Parcel from E28, Canada

July 23rd
We returned to school during summer vacation for cleanning classrooms.  And...G5-3 received the parcel from their e-pals, E28!  We soon took some photos with Ms. Liang and our principal for sending our gratitude to Mr. Saulnier and his class.

Little Green Thumbs t-shirts, E28

We are SO HAPPY to see our e-pals sending us their recent photos.  They wear little green thumbs t-shirts and look so COOL! 

E28 is our model of doing GREEN works in campus.  It is very important to preserve a good environment for our next generation.  In addition to planting trees and vegetables, in Fo-Gong, we have also a "no meat" lunch one day every month and we also serve vegetarian food every day for teachers and students who do not eat meat.

Have a look of our wonderful and lovely class pals!  We enjoy it so much!

May 31, 2012 (From Mr. Saulnier)

A couple of class pictures wearing our Little Green Thumbs t-shirts:

5-3's Drawing for Mother's Day

Don't they just look like their moms? 

E28's parcel for 5-3 is on the way

We are so happy to know that the parcel from E28 is flying to Taiwan now ! Thank our pals so much that they made so many beautiful hats and other things for 5-3 because we have about 10 more students then E28.  E28 has to work much more than we do during the busy semester. 

May 1, 2012 (From Mr. Saulnier, E28)

Our parcel is finally ready.  It is going to the mail today.  I hope it does not take too long to arrive in Taiwan.  Here is some photographs of some of the items we are sending to your classroom:

Big Question Fair, E28 on local TV news again ! (5-3)

We are so proud to watch E28's wonderful presentation about the global energy issue in Big Question Fair.  You ARE the role model of 5-3 !!!  Way to go E28! Karsen and Cody, I am very impressed by your explanation! 

April 26, 2012 (From Mr. Saulnier)


Our class was again showcased on the local news regarding our Big Question Learning Fair!

Inspiring and Meaningful Learning Activities in Class

Thanks to Mr. Saulnier and E28 keep sending us their recent interesting learning activities.  The hands-on math project is so interesting and I would like to introduce it to G5-3 and try to do the same and see what comes out.  It looks so cool !  In addition, World Earth Day is on the way and E28 gave us a great example of doing something to protect our environment.  I put the link here in order to be role model or reference for G5-3 and other classes.

April 19, 2012  (From Mr. Saulnier and E28)

Here is some pictures of some recent happenings in our classroom.  The first set of pictures is from a math project where we used recycled paper to make 1 meter cubed cubes to see approximately how many cubed meters our classroom is.  We concluded that our classroom is about 88 cubed meters.  The second set of pictures is from plants we recently planted.  We are doing two projects with the plants: Tomatosphere and Little Green Thumbs.  Please see the links below to learn more about our projects:

http://www.tomatosphere.org/

http://www.aitc.sk.ca/program-information/little-green-thumbs

Children's Day Fair,2012

We play games in Physics, body fitness and have FUN~~!!!
Have a great time watching it !

Children's Day Celebration

April 4th is Children's Day and we celebrate it in advance for we will have a holiday on that day.

We set up many stands such as science, body fitness, trash recycling and language.  Students played games at these stands and acquired a "pass" stamp, when they finished all the games in these stands they can have a card to draw lots and get prizes.

Thanks to teachers and our parents volunteers who helped out this fest.

E28's Craft of Toques!!!

E28 is going to send us a parcel and we are very excited to watch these photos of your making the Canadian traditional "toques" which are on the way to Taiwan!!! 

March 29, 2012 (from Mr. Saulnier)

E28 with the help of our arts education instructor Ms. Mills have completed a uniquely Canadian craft of toques.  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toque#Canadian_usage).  Please enjoy our pictures of sewing them.  Also we are putting the final touches on a parcel and we will be sending your students the toques we made when our parcel is finished!

Beautiful and touching Saskatchewan Alphabets from QE

March 22, 2012

E28 is proud to present L is for Land of the Living Skies: A Saskatchewan Alphabet.  We attend a Saskatchewan school and this book describes our landscape and many of our daily happenings and customs.  We hope you enjoy our students reading and we are pleased to be sending your classroom their very own copy of the book.  Due to the size of the videos we have broken the reading into 5 separate videos.  ENJOY!

http://queenelizabeth.lpsd.ca/teachers/jsaulnier/Taiwan%20Blog

E28 snow skiing

Our e-pals just came back from a spring break and we are so excited to watch these photos for we NEVER have had the experience....Looking forwards to hearing from you soon.  (linlin)

March 16, 2012 (From Mr. Saulnier)

Wow!  It’s been awhile since we have posted on here.  We just finished our Spring (Semester) break.  The snow has since melted, but we want to share some pictures of us cross-country skiing.  We are also finishing a uniquely Canadian craft to send your way in a parcel.  Hopefully soon!  We are also reading a book about Saskatchewan (our Canadian province) that we are recording and planning to post the video soon.  Stay tuned.

School Safety by 5-3 (傷膝獨白)

Last French Translation Video

February 8, 2012 (From Mr. Saulnier)
This is our last video of translations. It communicates how to say hello and good bye in French.

Thank you so much, little professors.  Your presentation is great and we will practice some French you taught!  Have a very joyful weekend.  We already returned to school and we will have good time learning because of having such lovely and enthusiastic companions like you. 

French Translations #2

February 6, 2012 (From: Mr. Saulnier)

French Translations #2
The kids have prepared some more translations.  In this instalment the kids are communicating 5 different things in French in the following sequence: animals, feelings/emotions, how to say ones name, the months of the year and the seasons.



:D Thank you, E28 and Mr. Sauliner, we return to school today (Feb. 8th) and I will tell 5-3 to learn the French lessons you prepared for them.

Lantern Festival, 2012

Lin-lin @ Love River, Kaohsiung
Today (Feb. 6th) is Lantern Festival, the last day we celebrate Chinese New Year. The following is the main description of the origin of the festival and there are more exciting activities at other cities in Taiwan. You can take a look from the links I put in the end of this introduction.

The first month of the Chinese calendar is called yuan month, and in ancient times people called night xiao; therefore, the day is called Yuan Xiao Festival in mainland China and Taiwan. The fifteenth day is the first night to see a full moon in that lunar year. According to Chinese tradition, at the very beginning of a new year, when there is a bright full moon hanging in the sky, there should be thousands of colorful lanterns hung out for people to appreciate. At this time, people will try to solve puzzles on lanterns, eat yuanxiao ('元宵'in Chinese) (a glutinous rice ball, also known as simplified Chinese: 汤圆; traditional Chinese: 湯圓; pinyin: tāngyuán) and enjoy a family reunion (Wikipedia)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYs3ULA_5qQ&feature=related
(firecrackers to expel bad lucks or evils to receive a whole new year, Miaoli county)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSJB2YPicjs&feature=fvsr
(the storm of firecrackers in Yan-shui in Tainan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT5cQqiYd9c&feature=related
(2012 Pingxi Sky Lantern)

The Temple of Queen of Heaven

天后宮  佛公國小社區的守護神

Principal-Mr. Chen Jrong Shien

5-3 專訪 本校 陳榮賢校長

Literacy Day at Queen E.

有趣的閱讀課 (E28) 本周五(1/27)是Queen Elizabeth的文學日, 他們準備呈現這1本書,請同學們仔細看一看,告訴老師是哪1本呢~~~

(Dear 5-3, we have this book in our library, too.  Please find out what the book is and let me know when we are in the class this early February)

January 24, 2012 (From Mr. Saulnier)

This Friday is Literacy Day at Queen E.  The kids have read The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! by Jon Scieszka.  After they created wanted posters about the pigs in the story.  Other activities will be focused around “Guess Who?” and “Where’s Waldo?”.  Here are some pictures we have taken to share about our upcoming spirit day.

French Translations # 1

French Time!!! (5-3學法文了!)
Thanks to the lovely and precious lesson. We will learn our first French from you!!!

(From Mr. Saulnier & E28)
E28 Students have prepared some French/English translations for our Epals in Taiwan. This video presents French translations for: numbers, days of the week, colors and basic school supplies.

E28 has received the parcel we sent!

Today is Chinese New Year's Eve and the day we post every red couplets on our doors, walls and ....everywhere!  I am so glad that E28 has also received  our little parcel and put all the red things we sent on the bulletin board.  What a lovely scene! And wish you all good lucks during the Year of Dragon!

January 20, 2012 (from Mr. Saulnier)

Wow!  What an amazing parcel.  Your class was really generous and we are really excited about the items you sent us.  You can see our bulletin boards are now decorated for Chinese New Year!  We framed the lovely calligraphy by Steven Lee to keep as a keepsake for years to come. 

E28 is brainstorming some items to send you.  We are trying to think of some things that represent our community and Canada.  Hopefully we can make you a craft too.

Here is a short slideshow of us enjoying the package: