The Day the Crayons Quit!
In Grade 2, the children have been focusing on letter writing in English Language Arts (ELA). Last week, we read the story “The Day the Crayons Quit” By Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers. (Listen to…
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Calling Home Language Storytellers!
This year, we will once again be hosting monthly home language storytelling sessions in the Elementary School. This means that once per month, somebody from the FIS community will read a short story aloud in…
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AGIS Elementary School Principals’ Conference
What a fabulous couple of days! Thank you for the brilliant idea of having us join the first graders on their learning adventure in the woods. I learned so much, not in the least being,…
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FIS Word Work: Routines, Roles and Workshop
Xavi, a Grade 1 student raised his hand in a class discussion centered around sharing our knowledge and ideas and said, “Mrs. Hertz, it’s like the quote – Knowledge unshared remains knowledge unknown.” I melted…
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International Dot Day at the FIS!
If you haven’t read The Dot, a book by Peter H. Reynolds, then now is the time. The Dot is a story that inspires us to take on challenges, to use our resiliency when things…
Read MoreEarly Years and Elementary School Parent Information Night
A warm welcome to you all for the School Year 2019-2020. Welcome back to all our returning families and a special welcome to our new families. I look forward to a wonderful year together as…
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A Poem in a Pocket Day in Grade 1
Poems from a rainbow’s perspective, poems asking people to stop cutting down trees from the point of view of a wild tiger, and several other poems were created, drafted, revised, edited, and finally shared by…
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Unity Through Multilingualism
On Monday, July 1, all the Grade 1 to 5 students took part in Unity Through Multilingualism (name inspired by the recent ECIS MLIE Conference), a conference-style afternoon event where students attended a variety of…
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Nürnberg Artist Creates Art with Grade 3 Students
Nürnberg artist and designer, Birgit Osten has been sparking Grade 3 students’ creativity by getting them to sketch and color different buildings from around the world. Together they collaborated to create a five meters long…
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Grade 3 Visit to Erlangen Tafel
Grade 3C went to the Erlangen tafel to donate food, last week. The IPC unit they are currently investigating is Young Entrepreneurs, and a few weeks ago they visited the tafel to find out more…
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