Special Holiday Edition!We surveyed the teachers of the Elementary School for stories about their holiday adventures using SurveyMonkey. We hope you like the pictures and interesting stories.

Happy New Year everyone!

ES MONTHLY JANUARY 24, 2013

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / KOREA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL JEJU / VOLUME 4

Our divisional leader of Elementary school, Mrs.Craig, went back to U.S during winter vacation. She visited Connecticut, Vermont, and New York. She visited U.S with Mr.Craig, Donovan, and her new born baby Victoria. She visited her family and got to see the house they just bought. The reason she visited Connecticut, Vermont, and New York was it was important to her to see their family and friends since she doesnʼt get to see them very often, and she had never seen her new house! It was important her to see the house in person and not just in pictures.

On the winter vacation, Mr. Paquette and Mrs. Paquette went to Maine, Florida, Hawaii,and Seoul. Mrs and Mr. Paquette rode planes, trains and automobiles. Also, they saw many family members including their precious Violet. They endured a snowstorm that dropped 2 feet of snow that caused them to spend an extra day playing tea party with their grand daughter. They had many family parties, presents and lots of good food. They visited their sons, daughter-in-law, grand daughter, parents, cousins, uncles, aunts, and siblings. They visited with their friends in Florida and Hawaii. Mr and Mrs Paquette said that people were the most important part of the visits, but they also enjoyed visiting Diamond Head Waikiki, Beach and Pearl Harbor. Mr. Paquette also went on a fishing excursion in Florida and he caught a very big sea trout.

" During this winter vacation Mr. and Mrs. Parnell went to Australia. Korea is winter so Australia is summer. Her favorite part of the winter vacation was doing scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef. She drove the Great Ocean Road. Also she hung out with kangaroos and koala bears. She traveled with her husband to visit her aunt, uncle, and cousins who lives in Sydney. Australia has always been a dream travel destination to her. She didnʼt know it if would ever happened, but feels very fortunate that they were able to visit such an incredible country.

Mr. Tupper went to New York, Florida and Thailand on this winter vacation. He went to the United States to go to his Uncleʼs wedding and see his baby niece Maeve. Also, he went to Thailand because he wanted to see his friends and he was traveling

On the winter vacation, Ms.Lawrence went to Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania, Brisbane, Gold coast, and cairns in Australia. She went with Ms. Wallen, the 5th grade teacher. One of the best things she had was getting to dive and looking at the coral fish at the Great Barrier Reef. She also really enjoyed seeing of her former students and staying with their family, hanging out in Sydney and going on a tour the Great Ocean Road. She went on a zip line tree top, adventure in Tasmania, and held a koala and fed a kangaroo! She did many things on her trip including boogie boarding at surfer's paradise. She loved every minute of it. She chose to go to Australia because she never had been there before and she wanted to meet her family who live there. She also wanted to go somewhere that it is warm. She had a good time in Australia.

On her winter vacation, Ms. Murray went Ottawa and Vermont to visit her families and her pets with Mr. Stuart. She chose to go to Vermont because it has been her familyʼs tradition to go to Jay Peak to celebrate the New Year. She invited her whole families to go skiing with her. Vermont was very cold but there was lots of snow. She had a great time skiing every day with her family on the mountain. She built a ski ramp right down to the deck of the house so she could ski fast right up to the door. The ski resort also built a giant water park this year with crazy water slides and a surf wave! She said it was awesome.

Mr.V went to Italy with Miss Fiona during winter vacation. First, they took a train over the Swiss Alps and spent Christmas in Venice. Then they celebrated the New Year under the Duomo in Florence. Next, they stopped in Siena for a day on the way to staying a week with family in Bari. From Bari, they visited the Pompeii ruins, and then saw the great history of Rome. They visited Miss Fiona's family along the way, too. They chose Italy as the place to travel because it has many great experiences close by and they wanted to see the new nephew.

Mr.Prugh went to Colorado, Florida, New Hampshire, and California in USA. The highlight of his trip is that he rode the Harry Potter ride at Island of Adventure at Universal Studio in Orlando. He also visited his mom, cousin, aunts, and uncles. He even saw Mr. Senicola in Florida! He visited his mom because he was in New Zealand at Christmas time last year and he missed everyone.

The librarian of the ES, Ms. Wagner, spent a mellow vacation. She stayed Jeju and ride atvʼs, rode horses, went to the go-kart place, and things like that with her friend, Sora. She added that she like staying home and being very mellow. She didnʼt want to feel stressed out from a busy holiday.

Ms. Pirie went to Cambodia during her vacation. She used to live there. She went to visit her old friends who still live there.

UPCOMING EVENTS* Second semester started January 14

* February 8 PD Day

* February 9-12 Vacation

* February 16 Curricular Saturday

RIDDLESWhat do you call a volcano?

** A mountain with hiccups.

Why did the astronaut bring paint and paper on his trip?

**So he could do space crafts

RIDDLESWhere do fish keep their money?

** In the river bank.

Where does Friday come before Thursday?

**In the dictionary!

ES NEWSPAPERissue No. 03

contributors - Ms. Murray, Ashley, Richard, Ji-in, Ella, Karen, Hanna,

Michelle, Luke, Scott, Andrew, Johnny, Dorothy, Gisele, Andy, Belle, Katie, Irene, and Edward

mmurray@kis.ac

Merit Point winners update: September - Ms. Lawrence’s class October - Ms. Wallen’s classNovember - Mr. Fijman’s classDecember - Mr. Tupper

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