Makassed Science Fair Winners!

I’m elated to announce that KSPS students won 3 prizes at the Makassed Science Fair. This amazing result was achieved due to the hard work and the effort of our young scientists. Let’s all congratulate and salute our winners:

                    First Prize: Ali Ahmad- Tiny Dancers

      Second Prize: Saffiya Sherif- Rainbow Color Wheel

               Third Prize: Youssef Halabi- Coloring Robot

Making a Difference

 

Reading books have always fascinated me as a child and as an adult. I never recall when was my first book that I received and from whom, but I do recall the people who have had an impact on me; my uncle and my English teacher.

Reading books is a different world for me. I always have a book beside my bed or in my car. And I always live with the characters of the books I am reading, they become a part of my life and I become a part of their world.

I wanted to pass on this habit to my students. I was lucky to be offered a collaborative activity by Ahliah School, and together we made a reading competition come true, which was called “The Battle of Books”.

Students from grades 5 and 6 were assigned to read 21 classic short stories throughout the school year and upon that at the end 4 students were chosen from each grade to participate in the competition.

On Wednesday, 20 May 2015 “The Battle of Books” activity took place and our students had the privilege to win and gain experience.

This activity did not only help my students in sharing, reading and working cooperatively, it also engraved the habit of reading in them and I guess this has made all the difference.

P.S: On my behalf, I would like to thank Mr. Rabih Murr (Ahliah School’s head of division upper school) for coming up with the idea, Ahliah school’s students and the organizers for managing and organizing the event, my (KSPS) students for trusting me, Mrs. Rawaa Shehab (Science/Math teacher/Coordinator and ISA coordinator) for supporting me, the parents of my students for bearing all the mess, and all those who supported us in the whole process.

Thank you!

Global Food Show and Tell (iEARN Project)

KSPS third graders are participating in "Global Food Show and Tell" IEarn project . As a result an event was held in KSPS hall  showing all  students different international recipes they learned from our partner schools .  Moreover they prepared  "Recipes Around The World" book where they collected different recipes from USA ,Mexico ,Pakistan and Romania. At the end , the students enjoyed USA favorite breakfast cornflakes with orange juice.

 

A salute to our young scientists

During “WOW” fair our young scientists conducted different experiments that displayed the uniqueness of water.

Hats off young scientists, you have showed a great amount of maturity, effort, and understanding towards “Wonders of Water”.

"Wonders of Water" Science Fair

On Wednesday April 22, KSPS organized its first annual science fair entitled "Wonders of Water"; WOW.
 KSPS little scientists from grades 1 till 6 did amazing and unique experiments related to water in front of their parents, teachers, mates, and our guests from the US embassy; Mr. Banches and Ms. Edith Bitar.
 All of our guests were impressed by the work of our little scientists, they showed deep understanding of different scientific concepts related to water and high self confidence.
Stay tuned to tell you more details about our scientists' experiments. 

Our guests became scientists too!

Thank you Ms. Gassia for your help

We gave our guests the water cycle bracelet that represents the stages of the water cycle

                                          

Mr. Splash was there too!

        We put our pledges to save and protect our water resources

                   Thank you Mrs. Iman for this creative piece of art

Thank you parents for your support

A field trip to Damour river

KSPS students are participating in an international collaborative activity with different schools around the world. The aim of this activity is to study the impact of human behaviour on river health in several countries. Students need to participate in river excursions with "hands-on" water analysis. For this reason, our students visited “Damour River” located in Mount-Lebanon and took a sample of water from it. They also did several tests on the river’s water; measured the water’s temperature and its PH. KSPS students will share their findings with our partner schools participating in this activity. Simultaneously, our partner schools will send us their findings too.

Our friends in Bengladesh shared their findings

It’s Zero Discrimination Day at KSPS

Zero Discrimination Day is an annual worldwide event to celebrate diversity and reject discrimination.

 Since KSPS is a learning community that rejects discrimination, its young clovers decided to celebrate “zero discrimination day” in a funny and unique way.

They said no for discrimination and yes for equity. Yes we are all equal; we all have the same rights and responsibilities regardless our nationality.

Students of different nationalities at KSPS wore their mother country traditional costumes , presented power point presentations about their countries, and prepared delicious traditional food from their mother country.

                     Shaed, Karen, Isam and Moataz are Palestinians  

 

 

                          Nesray and Maya came from Philippines   

 

 

                                            Karen is from Egypt

                                                                     

 

                                             Lilas was born in China

                      The butterfly is the symbol of Zero Discrimination Day

We shared our school’s photos on zero discrimination day Facebook page

                           

             We had the chance to taste different international food

 

 

Our parents celebrated the zero discrimination day with us too

 

KSPS 2nd term Top Achievers

At the end of the second semester we are elated to announce KSPS honor list students. These students are the top achievers that took an excellent grade in their report card.
Grade 2: Safiya Sherif -Sarah toutenji
Grade 3: Khalid Ghawi- Rein Halabi- Tia Orfali
Grade 4: Moataz Maarouf- Ali Ahmad- Jana keshawy
Grade 5: Mohamad Itani- Rasha Sukkar- Ghina Rashwani- Ahmad Imad
Grade 6: Hiba Ramal- Samar Lawand

Thumbs up young clovers