A Trip to “Hayasdan” (the event)

 

“Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.”

Michael Gove

   Makassed KSPS grade 6 students successfully accomplished their ISA- Language based- project through the help of their English language teacher, who is Lebanese-Armenian; the main reason why the students preferred to choose their ISA project's topic to be about the Armenian language.

   For almost 2 months students worked so hard to bring this project, entitled “A trip to Hayasdan” to light.
   Throughout the achievement of this project, students did not only discover and research about Armenia as a country and culture, they also paid close attention to the Armenian language by learning some basic Armenian words, terms, or sentences.
For 2 months they welcomed and farewelled their teacher in Armenian and tried to find Armenian people in their surroundings.

The decorated table at the entrance exhibiting Armenian ornaments, artifacts, and accessories.

   On the big day of the event, students invited their parents and loved ones to share what they learned from this project and their experience in particular.
With renowned Armenian classical music and warm smiles students welcomed their parents and grade 5 students and distributed a famous Armenian dessert; very similar to the Lebanese “Maamoul” at the entrance. After listening to both the Lebanese and Armenian anthems they presented a slide show about Armenia, read a famous poem in Armenian, and displayed a very interesting video prepared by them.

   At the end, students directed the invitees to exhibit a table decorated with Armenian dried fruits, ornaments, artifacts, and accessories.



G6 students welcoming the Principal; Mrs. Rana.





Aya with her lovely mother.



Riwa and Nesrae; with their beautiful hair just like Armenian girls used to do it.

   After accomplishing such a productive project, grade 6 students did not forget thanking all those people, parents, teachers, and friends for their support and help throughout the whole course of this project.



Mrs. Lina and Ms. Lama with Riwa wearing an Armenian traditional dress.





G6 students with Ms. Gassia and their name tags written in Armenian. 

A Trip to "Hayasdan-Armenia" (the video)

"A Trip to Hayasdan" is an ISA project done by Makassed Khalil Shehab Primary School's grade 6 students. This project's main objective was to discover and get to know about a new language and culture.
KSPS grade 6 students chose the Armenian language, since their English language teacher was Lebanese-Armenian.

Purple Mash @ home!

KSPS students are experiencing a new tool that is allowing them to continue their e-learning at home.
Rasha, a fifth grader experienced purple mash at her home and came back to school with this interesting video.

It’s Purple Mash time!

Purple Mash is a new creative online space that hosts interactive activities, creative tools, and games for all subjects to support and inspire creative and interactive learning.
I, as a math and science teacher, started to implement purple mash in my classes. I created accounts for all of my fifth graders; every student had his/her unique username and password. And that’s when the journey of interactivity begun!
We used different tools, played games, created projects, science stories, graphs… and much more.

We used this game while studying about Factors

                    

We used this game while studying about Integers

View a science story about "Nimo", the fish.


 What’s beneficial about Purple Mash is that it is an online tool; my students are continuing their learning anywhere and anytime. Stay tuned to show you how my students are using purple mash at their homes! 

Puchi Pu Pu Puchi ...

 

Acting Rehearsals :)

  When your students are getting ready for their performance and their beloved theatre teacher/director; Mr. Bassam, is on his nerves trying to give his best to his students and guide them to become better actors, I get encouraged too and start helping them with the performance.

It's such an honor to have such a teacher, who not only acts but teaches them the basic ethics and techniques to behave and stand on stage.
Body language is an important technique used in our daily lives to accomplish so many deeds, which can help us conquer hearts, judgements, and impressions.

 Thank you Mr. Bassam for your effort and guidance!
Good luck to my students for their performance next week!

An animal habitat in our classroom!

Students in a hands-on science activity will remember the material better, feel a sense of accomplishment when the task is completed, and be able to transfer that experience easier to other learning situations. For this reason, fifth graders decided to model different vertebrate and invertebrate animals using clay, cardboards, and many other materials. Then, they decorated the animals they created in a corner in their classroom and now they are ready to answer any question about this lesson!

From Ling Moor with Love

Grade 4 students were elated to receive plenty of colorful materials sent from our partner school in UK, Ling Moor Academy. A month ago, we sent our UK friends plenty of souvenirs and posters. Now it’s our turn to receive colorful drawings, postcards, and letters wishing us a happy year! We decorated our classroom with these materials to always remember our friends over the seas.

Materials we sent

 

 

Materials we received

 

Excited to send, Elated to receive!