14/6/2017

Last Day of School….

11/6/2017

End of Year Party

Dear Parents,

The last day of school is Wednesday 14th, 2017. In celebration of the end of year, we will have a small party for the children to gather, have fun and say good bye to each other. On that day we will listen to music, colour and do other fun activities. We will also have a dish party so make sure to send healthy snacks with your son/daughter for the whole class.

7/6/2017

Ismail’s Birthday!!!

5/6/2017

Sight Word Game

25/5/2017

Annual Production!

22/5/2017

Graduation !!!

11/5/2017

Science Heat Project…

11/5/2017

Reading with Grade 7 !!!

4/5/2017

Our Science Heat Project!

4/5/2017

Students/Teachers-Teachers/Students….

4/5/2017

Oldies…

4/5/2017

Twin Day!

27/4/2017

Egypt Day!

27/4/2017

Star Student!

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26/4/2017

Twin/ Triplet Day on May 2nd, 2017

We chose twins and triplets to either wear the same colour or a similar outfit. Please find the names as follows:

Youssef Afifi and Ali

Farida, Jana and Zeina

Nadine and Mariam

Ismail and Youssef Gamal

Youssef Hawary and Al Hassan

Layla and Farah

Hamza, Malek and Omar

Yassin and Taym

Thanks,

Timeline Photos…

13/4/2017

Happy Easter Everyone!

13/4/2017

Lots of Fun!!!

6/4/2017

Fun Day!

30/3/2017

Fun Day!!!

Yay!!! Our Fun Day is on Thursday 6th April. Students will leave at 1.55 p.m. on that day.

30/3/2017

Our Young Inventors!!!

29/3/2017

Star Student!

23/3/2017

International Day!

23/3/2017

Mother’s Day

22/3/2017

Dear Parents,

Hope this e-mail finds you well.

This is to inform you that the International Day is taking place tomorrow, Thursday March 23, 2017.

We are having International Day as an out of uniform day, students are expected to come dressed in the colors of the flag of the country they are representing or in the traditional clothing of the selected country (please check the class blog for more information).

Thank you very much,

Best regards,

20/3/2017

Let me seize this opportunity to wish all the lovely mums a Happy Mother’s Day! Kindly be informed that our students and teachers are tuned to celebrate Mother’s Day with you Tuesday 21st March at 8:45 am. It’s quite crucial that all mothers be present to honour the moment. As mentioned before, it will be a regular school day. Therefore, students’ early dismissal is greatly discouraged.

Thanks and waiting to see you all!!! : )

15/3l2017

Day Off Tomorrow

Kindly be informed that according to our school calendar tomorrow, Thursday 16 March 2017, is a day off.

15/3/2017

Mother’s Day & International Day

We are going to celebrate Mother’s Day on March 21^st from 8.45am to 9.45am. We will have fun activities for our mummies !!! Waiting to see you !!!

International Day will be March 23^rd . We chose Mexico as our country. It is one of my favourite countries. We will celebrate this day with a few activities and an educational presentation about Mexico for the other classes.

We will also have a Mexican dish party and wear the colours of the Mexican flag (green, white and red) or if your child has a Mexican costume he/she can wear it.

13/3/2017

Dear KG2 Families,

I am so excited to be joining your child on his/her journey through school. Kindergarten is an exciting time for your child and an important part of setting up future success in school.

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Mrs. Hanar and I will be your child’s teacher for the rest of the year at Global Paradigm International School. The next few months are sure to be busy as we explore and grow together.

I would like to share a few things about myself. I was raised in England. I am married and have two children. I studied English Literature and spent the last 9 years working as a teacher for KG, years 1 and 2 at Nefertari British School and Global Paradigm International School. I look forward to teaching your child and making this experience as fun and enjoyable as possible. We are going to be doing lots of work and having lots of fun too. Along with all the learning, if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me through email or Channel Book. My email address is hanarshabayek@gpschool-eg.com I will also be using the blog to post any important events. The blog address has not changed.

When I’m not teaching or planning awesome things for us to do at school I enjoy reading, going for a walk, shopping and spending time with my dear family.

I am so happy that I can spend the next few months with your child in KG2.

Best regards,

Hanar Shabayek

Star Students:

KG2 Spelling Assessment

Dear KG2 parents,

Please note that KG2 students will be having a spelling Assessment on Sunday the 26^th of February on the following sight words:

This, find, will, be, go, for

Out of uniform:

Please note that tomorrow, Tuesday, the 14th of Feb will be an out-of-uniform day for students in celebration of Valentine’s Day.

Students may come to school wearing Valentine colors.

Parents Meeting Schedule
Timing	Student Name
8:15-8:30 am	yassin
8:30-9:00 am	Alhassan
9:00- 9:15 am	Ali
9:15-9:30 am	Farah
9:30-9:45 am	Farida
9:45-10:00 am	Ismail
10:00-10:15 am	Jana
10:15-10:45 am	Break
10:45-11:00 am	Layla
11:00-11:15 am	Malek
11:15-11:30 am	Mustafa
11:30-11:45 am	Nadine
11:45-12:00 am	Omar
12:00-12:15 am	Youssef Hawarry
12:15-12:30 am	Youssef Gamal
12:30-12:45 am	Youssef Afifi
12:45-1:00 pm	Zeina
1:00-1:15 pm	Mariam
1:15-1:30 pm	Break
1:30-1:45 pm	Taym
1:45-2:00 pm
2:00-2:15 pm
2:15-2:30 pm
2:30-2:45 pm
2:45-3:00 pm

Reading week:

This year’s reading week will be from February 19-23. On Thursday, February 23, between 1:30 pm until 2 pm, one parent from each class will come in and read a story to the class. Please understand that only one volunteer is needed for each class. Sign-up should begin the morning of the 19th of February 2017 on a first come, first served basis. The first parent who is going to email us, is the parent that will be invited. Please make sure to email me myself and Ms. Marwa Droubi.

Please find below the email addresses that you need to be addressing if you would like to come and join us 🙂

Mrs. Mariam Aziz: MariamAziz@gpschool-eg.com

Mrs. Marwa Droubi: Marwadroubi@gpschool-eg.com

Ms. Rana Afifi: ranaafifi@gpschool-eg.com

Thank you,

Mrs. Mariam

Arabic files:

Dear parents,

Please note that from now on students are required to have a SEPARATE Arabic file in their bags daily. This will lessen the loss of H.W sheets and any kind of mix up with English sheets. If you do not see an Arabic file in your child’s bag today, this means that we could not find an extra file for your child in our class to assign it for Arabic. Thus, you are kindly required to send with your child a new file labelled Arabic.

Please, make sure to send this file along with the English file to the school daily. Also please make sure to put any Arabic-related materials in this file.

Regards,

Mrs. Mariam

Portfolio files:

Dear parents,

Please note that we sent the kids’ portfolios yesterday. Please make sure to send the empty file back to be kept in class.

Mrs. Mariam

Checking the other classes’ habitat projects:

Learning about trading from other countries (Social Studies)

Decorating the Christmas tree:

Let’s decorate our class for Christmas 🙂

Dear parents,

We kindly ask you to send with your kid some Christmas decoration. Together, we will decorate our class for Christmas.

Mrs. Mariam

Math H.W clarification 4/12/2016

This week, students will be learning about squares, triangles and rectangles. Please let your kids only answer the exercises related to shapes as we have mentioned before. Students will learn that a square has four equal sides and four vertices (corners). A triangle has three sides and three vertices. A rectangle has four sides (not equal) and four vertices.

Sports Day

Please be reminded that the Sports Day will be tomorrow.

Prophet’s Birthday Vacation

Please be informed that Prophet’s Birthday that was scheduled as a day off on December the 12^th is changed to be December the 11^th, 2016 .So, December 11^th, will be a day off celebrating Prophet’s Birthday and we will resume school on December the 12^th.

From farm to table (SS)

Students enjoyed making their own lemonade.

A reminder:

Dear parents,

Please be reminded that tomorrow is an Early Dismissal day for the students. Buses will leave at 12.

Regards,

Mrs. Mariam

Dear parents,

Please note that there are some homework problems for math that are not related to shapes. We ask that you kindly skip these as we have not covered this material yet. That is because we skipped to Chapter 9: 2d shapes in order to complete this primary concept before the winter break. We will be returning to other concepts once we return from the break. J Thank you for your support and please let us know if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

KG2 team

Sports Day

Due to the inclement weather predicted for this week, the Pre-K – G2 Sports Day, scheduled for Thursday, December 1, has been postponed till Monday the 5^th of December.

Please note that Thursday is a short day for students while Monday the 5th of Dec. will be a normal school day.

Regards,

Mrs. Mariam

Class Photo

Dear parents,

Please note that the class photo that was scheduled to happen this week (27 November – 29 November), has been postponed till further notice.

Sports Day Teams

Please find below your kids’ teams. Please make sure to send your kid wearing a cotton T-shirt with the same color as his/her team on the Sports Day 1/12/2016 🙂

Al Hassan Blue

Ali Blue

Ammar Blue

Farah Red

Farida Red

Hamza Red

Ismail Red

Jana Blue

Layla Blue

Malek Blue

Mariam Blue

Mustafa Red

Nadine Red

Omar Red

Yassin Red

Youssef Hawary Blue

Youssef Gamal Blue

Youssef Afify Blue

Zeina Blue

Class Photo:

Dear parents,

Kindly note that we will be taking the official school picture for the Academic year 2016/2017(for KG2 students) on Monday November 28^th, 2016.

Students should wear the full school uniform (or stick to its colors if the uniform is not available), please avoid absences as there won’t be any picture retake.

Updates:

• The yearly class photo will take place the coming week starting the 27th of November till the 29th of November.

• KG & Lower Elementary Sports Day is scheduled on the 1st of December (half day for students).

Math H.W clarification 21/11/2016

L. 4.6 ex.1, 2 students are to count the objects, compare the numbers and then circle the number that is less.

ex.3 students are to count the objects, compare the numbers and then circle the number that is greater.

P. 216 ex. 1 students are to count the objects, compare the numbers and then circle the number that is less.

ex.2 count the objects and write the number.

ex. students are to draw 6 circles in the ten frame.

P. 221 ex. 1-3 circle the greater number.

ex. 4-6 circle the number that is less.

P. 222 ex.1circle the greater number.

ex. 2 ask students to show 8 fingers. take away four, how many left? students are to draw circles accordingly.

ex. 3 count and write the number.

Learning about plants (Science):

Math H.W clarification:

Dear parents:

Please find below extra clarification on this week Math H.W:

L.4.3: the objective of this lesson is to help students learn about making number 10 with different ways.

P. 197 Students will color the cubes in blue according to the number written and then the remaining cubes will be colored in red. Then students will read the equation like that: 7 and 3 is 10..etc.

P. 198 Ex. 2 students will count the pictures and write the number underneath. Students will compare the pictures and circle the greater number.

Ex. 3 Students will count the birds and write the number.

P.203 students will count the circles and write the number underneath. Then students will write the numbers in the right order.

P.204 Ex.2 students will count the circles, write the number underneath and then compare the numbers and circle the number that is less.

Ex. 3 count and write the number.

P. 209 students are to draw balloons according to the instructions and then compare numbers.

Kidzoo Farm 🙂

Star Student 3/11/2016

Math H.W CLARIFICATION,

Dear parents,

Here you will find more clarification of the Math H.W

L 4.1/ The first page: The objective of this lesson is to help students think of different ways to make number 10. For this H.W they can use two pencils colors (red/yellow). Students can try making (10) using these two colors. for example; 5 red and 5 yellow, 4 red, 6 yellow..etc. students will need to record their trials in the right places.

L 4.1/ The second page: ex.#1 students need to know how many more circles they need to draw to make 10. They already have 10 circles in the frame. Here is how we do it in class: Ask the child to raise 6 fingers, ask him/her; how many more fingers s/he needs to raise to make 10.

ex.#2 students will count the kites and write the number and then they draw a set of squares that has the same number under the kites.

ex.#3 students count how many shirts and then write the number.

L 4.2/ The first page:

ex.1# trace number 10

ex.#2-4 count and write the number.

L 4.2/ The first page:

ex.#1count and write the number

ex.#2 count and write the number and circle the number that is less.

ex.#3 draw circles according to the number shown at the beginning.

Hope this gives more clarification 🙂

Halloween 🙂

Star Student 29/10/2016

A reminder:

Dear parents,

Hope this email finds you well.

This is a gentle reminder that Thursday October 27, 2016 is a half day that ends at 11:30am due to Professional Development workshops that will be conducted to GPIS faculty team.

Please note that Pre-K-Gr. 2 students start the dismissal at 11:15 am.

Thank you for your usual support.

Regards,

Mrs. Mariam

Star Student 20/10/2016

Spelling Assessment

On Sunday October 30th will be our first spelling assessment. We have been practicing these words regularly, but it is still important to practice at home. 🙂

The assessment will be a dictation, meaning, I will say the word and the student will write it. The words are: I, like, the, a, see, and. Practice as much as you can at home! Good luck.

A note:

Dear parents,

Please note that we ran out of the tissues and wipes’ storage. Please send one tissue pack and one wipes pack with you kid.

Also if you have any magazines that you do not want to keep it at home any more, please send it to school as we use it in our art/craft activities.

Thank you 🙂

Mrs. Mariam

Animals’ coverings (Science):

Learning about Measurement Tools (Science)

Learning about Living/non living things (Science)

Dear Parents/Guardians,

Please be informed that Thursday the 20th of October 2016, will be an out of uniform day for our beloved students.

Halloween:

Monday, 31^st of October, 2016

Calling all pirates and princesses! GPIS tradition of parading Halloween will continue this year on October 31^st from 12.00 -2.30 P.M.

Sequence of events!

1- Children shall come to school wearing their costumes or Halloween colors (Orange/Black).

4- Children will excitingly march around the campus for “Trick and Treat” during our annual Halloween Parade. Tours for KGs shall start at 12:15

Important Announcements!

To make this a memorable day for our beloved students, please Note:

*Each student needs to get one package of candy (individually wrapped), and only one plastic, construction, or zip-lock bag.

*No props or equipment that is unsafe.

*No weapons, masks (even toy weapons) may be brought to school.

*No costumes are allowed that completely hide the identity of the student.

*No costumes are allowed that impair the pupil’s vision or movement.

Star student 13/10/1016

Our first performance on stage: ( Goldilocks and the Three Bears)

Community Helpers ( parents’ visit was just great)

Newsletter 13th of Oct.

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IT lesson:

Measuring length (Science/Math):

Class work:

Writing our names :

Learning about traffic lights:

Community Helpers (Visiting the clinic to learn about doctors 🙂

Dear KG2 Parents,

We are currently learning about “community helpers” also known as jobs. In order to help the kids learn about different jobs in our community, we kindly ask that a few parent volunteers can come into the school on Thursday October 13^th @ 8:30 am. We will choose one parents from each class to come in and speak to all 3 classes. If you are interested in signing up please e-mail the class teacher and CC Miss Marwa Droubi as soon as possible. Because we have a limited number of slots we will choose the first parents that apply from each occupation.

We kindly ask that you bring props and possibly the outfit that you wear to work. For example if you are a doctor bring your coat, stethoscope, thermometer and any other tools you use at work! This will be a really fun and informative way to teach our kids about all the different jobs.

Class Teacher E-mails:

Miss Marwa- marwadroubi@gpschool-eg.com

KG2A: Miss Mariam- mariamaziz@gpschool-eg.com

KG2B: Miss Arielle- ariellegolan@gpschool-eg.com

KG2C: Miss Whitney- whitney.holmes@gpschool-eg.com

Newsletter 5/10/2016

Please click the link below:

newsletter-5th-of-oct

A note:

Dear parents,

please note that today I am sending the H.W of this week. Due to the shortness of this week, we only have one lesson in English (n sound) and one lesson in Math (greater, less and the same). Please make sure to stick to the H.W dates which are written on the cover page.

Please also note that I am sending the portfolio file today. I n this file, we gather all the student’s work for the whole month and then send it home by the end of the month. All the materials in this file need to be kept at home and then the file should be sent to the school again to be kept.

Thank you,

Mrs. Mariam

Newsletter (WEEK 4, Oct. 3 – Oct. 5)

Please click the link below:

newsletter-29th-of-sep

Painting our little family houses (LA family topic)

Making sandwiches for the three bears ( Goldilocks and the three bears story)

Star student 29/9

A note:

Thursday the 29^thof September 2016 (Short day- students will be dismissed at 11:30AM) will be an out of uniform day.

What We’ll Learn: Week 3 (September 25-29, 2016)

Language Arts: We will learn about the “i”, “p” sounds and sight word (the). We will also be doing different activities focused on family.

Math: The students will learn how to identify and write the number zero, as well as review numbers 1-5.

Science: Students will learn about how to observe, compare, measure, and sort different items. We will learn the definitions of each of these through vocabulary chants with actions.

Social Studies: The focus for this week is to learn about safety signs and understand their purpose as well as to learn about what it means to be responsible.

Upcoming IMPORTANT Dates:

Thursday, September 29 – Half day (students will be dismissed at 11:30 am)
Sunday, October 2 – Islamic New Year NO SCHOOL
Thursday, October 6 – 6th of October NO SCHOOL