News From the Middle

Dear Middle School Parents,

Hope you enjoyed the weekend. We have had a busy week and closed out with some excitement observing the solar eclipse on Friday morning. Students and teachers created viewing apparatuses in order to see the eclipse under safe conditions. The science teachers helped students manufacture viewing devices, which required on-site problem solving and innovation in action by the students. When you ask your child s/he saw the eclipse, you can also ask what was used to view it.  Many thanks to Mrs. Tarbell, Mrs. Mahon, Mr. Scanga, and Mr. Farren for their assistance with students out on the science balcony on Friday.

We have a number of events this week including our Teacher Appreciation Week, sponsored by the PSA.  Also, on Thursday the MS Co-Curricular Assembly starts after school at 4:00 pm in the school cafeteria. We hope to have another great turnout of parents to help celebrate the club, activity, and sporting achievements of our students. 

Finally, remember to click the tabs above for updates from our 6th grade, 7th grade and 8th grade blogs.

Faculty/Staff Appreciation Lunch: Tuesday, March 24th

Every year, the PSA organizes a Faculty/Staff Appreciation Lunch to honor the people who work with our children every day and make our school function well. This year's lunch is Tuesday, March 24^th. We rely on your help to make this a special occasion for teachers, administrators, learning support staff, building maintenance staff, and security guards.

Please join in by helping in any of the following ways:

1.   Bring a pre-cooked main dish (suggest 10 person serving). Microwave available for heating food up.

2.   Bring a salad/side dish (suggest 10 person serving).

3.   Bring a dessert (suggest 10 person serving).

4.   Help set-up (8:00-10:00)

5.   Help serve, clean-up (11:45-3:00).

Please click here: http://vols.pt/HonTL2 to sign up.

Food items may be dropped off between 8:00 and 11:30 at the Building B Reception desk. Please label your dish and serving utensil with your name. Dishes can be picked up at the end of the school day in the Lobby.

The Faculty & Staff are always very appreciative and love our home cooked food. There are quite a few to feed, so we do hope you can help out. 

We thank you very much.

High School & Middle School PSA parent representatives

Teresa Siovolgyi, Mary Lasseter, Kirsten Reinicke

Deb Christian, Nikki Smith

Grade 7 Cultural Creative Movement Unit Assignment: PE

The performance in the video is part of our grade 7 Cultural Creative Movement unit project. Students used planning tools and worked in groups to design, create, and perform a sequence of cultural creative movements using body awareness to communicate a theme to music. Our theme honored St. Patrick's day and groups used Irish cultural movements to design a movement pattern and put it in a modern setting. From Ms. Pal's PE class in seventh grade.

AISB School Board Elections: Message From our School Director 

Dear Parents,
 
The nomination period for candidates for next year’s School Board ends on March 23rd. In order to have a valid election, we need three candidates for the two elected Board member vacancies.
We need your help in either becoming a candidate yourself or supporting a candidate.
 
I would like to take this opportunity to invite the AISB community to meet the candidates on March 24th from 8:45 to 10:00 am in the Library in Building B. You will have a chance to get to know the candidates and ask questions from them about their vision and plans for Board membership.
 
Best regards,

Paul Slocombe

School Director

American International School of Budapest

Winter Co-Curricular Celebration: March 26th at 4:00 p.m. 

On Thursday, March 26 we will celebrate the accomplishments of our students involved in AISB sports and activities. Parents, please join us! 

The schedule: 

4:00 Teams meet in cafeteria for pizza and music

4:25 Opening of Celebration in cafeteria

4:35 - 5:15 Teams go to classrooms for team celebrations and recognitions

5:15-5:30 Teams return to cafeteria for a Celebration Cake

5:35 Students take late bus or go home with parents.

Parents are welcome to join breakout sessions and take pictures.

Breakout session locations:

CEESA Band - B004 (the Band room)

Young Makers Club - B 111 (M.S Tech Room)

Outdoor Adventure Club - B205 (Mrs. Fleming's room)

Boys Basketball A - B210 (Mr. Fubler's room)

Boys Basketball B - B211 (Ms Henderson's room)

CEESA Math Counts - B 212 (Mr. Matlock's room)

Girls Basketball - B 213 (Ms Perzel's room)

Swim team - B220 (Mrs. Kill's room)

Floorball - B226 (Mr. Lavoie's room)

CEESA Choir - B230 (Ms Van Der Hiel's room)

Digital Photography - B 234 (Mr. Rudnicki's)

Dungeons & Dragons - B 235 (Mr. Robinson's room)

Parent-Student-Teacher Conferences: April 16, 2015 at 8:30-3:30

We look forward to welcoming you to the PST Conferences in April. Please put this date in your schedule so you and your child are able to come and talk with our teachers. Hope you enjoy these photos from our conference in November; look at how much our students have changed!

  

Grade 8 Photos: Preparing for the Partially Sighted School Visit 

Counselor's Corner

SAVE THE DATES!  The next MS Parent Book Club will address Robin Pascoe's RAISING GLOBAL NOMADS, Parenting Abroad in an On-Demand World. Please join us for lively discussions in the MS Counseling office!   
Dates: April 16, 23, 30, May 7;  2:15 to 3:15   

ART THERAPY!  A parent in our school community would like to inform you about Art Therapy and her practice with adults and children.  She describes it this way:

"Art Therapy is a therapy focused on the entire personality.  It is a method through the therapist's direction which does not follow concrete definitions but rather is a process using the tools of creative arts.  The artistic work and the creative process gives the path. The process is more important than the final result.  Drawing, painting and sculpture are consciously used.  Drawing frees up the thinking process, painting clarifies feelings and sculpture works with personal will."

If you are interested or need more info, contact Monika Steinberg (monoah@inext.hu).

VISION 2019 Conference: GRADE 8 CAREER DAYS

Ted Talks: April 22-TED Talks (11:15-1:00)

Talking with Grade 8 students about your career choices and the pathway or journey that led you to career choices/ Discussing events and times that required you to persevere and obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals. How did you discover what you are now interested in as an adult?  What advice do you have for people growing up today about finding one day a job?

Job Shadowing (May 28th from 8:30-3:30)

Please contact me if you might want to share your work and workplace with some inquisitive 8th graders! Last year we had nine different locations for our students in grade 8 to go and visit for the day. This was a day that many look back on fondly, as they truly enjoyed seeing work places and job spaces of interesting careers. If you can host a group of 8th graders at your job location or site and would be interested in showing and displaying what your field and career area is to our students, please drop us a line.

DEPARTING STUDENTS AND FAMILIES!  

We sincerely hope that you and your children plan to stay at AISB!  If, however, your family needs to move on, please let us know as soon as possible.  It would be most helpful for you also to contact Admissions (admissions@aisb.hu) directly to let them know of your plans.

Happy Spring!

Nancy Seibel

MS Counselor

AIS-Budapest

nseibel@aisb.hu