I hope that everyone had a wonderful vacation filled with lasting memories. Although I enjoyed every moment of the beautiful summer sunshine, I am thrilled to be the new junior kindergarten teacher at St. Jude's Academy. I hope to make this year a fun, challenging, and educational experience for your child.
As most of you know, we are now an IB Candidate School and will be operating with a new IB curriculum, which includes new policies and procedures.
Every IB unit operates under a central idea that acts as a guideline for the learning and development that will be done in each unit. Within a school year, your child will complete four different units, all with different focuses and initiatives. I will post the central idea and lines of inquiry for each unit before we begin so you can stay informed about what will be happening in your child's classroom.
This year we are beginning our first IB unit entitled Who We Are. The central idea for this unit is 'Our physical and personal characteristics make us unique'. In this unit we will be following 3 lines of inquiry that will help direct us. The lines of inquiry for this unit are:
1) Recognizing and identifying my physical characteristics
2) Understanding my likes and dislikes
3) Knowing how to take care of myself
Important information:
- I use my blog daily to communicate with parents and families about important things that are going on in our classroom, school and community. Please remember to make the blog a part of your nightly schedule.
- Information about scheduling, uniforms, first day of school, or supplies have been emailed to all parents throughout the summer. If there are any questions please don't hesitate to email me, or call St. Jude's Academy (SJA) directly.
-With regards to uniforms please ensure every piece of clothing has your child's name on it, including shoes (black shoes and indoor gym shoes).
- I check my email every day and use it to communicate with parents. If you have any questions or concerns please don't hesitate to send me an email right away. jhusain@stjudesacademy.com
- The first day of school is NO LONGER a gym day as gym times have been moved to Mondays and Wednesdays. Please send your child to school in their regular SJA uniform.
- I check my email every day and use it to communicate with parents. If you have any questions or concerns please don't hesitate to send me an email right away. jhusain@stjudesacademy.com
- The first day of school is NO LONGER a gym day as gym times have been moved to Mondays and Wednesdays. Please send your child to school in their regular SJA uniform.
I will be posting our weekly schedule soon. Feel free to have a look through it.
Have a wonderful weekend and I look forward to seeing you all on September 6th!
Best wishes,
Miss Husain (Miss H.)
