Photos from the Last Day

Here a few photos from our last day of school.

The end has come...

WOW! It has been an AMAZING year!

I couldn't have asked for a better group of students for my first class overseas. I have grown to love each and every one of your students and I was very sad to say goodbye today. We have laughed, learned, played, studied, and enriched our lives together this year. I cannot thank you enough for sharing your children with me. I give your student back to you heavier, taller, wiser, more responsible and more mature than they were at the beginning of the year. Even though they would have grown and learned without my help, it has been a pleasure and a privilege to help and see their personalities grow day by day and help them develop in their learning.

I owe the wonderful experiences I have had here in Egypt to all of you. Your children and yourselves have been so great to me and I really appreciate everything. Please know that I will always be interested in your children and their destinies, wherever they go, whatever they do and whoever they become. I would be happy to share in their life.

I wish you all a great summer and all the best of luck in Grade 2! Your students are more than ready and prepared to be successful next year.

Please keep in touch through my gmail. The teachers will be around at the school until June 27 and report cards are available for pick up on the 25th. Feel free to come by the classroom and visit on that day.

Again, I will miss you all and feel so fortunate to have been a part of your lives and you a part of mine. Thank you for everything! 

Last Day

We still have books and supplies to send home tomorrow, so please send a backpack to school with your students.

Thank you!


Also remember that it is out of uniform tomorrow. 

Leveled Reading Books

Please return any of the Guided Leveled Reading books to school if you have any at home.

Thank you! 

Phew! We made it!

It was a very busy week but we finished assessments and had our last trip! We had so much fun at the movies and it was a great time!

Next week we will be finishing up our portfolios and cleaning up the classroom and packing up and bringing home the rest of the class supplies and books.

On Tuesday, the last day of school, we would like to have a small dish party to celebrate the end of the year!     If you could send in some simple snacks, that would be great! We will also use this day to celebrate the summer birthdays in our class, Salma, Yassin and Eyad, whose birthdays are in late June or July. I will bring in a treat for the class and we will watch movies and play games.

Tuesday will also be out of uniform.

Only three more days left! :)

Have a nice weekend! 

Homework Updated

I have updated the homework for this week on the homework tab. 

This will be the last week for homework. Please return it on Thursday and I will grade everything that has yet to be graded and send it back home next week. 

Also, over the next several days, your student will start to bring home their workbooks and classwork. I will try to send it home little by little so their backpacks do not get too heavy. Please make sure to check and empty their back packs every day. 

Any workbook or classwork that comes home is your to keep. We are about finished with them in class, so we are going to start cleaning things out. 

Thank you for your cooperation. 

Production Clothing

Please send your student in normal clothes for the day tomorrow. Preferrably something easy to change out of and into because we will be changing into the costumes prior to the show. They will wear their costumes during the entire show.

However, please make sure to send them in BLACK shoes.

Also, don't forget to send water and food with them as there will be nothing for them to purchase at school. Water is not available. You can send what you normally send them for lunch, or something to act as a dinner since they will be there late.

Thank you for your help!

See you all tomorrow!

Please feel free to email me with any questions. I will check my email often.

General Announcements

- Tomorrow is the last day to send in the trip money. Please remember to send it in because we will not accept late money.

- Please remember to send a sweater with your students. The AC is on in the classroom again now that it is hot out and some students are complaining of being cold. If your student is cold in class, please send them a sweater.

- Also, many students have been running out of water in the middle of the day. Please send extra water with them every day so they have enough for the whole day.

Thank you! 

Production Day Information

v There is no regular school for KG and Elementary students. Rather they should arrive to school either by car or by bus at 2:00pm. Please make sure you arrive on time. Before 2:oopm there will not be supervision for your students, so please bring them at the correct time.

v We have a rehearsal at 2:30 so again, please be on time so that your student may participate in the rehearsal. If they are late, this could cause problems.

v Parents and guests should arrive at 5:15pm. The show will start exactly at 5:30. Please come at 5:15 so that you may find a seat and be ready for the show. If you show up late, you may miss some performances.

v There WILL NOT be food or drinks for your students to buy while they are here so PLEASE send plenty of food and water for them to last them through the evening.

v Immediately following the show, please come to your student’s classroom to pick them up. The teachers will be leaving right after the performance so we need you to come pick up your students as soon as possible.

v Mr. Abaza has requested that your students wear all black shoes for the performance.

Thank you for your cooperation. We look forward to sharing our performances with you! 

Several Important Announcements

~~My flash drive was found!!!! It was returned to me on Thursday. Thank you so much for your help looking around at home. It paid off! I really appreciate it!

~~A field trip permission slip was sent home on Thursday. It is our last trip of the year and we are making it a fun one! Please return the slips with the fee as soon as possible.

~~You may have noticed that on Thursday your student brought home a copy of the Mother's Day video in their home file. I am sorry that it took me so long to get it to you. There were a lot of mishaps in making them, but we finally completed them. I hope you enjoy it! We had lots of fun making it!

~~I know it's nearing the end of the year and we only have 12 school days left! However, we still have TONS of learning to do to finish out the year. Since we don't have exams in Grade 1, we continue learning new things all the way until the last week of school. Therefore, if you could, please try to make sure your student comes to school each day and arrives on time at 7:45am or they could be missing out on valuable lessons. It's hard to for them to complete lessons or projects when they are absent. Thank you for your cooperation.


--Thursday is our annual production. There will be a separate post coming with more detailed information about it soon. However, I just wanted to let you know that you can send in money to purchase tickets, but the tickets are also available for purchase at the door on Thursday evening. Also, your students who are performing are free but everyone else needs a ticket. However, if you have a young child who may be sitting on your lap, you do not need to purchase a ticket for them. You only need to purchase a ticket for individuals who will need to sit in a chair.



12 more days of school!!!! Our monthly value this month is perseverance. Please help us remind your students to keep working hard and being focused all the way until the last day. Thanks for all your support this year. Let's finish the year out strong!

Lost Flash Drive

Yesterday when I was absent, it seems that a flash drive of mine was misplaced. This flash drive has all of my classroom teaching resources on it and lessons plans for the rest of the year.

The teachers in the room last saw it sitting on the computer table in class.

I just wanted to ask that you check and see if you notice it around your house or check your student's pants pockets from Sunday or Monday. It is a very small flash drive so it could have easily fallen off the table into someone's pocket or backpack if they bumped the table or anything.

It is a small, dark blue, HP 8gb flash drive.

I don't think it will be at any of your homes, but I figured I would ask you to keep an eye out for it anyway, just in case it made it that way. There is a lot of irreplaceable resources and files on it, so I'd just appreciate if you could take a quick look around for me.

Thank you so much for your help!

Announcements

We were so happy to have everyone back at school today after the break!

Today, in the homework file, you will see two Journeys books. In the bottom corner, it will say Volume 1 and Volume 2. Volume 1 is the one we have been working in since the beginning of the year. It is now finished, so we are starting volume 2 this week. Please keep Volume 1 at home, it is yours to keep.

There is also some graded homework in the Homework file. Please keep that at home also.

The homework for this week is posted on the homework page. Please remember to check the homework page from a computer or laptop as we have been told that it does not work correctly on ipads/tablets.

I updated the calendar on the side of the blog with important dates.

Lastly, over the break my laptop screen was broken, so I can no longer access the school email from my personal computer. So if you need to email me, please contact me at my personal email that I use for classroom business, mrs.benfer@gmail.com. Thank you!



Our monthly value this week is Perseverance. Ask your students what this means! We learned about it today. It's a big word, but they should be able to tell you all about it!

We are having this value because even though it is almost the end of the year, we still have so much to learn before we finish Grade 1, so we need to make sure that we come to school each day ready to learn and ready to try our very best! 

Welcome back!!!

I hope everyone had a nice, relaxing break! We are excited to be back at school and finish out our learning for the last few weeks of Grade 1!

The homework for this short week is just to read for 15-20 minutes each night and to complete two Math worksheets that were sent home in your students's blue file today.

Thanks,
Miranda

Spring Break Homework

We had a great day on Wednesday! Thank you so much for sending dishes for our party. We had some much fun and had great food!

I sent homework home in the home files for Spring Break. There are two parts. One is a journal. There are five pages. This is just for your student to journal five days from break. They just need to write about what they did that day. The second part is 6 pages of Math. I realized today that the three addition and subtraction pages in the back are a little too hard for them. I had already pre-made them and I noticed right at the end of the day today. So, for those three pages, you can either have them not do it, or have them try and if they can’t it’s no big deal. It will give them practice for what they will learn when we come back.

Also, if you could clean out their backpacks and their files over the break of any old papers that would be great. 

Also, we are running low on pencils so if you could send a box of pencils and one eraser when we come back, that would be great to help us through the rest of the year.

Thank you so much! Have a great restful Spring Break!

A few photos of us on Egypt Day!

This Week: Egypt Day and Field Trip

Reminder that tomorrow is the trip to Plein Air.

Please remember to send your student in proper uniform. Also, please send an extra shirt that you don't care about if it get's paint on it.

Also, please remember to send healthy food and snacks. A trip is just like any other day and the school policies still need to be followed. Also, please send your student's regular backpack and files to school just as usual. Thank you.


Also, on Wednesday, we are celebrating Egypt Day. We will do fun Egypt related activities. Your student can come dressed out of uniform if they are dressed in Egypt clothing. This means they can wear traditional Egyptian clothes, like a Galabaya or they can dress in Egypt's colors.

We will also have a dish party in class. Please send traditional Egyptian dishes such as fuul, tameyya, koshary, etc. The Arabic staff sent home a note about this as well. Please only send enough food for our class. Keep in mind that most everyone will send a dish so there will be a lot of food for the students to share. We don't want to have too much extra food that may go to waste.

Thank you for all of your help and cooperation to make our Egypt Day a success!

Field Trip - April 22nd

Yesterday the field trip permission slip forms were sent home.

Next Monday, April 22, we are going to Plein Air. The cost is 65le. The permission slip and fee needs to be returned to school by this Wednesday, April 17.

Also, for the trip, students need to wear the school uniform, but please send an extra t-shirt that will be ok for the student to paint in. We will be doing different activities, including painting and planting so we may get dirty. So please send a shirt that you don't mind if they get paint or dirt on.

Thank you for your cooperation!

Homework

Homework for the week is posted.

Also, some students have said that when they checked the blog, the homework wasn't there. We noticed that there was a problem with the blog if you check it from an Ipad or a tablet. You need to check the homework page from a computer or laptop.

Thank you!
 

Announcements

I had a few meetings today so I was unable to grade the homework for last week. I will grade last week's and this week's together next Sunday. I also did not have time to print new behavior charts for this week, so tomorrow we will color it for today and tomorrow. I apologize for the inconvenience.

I was able to get up the new homework and make a monthly lay out. I left the math off of some days because I don't know what chapter we will be working on next, but I should have it planned very soon and I will change the homework calendar as soon as I know.

New Schedule

I have updated the schedule tab to show the new schedule with the Swimming changes.

Swimming Reminder

Swimming classes went very well.  

Please remember  to:

Label all students belongings

Swimming caps (for boys and girls) are mandatory

Swimming floaters are mandatory.

Students will not be allowed in the pool without the previous items.