12月30日，教室外天寒地冻，教室内温暖如春。高中中级班的同学们举行了又一个成功的活动——迷你枫叶校园模型。大家充分发挥想象力和创造力，凝结了团队的力量，将心中的枫叶校园浓缩成一个个精致的模型，彰显了大家浓浓的爱校之情。

几天前，在中级班外教Mr. Reagan Cabauatan的指导下，同学们确立了搭建迷你枫叶校园模型的任务。在现有的学校建筑基础上，通过合理想象，每个小组可以添加一些新的建筑结构来使他们的项目更富有创意，有的小组甚至设计出了枫叶学校北极校区。

经过指导，同学们展示出了自己了不起的动手技能和团队精神，这使每个迷你枫叶模型更富创造力。大家建造模型所使用的材料主要包括日常生活中回收利用的旧纸板和其他可利用的二手材料，让环保意识走进课堂。

在模型的最终评比过程中，各组同学积极用英语介绍各自的设计理念，为本小组赢取同学和老师们的支持。教室内欢乐的氛围也吸引来了其他班级老师和同学们的热烈支持，英语中心主任安宝荣女士，外方教师Ms. Olawunmi Banjoko和Mr. Robert McGeachy，以及英语中心其他双语教师和同学们都投上了自己宝贵的一票。

此次活动的成功使同学们学到了很多东西，比如团队合作、有效规划、开放交流等。最让人动容的还是同学们对学校的深深热爱，他们将这份爱校之情倾注于每日的学习中，从过去到未来。

外教风采：

外教Mr. Reagan Cabauatan老师，在中国从事英语教学工作十三年，在枫叶国际学校工作也已有七年。他相信，成功的教学过程源于教师的创造力。对他来说，创造性学习需要教师考虑学习者的个体差异和多样性，使教学活动更有意义，更有利于学生发展。

The Mini-Maple Leaf Class Project

Today is December 30th. It’s a beautiful chilly day. We held another successful activity with the main purpose of enhancing students’ imagination and creativity in portraying the spirit of Maple Leaf through designing this Class Project as a team.

A few days earlier, we gave affirmation to the class project proposal made by the Bridging teacher Mr. Reagan Cabauatan to make Mini-Maple Leaf Models with his students from Blocks A & D wherein students were guided to construct a model using their imagination to come up with a unique design adding up some new structures to their project and one of the groups even decided to make a Mini-Maple Leaf North Pole Campus.

The students were then instructed to show off their awesome skills and great teamwork to be creative and resourceful in constructing the Mini-Maple Leaf using mostly recycled cardboards in just a few days with some of them working on it after school and other members even did their part on a weekend.

This event Mr. Reagan organized with his students was indeed a success therefore we would like to extend our warmest gratitude to our very supportive ESL Director Anny An, our awesome IP teachers Ms. Olawunmi Banjoko & Mr. Robert McGeachy, our fabulous ESL teachers Sherry, Joana, Karen, and Doris and their students for their amazing help in making this event worthwhile.

Through this encouraging and successful activity, we learned a lot such as teamwork, effective planning, open communication, and most importantly deep love of our school, our dear Maple Leaf, and devotion to study. We do hope to see more and more significant class activities like this one we had today in the future.

Mr. Reagan Cabauatan has been teaching the English language in China for more than a decade and is now in his 13th year and this is currently his 7th year at Maple Leaf International School. He believes that success in the teaching-learning process is always attributed to the creativity of the educators. For him, to be creative, the teacher has to always consider individual differences or diversity of the learners in every learning episode to make it more meaningful and conducive to learning.