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February 2021

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Social Isolation – Excessive playing

takes time away from kids to interact with family members and friends. Being isolated most of the time deprive a child from developing social skills that he could learn from hanging out with friends. Although online games are mostly social, the skills kids can learn from it are very limited because they are not face-to-face interactions.

- Ms. Ola Hurraini Classroom teacher Ways To Make Your Child Avoid

Getting “Addicted” to Video Games in the First Place:

- Monitor video-game play. - Be a loving, attentive parent. - Give your kid a variety of

entertaining things to learn from. - Consider limiting your child’s video

game playing to an hour a day.

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Ms. Ghada Al Ali Classroom teacher

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The World Health Organization declared that compulsively playing video games is a mental health condition. Calling this

“gaming disorder”, this term will apply to people who play excessively and of “sufficient severity to result in significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational or other important areas of functioning and would normally have been evident for at least 12 months”.

Kids who are really addicted are those who spend most of their time gaming over doing other things in their life, their gaming behavior escalates or persists despite negative consequences, and they suffer withdrawal effects when they stop.

- Ms. Dalyah Shoaib Classroom teacher

Symptoms and Bad Effects of Video Game Addiction

Obsessive behavior – Kids are always

preoccupied with getting back to the game and displaying irritable, restless and aggressive behavior when not playing.

Lack of sleep – Kids who play excessively

do so up to the wee hours of the morning. This results in sleep deprivation, which is more harmful to minds that are still

developing. When they go to school the next day, their attention and learning are affected. Their lack of sleep also results in headache and fatigue throughout the day.

Educational tips

- Video Game Addiction

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Social Studies

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Happening at ASCS this month

Here are the students of the American school of creative science expressing their happiness and pride for the successful arrival of Misbar Al Amal “Hope Probe” to Mars

The department prepared a set of distinguished activities that included introducing students to this remarkable achievement that the UAE has achieved with the arrival of Misbar Al Amal “Hope Probe” to Mars.

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As they held their breath in the last few minutes before Hope’s entry into the Martian orbit, Emiratis and Arabs across the UAE and the Arab World were brimming with pride. It was a historic moment and they share one feeling: ‘We are lucky to have seen this achievement in our lifetime’. Our students wrote reflections and gave speeches about the impact of this historic moment on their lives.

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Welcome Message from the English HOD

Welcome to ASCS Maliha English and Humanities Department. It is a great pleasure and honor to be a member of the ASCS family. We work together and strive for excellence. Our vision and mission focus on creating a future generation that can read, write and speak in proper English. Our staff

members provide all needed help and support to make our students active learners. My sincere thanks to all the staff members, parents and the students who contribute to the success of the

department.

It remains a privilege to be Head of the Department with highly motivated and dedicated colleagues, who are all prepared to go the extra mile.

Eman Aly,

English and Humanities HOD

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English Department

Book Character Day

On March 9, our students will speak about their favorite book character. Parents are highly encouraged to help in preparing their sons/ daughters for that day.

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Tips for students to be Internet Awesome! 

1. Be Internet Alert: Don’t fall for fake!

2. Be Internet Strong: Secure your secrets!

3. Be Internet Kind: It’s cool to be kind!

4. Be Internet Brave: When in doubt, talk it

out!

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During month of February , the Computer

Science Department celebrated the

international event “Safer Internet Day”. Different sessions were held to raise awareness of the online issues that matters to students and help to create a better internet

Safer Internet Day is an annual celebration

aiming to promote a responsible, respectful, critical and creative use of digital

technologies, especially among children and young people.

Parents & guardians play a crucial role in empowering children to use technology responsibly and safely:

1. Help boost your children’ safety, privacy, and security:

2. Use privacy settings, avoid location tracking Apps, power-up passwords by using phrases and special characters. 3. Create screen-free times by limiting the

screen-time during the day.

4. Explore built-in digital well-being tools: Turn-off auto-play functions, limit

notifications, use settings to turn off devices at certain times during the day and at night.

5. Model the behavior you want to see.

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Math Department (The Math Lab)

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February-Innovation Month

Our students did fantastic work during

innovation month.

This month was loaded with great,

innovative, creative, wonderful,

interactive class activities and students

centered instruction.

A Major focus was the “cross-curricular

and Real life integration,

along with other exciting and

innovative class activities.

Students mini-project activities to

showcase their innovative ideas,

exciting competitions and linking

math to real world problems is also a

great focus.

World Cancer Day-Our Students Link

Math lessons with the global events

Integrated Disciplines-Cross curricular

integration

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Math Department (The Math Lab)

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Our students worked on Map

skill assignments to improve

their Map skills.

Competitions

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Manga High Competition

is coming up in March,

Manga high M-fluencers

Maths Quest - Middle East

and Africa Edition taking

place from 15th to 22nd

March 2021. Looking forward

towards wonderful

contribution to this contest.

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IGNITED MIND LAB-A mental

math competition coming up

next as well for grades 2-7.

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Pi-Day will celebrated

worldwide on 14

th

_March.

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ESTEAM envelopes

Entrepreneurship, Science,

Technology, Engineering, Arts

and Math. It is the best way

to cross-curricular integration.

Students will participate in a

new project this semester.

The project also relates to

UAE Innovation Month and

thus the theme of the ESTEAM

project will be Sustainability

and Innovation. Students will

be integrating their math skills

while digitally designing

sustainable cities of the future

and incorporating

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This month, we have more incredible activities and amazing enrichment projects all lined up for our future scientists.

ESTEAM encompasses Entrepreneurship, Science,

Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math. It is the best way to allow us to make connections between these subjects. The ESTEAM week will be conducted in March but also relates to UAE Innovation Month , and thus the theme for the ESTEAM project will be Sustainability and Innovation. Students will be digitally designing sustainable and accessible

classrooms of the future and incorporating innovations they create for the classroom. We will also be collaborating with ADNOC on this project and entering STEM participants in the ADNOC STEM program. We can’t wait to see what amazing ideas and designs they create.

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UAE Innovation Month was celebrated by our students with great enthusiasm. They were tasked to create innovative ideas and designs for a sustainable future in the UAE. Here are just some of the excellent ideas that our young innovators came up with.