"Wonders of Water" Science fair

On Wednesday April 22, KSPS organized its first annual science fair entitled "Wonders of Water"; WOW.
 KSPS little scientists from grades 1 till 6 did amazing and unique experiments related to water in front of their parents, teachers, mates, and our guests from the US embassy; Mr. Banches and Ms. Edith Bitar.
 All of our guests were impressed by the work of our little scientists, they showed deep understanding of different science concepts related to water and high self confidence.
Stay tuned to tell you more details about our scientists' experiments. 

Our guests became scientists too!

Thank you Ms. Gassia for your help

We gave our guests the water cycle bracelet that represents the stages of the water cycle

                                          

Mr. Splash was there too!

        We put our plegdes to save and protect our water resources

                   Thank you Mrs. Iman for this creative piece of art

Thank you parents for your support

A field trip to Damour river

KSPS students are participating in an international collaborative activity with different schools around the world. The aim of this activity is to study the impact of human behaviour on river health in several countries. Students need to participate in river excursions with "hands-on" water analysis. For this reason, our students visited “Damour River” located in Mount-Lebanon and took a sample of water from it. They also did several tests on the river’s water; measured the water’s temperature and its PH. KSPS students will share their findings with our partner schools participating in this activity. Simultaneously, our partner schools will send us their findings too.

Our friends in Bengladesh shared their findings

It's Zero Discrimination Day at KSPS

Zero Discrimination Day is an annual worldwide event to celebrate diversity and reject discrimination.

 Since KSPS is a learning community that rejects discrimination, its young clovers decided to celebrate “zero discrimination day” in a funny and unique way.

They said no for discrimination and yes for equity. Yes we are all equal; we all have the same rights and responsibilities regardless our nationality.

Students of different nationalities at KSPS wore their mother country traditional costumes , presented power point presentations about their countries, and prepared delicious traditional food from their mother country.

                     Shaed, Karen, Isam and Moataz are Palestinians  

 

 

                          Nesray and Maya came from Philippines   

 

 

                                            Karen is from Egypt

                                                                     

 

                                             Lilas was born in China

                      The butterfly is the symbol of Zero Discrimination Day

We shared our school’s photos on zero discrimination day Facebook page

                           

             We had the chance to taste different international food

 

 

Our parents celebrated the zero discrimination day with us too

 

Global Teenagers Project: My Imaginary Friend

KSPS students are very familiar in taking part in international projects.

Recently fifth graders joined A Global Teenagers Project entitled “My Imaginary Friend”.

The Global Teenager Project (GTP) offers a rich and dynamic international learning environment where students learn together with more than 20.000 students in over 42 countries in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Dutch, German, Ukrainian, Slovenian...

We joined a wiki space to exchange materials regarding this project with other participating schools.
Participating schools:
Agrani school and college, Bengladesh
 Safir High school, Lebanon
 Nkowa Education Center, South Africa
Kirovograd Collegium, Ukraine 
 Makassed Khalil Shehab School, Lebanon.
The first phase in this project was to introduce ourselves to our new international friends.
Stay tuned to know about our mysterious imaginary friend!  

Purple mash @home!

KSPS students are experiencing a new tool that is allowing them to continue their e-learning at home.

It's Purple Mash time!

Purple Mash is a new creative online space that hosts interactive activities, creative tools, and games for all subjects to support and inspire creative and interactive learning.
I, as a math and science teacher, started to implement purple mash in my classes. I created accounts for all of my fifth graders; every student had his/her unique username and password. And that’s when the journey of interactivity begun!
We used different tools, played games, created projects, science stories, graphs… and much more.

We used this game while studying about Factors

                    

We used this game while studying about Integers

View a science story about "Nimo", the fish.


 What’s beneficial about Purple Mash is that it is an online tool; my students are continuing their learning anywhere and anytime. Stay tuned to show you how my students are using purple mash at their homes! 

An animal habitat in our classroom!

Students in a hands-on science activity will remember the material better, feel a sense of accomplishment when the task is completed, and be able to transfer that experience easier to other learning situations. For this reason, fifth graders decided to model different vertebrate and invertebrate animals using clay, cardboards, and many other materials. Then, they decorated the animals they created in a corner in their classroom and now they are ready to answer any question about this lesson!