South Asian Club Fair

Dear Elementary Parents,

The South Asian Club is holding a fair for the entire AISD Community. There will be lots of yummy food sold like dosa, fuchka, cotton candy, and tehari (a Bangladeshi rice dish). 

There will also be live dance performances, arts and crafts sold and a bouncy castle for the kids to enjoy! 

Please come and join us with your entire family in all the fun festivities!

Date: Wednesday, November 27th

Time: 6-8pm

Place: AISD Tennis Courts (rooftop)

Entrance Ticket: 50tk, (food at additional cost, 50-100 tk)

We hope to see you there! Thanks for your support!

UN Day Reminders

Reminder:  Tomorrow (Wednesday) AISD will celebrate UN Day. The Parade of Nations will begin at 8:30, followed by performances. Please keep in mind the following:

• National dress is encouraged but not required.
• Parents are welcome to attend the parade and program, and they should go to the big field, not walk with the country during the parade. 
• Parents should use the field gate to enter and exit. Please do not come to the classroom before or after the parade as the school and classrooms are very busy. Note that you are welcome to take photos on the field.
• Parents and families can watch the assembly through live streaming. They can go to the website and click on the top right corner where it says "Live". 

Nurturing Your Child's Imagination

Please click on this link to see some suggestions from Scholastic on how you can encourage and strengthen your child's creativity and imagination.

Learning About the Brain

We spent time in class studying the brain and how it works to get a better understanding of what we do when we think. After taking apart and reassembling two model brains we shared our wonderings and spent time exploring the different parts of the brain and what they do. 

We learned that just like an egg yolk, our brain has some special fluid around it that protects it from hitting our skull when we move. We know that our brain is very important and that we need to protect it by being safe and wearing helmets while riding bikes and doing other sports.

Throughout our study on the brain we conferred many sources, including a website called "Wondermind". This site has many games that encourage brain strengthening, as well as kid-friendly videos that discuss the parts of the brain. To find the videos, you have to first click on a game as if you are going to play, and then you will see a video button in the lower left corner. We only watched part of one in class, so I encourage you to watch more with your child at home! Click here to go to the website.

We have now entered into our next Unit of Inquiry, which focuses on imagination. We will really strengthen our brains during this Unit by challenging ourselves to thing outside the box. Last week your child brought home a puppet theater of The Little Red Hen. Before taking it home each child practiced retelling the story and then used the iPad to record himself. We will use these recordings to critique our expression and encourage us to develop in the area of performing arts.

In math we have looked more closely at numbers in general, and spent time carefully examining numbers 11 through 19. Through a series of games and activities in which we built the numbers, we have develop a basic understanding of place value. We will continue this exploration of numbers as we also add in a study of geometric shapes.

Playing "Flying Saucers"

Numbers

We interact and play with numbers daily in our classroom, but recently we started focusing on 'teen' numbers. Before beginning this focus we shared our thoughts/knowledge about numbers in general. The children were asked to share what they already know about numbers. This is the conversation that evolved with no teacher input. By recording the conversation we can then begin looking at our understanding more deeply and resolve misunderstandings.

Nora: Numbers don't go from right to left, they go from left to right.

Iris: Numbers don't go from 10 to 1, they go from 1 to 10.

Imram: You can count beans to figure out how many there are.

Sahan: You start at the top when writing numbers.

Aly: There is an order to numbers.

Mikail: You can't start counting at 19, you have to start at 1.

Nora: You can count like 2,4,6,8 and even higher than that by skipping some numbers.

Iris: You can count backward but you normally count forwards.

Shanza: You can count from 13 down to 1.

Aiden: You can count from 100 to 0.

Aylin: You can count from 1 to 9.

Cadyn: You can count backwards but not every time because if you just know the number you can just call it out.

Aly: You can count so much up to when the numbers stop. I don't when when numbers stop.

Aiden: Numbers never stop. Somebody told me that but I don't know why.

Sahan: You can even start counting at 100 and go to 1000.

Iris: You can start counting at any number and keep on going and going as many numbers as you know.

Nora: I know numbers never stop because there's always a higher number.

Imran: You can count beginning at 1 instead of 0. Numbers can be a bit hard at some times.

Sandeep: You can count up to 20.

Shanza: We would take one whole day to count all the numbers.

Iris: You can put numbers together to make a new number.