http://www.stfrancis-school.it Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:37:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Congratulations to our Middle School students and Ms. Ross for the excellent art work presented at the Risa Art Show. We are proud to announce St. Francis won more prizes than any other international school in the Middle School category! We wish to compliment all the participants! The Winners: Drawing & Printmaking 1st place- Dario ... http://www.stfrancis-school.it/2010/03/05/risa-art-show-winners/ Dear Parents, We would like to thank all of you for your generous contribution during the school bake sale on January 20th. We are extremely grateful to the parents and students of the 7th and 8th grades that contributed so enthusiastically with delicious cakes and cookies. We were also very moved ... http://www.stfrancis-school.it/2010/01/26/thank-you/ This month in third grade we have been reading and finding out about different types of homes around the world and the way people live there. We then based our story competition theme on "Homes" and wrote stories about a place we would like to live in. Third grade have painted ... http://www.stfrancis-school.it/2009/12/15/december-in-grade-3/ We see Red, Black and White, Who can it be? Why it's Santa! " The Great Big Man in Red" is the song we've been learning. Our stockings are hung and Grade 1 has their names on Santa's good list. We've had a great first term and we are ready ... http://www.stfrancis-school.it/2009/12/15/holiday-greetings/ Grade 2 Have enjoyed their dinosaur topic, we made dinosaur information books and even made our own footprint fossils! For our winter topic we studied the calendar and wrote seasonal poems and then built our own calendars ready for 2010. We created snowfall in the classroom by cutting beautiful snowflakes. We ... http://www.stfrancis-school.it/2009/12/15/winter-wonderland/ Kindergarten has been very busy learning about farm animals and their babies. What vegetables grow up, middle and down in the garden patch... We tasted many different vegetables and cut them up into many shapes. (concepts in learning-math programme). Seeing that December is a time for giving and sharing, we have been ... http://www.stfrancis-school.it/2009/12/14/kindy-news/ November 9th-13th Grade 1- Download homework and the worksheets below Grade 2- Download homework: nouns1 / nouns2 / math and revise 5x times table Middle School Math & Science (Ms. De Paolis)-download work http://www.stfrancis-school.it/2009/11/10/homework-for-absent-students/ Grade 6 students have been busy increasing their awareness of the world around them. Projects with a view to the world have been varied, ranging from an exploration of the issue of world hunger, to a penpal initiative, which somewhat turns the clock back... Mouse pads and e-mails will be put aside ... http://www.stfrancis-school.it/2009/10/27/grade-6-and-the-world/   This month we had a lot of fun presenting and making our recipes for our Process Writing in English. We divided into groups according to our different cultures and followed a recipe that is typical of our individual countries. These are our groups and the dishes we made: Tuna Curry and Rotti  Sri ... http://www.stfrancis-school.it/2009/10/26/recipes-from-the-world/ Grade 4 are planning to have a spooky time at Halloween. We have a visiting skeleton in class (known affectionately as Skelly) and plenty of witches on broomsticks. We are busy making Halloween lanterns which we will be lighting up so we can listen to spooky stories. Of course we ... http://www.stfrancis-school.it/2009/10/26/grade-4-and-the-spooky-guest/