Dear Parents,
Today, we asked everyone to celebrate our school by wearing AISC colors - blue and white. We invited staff, parents and students to meet on the soccer field at 8:20 for a school-wide photo!
India Week!
Our students are excited about India Week which runs from Monday, February 17th to Thursday, February 20th.
Student Performances:
PS-Grade 2 Tuesday, 18th of February at 8.45
Grade 3-5 Thursday, 20th of February at 8.45
Students are encouraged to wear Indian clothes on the day of their performance. They are welcome to wear Indian clothes throughout the week.
During this week, students will attend demonstrations on dance, musical instruments and participate in a yoga activity. They will also have the opportunity to decorate their hands with Mehendi (Henna).
Student Artwork:
Incredible India Photo Gallery:
Indian Meal:
School Photos 2013-2014:
Reading and Homework: After School Activity – 4th and 5th Grade:
Logistical information:
• Pick up and drop: Elementary Cafeteria.
• Parents are requested to pick up at 4.30 pm.
• There will not be any formal sign up for this ASA.
• Teachers in charge : Ms. Jyothi Unni & Mr. LalPaul.
We are honored to join TED (Technology, Education, Design) in helping our students find their voices and share their message with the world. Here at AISC, we believe that we should develop our children's ability to make a difference in their world. The TEDEdClub is based primarily off the TED style presentations and talks. TEDEdClub gives our students a voice and a platform to do this. Students will have the opportunity to connect with other students from all over the world to support, stimulate, and celebrate their ideas. Students will develop public speaking skills and presentation literacy so their ideas can be easily seen, understood, and acted upon. At the completion of the program, interested students will have the opportunity to speak in front of a live audience at a TED Youth Conference. As of now, we are offering this program to all interested in grades 5-8. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Ms. Danieta Morgan at mdanieta@aisch.org.
Grade 1 Authors' Celebration:
On Monday, Grade 1 students held a non-fiction book authors' celebration in the library. Thank you, parents, for visiting; we had a great turnout. The students really enjoyed reading to you and the teachers!
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Raptorthon
The sign-up form is available here: https://docs.google.com/a/aisch.org/forms/d/1AK6xtkayYwwJHsGnlY8RaM66AECLIEZNGQCkOfzb_rQ/edit
Have a great weekend,
Kevin Hall
Elementary School Principal
On Monday morning, we held a special all-school assembly on the soccer field to mark the beginning of Celebrate AISC Week. During this assembly, we introduced the seven local artists who are a part of the Ayyanar Horse Project. We were also treated to a performance by twelve Thappattam dancers.
Throughout this week and next, students in visual arts classes will participate in a traditional figure sculpting process indigenous to Tamil Nadu. Students will have the opportunity to work with our visiting local artists to construct large and small Ayyanar horse and elephant sculptures. Thank you to the AISC Visual Arts Department for organizing this experience.
Artists are working in three separate locations around the school. You are welcome to visit their work stations. Below is a picture of the horse that is being made in the elementary school area.
You can follow the progress of the artists by visiting high school art teacher Ed Doherty’s blog: http://ejdoherty.blogspot.in/ (If this doesn’t open directly, cut and paste the address into a URL window.)
Throughout this celebratory week, students and parents voluntarily wrote reasons why they love AISC. Please take a few moments to read their responses, which are posted on a board outside of the elementary school cafeteria.
Today, we asked everyone to celebrate our school by wearing AISC colors - blue and white. We invited staff, parents and students to meet on the soccer field at 8:20 for a school-wide photo!
India Week!
Our students are excited about India Week which runs from Monday, February 17th to Thursday, February 20th.
Student Performances:
PS-Grade 2 Tuesday, 18th of February at 8.45
Grade 3-5 Thursday, 20th of February at 8.45
Students are encouraged to wear Indian clothes on the day of their performance. They are welcome to wear Indian clothes throughout the week.
During this week, students will attend demonstrations on dance, musical instruments and participate in a yoga activity. They will also have the opportunity to decorate their hands with Mehendi (Henna).
Student Artwork:
Students from PS –Grade 5 have actively engaged in creating artwork for India Week. Their colorful artwork will be displayed in and around FAC throughout the week. We look forward to seeing your art, students! Thanks to our art teachers - Mr.Joseph, Mr.Ken and Ms.Priya Kathare, and our art assistant, Ms. Rama.
Ms.Megan has created an ‘Incredible India Photo Gallery’ in which the photo contributions of our elementary students will be on display. Thank you to all students who participated in this project.
Indian Meal:
Students will be served an Indian Lunch, catered by our Taj Madras Flight Kitchen, on Thursday. The lunch will include poori, corn pulao, nutri and peas khorma, aloo bonda (potato snack), chicken tikka and jalebi (Indian sweet). Spices in the food will be minimal. Children who do not want this lunch as asked to bring a lunch from home on Thursday.
Student-Led Conferences: Our next round of student-led conferences will be held on Thursday, February 27th from 3:45 to 5:30 and on Friday, February 28th from 8:30 to 3:45. There are no classes on Friday.
Student-led conferences give students the opportunity to deepen their understanding of themselves as learners, build self-confidence and self-esteem, be empowered, foster pride and develop ownership of their goals and achievements and teach students the process of self-evaluation and reflection, thus enhancing their critical thinking skills. All of these benefits support our school mission and student learning objectives.
Each conference will last for 30 minutes. Parents and students are also requested to meet with a minimum of two specialist teachers. Early next week, we will send home a form, asking parents to indicate which specialist teachers they will visit.
You can now sign up for a conference by going to this website. Parents have until 12 noon on February 26th to sign-up for a conference. Once you are logged in, you will see a list of teachers with a button next to each name. Click on the button for your child’s teacher and press continue at the bottom of the page. You will be asked to enter your child’s and your name, as well as your email address. When you have done that, you will see a list of available conference times. You may pick one conference time for each teacher. Repeat the process for the rest of your child’s teachers by using the link on the sidebar on the left. Once you have finished making your appointments, a confirmation will be sent to you via email. We have created a video which gives you step-by-step instructions in how to complete this process. To access this video, please click here.
We are pleased to announce the sale of photos from the January photo shoot for those students who did not get their photos taken in August. On the AISC All School Moodle page community members will find the order forms and links to the on-line photo albums.
Here is process by which you can access the photos on the Moodle page and place your order:
1. Download the School Photo Order Form from the Moodle page.
2. Click on the set of photos you wish to see and copy the image numbers of the photo(s) you want onto the order form.
3. Indicate which print package you want. Please note that the CD ROM is only available if you purchase one of the photo packages.
4. Take the completed order form and the correct payment to the cashier’s window near the main reception area and pay the required amount.
Please submit all requests for photos not later than February 28. We anticipate that the photos will be available for pickup by March 21.
Unfortunately, due to a change in photographers we are unable to provide prints for students whose photos were taken in August.
If you have any questions about the ordering process, please contact Ms. Cheryl or Ms. Hazel in the Elementary School Principal’s Office.
Reading and Homework: After School Activity – 4th and 5th Grade:
This semester, will continue our Reading and Homework ASA in the Elementary Library, every day from 3:45-4:30 pm. This ASA will give students an opportunity to work independently in a quiet area. This is flexible in that students can come on the day(s) they choose between Mondays –Friday.
Logistical information:
• Pick up and drop: Elementary Cafeteria.
• Parents are requested to pick up at 4.30 pm.
• There will not be any formal sign up for this ASA.
• Teachers in charge : Ms. Jyothi Unni & Mr. LalPaul.
TEDEdClub:
We are honored to join TED (Technology, Education, Design) in helping our students find their voices and share their message with the world. Here at AISC, we believe that we should develop our children's ability to make a difference in their world. The TEDEdClub is based primarily off the TED style presentations and talks. TEDEdClub gives our students a voice and a platform to do this. Students will have the opportunity to connect with other students from all over the world to support, stimulate, and celebrate their ideas. Students will develop public speaking skills and presentation literacy so their ideas can be easily seen, understood, and acted upon. At the completion of the program, interested students will have the opportunity to speak in front of a live audience at a TED Youth Conference. As of now, we are offering this program to all interested in grades 5-8. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Ms. Danieta Morgan at mdanieta@aisch.org.
Logistical information:
· Start date: To be
announced after registration
· Time: 3.30 –
4.30 pm
· Day: Tuesdays
· Grade Level: 5-8
· Registration: At
the ASA office (MC-1B), beginning next week.
On Monday, Grade 1 students held a non-fiction book authors' celebration in the library. Thank you, parents, for visiting; we had a great turnout. The students really enjoyed reading to you and the teachers!
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Raptorthon
The High School PE teachers, Coach Donna and myself would like to invite students in grades 4 and 5 (and their parents, too) to take part in AISC's first ever Raptorthon. The Raptorthon is a fun event that combines swimming and running. Participants will be required to swim 150 m, run 1600 m and jump back in the pool and swim another 150 m. You can enter the race as an individual or as a partnership where one person swims and the other runs.
The event will take place on Sunday, February 23rd from 7-10 a.m. The event fee is 300 rupees per individual and 600 rupees for a partnership. The money raised will be used to cover the cost of the event. Any remaining money will go towards a charity. After the race is complete there will be a potluck breakfast. Sign-ups for the potluck are included on the entry form. You can find more information by clicking the links in the sidebar.
The sign-up form is available here: https://docs.google.com/a/aisch.org/forms/d/1AK6xtkayYwwJHsGnlY8RaM66AECLIEZNGQCkOfzb_rQ/edit
Have a great weekend,
Kevin Hall
Elementary School Principal