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WELCOME TO THE WOODLANDS PREP INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL NEWSLETTER! We are excited about all the celebrations, events and activities that our team are planning for this semester. 2021 challenged us by engaging new people, perspectives and ideas. Living in our global campus is a unique experience for all our students, teachers and administrators. We encourage you to explore our inquiry leaders by reading our next newsletter because we will be presenting all our faculty by their nationalities, their recognitions and their academic and professional profiles. All of them send us inspiring thoughts to explain their values and beliefs. Come and find their voice in our upcoming Newsletter! As part of our friendly community, you´ll really get to know our daily routines. At the main entrance, we are doing some safety practices to protect ourselves for healthy reasons, so we can minimize risk and be aware and prevent the effects of COVID. We are doing our best effort to help our students to feel comfortable with the new way of life. They are helping us with their respect and discipline. We are proud of their daily effort.
Also, our teachers are prepared to develop an educational perspective about healthcare with a deep commitment to contribute with a positive attitude. The school combines social and technical aspects into our protocols. Every morning our students participate in the WPTV Morning News, so last week we celebrated Martin Luther´s King Day. A small group of students asked about civil rights information and we just mentioned that tolerance is a very important aspect for our IB learning profile. We are sure that our MYP and DP students will make a positive contribution to our society! Also, some of our young students watched the Presidential event last week. They were having a great moment at the cafeteria while we were working with the intellectual rigors to prepare them in a reflective lesson about democracy.
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For February, our IB coordinator and teachers will be launching orientation about amazing learning opportunities to enroll! We are thinking about improving our customer service and the admissions process will invite new parents to our next Open House. On our campus, you´ll find a dynamic mix of people, sports, arts and cultures!
ACADEMIC NEWS JANUARY 11TH-15TH PREK AND KINDERGARDEN: We are in our second semester and the final stretch of the school year. It is time to demonstrate and meet our objectives. My super students are working daily on their learning and increasing their knowledge. Now more than ever we will increase our Reading ability in English and Spanish.
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1ST AND 2ND GRADE:
This week we are learning a lot about Rhyming words and Sight words. The Star of the week is Adisa. We are doing a lot of Team Building projects like Planning a Play for our ESL class.
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3RD AND 4TH GRADE: This week we read a story about a hare that solves his family’s food problems by tricking a lazy bear into sharing his crops. We had fun with the characters in the story. We continued researching insects, and were amazed by all the different kinds we found! During the week we decided to go insect hunting to our lake and forest and stopped by to see how beautiful our crops are growing. In math we learned about measurements and applied our new knowledge in word problems.
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PYP ART CLASS:
This week the PYP students have been learning the concepts of Da Vinci and what inspired him to think the way he did. The students have constructed the idea of an airplane and learned the basics of what makes an airplane fly. Their imagination on what an airplane would look like as well as what features and colors they would have it be. Then the planes were tested to see if it could fly to understand that if the first time it fails, one should learn from it and develop a way to make it better.
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MYP LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 5TH AND 6TH GRADE: This week we read several chapters of "Esperanza Rising," in which the protagonist's father died, setting into motion events that led to her and her family losing everything they owned. Now they must escape with nothing from Mexico to the USA during the great depression. The students continued their journals and reading logs, and responded to a writing prompt based on the events they read in "Esperanza Rising."
7TH TO 10TH GRADE: This week we read Act I of "Romeo and Juliet" and continued studying the structure and rhyme scheme of sonnets. The students also read and interpreted "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" The students continued working in their journals and recording their reading logs
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SCIENCE 5TH TO 10TH GRADE
Students have been learning about measurement. The relationship between math and science. They are getting familiar with the different units and symbols used by different countries. Understanding the differences in the Imperial and Metric Systems and the great application to their everyday lives.
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MATH 5TH AND 6TH GRADE
This week, our students will finish up 2D geometry and move on by exploring 3D geometry. We will also have a short quiz on Thursday to review our progress so far.
7TH TO 9TH GRADE: This week our students are continuing their work with solving systems of equations. They are finishing up the three main ways to approach these problems and will have a short quiz on Thursday to review their progress.
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10TH GRADE: This week in Mathematics, our Students will be finishing up our work on Right Angle Trigonometry and starting to discuss circles in the coordinate plane. We will also have a short quiz over trigonometry on Thursday.
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: MANDARIN: 5TH TO 8TH GRADE: We learned about the lunar calendar holidays, including Chinese New Year, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and Moon Festival. Students chose a holiday they were interested in, and made a project. They will have a presentation about the holiday they chose next week.
9TH GRADE: It was a great beginning of the semester with the student. I am so happy that he not only remembered the content we worked on last semester, but also was full of passion for continuing learning We did ten characters and one article this week about introducing family to others. He practiced typing Chinese for 4 different conversations. Can't wait for next week!
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DP ART CLASS: The DP students have learned this week about life drawing and what about it makes it special. Taking one of the lessons from the Masters of Art and using Da Vinci methods, they will understand how to see what is right in front of them and not only put pencil to parchmen but question why things are made the way they are as to better understand the subject that they are visualizing. This will then allow them to explore the creative aspect of their minds and create something new unlike what they could even imagine.
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LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: MANDARIN: 12TH GRADE It was the first week of our Mandarin class this semester. The student is going to take her IB test in May. It is exciting that the student is going to explore more opportunities and potential in the future. We will work on practicing for the IB test this semester, and we will also read different types of articles to help the student have great ideas in writing. This week we read an article about the sense of money, and the student is working on writing about it.
INDIVIDUALS & SOCIETIES 5-10 This week we have highlighted the importance of citizenship in our students. In this way, we had the opportunity to observe the presidential oath ceremony and to take this opportunity to respectfully follow the broadcast. The students behaved in a very appropriate way and took a test regarding the most important events that occurred during the ceremony. Politics is an important component in the study of the social sciences and we consider that as an institution it is important to be aware of events like this.
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GASTRONOMY This week MYP students prepared a typical dish of French gastronomy: Chicken Breast" Cordon Bleu" in honor of the famous and renowned gastronomy school that bears the same name. The students had the opportunity to debone and flatten chicken breasts, then stuff them and season them with a traditional RosĂŠe Sauce. In the end, they tasted the dish in the cafeteria area.
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SAVE THE DATES February 1st- 5th Black History and Culture Week 9th at 2-3 pm PTSA Meeting - Welcome existing and new members! UPCOMING BIRTHDAYS Teachers and staff members: Feb 3rd Ms. Katja Feb 4th Mr. Armstrong.
NEXT NEWSLETTER From now on the WP newsletter will be sent every other Monday. You will receive the next number on Monday, February 8th.