As this is our last blog post for the year, I want to take a moment to say thank you for joining the class on this wonderful journey of learning, growth, and collaboration. The children would not be where they are today without your support, guidance, and love. I wish you all the best as you move forward and I hope to see you all again soon! Our week in PreK: We had a fantastic last full week in the classroom as we began talking about upcoming transitions and enjoyed our time together as a community. The children continued their exploration of identities through the creation of flags, includ ..read more

Our Week in PreK: The students have been working hard on their environment signs to teach the community about air pollution.  We were preparing for our field trip during the week but due to the extreme heat, we changed the field trip date to Friday.  Signs were hung in the basketball court temporarily when a high school student was spotted playing outside during an air pollution day. The children wanted to keep everyone at CAC safe by letting them know to "go inside" when there is air pollution! A big thanks to everyone who was able to come out on Friday and support the Race to ..read more

Our Week: The children have been taking their next steps in learning how to help the earth and make a positive difference for the environment.  They are learning about air pollution as well as ways to reduce the impact of trash in our neighborhood.  We are excited about the upcoming midan beautification project and want to ask all families to join us on May 18th (Friday).  Details to come soon by email. The children learned about the impact of air pollution and thought about the different things they have seen or experienced, as well as things they could do to help.  Some ..read more

Our Week: This week in small group work we started to talk about reusing materials, in order to help our planet. As we already have our workshop in the classroom, we talked about all our different materials and how the new arrivals of materials started to look messy. Therefore, the children decided to sort them so we can build more efficiently in our maker space. Cardboard, plastic, wood, and metal were all discovered, as well as some materials were sorted by their properties (for example: can you bend that material?) While doing this, the children had some creative ideas of what they would ..read more

Families, my apologies for this week's delayed blog post, however I have been unwell for a while and  absent since Tuesday the 24th. I appreciate your understanding as I've taken time off to recuperate and get well. I look forward to returning to school tomorrow as I have missed the students and families so much, but know everything is in excellent hands with our regular teaching team Ms. Salma and Ms. Sanne. The children also got to know Ms. Aya, who subbed on Sunday and Monday, and who will be replacing Ms. Mariam in after-care as she left CAC unexpectedly last week. Our Week: Highli ..read more

Our Week: We had an exciting week of learning in the PreK classroom as students focused their energy on "saving the earth" and preparing for our upcoming assembly.  We also enjoyed a celebration of our school's host country, Egypt, at Thursday's Egypt Festival. When presented with the idea of helping in our neighborhood rather than just on CAC's campus, the students were enthusiastic and eager to continue their projects.  We suggested to them that they might need more durable materials to help their work last longer.  In their groups, they worked all week to plan and create lo ..read more

Our Week: Even though it has been a very short school week, a lot of learning, investigating and exploring took place! Coming back after the spring break, we started to explore a new unit together: "The Environment: Reducing and Reusing". More specifically, we started to investigate garbage and litter by opening up our garbage museum: The children carefully chose with some tweezers the trash they would like to keep in their own ziplock bags for observations and made predictions of what will happen with it over time. We will find out if, how and when it will change during the next week ..read more

Our Week: Welcome back to school after our long break!  The children were busy and working hard in the week before April Break.  Some students were very interested in the idea of building structures to protect plants.  They worked hard to create plans and even took advice from an expert builder, Mr. Miller in the middle school, when we visited his workshop.  The students drew plans and then build models of their "plant houses" in the classroom and outside.  We'd love to build real houses out of bricks outside to keep some plants safe from the wind and sandstorms ..read more

Our Week in PreK: This week we continued to observe the plants in our environment more and went to the garden boxes of Grade 1. The children were very curious about the tomatoes and also found some plants that smelled “yummy”. They start to notice more details about them and explore with all of their senses: touching dried out soil, smelling flowers and herbs, or blowing away seeds the of a “wishing flower”. The children also recognize when a plant is hurt or when a snail is out of their habitat. They rescued a snail from the running tracks and carefully put it back in its home next to a p ..read more

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