Dear Community Members,
Cancer-Lap- A-Thon
Upper Elementary Basketball Clinic
December Cafeteria Menu and Orders
You can access the December lunch menu here.
You may use either the Payonline or the Lunch Pre-order system to order lunch for your child(ren).
The Payonline System
Lunch Pre-Order System for Cash Payments
This system allows parents to pre-order lunches for the month and pay with cash at the cash counter. Login using just the email address we have on file at AISC. Please see the user guide here.
Access the Lunch Pre-Order System here.
If you have any difficulties logging in or ordering, please notify itsupport@aisch.org by email and we will resolve it immediately.
Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony at The Hyatt Regency
Have a great weekend. There is no school next Thursday due to the US Thanksgiving holiday.
Kevin Hall
Elementary School Principal
Tomorrow is Design Saturday! The follow-up to our wildly successful first-ever Design Saturday will feature a blend of techie and not-so-techie. At the one end we will unleash our Bee Bots (easily programmable floor robots) and challenge our participants to send them through courses of varying difficulty. At the other end we will make things with cardboard and MakeDos that allow you to make a great many things and solve problems in creative ways. We will be designing, making and playing in the ES Discovery Studio this time.
The origin of the Maker movement is found in something quite personal: what we might call experimental play. Makers are enthusiasts who play with technology to learn about it. A new technology presents an invitation to play, and makers regard this kind of play as highly satisfying. Makers give it a try; they take things apart; and they try to do things that even the manufacturer didn’t think of doing. Making is a source of innovation.
Third Annual Giving Tree
The Elementary School, Mr. Balajee, who is AISC’s Service Learning Coordinator, children and teachers, and the PCA Elementary Grade Level Representatives are sponsoring our school’s 3rd annual Giving Tree to support approximately 300 students in 6-8 area orphanages. Please support these efforts as we move into the holiday season.
Mr Balajee and the PCA grade level representatives have been hard at work making arrangements for the lists of children we will have the opportunity to help and planning the overall project. Our children will be involved over the next week creating the stars that will be put on the tree, led by some of our dedicated teachers in the elementary school.
The Giving Tree will be set up on November 27th in the Elementary School Cafeteria. Please make note of the following information, which will also be posted by the tree.
1. Children/parents can take a star off the tree and purchase a small item useful to the child listed on the star. We will include name, age, and gender of recipient on the stars. The children at the orphanages will request specific items, within reason. We feel these requests will be in the Rs 500 price range.
2. We would like the present to be wrapped, with the star attached to the gift (stars will be numbered and tracked so we know which orphanage they will go to and to ensure the gift is given to the correct child). The gift is to be dropped off in a designated box in the Elementary School CIC. Thank you to Mr. Jet and the library staff for helping us with this "safe" spot for the gifts.
3. Gifts may be dropped off beginning December 6. The last day to drop off gifts will be on December 16.
4. The gifts will be delivered to the orphanages beginning December 18. There will be opportunities for parents and children to help with the delivery. More information about this process will be included in this blog before we leave for the Winter Break.
If you have any questions about this project, please contact Mr. Balajee or your grade-level PCA representative.
Lastly, thank you to all the community members who have been dropping off empty cereal boxes for our Giving Tree Stars – we look forward to seeing the boxes turned into beautiful stars for our tree. Below are pictures taken earlier this week of the Girl Scouts making the stars.
Photographing Varanasi Exhibit
The High School would like to invite you to visit our Photographing Varanasi Exhibit in the FAC Foyer from November 23rd to the 30th. As you may know, each year High School students travel in small groups all over the country as part of our Discover India program. This year a group traveled to Varanasi with a professional photographer to learn more about the art form and explore the amazing city. Each student has chosen three images out of the hundreds of photographs taken to share with the community. We hope you enjoy the exhibit.
Global Issue Networks will be organizing the Cancer Lap-A-Thon again this year on November 27th. This year we have decided that the proceeds will be donated to the 30/30 project, an organization that is working to bring healthcare and health checkups to various communities around the world. Recently they have started to build a clinic in India, which we would like to sponsor. Our overall theme for the project is "Healthcare is a Human Right," - which is a key issue that GIN aims to tackle.
To participate, each person must get sponsors to pay them for the number of laps that they will run around the field. Participants can walk, run, jog, crawl, anything they like around the field, as long as they complete as many laps as they please to raise money for 30/30 Project. PE teachers will distribute pledge forms to interested students. Parents and community members can pick up forms in the Elementary School Principal’s Office. This event is open to all community members. Elementary school students who choose to participate must be accompanied by a parent for the entire event.
Upper Elementary Basketball Clinic
AISC students in Grades 3-5 are invited to sign up for a Basketball Clinic run by varsity basketball players from the U.S. boarding school, Phillips Academy Andover and AISC. This camp is free for participants and will take place on Saturday, November 28th, from 9:00am–12:00 noon. Please sign up for the Basketball Clinic here. If you have any questions, please contact Kirsten Welbes, the Director of Advancement, at wkirsten@aisch.org.
You can access the December lunch menu here.
You may use either the Payonline or the Lunch Pre-order system to order lunch for your child(ren).
The Payonline System
Payonline allows parents to charge their child’s smart cards online, order and pay for lunches, and register and pay for after school activities. Payment is completed online using a credit or debit card. You need a username and password to access this system. Please see the user guide here for help using the system. Access Payonline here.
Lunch Pre-Order System for Cash Payments
This system allows parents to pre-order lunches for the month and pay with cash at the cash counter. Login using just the email address we have on file at AISC. Please see the user guide here.
Access the Lunch Pre-Order System here.
If you have any difficulties logging in or ordering, please notify itsupport@aisch.org by email and we will resolve it immediately.
Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony at The Hyatt Regency
Please mark Monday, December 7th at 6 pm on your calendars and join us at The Hyatt Regency for the annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony. The Elementary School and Community Choirs will welcome in the holiday season as they sing festive songs. There will be plenty of food and drinks to go around. This is always a fun event and I guarantee that you and your children will have a fantastic time. You will not want to miss this! Doors open at 5:30.
Coffee with the ES Administration
Our December parent coffee session will be held on Tuesday, December 8th in the ES Cafeteria from 8:45 to 9:45. Our counselors, Ms. Meg and Mr. Wilson, will be leading a discussion on transitions and how to prepare yourself and your children for an upcoming move. This session is timely because a number of families to leave AISC in December. Therefore, our target audience is parents who are moving from Chennai over the holidays, but all are welcome to attend.
Kevin Hall
Elementary School Principal