Newsletter For Week of January 31st
Today's Dress As Your Future Self! (Career Day)
Important Announcements For Upcoming Weeks:
Friendship Festival T-Shirt Orders
Remember to please bring in your Friendship Festival T-Shirt orders by Sunday January 31st. T-Shirts will be sold at Gate 5 and Gate 8 the week of February 21st - 25th.
This year's Friendship Festival T-Shirt gives you free entrance to this year's Friendship Festival which will be on Friday February 26th.
ASD Sports Day on Campus
Tuesday February 2nd is our annual on-campus Sports Day.
The following week, Tuesday February 9th is a day off for Qatar's National Sports Day.
Security Update
Nannies and Drivers are not allowed on campus until 2:45pm daily. If you are sending a driver or nanny to pick up your child throughout the school day for an appointment or other reasons you need to let the Elementary Office know by email. Please email Deb Fenley dfenley@asd.edu.qaand Swati Korpal skorpal@asd.edu.qa the following information: Who will be picking up your child, what time they will pick up and the reason for picking the child up and family ID Number which is located on your ID badge.
Gate 5 Entry Update
After 8:00am parents can enter through Gate 5 on days when there are Principal Coffee Mornings, Counselors' Coffee or Workshops and Let’s Do Math Workshops. Otherwise, they must enter through Gate 8. At the end of the day, they can enter through gate 5. Thank you for your understanding.
Parents picking up sick students can enter through Gate 5. The ES Nurses will leave the parent's name with the Guard House for easy and quick access.
Curriculum Updates and Activities
We measured rainfall in the lab with a rain gauge
Students collaborate on a math game
Welcome to our new student Rayyan
Reading thermometers in the lab
What's the temperature in degrees Celsius?
Working in small groups with our math coordinator
Weekly Math Update
Students are continuing to learn and polish their strategies of adding as well as subtracting numbers up to 200. Reading tricky word problems will be practiced continually. We're using blocks, drawing hundreds, tens and ones, and using a variety of other strategies to represent our thinking.
Weekly Science Update
This past week was our final week of the weather unit. Next week we begin a new social studies unit about "Qatar, Then & Now."
Weekly Reading and Writing Update
Reading and Writing: Students revising their realistic fiction stories. Currently we are adding characters' feelings, thoughts, and actions, as well as dialogue to make our writing more alive. We are using mentor texts to teach us about how to "show, not tell" in our writing. In word study we're learning about homophones like "no" and "know."