Gardens

We, the second graders love to take care of our environment. As such, we wanted to relate the environment to gardens. Taking care of our gardens can help the environment. For example, we can lessen the amount of fertilizers and pay attention to water and waste soil . So, we decided to present some ways of taking care of our gardens.

Magic

We love to use magic while studying. We have fun getting words out of containers and placing them under the right category. Not to mention, using the magic hat to make sure our answers are right. That's how we studied nouns. Studying is fun!

Happiness is school made

LAU Workshop at Othman Thinnourain School

A workshop was held at Othman Thinnourain School on Thursday 17/1/2013. LAU preschool eduacation team discussed the strategies of teaching songs to preschoolers and the importance of learning through play.They shared ideas and experiences with Othman teachers. Looking forward for more beneficial visits from LAU :).

How to make Science interesting?

On Tuesday, 15 January, our KSPS students were lucky enough to go and watch Wakazoo Group's "Scientifique Fantastique" play.
With Nancy (the main character in the play), they were able to understand science and scientific terms in an interesting way. They were also able to witness experiments live on stage.

This is how we can teach our children through art!

Crazy crazes

One of our goals as a school is to make global citizens, as such, grade 3 students had the opprtunity to have a global view of what's happening elsewhere in the world. They had the chance to learn about other cultures and communities through the collabrotive project " Crazy crazes". In this project, students watched and read experiences of 18 other schools all over the world. Each school , including us, mentioned the latest crazes in their school, what is popular and fashionable. As such, grade 3 made a table mentioning their latest crazes, they also took pictures and made videos. To view out wiki page, you can click on this website for more information:
http://crazycrazes.wikispaces.com/Makassed+Khalil+Shehab+School%2C+Lebanon

This is the table that the students came out with after making presentations mentioning their favorite crazes at school:

Games we are playing at school:	-          Football -           Basketball -          Monopoly -          Hide and seek -          Uno -          Tag
Collections:	-          DVDs -          Coins from different countries -           Smurfs and Dora cards -          Ps3 cds -           Small cars -          Football cards -          Balls -          Stickers
Popular particular past time:	-          Hula hoop -           Board games -          Dancing like gang men style -          Smurfs cartoon -          Playstation3 -          Wii
Favorite TV programs :	-          Animal planet -          National geography -           Sponge bob -          Ben 10 -          The voice -           Baby’s day out -          Tom and jerry -          Wizards of Waverley place -          Good luck Charlie -          Jessie
Popular books:	-          Fun at the farm -           Walter and the tugboat -           Dinasours -          The teny weeny tadpole -           Bridges -          Hansel and grittel
Particular style of clothing and brands:	-          Puma -           Nike -          Different kind of braids -          Spiky hair -          Jeans and sweater -          Beret hats -          Cute ear muffs and scarves -          Leather jackets -          Colored jeans -          Hoodies
Favorite movies:	-          The princess and the frog -          The little mermaid -          Snow white -          Cinderella -          Spider man -          The chipmunks -          Spy kids -
Favorite characters:	-          Ben 10 -          Ariel -          Teddy in Good luck Charlie -          Alex from Wizards of Waverley Place -          Sponge bob
Favorite songs:	-          The wheels of the bus -          Three little monkeys -          We are the world -          Tell me why



You can view the videos on our wiki page.

Hilltop School ( India) My Family Project

Received with many thanks a " Family Project" from Hilltop School - India. Mother's Day, Family concert, Brother's Day, Father's Day and even more ... are the activities executed at Hilltop School in India. Our children are looking forward to receive more pictures and activities. Thank you Mrs. Tanuja for the wonderful pictures and activities.

Outreach the Community; First Step Together ...

Visiting FISTA on PhotoPeach


“We care about you!”, “Your smile is more expensive than all the treasures of the world.”, “We share the same dreams.”, “We are all equal!”, “We love and care about you!”, “The world hasn’t forgotten you”…
These are some quotes my students wrote for children with special needs.
Teacher:
On Monday, 17 December 2012, at 8:30 am, for the purpose of this year's project; Community Service, my students and I went to FISTA (First Step Together Association). (FISTA is a non-profit organization for individuals with special needs.) We participated in their classes and shared things together, like songs, crafts, emotions, drawings, cards, and letters … We spent our day with them and tried to see the world from their own eyeglasses.
My students understood what individuals with special needs mean, and they discovered that this community is also a part of our community and that we complete one another.
Here are some thoughts, reviews, and description of our visit to FISTA, written by my students.
Students:
-Jamal Yamout, “When we arrived to FISTA, the teachers welcomed us and they divided us into groups. My friends and I joined FISTA’s SE4 class and made new friends. We drew, sang, read stories, and played together. We had a lot of fun!”
-Hiba Soubra, “Our visit to FISTA was an amazing trip. I felt very glad to meet and have new friends.”
-Nivine Omran, “When I visited FISTA, I thought I was going to be afraid of the students, because they were different than us, but when I met them and became their friends I changed my view and opinion about them, because they were children like us; they wanted to play, dream, have fun, and enjoy life. After my trip to FISTA I realized that FISTA’s students were special and they shared the same dreams like ours.”
-Lama Akl, “When I visited FISTA, I saw that children with special needs were very smart and they were able to do things that we couldn’t do, like handmade necklaces, candles, soaps, cards … They did things I couldn’t do as a child.”
-Ghida Itani, “When we went to FISTA, at first I was scared, but then when I met the children with special needs, I was never afraid again, on the contrary I was ashamed that I had bad thoughts about them.”
-Hala Shatila, “I will never forget our trip to FISTA, and I will keep in touch with my new friends at FISTA.”
-Reina Agha, “I will never forget this experience in my entire life. I learned that no matter what is difference between us and FISTA students, we are all friends.”
-Riwa Bleik, “I have to thank my English teacher for giving us the opportunity to visit a school like FISTA that care about children and adults with special needs.”
At the end of our visit to FISTA, FISTA’s principal told us a very wise quote, “The future depends on what we do in the present". And I agreed, since NOW my students know how to behave and help individuals with special needs; most importantly they know how to change the world’s view about individuals with special needs.

KSPS 5th graders and
their English Teacher
Ms. Gassia Topoushian