Another year done and dusted.... scary how quickly they're over isn't it. Aimee and lucy both did really well this year and brought home 'mostly good' report cards ;) A's B's and a C or two.
Aimee is heading into middle school and is soooooooo excited, Lucy is going in to grade 4.
WOW we have already been here 8 years - who would've seen that coming --- and there doesn't seem to be an end in sight either.
Andre has almost completed his first year at Aramco - we leave on our annual repat this Thursday.
Heading to America for 4 weeks - variety of activities ahead.....
Watch this space for Aimee & Lucy's account of our BIG adventure.
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008
School 2008
Aimee Julie Bosch is now in Grade 4 at Dhahran Elementary Middle School.
Lucy Kate Bosch is in Grade 2 at Dhahran Elementary Middle School.
These photos from the first day/s of school - kept trying to see if we could get at least one decent photo from one of the days when the camera didn't mist up from the humidity :(
September saw mom and dad visit school for our Annual Open House where the girls showed us around, introduced us to their teachers (Aimee - Mrs. Cooke, and Lucy - Mrs. Flanders). They both wowed us when we visited their Arabic classrooms, with their ability to write their names in Arabic !! We got to meet the Bob family in Aimee's classroom - some characters who have become regular visitors to our home over the weekends.
Looks to be an awesome, busy, colorful year !
Saturday, May 24, 2008
The king is coming, the king is coming ....
Saudi Aramco was celebrating their 75th anniversary this last week. So King Abdullah, the 6th king of Saudi Arabia was visiting to participate in the celebrations. He was almost 9 years old when the company was started in 1933. Due to celebrations and demonstrations at Aramco Dhahran (main camp) as well as other venues in and around Dhahran on Tuesday, we had a virtual day. This meant our students stayed home and used blackboard to particiapte in either online classes or download worksheets set by their teachers. Teachers were meant to be at school for the day but this turned in to a half day only as we had reports of roads being closed completely. Meant we left school at 11:30, sat in traffic for an hour but at least we got home !We heard on Wednesday that the king would be visiting KFUPM on Saturday and so we scheduled a half day for school...... Saturday was spent completely at home though because late on Friday we received reports that roads would be closed much earlier and so it wasn't worth getting everyone to school only to be stuck indefinitely.
Don't you just love royalty and the way they affect your life ;)
Student-Led Conferences 2008
And here we are again, just exactly where the year drained away to I have no idea but once again we prepare for the annual student-led conferences.
I was busy with my middle school students and the presentations of their very successful electronic portfolios - we used blogger this year and it worked so very well, I am so proud of their efforts.
After Andre had taken Lucy to swimming lessons, they came in to school just in time to have lunch with me. Sadly the cafeteria was not open so our only option was muffins and milkshakes at Joffrey's. Not very healthy but hey when you're hungry, you're hungry hehehe. After lunch we headed down to the classrooms. First for Lucy's conference which went really well. She has come a long way since the begining of the year, still a way to go but we're getting there. We then headed upstairs for Aimee's conference. She did well, has thoroughly enjoyed her year and done some excelent work. We even got to have a sneak peak at the scrapbooking pages she's been making in a scrapbooking club she's been going to after school.
All in all, how could we not be proud of our girls !
I was busy with my middle school students and the presentations of their very successful electronic portfolios - we used blogger this year and it worked so very well, I am so proud of their efforts.
After Andre had taken Lucy to swimming lessons, they came in to school just in time to have lunch with me. Sadly the cafeteria was not open so our only option was muffins and milkshakes at Joffrey's. Not very healthy but hey when you're hungry, you're hungry hehehe. After lunch we headed down to the classrooms. First for Lucy's conference which went really well. She has come a long way since the begining of the year, still a way to go but we're getting there. We then headed upstairs for Aimee's conference. She did well, has thoroughly enjoyed her year and done some excelent work. We even got to have a sneak peak at the scrapbooking pages she's been making in a scrapbooking club she's been going to after school.
All in all, how could we not be proud of our girls !
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Moms 'n Muffins
Our annual Moms and Muffins was held on Tuesday May 13. The girls and I headed to the cafetorium to enjoy some yummy muffins, listen to some singing by the elementary students (Lucy's grade level sange first, followed by Aimee's), look through an art display and then a display of mother's day and other creative writing.
A lovely morning spent with the girls. Here they are with some of their art, writing displays and their performances on stage.
A lovely morning spent with the girls. Here they are with some of their art, writing displays and their performances on stage.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Report cards today....
Wow we are already in our 4th quarter, the home stretch is ahead of us, before we know it, it'll be the end of another year and we'll be on our summer break.
Anyway, we only received report cards today due to our spring break starting directly after the last day of quarter 3.
Now that I have given the background and foreground hehehe down to the business at hand....how'd we do ?
Aimee is doing fabulously, 13/16 of her grades were A's, 7 of those were A+'s ! She is starting to enjoy her writing more and from her teacher's comments, this is becoming easier and more creative. Of course we still battle to spark the enthusiasm for anything extra at home but at least it seems there is light at the end of the looooooong tunnel :)
As for Lucy, she is getting better with her reading but definitely lacks confidence to try and put herself out there. Same as we had with Aimee, the listening and comprehension is good but the 'trusting that she can try herself' is a little lacking. Oh well many many many years at school still so no need to worry, yet ;)
And hey if the speaker I heard at my recent teacher conference is anything to go by ....looking at brain development, some kids develop the necessary 'links' in the brain as late as 9 years old ! Wow the brain is an amazingly complicated thing !
Anyway, we only received report cards today due to our spring break starting directly after the last day of quarter 3.
Now that I have given the background and foreground hehehe down to the business at hand....how'd we do ?
Aimee is doing fabulously, 13/16 of her grades were A's, 7 of those were A+'s ! She is starting to enjoy her writing more and from her teacher's comments, this is becoming easier and more creative. Of course we still battle to spark the enthusiasm for anything extra at home but at least it seems there is light at the end of the looooooong tunnel :)
As for Lucy, she is getting better with her reading but definitely lacks confidence to try and put herself out there. Same as we had with Aimee, the listening and comprehension is good but the 'trusting that she can try herself' is a little lacking. Oh well many many many years at school still so no need to worry, yet ;)
And hey if the speaker I heard at my recent teacher conference is anything to go by ....looking at brain development, some kids develop the necessary 'links' in the brain as late as 9 years old ! Wow the brain is an amazingly complicated thing !
Friday, February 29, 2008
Girls and Retail
Isn't it funny, the little things make us smile.
The girls recently needed shoes and so it was off shopping and after a day of attitude and "You always say NO" or "I never get ...." it was all smiles.
Our girls, well mostly Aimee LOVE shopping !
Here Lucy is quite happy posing in the luxurious Thai Silk gowns they got at Christmas time - perfect at posing aren't we hehehehe, this was for a Read-the-day-away at school where the kids laze around in PJ's all day reading.
The girls recently needed shoes and so it was off shopping and after a day of attitude and "You always say NO" or "I never get ...." it was all smiles.
Our girls, well mostly Aimee LOVE shopping !
Here Lucy is quite happy posing in the luxurious Thai Silk gowns they got at Christmas time - perfect at posing aren't we hehehehe, this was for a Read-the-day-away at school where the kids laze around in PJ's all day reading.
Annual Reading Month
The month of February is historically reading month at DEMS.
Of course there's the reading challenge - with keeping a daily record of minutes read; book buddies; book swap; mystery readers and more. The highlight though is always the last day when we have a character parade and finish off with the school enjoying stories read to them by the library staff and other teachers.
This year we went "old-school" hehehe
Actually it was just easier to pull out the princess outfits and of course what teacher doesn't have a witches hat stuck in a cupboard somewhere.
We have Aimee as Cinderella and Lucy as Sleeping Beauty and Tracy as Liewe Heksie.
Of course there's the reading challenge - with keeping a daily record of minutes read; book buddies; book swap; mystery readers and more. The highlight though is always the last day when we have a character parade and finish off with the school enjoying stories read to them by the library staff and other teachers.
This year we went "old-school" hehehe
Actually it was just easier to pull out the princess outfits and of course what teacher doesn't have a witches hat stuck in a cupboard somewhere.
We have Aimee as Cinderella and Lucy as Sleeping Beauty and Tracy as Liewe Heksie.
Now that reading month is done, is this the last we'll see of reading for the year ??? Hope not hehehehe
Friday, February 22, 2008
Dads 'n Donuts
Every year at school we have a Dads 'n Donuts where all our dads are invited to school 7:30-8:15 to share a donut and some coffee with their kids. This year it was Sunday 17th February but sadly Aimee and Lucy's Daddy was sitting in a hotel in Yanbu.
So I was the stand-in this year (sadly again, last two years Andre has been away).
We started by viewing some pottery the girls had done in Art class.
Its Reading Month at school too so while we enjoyed our donut, Lucy read to Aimee and I. Donuts done, we had some math games and activities set up for kids to demonstrate.
Lucy did some measuring activities - measured my ankle and wrist, head circumference and handspan. WOW, Aimee has the same handspan as me already and her shoe size ain't far off either hehehe.
Happy Dads 'n Donuts 2008 !
So I was the stand-in this year (sadly again, last two years Andre has been away).
We started by viewing some pottery the girls had done in Art class.
Its Reading Month at school too so while we enjoyed our donut, Lucy read to Aimee and I. Donuts done, we had some math games and activities set up for kids to demonstrate.
Lucy did some measuring activities - measured my ankle and wrist, head circumference and handspan. WOW, Aimee has the same handspan as me already and her shoe size ain't far off either hehehe.
Aimee and I played a math game together from Frog.
All this done it was back to class for the girls and off to work for mom.Happy Dads 'n Donuts 2008 !
Monday, February 11, 2008
International Festival
Our wonderful PTG (Parent-Teacher-Group) organises a 2 day International Festival at school so that all the students can take a trip around the world.
The whole thing starts weeks in advance with the students making flags and doing drawings about their countries, obviously the parents are seriously preparing as well. Then to launch, the students in national dress or colors - or in our case some significant clothing (bok shirts hehehe) parade for the parents and other schools.
Then its down to the visiting, everyone gets to "take a trip" to many of the countries represented at school, taste some food, wear some clothing listen to their music and more. On the last day, parents/families are invited to attend the evening session where there are performances by some countries, henna decorating (by countries that practice this), photos in tradional dress and well just a fun evening together. You'll notice the Korean students who sang and little June (4th grade) did a traditional fan dance for the audience. Their clothing is super comfortable and just so light, we had loads of fun dressing up !
Hope you enjoy some photos from our trip at least part-way around the world !
The whole thing starts weeks in advance with the students making flags and doing drawings about their countries, obviously the parents are seriously preparing as well. Then to launch, the students in national dress or colors - or in our case some significant clothing (bok shirts hehehe) parade for the parents and other schools.
Then its down to the visiting, everyone gets to "take a trip" to many of the countries represented at school, taste some food, wear some clothing listen to their music and more. On the last day, parents/families are invited to attend the evening session where there are performances by some countries, henna decorating (by countries that practice this), photos in tradional dress and well just a fun evening together. You'll notice the Korean students who sang and little June (4th grade) did a traditional fan dance for the audience. Their clothing is super comfortable and just so light, we had loads of fun dressing up !
Hope you enjoy some photos from our trip at least part-way around the world !
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