After School Activities: Portal

Storytimes and Crafts with Ms Merih - Theme-based story time and crafts activities about the topic of the book. We will focus on oral language development, vocabulary and comprehension, and express some characters or messages from the book.

This Year's class is suited to boys and girls alike. The students will learn dance's building blocks (elements) through playful and imaginative explorations. Each class will have a theme, such as high and low space, fast and slow speed, or sharp and smooth dynamics. Age-appropriate dance skills such as galloping, jumping, turning, skipping, and leaping will also be a central feature of each class.

What does being a Girl Scout do? As Girl Scouts, girls discover the fun, friendship, and power of girls together. Girls grow courageous and strong through various enriching experiences, community service projects, cultural exchanges, and environmental stewardship.

This class is designed for young learners to understand a new culture and arouse their interest in learning a new language. In this program, young children will learn Mandarin through games, songs, storytelling, and many hands-on activities. For example, Do you know that Chinese characters are derived from pictures? If you have a Chinese brush and ink, let’s “Draw” and have fun with Chinese characters.

This class is designed for children who are learning Mandarin for the first time or already have some exposure to the language at home. It aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to the Chinese language and culture, cultivate the learners’ interest in learning Mandarin, and, step by step, build their listening, speaking, reading, and writing abilities. The curriculum mainly focuses on everyday conversation and communication using high-frequency words, phrases, and simple sentences. Children will learn to recognize and write simple Chinese characters. Pinyin pronunciations and rules (Chinese phonetical system) will also be introduced. In the end, children will know how to use Pinyin to read Chinese characters.

Active learning takes place in the outdoors. Children learn through what they see, do, and discover, and then they connect these ideas and experiences to science, literacy, art, and math. It will include walking trips to nearby areas and maybe field trips.