Celebrating Christmas 2011

TAK had our own Christmas celebrations this morning. Teachers worked hard to create the right ambience for our children. Santa Claus brought joy and cheer to the occasion. Do access your child's class blog for further updates of our celebrations. We would like to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Teachers' Day 2011

We wish all teachers at TAK a very happy Teachers' Day. We would also like to thank all parents for their gifts of appreciation for our teachers. Please refer to the individual class blogs for updates of our celebration this morning.

THS Official Opening Day

TAK was invited to join THS (The Happy Schoolhouse) in the celebration of their official opening day. This date was chosen because it is special - 11.11.11, that makes it a very special Friday Special. THS is the 3rd Alpha school in HCMC. Our kids had a good time visiting the THS classrooms and playing with the toys. Then it was down to the event hall for games. A special buffet lunch was prepared for our children, one which they enjoyed immensely. Best wishes to THS on this special day.

Mr Ben & Ms Joyce would like to thank Suri's parents for the lovely flowers. Your kindness is very much appreciated.

Halloween Celebration

It was a good Halloween celebration for all staff and children this morning. Teachers stayed back after school yesterday to successfully create a Halloween ambience for our children today. Do visit the class blogs for more Halloween updates. Happy Halloween!

Halloween Preparation

Teachers working overtime to get the school ready for Halloween tomorrow. Thank you, teachers!

Halloween

TAK will be celebrating Halloween on Fri 28 Oct 2011.

Some information about Halloween :

• Halloween is celebrated on 31 Oct every year.
• It is a Western festival that is fast gaining popularity in the East.
• Halloween began as a festival from Ireland to ward off evil spirits.
• People carve out scary faces and figures in pumpkins, place a candle inside and set in their windows to scare away evil spirits and enemies on Halloween.
• The traditional colours used for most Halloween decorations are black and orange.
• Characters associated with Halloween : ghosts, witches, skeletons, vampires, werewolves, bats and black cats
• People celebrate Halloween by going trick-or-treating, which means children dressing up in costumes to look like traditional characters, such as witches and ghosts, and go from house to house and say "trick or treat".
• Most will give treats - candy or small toys.
• Many homes will be decorated with Halloween themes to scare away evil spirits

(Source : http://www.teach-nology.com/themes/holidays/halloween/)

ASYC celebrates the fun part of Halloween by giving out candies and having our children wear costumes of any kind. Nowadays, Halloween is celebrated with all kinds of costumes; it need not be scary. We celebrate Halloween as one of the many international festivals so as to increase the international awareness of our students. Last month we celebrated Mid-Autumn Festival. In Nov, we will celebrate the Indian Festival of Lights - Deepavali, and in Dec, Christmas.

Over the next 2 weeks, our children will be doing activities, crafts and worksheets in preparation for Halloween.