EE2-Gr 10 Students March 12-14th MPR

Grade 3 Sleep Over Grade 3 Students Mar 7th MPR

Did you know that 30 pieces of

A4 paper takes 1 tree to

make!!!!?

Almost every time we go to the

printing area, the used paper

trade is full of wasted paper. Stu-

dents are printing the same cop-

ies too many times because they

are impatient. Printing too much

paper is a waste of trees and

unecessary.

So now on we would like you to

be responsible by not printing

more than 1 copy at a time. You

can print only if the teacher al-

lows you to print more than 1

piece of paper. Please think before

you print!!!!!!!!

Please be responsible for the envi-

ronments!!!!!

By: Yichan Kim and Jae Weon Jung

People still print even though

people aren’t there: Top picture.

Lots of paper shouldn't be

wasted

ISHCMC went to swim at the SSIS swimming pool. The race was on Thursday the 23rd

2014 on January it started at 3:30 to 6:00.

It was a friendly swim meet so no one won. In our opinion we thought ISHCMC won be-cause one person from ISHCMC would always win, but SSIS swam fast too.

There was another school called GIS, but there weren’t much people swimming for GIS. Only five people came to swim.

In our opinion we thought the pool was VERY cold (colder than ISHCMC) and dark.

We all tried our best and swam like super-fast sharks chasing fishes, and we did.

By: Bopha and Anne, from e-Reporters

ISHCMC vs SSIS Swim Meet

Tet

The Tet holiday is the most important

holiday for the Vietnamese people,

because when spring comes, every-

body wishes of visiting their family, go-

ing back to their home town, getting

haircuts and buying new clothes, all

that for the preparation of Tet.

In the Tet holiday, the Vietnamese peo-

ple usually eat pumpkin seeds, water-

melon seeds, banh chung, banh tet and

lotus seeds.

The two flowers that represent Tet are

called Hoa Mai and Hoa Dao, Hoa Mai

represents the middle and the south of

Vietnam, whereas Hoa Dao represents

the north of Vietnam.

Tet is celebrated with fireworks, every-

body goes to pagodas and temples to

pray and hope that the upcoming year

will be better than the last year that just

recently went by.

In Tet the adults give the children a

small red pocket, the adults put a little

bit of money inside, the money doesn’t

necessarily have to be a lot, the money

is called lucky money, the lucky money

si supposed to give the children good

luck during the year.

By: Emma Shadwell 3D

Football Team

The people for the ISHCMC Football

team have just been selected. Every

Wednesday they have a practice.

There are twenty people in the team.

Everyone that made it in to the team

seems really happy. Some people

were a little unlucky and didn’t get in

the team. Everyone has tried really

hard to get in. People are getting ex-

cited to have matches with all the

other schools. Last Wednesday was

their first day of practice. Their first

match is on February 19th with TAS

(The American School). There are a

lot of grades 5s because they have

really good players. We do have

some grade 4s, not as much as the

grade 5s. We have lots of great foot-

ballers. The good thing is we have

many more girls now, at the start we

had less than 5 girls but now there

are more than 7. We wish everyone

on the ISHCMC soccer team good

luck.

VS