Skype Exchange - Baltimore

On Friday 30th September the beavers and swans gathered together we made our first contact with another school 

using the internet communication technology Skype.

The grade 2 students prepared questions that could be asked to an "alien". The children didn't know who they were contacting or where they came from. 

This made them really think carefully about what they were asking, and 

not just to ask (closed) Yes/No questions!

  The kindergarten students at the Calvert school in Baltimore, Maryland, USA prepared questions of their own. Despite being younger than our class, the Calvert students had more experience with Skype exchanges than us.

 We even managed to sing our "Flat Stanley" song and send it 6614km away!

As Baltimore is 6 hours behind we needed to make the call at the end of the day. 

The children at both ends of the Skype line found it funny that at SIS we were finishing the school day and the American students were just arriving at school.

September Exercise

All students from Kindergarten to Grade 4 went out on our yearly "September Bummel"! This year we visited the beautiful countryside around Muri and visited the playground and farm animals at Muri-Moos.

Waiting in line for the descent!

The huge pirate ship was a hit as was the "zipwire"!

Our last chance to see the animals. These cattle must have been even hotter than we were!

"SPORT"

Over the past few weeks grade 2 have been busy learning about balance

and tension during our PE lessons. Here are a few of the balances they created.

Oh wie schön ist Panama

Während den letzten Wochen haben die Schüler und Schülerinnen vieles gelernt. Wir haben Briefe geschrieben und Postkarten verschickt. Die beiden Freunde "Tiger und Bär" haben uns dabei geholfen. Im Klassenzimmer haben wir den "Weg nach Panama" nachgebastelt! Hier einige Fotos: 

Da haben wir einen Steckbrief geschrieben! 

"Oh wie schön ist Panama, da werden alle Träume wahr! Panama ist wunderbar weil ich dort noch niemals war!"

Journal - Wettbewerb

Die Schülerinnen und Schüler der SIS haben sich grosse Mühe gegeben um ein schönes Titelblatt zu ihrem Journal zu gestalten. Dies ist ihnen sehr gelungen!  

Nun gab es letzten Freitag die Preisverleihung! Die Auswahl war nicht einfach. 5 Kinder pro Klasse wurden von ihren Mitschülern gewählt; die Gewinner wurden dann von der Schulleitung entschieden.

In der 2. Klasse hat Anastasia gewonnen! Bravo Anastasia! 

Und hier das Titelblatt: 

Welcome to Grade 2

Welcome back to SIS with your Grade 2 teachers Mr Gilbert and Frau Paradissi!

It has been great to hear and read about all your stories and adventures over the summer.

Journal Cover Competition!

Who in SIS Wollishofen will be chosen as the winner?

Herr Brauchli, Mrs von Boyen and Herr Zuberi will choose 

the winners from a shortlist made by the students and teachers. So watch this space!

Here are some pictures of Swans and Beavers in painting action.

Rocket Science

The students had lots of fun seeing how far air propelled rockets can fly.

If you look really, really carefully you might just see the bubbles.

Unfortunately these didn't give this rocket any extra power that the foot pump didn't already have.

This rocket involves a bicycle pump, a cork, some water, a bottle and a lot of muscle power, phew!

Have a go at this at home (but with adult supervision and a lot of space)!

 

 

Luckily "launch control" kept an eye on the rockets so that they didn't shoot straight
at the passing SBB trains!

We looked at a variety of ways to create our own air rockets.

Students used large and small PET bottles to pump air into a home-made rocket. We discovered from our high-tech experiments that rockets needed to be light and well made in order to make the most of the air pushing them off the tops of the bottle. The best materials were paper and drinking straws.

Here are some of the finished products. NASA here we come!