Happy Mother’s Day!!! Thank you to all the moms who came to celebrate this special day with their child. They worked so hard on making your presents and practicing their songs. The video was too long to post, so I created a google folder with all the pictures and the videos. You can also upload any photos or videos that you have taken. You will notice several class selfies that were taken as we waited for the rest of the class to return. (P.S. Your children did make necklaces too, but my oven is a little funny and I burned them. SORRY! We will definitely make something for the end of the year.)

KG-1AM Mother’s Day Folder

Our students are starting to make new friends during free flow Sunday. It is great to watch them practice their social skills. We also visited the airport for the first time. I had fun listening to the students make travel plans and choose destinations.

In centers this week we played the math movement game and got lots of exercise. We also watched Mo Willems stories online, read the Knuffle Bunny series and continued to practice identifying the beginning sounds in words.

Ms. Leslie did a lesson about penguins in the library. She used pebblego to make the lesson more interactive. Don’t forget the school has a pebblego account that you can access at home.

I presented our top IXL users a certificate for all the time they spend practicing and growing their brains. Congratulations to Minato, Miya Z., Mia D., Aanya, Karina, and Nia A.

Happy Birthday Alyza!!!

Lastly, Spring Break is finally here!!! YAY!!!! I have created a google photo album for you to upload pictures of what you will be doing over the break. Whether enjoying the beautiful weather here in Dubai or traveling across the world, please share what your littles ones are up to. Thanks!

KG-1AM Spring Break Album

KG-1 Announcements

-School will resume on Sunday April 8th.

-We will be starting swimming the week of April 29th. Please practice allowing your child to independently undress and dress him/herslef in preparation.

-Items needed for each child for swimming are:

• swimsuit (girls 2 piece for easy toileting throughout the day)
• Swimming cap
• Towel
• Flip flops/crocs
• UAS uniform labeled with student’s name

Have a wonderful Spring Break and safe travels!

This week we began our author study of Mo Willems. This week we read the Pigeon series, as well as Elephant and Piggie. Next week we will read the Knuffle Bunny Series.

Our class has learned to play cooperatively with other classes during free flow.

In centers we practiced writing our numbers and letters. We also continued to practice identifying beginning sounds, as well as quantifying numbers. I began recording some of the video of the letter rhymes that they have been practicing (to be posted soon).

In outdoor centers our class played with the parachute, went fishing, drew pictures and hunted for treasure in the sandbox.

Happy Birthday Rashid and Anthony!

KG-1 Announcements

-Book week t-shirts are finally in. If you ordered a t-shirt or asked for a refund, it was placed in your child’s folder. You can wear the book week t-shirts on either Free Flow Sunday or Thursday.

-Wear orange or book week t-shirt for Free Flow Free Inquiry.

-Mother’s Day Celebration at 8am in the school cafeteria. Children are expected to dress up for their mommies for this event. No uniforms please. Please be sure to be on time to school.

-Thursday March 22nd is early dismissal at 11:45am. 

-Please click here to view the flyer for the Mother Tongue Book Drive.

-Please see the flyer below for information about the Wizard of Oz play. Please click here to view the video.

Have a great weekend!

Happy Book Week!!!! Shout out to all of our wonderful moms and dads. We had 13 parents come to read to our class. You made this week so special for our kids!

This week was all about books, books, books! Check out what we did in our class!

We had mystery readers…

An author visit…

Dates with Dad…

Reading at the beach…

Book Character Day…

and centers based on Dr. Seuss and the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.

Happy 5th Birthday Mosawer!!!!

Congrats to Mia and Nia for being our Rockstars this week!

KG-1 Announcements

Hello parents!

First, a big THANK YOU to all the dads that came to read to our class!

Secondly, a quick reminder that tomorrow is dress as a Book Character Day! Remember… this does not or should not be a “costume” like for Halloween. It can be something that you have created at home… THINK ACCESSORIES and not full costumes! Students are ENCOURAGED to bring the book that they are dressed as, but it is not required. The parade will begin at 8am tomorrow morning.

Lastly, don’t forget that we need a family photo or a photo of mom and child. Please email that to us as soon as possible.

See you tomorrow at the parade!

Happy International Week!

This week we continued to focus on learning about different countries and cultures from around the world. Our class learned about Greece and France. Each student also colored flags from their home countries. The image above represents all the flags from countries that the children are from. It was fun for them to hear their classmates talk about where they are from. In one of the centers this week students made a paper collage of the Earth. This tied into both our PYP unit and international day. They also matched paper dolls with the correct clothing from around the world.

For show and tell, the class brought in items from their countries to share. We had children sharing books, food, toys and flags. Again, this was such a great learning experience and every child was excited to talk about themselves and was beaming with pride.

Wednesday was International Dress Day. Our kiddos were so cute. Please visit our Flickr account for more pictures.

Our class began learning about syllables this week, as well as listening for the beginning sound. We will begin rhyming next week. Students will come home with nursery rhymes to practice.

We tried a tasty treat yesterday and the recipe was sent home if you would like to try it.

We finished the week with outdoor centers.

KG-1 Announcements

• Don’t forget that Saturday is the International Day Festival from 11am-5pm.
• Next week is book week. Please refer to the calendar sent home for more details about each day. Sunday students can wear a t-shirt with words or their orange class shirts.
• Book Character Day is next Thursday March 8th. The parade will be at 8am.
• An order form went home yesterday. If you would like to purchase books from the visiting author, please send in the money no later than next Monday March 5th.
• Our Mystery Reader starts on Sunday. There are still slots to sign up to read to the class.
• A Date with Dad is next Wednesday. Please click here if you would like to sign up.

Have a great weekend and I’ll see you at the fair on Saturday!