Dear KG Families,

First and foremost, thank you for your support and collaboration as students have moved to distance learning for these two weeks. It is in moments like these that we are reminded of their resilience and ability to adapt to new situations. It has been wonderful to join their live sessions and see how excited they are to connect with their peers online. Remote learning can be challenging for our younger students and we appreciate the time and effort you have given to support them. Thank you. We appreciate you.

Our Kindergarten Live Assembly has been such a great way to connect with our community every Sunday at 8:15am. This session enables us to come together as a community and celebrate the wonderful things happening here at GAA. Poppy the Parrot, our KG mascot, has been ‘popping’ into live sessions and giving out Principled Panda badges to students demonstrating that Learner Profile trait.

As I look ahead to the coming weeks with National Day and Winter break coming up, I take this time to reflect on the progress and goals students have achieved since they started their journey with us in September. Below are just some highlights of their self-expression and creativity. I look forward to the next few weeks and what is to come.

Thank you for your continued support.

Warmest regards,

Niamh Callanan

KG Vice Principal

KG1 B is looking forward to listening to more stories from our guest story tellers: Mr. Rinaldo and Mr. Mike when they return to school.

Hello from KG1E! We have had an exciting 2 weeks learning both in school and at home! We had World Kindness and GAA Spirit Dress Down Days which we incorporated into our Literacy and Math art. As part of our Unit of Inquiry ‘Who We Are’ we have been exploring what we like. We made a class graph of our favorite foods and saw which food was most popular. We were so excited to open our writing center and have been experimenting with different writing tools and starting to write our names. As we moved to Distance Learning last week, we continued to learn on live sessions and on Seesaw. We had to remember to practice our good choices and be Principled Pandas. Have a look at our pictures below!

Dear GAA Parents,

As you may already know, 18 December marks UNESCO’s World Arabic Language Day. This important day falls during our schools’ winter break, so we do not have the opportunity to celebrate it fully.

This year, we will be launching a GEMS Reads in Arabic campaign to celebrate this day – by starting the build-up on Wednesday, 18 November, a month ahead of World Arabic Language Day.

During the campaign, all students in our primary schools will be receiving free access to over 700 digital children’s books in Arabic via the platform Little Thinking Minds, in addition to an exclusive 25% discount from Kalimat Group on all Arabic children’s books.

Access to Little thinking Minds- please check the attachment for the steps.

Kalimat Publishing: 25% discount for all GEMS students to use when order from our website https://www.kalimatgroup.ae/en/about_us/

Use the code to avail the discount: GEMS2020

Terms & Conditions:

• Code is valid from Nov18 - Dec18

• Discount is only valid on physical book purchases (not valid on merchandising items, ebooks and audio books)

• Discount code cannot be used in conjunction with other discounts or promotions

• Other terms and conditions may apply

Campaign Title: #GEMS_READS_IN_ARABIC #جيمس_تقرأ_بالعربية

Campaign Duration: 18 November 2020 to 18 December 2020

We would like to encourage all of our students to take a part of this campaign to celebrate the World Arabic Language Day, and to help our kids improve their reading skills.

Please be sure to share with us pictures to share it on our social media pages to encourage all of our students to be part of the challenge.

GAA students can effectively use 3asafeer platform during this campaign.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us for any question or inquiry

Sincerely,

Samah Awad

Director of Arabic studies KG- G12

أولياء الأمور الكرام،

تحيّة طيبة وبعد،

القراءة تبني العقول وتساهم في تطور الأمم والشعوب، كما قد يعلم البعض 18 ديسمبر هو اليوم العالمي للغة العربية بحسب منظمة UNESCO.

وقد أطلقت حملة جيمس تقرأ بالعربية احتفالًا بهذا اليوم ابتداءً من يوم الأربعاء 18 نوفمبر ولمدة شهر.

خلال هذه الحملة، سيحصل طلبة المرحلة الإبتدائية في جميع مدارس جيمس مجّانًا على 700 كتاب رقمي للأطفال من خلال منصة المفكرون الصغار بالإضافة إلى خسم بقيمة 25% على جميع كتب الأطفال باللغة العربية من دار النشر" كلمات".

كيفية استخدام المفكرون الصغار – يرجى الاطّلاع على الملف المرفق للحصول على الخطوات.

دار نشر كلمات:

25% خسم لجميع طلاب جيمس عند شراء الكتب عبر الموقع التالي: https://www.kalimatgroup.ae/en/about_us/

يرجى استخدام الرمز التالي للحصول على الخسم: GEMS2020

الأحكام والشروط:

• الرمز صالح من 18 نوفمبر إلى 18 ديسمبر.

• الخسم يشمل الكتب المطبوعة فقط (لا يشمل المشتريات الأخرى أو الكتب الإلكترونية أو الكتب المسموعة).

• لا يمكن استخدام الرمز بالتزامن مع عرض أو خسم آخر.

• تطبق الأحكام والشروط الأخرى.

كما ستتضمن المبادرة قراءة قصص بشكل إلكتروني حصريًّا لطلاب جيمس من قبل مؤلفي كتب أطفال إماراتيين وعرب.

تجدون في ما يلي تفاصيل الحملة ويرجى تشجيع الطلبة وأولياء الأمور على المشاركة باستخدام النشرات المدرسية وقنوات التواصل الاجتماعي، الخ.

عنوان الحملة: #جيمس_تقرأ_بالعربية #GEMS_READS_IN_ARABIC

مدّة الحملة: 18 نوفمبر 2020 إلى 18 ديسمبر 2020

نرجو منكم تشجيع طلابنا على القراءة والمشاركة بحملة جيمس تقرأ بالعربيّة والاطلاع على التّحديات المرفقة الّت يمكن لطلابنا القيام بها ومشاركتنا صورهم لننشر حملة دعم القراءة باللغة العربيّة الّتي تبنتها جيمس.

يستطيع طلاب أكاديمية جيمس تفعيل منصة عصافير خلال مشاركتهم بهذا التّحدّي.

نرجو منكم عدم التّردد في التّواصل معنا في حال وجود أي سؤال أو استفسار

مع تحيات قسم اللغة العربية

مديرة القسم

سماح عوض

• November 25-26: KG and Elementary Dress Down Day. Theme: UAE National Day Celebration

• November 26: Half-Day. School dismisses at 12. Secondary Dress Down Day. Theme: UAE National Day Celebration

• December 1-3: Commemoration Day and National Day: NO SCHOOL

• December 10: Half-Day. School dismisses at 12:00.

• December 13 - January 2: Winter Break

• January 3: School Resumes

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