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Quick Links
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Girard Gourmet Lunches:
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MyStudentsProgress
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School Council minutes from the January meeting are now available on the school website, parents portal:
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Spring Break Camp and Minimum Day
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Last chance to register for Minimum day and Spring camp, a $50 late fee will be charged after April 11th for spring camp.
SDFAS is offering a Spring Break Camp, April 17-25th from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Half days are available from 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m. We do not offer hot lunch during our vacation breaks. If necessary, you can leave your children until 5 p.m. (There will be a charge of $10 for that extra hour per day.) Late pick up will be charged 1$/min after 4 or 5 p.m. You can register directly online or you can fill out the registration form and attach payment to reserve your spot before April 10th ; first-come, first-served.
Please click HERE for camp descriptions.
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Extended Care is available from 12:00 noon until 6 p.m. Registration for extended care is mandatory before Friday April 7. Please RSVP to this email or send an email to:
Remember to bring a lunch as there is no Girard Gourmet lunch on minimum day.
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Our next minimum day is Friday, April 14.
Mark your calendar and pre-order your pizza early!
Please
include the name and grade of your student(s)
Precise your choice of pizza: Cheese or Pepperoni
And choose between:
1 whole pizza - cheese/pepperoni = $20
1 slice of cheese/pepperoni pizza = $3
Combo: 1 slice of cheese/pepperoni pizza, drink and cookie = $5
Your pizza is guaranteed with your order!
Pizza will be available for pick-up from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on the black top.
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ASA Spring Session for After School Activities (ASA) is now available!
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Visit our website:
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for the last Session to check out our classes and make a selection. Online payment available. French camp, English Homework classes will be billed later. Registration is now open until April 18th. On April 19th a $30 late fee will be automatically added to your total. Classes are starting right after Spring Break on April 26th.
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Girl Scout troop 4345 is looking for adult volunteer for the next school year
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Girl Scout troop 4345 is looking for adult volunteers to take over the leadership role. We need a leader or co-leaders willing to hold meetings at least once monthly and to help our girls discover their strengths, passions and talents. The Girl Scout mission is there to help teach girls courage, confidence and character, and make the world a better place.
If interested please contact Anne Fee (858) 488 8280
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Nothing is more important than knowing the tools to relax when necessary. A nice mat and a few animal-like stretches can help you calm down and find more energy to continue with your daily routine. Even when you are 3 years old, you may need some knowledge in yoga practice. It is fun and efficient!
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It's time to order the Yearbook:
Please order online only, no checks to SDFAS.
Thank you!
ID CODE for our school: 12766717
Deadline to purchase Yearbook is April 17
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Café des Sciences April 14th
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San Diego Albion Pros Soccer Games
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Come and Support your San Diego Pro Soccer Team - Free Admissions to all SDFAS Students!
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PRE-ELEMENTARY
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ELEMENTARY
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Pictured:
Anouck Pailhes, Marion Addo, Nicolas Giot, Lucie Ledentu, Alexandre Franquet, Julie Rousseau and Benedicte Brouder
"The gala on Saturday, March 25, was an enormous success with record attendance and a prodigious wave of support of the auctions and Fund-A-Need. Thanks to the gala proceeds, important campus enhancements will be completed over the summer, and the sports/athletics program will be strengthened as a result. Thanks to everyone who helped make the event such a grand success and thank you gala chairs Kyndra Leach and Erica Murphy and our extraordinary team of volunteers."
Gala Pictures are available! Please, download them :
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Spirit Week in Middle School
Pictured: Ms. Denis, Ms. Jacoway, Mr. Giot, Ms. Pailhes, Ms. Addo - Sonia - Lexine.
This year once more, from March 27 through March 31st, SDFAS celebrated "Spirit Week" in the middle school!
The agenda behind "Spirit Week" is to encourage students to wear a fun and funky array of clothes. And on Friday, all the elementary students were invited to join in the frenzy of Crazy Hair Day!
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ÉDITO
Today, it's Earth Day at SDFAS, and we celebrate the incredible beauty, fragility and richness of our planet, our home, a small dot in an infinite universe. We educate our students on the challenges humans will have to address in the next decades, and how education, science, the capacity to adapt, understand and solve problems will be essential to the preservation of our eco-system and its amazing bio-diversity. Earth Day should be every day, every week, and of course, even though today some symbolic gestures will take place, students are learning all year long with their teachers how to understand and preserve our planet.
Some highlights for today:
The Middle School forum on Earth day starts with a Town Hall meeting focused on climate and environment literacy.
In Elementary, students do a campus clean-up at 8:15 a.m.
In Maternelle, students have been doing a lot of gardening and are currently studying different species that are so important to preserve in our eco-system, such as snails, tadpoles, butterfly-caterpillars...
All school staff and students experience a paperless day and observe the Earth-hour with the electricity turned off, to remind us of the importance of preserving energy.
We wish to teach our students that they can make a difference, have a positive impact on the world, and later become change-makers and positive leaders, thanks to the education they receive today!
Christian Jarlov, Head of school
Chers parents,
Aujourd'hui, c'est la Journée de la Terre à SDFAS et nous fêtons l'incroyable beauté, richesse et fragilité de notre planète, notre maison, un petit point dans l'infinité de l'univers. Nous sensibilisons nos élèves aux défis que les hommes auront à relever dans les prochaines décennies, et comment l'éducation, la science la capacité à s'adapter, à comprendre et résoudre des problèmes seront essentiels à la préservation de notre écosystème et au maintien de la biodiversité. La Journée de la Terre devrait avoir lieu chaque jour, chaque semaine, et bien entendu, bien qu'aujourd'hui un certain nombre de gestes symboliques ont lieu, les élèves apprennent toute l'année avec leurs professeurs comment comprendre et préserver notre planète.
Quelques moments forts de la journée :
Le Forum du collège pour la Journée de la Terre débute avec une assemblée sur le climat et la connaissance de l'environnement. En élémentaire, les élèves commencent la journée avec un nettoyage du campus à 8h15. En maternelle, les élèves ont fait beaucoup de jardinage et étudient en ce moment des espèces très importantes pour la sauvegarde de notre écosystème, tels que les escargots, les têtards, les chenilles et les papillons...
Tous les employés de l'école et les élèves observent par ailleurs une journée sans papier et une « heure de la Terre », sans électricité, afin de nous rappeler l'importance de la conservation d'énergie.
Nous souhaitons démontrer aux élèves qu'ils peuvent apporter leur contribution, avoir un impact positif sur le monde en devenant plus tard des acteurs du changement, et en donnant le bon exemple grâce à l'éducation qu'ils reçoivent aujourd'hui !
Christian Jarlov, Chef d'établissement
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SDFAS Donations to the Community
Les dons de SDFAS à la communauté
Pictured: Maya, Massin - Nathalie, Tahlia and Mireillle DesRosiers (Haïti Futur) - Sidonie, Alba.
On March 30, we welcomed at the Forum the representatives of three charities that our school will be supporting this year, thanks to the Jog-a-Thon. Each charity, gave a summary of the actions they conduct in order to help children: in San Diego for Monarch School, across the Mexican border for Corazon de Vida, and in Haïti for Haïti Futur.
Our students delegates have been learning and understanding the allocation of charity funds and each gave to one charity a check in the name of all students and adults involved in the jog-a-thon edition 2017.
The Groupe Humanitaire, chaired by Diesa Seidel, oversees those programs and remains in constant contact with the associations we support.
For Haïti, the school is starting a partnership, also called a "jumelage", with a small school located in a rural area of Haïti. Our donation is helping over 90 children return to school this year. Those children had left school following the hurricane, as their families were too poor and unable to pay their school fees.
All parents interested in joining the Groupe Humanitaire are welcomed! For all information about our initiatives, please contact Mrs. Seidel.
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Camps d'été
The Summer Camps
Around the World
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Le Tour du Monde 2017
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New website
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Art Fair is coming soon in May!
The 2017 SDFAS ART FAIR is approaching! Prepare to submit paintings, drawings, photography, crafts, sculpture, mixed media and more! Art must be submitted on Monday May 15th only. The art will be on display Tuesday May 16th and Wednesday May 17th. Take the art back home on Thursday May 18th and 19th. Entries must be labeled with artists' full name and grade level.
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Spring Mini forum
Le mini Forum du printemps
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| Trois Escargots, by the Kindergarten B - Grande Section de Maternelle |
This spring mini forum was all about animals:
the Kindergarten who are witnessing the birth of baby snails, sang a song, and had two presentations about snails.
The PK1 students mimed some crawling insects such as centipedes, snails and frogs wearing nice little headbands. They ended the forum with a song on how to draw a child, a PK1 fine motor skill.
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2nd Grade Field Trip to Wild Willows Farm
Sortie éducative des CE1 à la ferme de Wild Willows
Pictured: Giada, Mila and Carolyn.
The 2nd grade classes visited Wild Willows Farm in Imperial Beach on March 27th. There the students observed a variety of plants in a sensory garden. They had the opportunity to notice the different adaptations many plants had for survival. They picked vegetables and ate from the garden. Students even tasted flowers, leaves and succulents! We also learned the best ways to grow and acquire food in the most healthy way for both the consumer and the Earth. The students enjoyed this adventure and learned a lot. There are volunteer opportunities on Saturdays to help out and learn at the Wild Willows Farm if interested.
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All you want to know about snails
Tout ce que vous devez savoir sur les escargots
Pictured: Snails and eggs.
If you have a chance to step in Kindergarten, you will be surprised to find a snail aquarium in each class. The students have to feed them, to observe their growing as part of the "Exploring the World" skill,
"Take care and observe the development of an animal".
They now know what is good for them to be healthy. They took such good care of them that some of them were able to lay eggs, and soon we'll see some baby snails!
Students studied all the names of its body parts, and could even create a story about the life of a snail.
They observed the snail shell and got inspired and created beautiful art!
Find more pictures in the Preschool blog.
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Witness a caterpillar turning into a chrysalis and a butterfly
Observez une chenille qui se transforme en chrysalide puis en papillon
Our PK0 and PK1 students have strange hosts in their class: some caterpillars arrived in the class as very tiny and fragile worms. After a week or two, they became huge fatty caterpillars. Most of them are about to build their chrysalis, and hopefully before the Spring break they will transform into nice butterflies.
At the same time, the PK0 will cut nice butterflies out of clay, and the PK1 students will get to glaze them. When dried and shiny, those handmade butterflies will be displayed on the wooden fence in the preschool playground, around the Butterfly house.
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Let's discover what can grow and what cannot grow in PK1
Découvrons ce qui peut ou ne peut pousser en Petite Section
Pictured: Jack and Emilie.
The PK1 students are now in the heart of the science curriculum: "Distinguish between living and nonliving things", "Discover the cycle of life of a vegetal: birth, growth, wilting, death".
When you are 3 years old, identifying what can grow and what cannot, can be tricky. In class, they tried to grow different items such as different types of beads, pasta, seeds... added water in their bowl and waited a few days. Soon they could witness what had grown and what had not grown. From there, they were able to fill out a chart and conclude that not everything can come to life and grow!
See more pictures on the Preschool blog
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Technology in 4th Grade
La technologie en CM1
Students in fourth grade are learning about energy and forces in motion. They experimented with Hotwheels and put into action their understanding of potential and kinetic energy. The students worked together to measure and record the distance their cars traveled under different amounts of force using a data table that they will later place in a graph.
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Pictured: Emeraude and Paul.
Under the helm of Mr. Giot (MS Math teacher) and Mr. Moncelet (5
th
grade French teacher), 5
th
and 6
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graders had the opportunity to perfect together their geometry knowledge and competencies on the Geogebra software! On April 3 and April 5, students worked in pairs (one 5
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grader, one 6
th
grader), having fun using Geogebra. They developed their precision and rigor as they were drawing geometrical patterns, as well as put their communication and collaborative skills to good practice.
Thank you to Mr. Giot and Mr. Moncelet for this initiative!
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Learn Math with the SDFAS 8th Grade MOOCs!
Faire des maths en créant un cours MOOC en 4ème
Mr. Giot has been leading a math project with the 8th graders for several months. The goal: to create MOOCs. This morning at Forum time, all MS students enjoyed a variety of student-made MOOCs based on a variety of math concepts: The Pythagore Theorem, the Thales Theorem, the Golden Ratio, the binary language or the Legend of Horus'eye. Using Stopmotion, Imovie or Viva Video, pairs of students presented their MOOC and checked the audience's knowledge with fun quizzes.
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French Proficiency Exam in 8th Grade -DELF official examination
L'examen officiel du DELF (Diplôme d'Étude en Langue Française) pour les élèves de 4ème au collège
Every year, the opportunity to take the DELF (French Language Proficiency Diploma) is provided to SDFAS 8th grade students who are not-native French speakers.
The DELF is an official diploma awarded by the French Ministry of Education to certify a specific level of competency in the French language. Four skills are evaluated: listening, speaking, reading and writing. The DELF is also a great way to practice in an official testing situation, and focuses not only on language, but also on competencies, such as the ability to interact without any preparation in an unusual everyday life situation in communication.
18 students have taken the DELF B1 between April 3 and April 7, 2017, and they demonstrated strong language and competencies skills!
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Community Service: what is it?
Qu'est-ce que le service à la communauté ?
Year- round, the Video Journalism Elective gathers a group of Middle School students who produces the SDFASNews broadcasts that we all enjoy watching. In order to prepare for their most recent edition, students have compiled a survey on Community Service, which they disseminated to all MS students.
We are proud to share some answers, enjoy!
Audrey: "I was in charge of asking what "service" means. To summarize, "to help, to serve" means to give from your time, on a voluntary basis, in order to help people who might be in distress, or simply to be happy to help for the joy of helping.
The idea refers to taking actions, which will help the development of the community, and actions you do for others. I am doing it without asking for anything in return, you are helping without anyone begging you or paying you to do so."
Giulio: "The students had really interesting answers to share. Community service can have a very positive impact on the community. SDFAS students think that service can help get people closer, create new relationships, and share new perspectives and opinions. It will help in developing the community and benefiting the people who are part of that community. One student also said: it can help the people who are in need, such as poor people or people who do not get the benefit of an education. Finally, the idea is that the ultimate goal is to make the world a better place, with less pollution, and this way, make people happier."
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The results of our last game were very good!
Our two teams from SDFAS, Junior Varsity and Varsity were playing against Nelson Middle Years.
The Junior Varsity team won 6/5.
The Varsity team won 3/2.
Next game scheduled, only for the varsity team, on Thursday 04/27 against Encinitas Country Day at SDFAS.
Go Stingrays !!
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The Varsity Girls Basketball team played a tough game in their season opener against talented Nelson Middle Years. The team played with composure as they battled with a much taller Nelson Middle Years team. The team's pressure defense and focused offensive play gave SDFAS a 14-8 victory. The team is lead by 8th graders Adriana Telenti, Kimy Ghalie, and Valentina Du Roure.
Next game: Thursday, April 13 - 3:30 p.m. vs The Rhoades School
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The Junior Varsity Girls Basketball team came out strong and focused, playing together to defeat Chabad Hebrew Day School 28-2. The tenacious defense of Lexine Arambulo and Chloe Gross kept the momentum up, setting the foundation for offensive points. Ellie Coalier dominated the boards, leading the teams in rebounds.
The team was lead by (7th graders) Nolwenn Garcia, Emma Berman, Lexine Arambulo, Chloe Gross, Ellie Coalier, (6th graders) Sofia Berman, Emilia Brachet, and Amaia Navarro.
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WHAT'S COMING UP
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- April 13:
Earth Day at SDFAS
- April 14: Minimum Day
- April 14:
"Café des Sciences"
- April 17-25: Spring Break
- April 17:
Deadline to purchase Yearbook
- April 18: Deadline to
Register for After School Activity
- April 22: French Presidential Elections - 1st round
- April 27: Forum at 9:30 a.m. for 3rd-6th Grade: World of Jazz - Music presentation
- May 1-5: Teachers Appreciation Week
- May 8: School Council #3
- May 12: Parents Day
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May 15-18:
Art Fair
- May 19:
Kindergarten Graduation Day
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