Report Cards

Report cards are currently being finalized, will be printed and signed this afternoon, and issued to students tomorrow afternoon. These will be given to students in a sealed envelope, and teachers will explain clearly that these envelopes are to be given directly to you, unopened, when the students arrive home. Please expect this envelope tomorrow.

When you are looking at your child's report card, please use the Assessment Descriptors document below to understand what the numbers mean. As well, please refer back on the blog to this post and this post. Teachers are looking forward to explaining your child's achievement and progress in much more detail with you on Saturday, and will be able to answer any questions you may have at that time.


RIS Assessment Descriptors

Parent-Teacher Conferences on Saturday

We have collected most of the Parent-Teacher Conference sign-up forms that students took home to you on Monday. Ms. Park is currently working hard to create a timetable that ensures you get your first choice of meeting time. Parents of students who did not return the form will be assigned a meeting time.

Mr. Altay will email you tomorrow with your time to meet your child's homeroom teacher. As well, the homeroom teachers will let your child know Saturday's meeting time in class tomorrow, so that they can give you this information after school on Thursday. 

You may meet with the ESL and Specialist teachers either before or after the homeroom teacher meeting, depending on the times you are available to be at the school.

We look forward to seeing you all on Saturday!

Poetry

If you are already thinking about this week's challenge, you know that organizing your thoughts is always the first step to any writing project. Here is a cool site that will help you create your own acrostic poem. A good general site with links to many kinds of poetry is Poetry 4 Kids. Start there, and you'll be a poet before you know it!

Day change

The Korean Drum classes will be held on Tuesdays, not Mondays as reported yesterday. Mr. Altay will enrol the first six students whose parents email him to give their permission.

Challenge #10

Last week you were challenged to learn about the weather, and needed to find information on the internet or from books. This week's challenge is about the seasons, but you will need to use your creativity to find the answer from inside your own big brain.

You need to make an acrostic poem from the word fall or the word autumn. Most of you have probably written an acrostic poem in Language Arts class. You know that the acrostic word is written up and down on the page, and that each letter of the word becomes the first letter of a new word or sentence. The new words or sentences will have some connection to the acrostic word.

The picture above is an example that a student did for the word spring. You can see that all of her new words or sentences across the page are connected to the original word. She even decorated the acrostic poem to start to make it look big, bold, bright, and beautiful.

All students who make an acrostic poem for the word fall or the word autumn, make the paper big, bold, bright, and beautiful, and give it to Mr. Smith before Friday morning at 9:09am will be recognized here as an Acrostic Poet Master of the Week. Good luck!

Staying warm

With autumn here and temperatures expected to drop markedly this week, students may wish to add another layer to stay warm. Students may wear an extra T-shirt or long-sleeve shirt under their school uniform shirt.

There are two acceptable options in accord with the RIS Uniform policy for girls who wish to cover their legs to stay warm. The first is to wear tights or leggings under their RIS skirt. These leggings should be black or dark brown. Alternatively, if girls wish to wear the RIS uniform pants, these can be ordered from the Ivy Club supplier in Yongsan.

Korean drum class

An exciting new opportunity for students who love music! Starting next week, there will be an extra Music class, specializing in Korean drums, every Monday from 3:05-4:00pm. The class will be held in the auditorium, and has extremely limited enrolment space.

The class is open to students from all grades and at all muscial levels, but is limited to the first six students who sign-up. Parents of interested students should email Mr. Altay before next week to give their permission, and to discuss how their child will get home after 4:00pm. There will be no shuttle buses arranged for this, as this opportunity is beyond the scope of our Wednesday EC program.