July 1. A momentous day! It was the last day of a very tiring and exciting school year.
Accomplishments this year?
- Two very well-attended virtual library sleepover events (each was 4 zoom meetings over two evenings to accommodate all year groups). These were joint ventures with our sister campus here in Bangkok!
- 1st Annual Shrewsbury Asia Poetry Competition! A little more challenging since we had to coordinate between two countries and three schools. Can't wait to see what the students submit next year!
- Reorganization of Thai picture books into front facing baskets, and each basket labeled to match the books that belong in it.
- A start (with 24 custom made baskets) to doing front-facing English picture books.
- A weekly average of 22 EY1 and 17 EY2 students for garden story times!
- A very successful Fully Booked Week featuring real life and literary heroes.
- The most amazing Christmas zoom of stories and songs featuring David Biedryzcki reading two of his Christmas books!
- Two great student-written books being made for the library. Y3 (2nd graders) each wrote a story from the same story starter for one book, and Y5-6 (4th and 5th graders) wrote a joint mystery story. (And I never imagined an after-school group discussing ways that "grandpa died"...). Both books are creative and beyond my expectations! (Especially the mystery...the 11 students spent several sessions planning details in order to have a cohesive story.)
- Successful puppet show project with Y4 and Y5 students creating and making videos of their puppet shows to share with Y1 and Y2 students.
