PRE-K-PREP, PRE-K, KINDERGARTEN

Green School (Above): Gusdes Age 6; Green School: Arthur James Jackman Age 6; Crabs: Jordan Pratama Age 6

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GREEN STUDIES

Art teacher Pak Susiawan and Lilith creating

with natural clay

Our collage using only

materials found in Mother Earth

Planting pumpkin seeds with Ibu Russlee (left); Digging holes with Pak Noan for cherry tomato seedlings

Face paint before Ogoh-ogoh parade on Nyepi

Running on the new bridge

Movement song during circle time

Children practicing morning yoga

Children enjoying water play in the mudpit

Nacho Gonzales Age 3

Myrah Treadwell Age 4

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“ I like to see the children’s happy faces when I put on a puppet show for them.”

“I like to see everyone involved in Indonesian

songs and games.”

“ I am inspired by the children’s natural curiosity and creative play. One of the many examples this year came during the rainy season. Torrential rainfall created perfect opportunities for river building, dam making, and display of personal water dances. ”“

I like to see the kids all excited when we go outside and dig for worms. ”

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Jaiah SchwartzAge 5

Roman DuppsAge 5

Magnolia RippleAge 4

Sacha TamblynAge 5

Otis von Bismarck, Age 5

“The thing I enjoy most in school is...to play in the mudpit.”

The students were comparing their sizes, so they traced their bodies and measured them. Here the children are decorating their layouts.

Spoon puppets

Kaleed building with blocksNoémie stirring the chocolate

After reading the book “Stone Soup,” Josephine decided to make her own broth.

Ethan is drawing his superhero on the floor.

Our Green Studies specialist, Pak Noan, is showing us how to create a waterfall.

Krisna’s picture of his house and garden

Spontaneous sand and water play outside our classroom.

Finding tadpoles in the mud

Sacha proudly presents the canang he made for the Full Moon Ceremony.

Valentin is playing with numbers, cards and shells.

Roman with Pak Ira in art class. He is making recycled paper.

Ethan is working on his self portrait during art class.

“I like to find grasshoppersand make towns for them.”

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Ruairi Furlong Want Age 7

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I Ketut Darma DiptaAge 5

Jack McMullanAge 6

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Kindy beach clean-up in Sanur

Bali Bird Park with

Eamon, Melia, Pepa, and Maia

Students looking for mealworms

Jonathan, Dipta, Arthur, and Felipe making a map of Bali in the sand pit

Nanami is looking at a spider up close with a magnifying glass. We learned about where spiders live.

Zephyr is curled up in his cubby.Chenoa is wearing a beak

and wings that she made. The class was learning about birds.

Alula drew a bird with chalk. We discovered words starting with ‘Bb.’

Jordan and Dipta making puppets

Alula making a rainbow.

Kindy class discovering Triangle pose

Eamon in Wheel pose

Seth painting a peace sign (left), and Seda body painting

Clockwise from top: Ja lle making numbers out of clay; Maia and Lyana are measuring their bodies out of blocks; Alula is drawing a scene from a book we read, James and the Giant Peach; Jordan is beading.

Jordan, Arthur, Dipta,and Gusde enjoying water play!

Seth carrying rubbish from our “Bali Green Kindy Clean-Up Team” during a village clean-up

Ibu Mel with a recycled bow

Children enjoying their mud bath

“Everyone in kindy is losing their teeth!”

Zephyr Anderson Age 5

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Jordan Pratama Age 6

“ When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea. ”

Green School (Above): Aileen Treadwell Age 6; Bamboo poles: Stanley Porteus Age 8; Day and Night: Talia Vaughan Facey Age 7

GRADE 1 ~ 5

primary schoolGRADE 1

Ken de Kort Age 6

Lila Ripple Age 7 Holly Brown Age 7

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Emanuel Zagata-Jacobson Age 7

Yasmine Reinl Laine Age 7

Putu Manika Tirta Age 7

Aliya Reinl Laine Age 7

Learning about fruit in Bahasa Indonesia

Grade 1 trip to Bali Zoo

Getting ready to perform a Sumatran dance

A snake specialist lets the chidlren hold a snake

Children prepare to erect a scarecrow in a rice field at Green School.

Cooking Sumatran food gogodo with Ibu Peni

Children learn the life cycle of rice from planting to harvesting.Studies of the Solar System

(above) and Day & Night (right)

Learning in the ‘Reading Cave’

primary schoolGRADE 1

primary schoolGRADE 2A

We learnt to make natural paints and then made our sarongs with the color; (top right) Maya and

Sofia learning to work in the warung with Ibu Kadek; (below) Cooking spring rolls with Ibu Yulie.

Our weekly yoga classes with Ibu Yana (Sergey’s mum) – Thanks Ibu for your time and commitment.

Adi and Anel playing with the Green School rabbits

We learnt to make Ondel Ondel masks with a

professional; (far right) getting ready for an Ondel

Ondel performance; (below) celebrating Diwali - Rangoli

and Diyas.

We made our class Papua community with houses called ‘Honai’ for our Indonesian lessons.

Learning about coconuts as part of a thematic unit on Indonesian nature tales

Children weaving coconut leavesRice planting during Green Studies time

Harry making coconut oil with Pak Ajay

Tiarnan Furlong Want Age 8

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Sergey Valerevich Kalinkin Age 8

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Ibu Mairead and Ibu Susie read us stories.

primary schoolGRADE 2A

“ Grade 2B has been through many changes this year and I am so proud of them for sailing through it all with a smile! This is a group of bright, creative, and truly inspiring children, and I feel blessed to have been able to share with them. ”

primary schoolGRADE 2B

In our Symmetry exploration we created large floor mandalas using Balinese ceremonial flowers.

Celebrating Papuan culture, we painted sheilds and performed a dance.

Colourful bamboo sculpture created with the artist-in-residence, Ibu Tooza.

Life-size cardboard cut-

outs celebrating the five elements!

A visit to the local silkworm farm where we picked mulberries, learned how silk is made, and painted batik.

Ipad ‘Photobooth’ magic–2B or not 2B? Symmetrical me!

Letter to gnomes: learning how to regroup in mathematics by completing gem orders for fairytale characters.

The gnome house which eventually became an entire village in celebration of The Wonderful Adventures of Nils.

Using our bodies to create symmetry

Planting the 2B rice field

Our scarecrow made out of recycled materials to keep the rice-eating birds away!

Exploring patterns found in nature and using them to create beautiful collages.

Hari David Ramsey Age 8

Kaila

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Owen Husband-Meyer Age 8

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Nicolas D

opazo Gonzales Age 7

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primary schoolGRADE 3

Making use of our floor space to learn tables and graphs

“The best thing we did was go to theSafari Marine Park and it was my birthday!”

Welcoming dance on Earth day

Children dressed up to celebrate Nyepi Day ceremony

Donation presentation to BARC

Bark Along With Art, an exhibition of paintings and drawings focusing on street dogs in Bali was presented at Three Monkeys Restaurant, Ubud. This cross- curricula project combined art, information technology, English, maths, and Community Life Skills (COALS) and presented compassionate and optimistic imagery in a series of artworks which aimed to raise awareness of the need to provide a positive future for Bali’s dogs. An auction was conducted by students at the opening event and Rp12 million was raised to support BAWA and BARC.

We did some wonderful things with IDEP learning how plants can be grown in Bali and how you can help your local community.

A trip to Bali Safari Park! What a great reward after all our hard work in the first half of the year.

Here we were learning some real maths. How to measure amounts and use multiplication to get enough for everyone.

Children were learning printmaking from artist-in-residence, Ibu Alexandra.

It was muddy! It was fun! And we learned about the life cycle of the rice crop. Grade 3 looking

after the rabbits

Dog paintings: (left to right) Melvin Burger, Annabel De Alessi, Austin Wall, Nikita Pettigrew, Natasha Pegios, Myles Wall, Finn McMullan, Isabella Brown, Declan Henry, Ismael Kusumaatmadja, Ni Luh Putri, Suny Gimm, Erlyn Putri;

(top to bottom) Uci Witsen, Oliver Dean, Avishi Dalmia, Annie De Alessi, Lilli Prinscilla Mezzofanti

Erlyn Putri Age 9

Erlyn, Uci and N

iluh

A thrilling experience with live snakes brought in by snake expert Pak Ron Lilley

primary schoolGRADE 3

primary schoolGRADE 4

“This year I learned that if everybody cares about helping the environment, we can make a big difference together.”

The children are making a traditional Balinese meal as part of local studies.

We visited a local temple for clean-up day during the full moon festival.

Nyepi is the first day of the Balinese Lunar New Year. Grade 4built Nyepi effigies called ogoh-ogoh’s from bamboo and papier-mâché tosymbolize evil spirits.

Grade 4 participate in Balinese shadow puppetry and practice their Viking Folk Dance with Pak Shaun as well as

making natural scarecrows with Pak Matt.

Visiting with the children from SDN 2 Sibang Kaja for cultural, language, and games exchange.

Co-operative learning at its finest

We played Australian Rules Football during P.E. lessons. Thanks to Gold Coast Suns Australian Football Club for donating the balls.

To enhance the Viking theme the children learned the Viking Alphabet ‘The Futhark.’ The students carved their names in Runic onto a piece of bamboo. This task was harder than you would think! We all did an excellent impression of Viking carvers and have our display up in the classroom.

The children are creating viking shields as part of their thematic lessons on Viking Mythology.

Eloise O’G

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BAHASA INDONESIA

primary schoolGRADE 4

primary schoolGRADE 5

CAMPWe had a lot of

fun on our grade 5 camp, building

and strengthening friendships.

In Green Studies this year, we planted and harvested rice, as well as making scarecrows to protect the fields from hungry birds!

Painting Chinese horoscope signs for the Chinese New Year assembly

In science we constructed circuits, creating light and sound

Greek gods and goddesses performing at assembly as part of a global awareness unit on Ancient Greece

One of our daily responsibilities in Grade 5 was taking care of the chickens, feeding them, cleaning their home, and best of all–collecting eggs!

Volcano explosions! With the help of Ibu Benny, our volcanoes

that we made in art class became active! This work was linked to studies on mountains in class.

Ira Majors

Ananda Holte Nilsen Age 11

Antonin Van Der Gulik

James Jenour

Ira Majors Age 11

Amelia H

erfindal Age 12

Olivia D

awson Age 11Joshua Erik Åhman Age 11

Callais Harrison

Mara Hajek

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