All the children in Grades 3 – 7 have enjoyed writing poetry with Miss Bonnie this week, using the ‘Private Eye Program’.
The Private Eye is a program about the drama and wonder of looking closely at the world, thinking by analogy, changing scale and theorizing. It’s based on a simple set of tools that produce [...]
The Grade 3’s have been looking at patterns and how they are made. In art they designed their own patterns; then made a block print from it. They repeated and rotated their patterns. They also designed some patterns using their ICT skills; they found the computer much quicker and easier to produce a design.
They used [...]
Buddy Reading is a fun way to enjoy reading. Today, our 2nd Graders read together with our Kindergartners. Reading to the younger children gave the Grade 2s a real sense of pride as they modeled their good reading skills.
The Kindergartners liked being with the older children and enjoyed listening to the stories that they chose [...]
The Bounce-a-thon today was a great success with all of our Preschool, Junior Kindergarten and Kindergarten children bouncing to help raise money for books, playground equipment and computers. Each child bounced for one minute by themselves and their total bounces were recorded. They then had five minutes with their friends to bounce together. The children [...]
For the past 8 years, Mrs. Bonnie and Mr. Joel have been coming to the island to volunteer at Provo Primary School. We love having them here and the children really look forward to their visit each year.
Mrs. Bonnie is an extremely experienced teacher and lives on the beautiful island of Victoria in Western Canada [...]
Our ‘ Body and Brain Triathlon’ incorporated three challenges: Spelling, Mathematics and Aerobics. The event was a phenomenal success with the children rising to both the physical and mental challenges. They all did their best with their spelling and number activities and enthusiastically danced, skipped, yoga stretched, shot hoops and circuit trained to achieve their [...]
Miss Sarah’s Kindergarten class have been learning about pets and have turned their role play area into a pet shop. They wrote a list of all the animals they could think of that would make good pets. They brought in their own toys from home to fill the pet shop, and wrote name labels for [...]
Click on below to read a couple of pieces of creative writing that were inspired by this drama re-enactment in their English lesson…
Can you identify this well known nursery rhyme that the Junior Kindergarten are playing? Let Mrs. Myrna know if your recognise the tune.
The Junior Kindergarten enjoyed playing the hand bells today. Wow, what talent! They carefully followed the colour-coded dots to create the music. They really had to concentrate and follow the score. Just think [...]
The Grade 3’s have designed a Science experiment to see which surface material will make a plasticine ball ’splat’ the most. After making their predictions, they set off in pairs to see if they could set up a ‘fair test’ using the equipment they were given. To insure that their experiment was a fair test, [...]
Today during their PE lessons, the children throughout the school had the opportunity to take part in a modern dance workshop, led by choreographer Luis Kavouras and students from the University of Nevada Las Vegas’ (UNLV) Department of Dance.
After watching a few short performances that portrayed different styles of dance, the children were taught a [...]
Congratulations to our Grade 3 winner in the recent Red Cross’ National poster competition. The poster competition was judged by art professionals, independent of the TCI Red Cross. Entries were judged based on the theme “Power of Humanity/People Helping People”.
Miss Rebecca’s Kindergarten class are enjoying their newly created a zoo role play area in their classroom. The children chose the idea of a zoo themselves to fit in with their current animal topic. They brainstormed ideas for what they might include and they created the maps, tickets, labels and craft animals that appear [...]
In Grade 2 Science lessons this term, the children have been learning about variation of plants and animals. They have organised them in groups according to their similarities, differences and unique characteristics. The children have done a fantastic job in creating their own classification keys about different animals. They answered questions about each of their [...]
A great time was had by the preschool children and their mums at the “Smoochie Smoothie Mother’s Day” event! They started off their lovely celebration with the children singing two songs…”Friends, Friends 1,2,3, and “Way Up in the Sky”. Then Miss Evieann read the story “Oh Baby, My Little One” as each child nestled into [...]
In support of the TCI Red Cross Appeal Week, we had a special ‘Red and White Dress Down Day’ and raised $117. The Red Cross is the world’s largest independent humanitarian and voluntary led organization. The purpose of this week is to raise the awareness of and raise funds for the Red Cross. The funds [...]
‘Sunflowers’ was the theme for the Junior Kindergarten Mother’s Day Tea Party today. The children and mums performed to each other ‘ You are my Sunshine’ and ‘You are my Sunflower’ songs. The children also sang, “Welcome to our Tea Time’, ‘I Love Her and She Loves Me’ and ‘M-O-M-M-Y’.  A delightful tea, with homemade [...]