This week was all about the UAE. Today’s post is short and sweet. To view photos please visit our class Flickr account (UAE Week Album and UAE National Day Album). There were too many photos to post on the blog.

On Sunday Ms. Suha (Rashid’s mom) did a special presentation about the UAE.

On Monday Ms. Nancy (Anthony’s mom), Ms. Andrea (Laila’s mom), Ms. Nicole (Nia’s mom) and Ms. Suha (Rashid’s mom) came in to our classroom and did UAE centers with our class. They made bracelets, read Arabic books, made an edible UAE flag and completed a cut and paste activity of important UAE facts.

Tuesday we continued our UAE centers.

Wednesday was our fun day! THANK YOU to all of our parent volunteers that took children around and cooked food. More importantly, thank you for being so flexible as the plans for today kept changing.

KG-1 Announcements

There is NO SCHOOL on Thursday November 30th and Sunday December 3rd. School will resume on Monday December 4th.

Our Winter Celebration will be next Thursday December 7th at 8am. Please click here to sign-up for an item to bring to share.

Please enjoy your long holiday!

We had a full and very busy week.

During centers we continue to practice identifying both the sound and name of the letters E, F, H, I, L, T and U. We also practiced sorting objects by shape, color and category. We also continued to explore our 5 senses. This included using microscopes.

This week was our last week swimming until the spring. We all had a blast in the pool together.

In honor of Thanksgiving, we discussed what we were thankful for and created our own thankful trees. We had a little difficulty understanding the concept of being grateful, but we did our best.

Our nursery rhyme of the week is Hey Diddle, Diddle. Don’t forget to check out the nursery rhyme and letter pages.

In preparation of UAE National week, we read the book The Camel That Got Away. Then we designed our very own camels.

Finally, all of our hard work paid off. We presented our support staff with our kindness boxes. The students were so proud of themselves. They brought in the items, placed them in the boxes, painted the boxes and made cards for each person. Our class was able to fill 8 boxes for support staff. Thank you to the parents for bringing in those items. The students then told everyone thank you and handed them the boxes.

This week’s rock stars are Sally and Laila for being kind friends. Congratulations girls!

KG-1 Announcements

I will try to make this short as possible.

1. Picture day is this Thursday. Even if you are not purchasing pictures, please bring the form back. It has your child’s barcode that will be scanned for their photo.
2. Our class needs parent volunteers for next Wednesday’s UAE Celebration. Parents will be assigned 3-4 students (depending on how many volunteers) to take around the fair to the different activities. KG-1’s outdoor time is 8:30-9:30. If you can volunteer for that hour please click here to sign-up. Thank you!
3. If you would like to come in on Monday November 27th to help us celebrate the UAE please send me an email. Some suggestions would be to read a story in Arabic and English, do a presentation about the UAE, a special activity or even bring in Emirati food.

After-school Care.

Dear Parents, We are pleased to announce that our ASC program (now called CARING​ ​HANDS​) for Pre-K and KG-1 children is full and we have a waiting list. This has prompted us to relook at our program and expand it to accommodate our UAS community. We now will be using 2 rooms to run the programs. One​ ​program​ ​will​ ​run​ ​from​ ​12:45​ ​until​ ​3:15​ ​and the​ ​2nd​ ​program​ ​will​ ​run​ ​from​ ​12:45​ ​until​ ​4:15​. For more information click here.

I hope you all had a great conference and walked away feeling positive. I enjoyed getting to chat with you about your wonderful children and how much progress they have made so far. We have come a long way. I am so proud of how much they have grown and matured in such a short amount of time. Thank you all for working with me and trusting me with your precious little ones.

I want to quickly tell you about a two new pages I have added to the blog. You can now view and listen to the letters and nursery rhymes that we will be learning this trimester.

We had a short week, but it was pretty jam packed with activities.

Sunday was all about books! We went to library with Ms. Leslie AND visited the book fair in the lobby.

On Monday we saw a play about Jack and the Beanstalk. We then did a sequencing activity based on the story.

Everyone wore blue on Tuesday in honor of national diabetes awareness. We ran around the track (yes even me) and then had a picnic in the grass.

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Today was field trip day!!!! What a blast! All of our kiddos were ROCK STARS today! I am so proud of how well they behaved and listened today. A special THANK YOU to Ms. Meera (Ghaith’s mom), Ms. Nancy (Anthony’s mom) and Ms. Lulu (Karina’s mom) for coming with us today.

Don’t forget to click on a photo to be taken to our class Flickr where you can view MANY more photos.

This week we took advantage of the beautiful weather. We had a picnic outside and enjoyed the fresh air.

We continued to work on our five senses by reading books like “My Five Senes” by Aliki. We also practiced sorting using senses in centers. Our class practiced making letters and learning the sounds of our focus letters (E, F, H, I, L, T, U). We matched numbers to 5 with pictures and played a racing game to learn 1:1 correspondence.

We went on a senses walk around the school. We used our eyes, ears, noses and hands to observe and take in the things around us. We smelled the flowers, saw different color plants, listened to the birds and felt the bricks.

Minato celebrated his 5th birthday with us this week. His mom brought in a healthy snack for us to share.

KG-1 Annoucements

Good Morning,

Many of you have emailed asking how to access the portal. Please click here for the directions. Have a great day!

Good Morning,

You received information from UAS Elementary School on how to access the online portal and how to schedule your child’s Parent Teacher Conference. The portal will be open starting tomorrow. If you have multiple children in the Elementary School, their PTC has already been pre-scheduled. Please log on to view your pre-scheduled time. Should you have a conflict with that time, it is your responsibility to edit and reschedule accordingly. This process is new for KG-1, so if you have any questions please reach out and I will do my best to assist. 

Dear Parents,