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Met World Newsletter

May Issue

2019

2020

Dear Met Community,

The new normal will again return to the “old normal”

and I know we all cannot wait for that day, week,

month and year to finally arrive! Patience, patience,

patience is necessary from all of us in order to be calm

in our disposition and to find ways to better cope with

Covid-19. It is good to see that there is caution

in opening up businesses around the globe and we will

see how this all plays out. Let’s continue to “learn

how to learn new habits, unlearn maladaptive

habits and relearn and retool”.

Executive Director’s Message

www.metropolitanschooleg.com

Our teachers have done a tremendously wonderful job in adapting, retooling and relearning so that students

can continue their educational journey. We are committed to learning so our students maintain their skills

as they look towards our next school year. There is much going on behind the scenes to prepare and your

patience and understanding is greatly appreciated! Stay positive, focused, inspired, patient, calm,

stay home and stay healthy! - Andrew Frezludeen

Lower School Principal’s Message

Dear Lower School Parents,

I hope that you are all well and are finding creative ways

to keep yourselves and your children engaged during this

time of school closure and social distancing. As we are

now several weeks into our E-learning program and we

are nearing the end of the school year, I would like to

just remind everyone of some important points about

E-learning. Please see below:

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Please remember to let your child complete assessments and

assignments independently so that teachers have valid

learning data. In some cases, teachers are receiving work

that has clearly been completed by a parent or an older

sibling. Please model our Met Character Pillars of Honest

and Responsibility and allow your child to complete things

independently.

Even though we are nearing the end of the school year, be sure

to make learning a priority for your child. Continuing with a set

schedule for E-learning is a great way to keep your child

focused and progressing at a good rate with E-learning

until the end.

E-learning will continue through the end of the school year. The school is committed to continuing to provide

high-quality teaching and learning for our students. Depending on what is mandated by the Ministry of Health

and the Ministry of Education for the start of the new academic year in September, the school is well-prepared

for both a robust and enhanced E-learning program or face-to-face learning. We want to ensure that learning

continues for our students no matter what happens.

Please make every effort to submit assessments and assignments. In order for teachers to have sufficient

evidence of students' progress toward learning standards, they need these assessments and

assignments submitted in a timely manner. We do understand that this is a stressful time for everyone,

and we can be flexible. If needed, prioritize the assessment pieces first and then submit any pending

assignments as you are able. The final deadline to submit any assessments and assignments will be

Thursday, June 4. E-learning lessons will, of course, continue past this date until the end of the school

year. However, in order to give teachers adequate time to review the assessments and assignments and

complete report cards, we need to set June 4 as the deadline.

Teachers are working extremely hard to keep learning moving forward at a high level for our

students. Thank you so much to all of our parents who have reached out to them with positive comments and

encouragement. Our hard-working and dedicated teachers love to hear these encouraging words.

As we near the end of the school year, please keep in mind the above reminders. And please let us know if there

is anything we can do to help or support. We are here for you so please reach out to us with any

questions or concerns. Stay safe and healthy! - Lance Kershner

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Upper School Principal’s Message

Laughter is Sometimes the Best Medicine

In writing about humor, please know I am not

making light of the current COVID 19 situation.

It is an absolute understatement to say we

are all facing brand new uncertainties, real fears

and unprecedented dilemmas. Facing those

uncertainties, fears and dilemmas with a sense of

humor, with a joke or a good laugh, can serve as

a healthy coping mechanism in a stressful time

and here is an explanation why.

Who doesn’t like to laugh? Laughing is directly affiliated with pleasure. Pleasure is affiliated with positive

cognitive thoughts and strong emotions. People who make us laugh automatically bond with us because of

these joyful thoughts and happy feelings. According to Professor Robert Provine, “laughing is incredibly

contagious”. Sharing laughter with people is one way to cope and bring joy into very difficult situations.

According to Dr. Steven Gimbel, “When you share a joke with someone, there is a sense of connectedness.

This is called joke intimacy. This type of intimacy can be shared with someone you know or with a stranger.

For instance, if you see something funny, you might look around to see if anyone else noticed—you might lock

eyes with a stranger, and you both giggle. You've developed joke intimacy through a shared experience of

laughter.” Dr. Gimbel explained, “There is a sort of bond there, that happens with humor, which builds a sense

of human community.”

So search the internet for some excellent memes of the Corona virus if your friends are not sending you

a plethora of memes daily. If you like political humor, there are plenty of opportunities for a good laugh.

If you like corny jokes and puns, read my morning greeting each day. We could all use some laughter,

joy and a good giggle.

I will leave you with a joke:

Q: What jokes are allowed during the COVID 19 quarantine?

A: Inside jokes

- Susan Eby


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Met Flashing News

Keeping the positive momentum going, our students are continuously

sharing fun-filled E-learning experiences during the lockdown with

their teachers. Here is Youssef with his amazing smile sending

a happy message to his teachers and expressing how much he misses

them all. We thank all Met students and parents who let us know that

they are doing well and keeping up their positivity while staying at

home, safe, sound enjoying the E-learning process. “Yesterday is not

ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” and

“ Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll

start having positive results.”

On May 4th, in Grade 7 ELA, Ms. Jordana

and Ms. Sara Gamal, one of our Met French

teachers, collaborated to begin the fourth

module of the ELA curriculum called

“Screen Time and the Developing Brain”.

As a guest speaker on an MS Teams live

Met Literacy

video chat, Ms. Sara, who has a degree in neuroscience as well as French, explained how a neuron functions.

Grade 7 students were very attentive and asked many clarifying questions. Well done grade 7 and good luck

with ELA Module 4!

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In Grade 7 science, students are studying how genes

change. One of our extraordinary students completed the

activity shown and described below.

The chain of amino acids produced by a gene

depends on the order of the triplets. In this way, the

genes of a chromosome carry the instructions for the

proteins that are made by cells. These chains of amino

acids will fold and twist based on their repulsion from,

or attraction to, other parts of the amino acid chain. This

folding or twisting depends on the chemical structure

of each amino acid as well as how close together they

are in a chain. This is what I did to demonstrate

protein synthesis:

1. Write the amino acid sequence. On a piece of white

paper, draw colored dots using red, blue and

green colors. The dots need to be 1 cm away from

each other.

2. Fold the strip of paper into a 3D protein by following

guidelines from the science textbook. Work from the

beginning to the end of the paper.

3. Try to fold halfway between the relevant colored dots,

when folding.

In Grade 8 science we have been studying electricity. One of our extraordinary students completed the activity and wrote a description of it below:

I completed an activity to bend water. There

are little particles in your hair called electrons

and protons. When you brush your hair, the

brush collects electrons so now it’s negatively

charged. Since opposites attract, the positively

charged water attracts to the negatively charged

comb when it gets near it. I did this experiment by

brushing a plastic comb through my hair, and then

I placed the negatively charged comb near the

water to observe the water bend.

Met Science

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Grade 7 students have started their last module

about geometry using algebraic equations

to solve complex geometric problems and they

are nailing it! Grade 6 students are

learning Probability and Statistics, opening

their eyes and minds to marketing in the

real world and how our daily math work

is related to business.

Grade 7 students started working

on digital art by creating their

own mandalas and wallpaper

patterns using a designing

application. They used what they

learned from the elements

of art to create successful designs

by balancing space, abiding by

the rules of positive and negative

space and completing the design

with a perfect choice of colors.

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Met Math

Met Art

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Metropolitan students continue to enhance

the French foreign language through

online engaging and interactive resources,

live sessions and pre-recorded lessons for

students to watch at their own pace

determined by their level of French.

Students and teachers communicated with

ease throughout the weeks.

Learning to draw a music staff, writing notes,

playing rhythm patterns correctly, and

recognizing note values was an enjoyable task

and challenge for our Pre-K students as they take

their first steps in music literacy.

Met French

Met Music

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Students in Grades 3 - 8 were required to submit

different projects to reflect, their knowledge,

language, and searching skills about water, energy,

the environment and health. Well done to students

who showed an extraordinary interest in the

projects and improved their linguistic skills.

International Awareness Corner

Groundhog Day, USA

Groundhog Day is a popular observance in many parts

of the United States. Although some states have in some

cases, adopted their own groundhogs, the official

groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, lives at Gobbler’s Knob

near Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. The town has

attracted thousands of visitors over the years to

experience various Groundhog Day events and activities

on February 2. Thousands of years ago when animalism

and nature worship were prevalent, people in the area of

Europe now known as Germany believed that the badger

had the power to predict the coming of spring.

They watched the badger to know when to plant their

crops. By the time the first German immigrants settled

in Pennsylvania they probably understood that this was

not true but the tradition continued with a groundhog.

Met Arabic

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Met Clinic Met clinic wishes all families a safe stay at home and would like to offer some COVID-19 Tips.

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Met Clinic

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Met Mission

Met Biz

Metropolitan School would like to congratulate

all Met families on the occasion of celebrating

Eid Al Fitr. We hope all families are staying

home, safe and healthy! Eid Mubarak

Many innovative ideas have been shared during this month and our young entrepreneurs never cease to amaze

us! In alignment with this year's sustainability theme, Malek Hassan from G4, Johns Hopkins, shared his

solution for a more environmentally friendly approach in food service activities with his cool product

Foxi Boxi. You can check out Malek's idea and support his YouTube channel on the link below:

https://youtu.be/NKv_H-CYhcQ

Egyptian Values

https://youtu.be/NKv_H-CYhcQ

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During this time, it is increasingly important to take time

every day to remind ourselves about the good things

in life! Our team continues to share simple and fun

activities you can do at home to stay healthy and

positive! We encourage all Met families to visit the

“Met Announcements” YouTube page and “The

Fourth B” MS Teams page to participate and share

activities! Lastly, we would like to say thank you

Ms. Nancy for all her hard work and contributions to our

student's character education! We will miss you!

Character Education

A video message to our students from Met specialist teachers

“WE MISS YOU!” https://youtu.be/qPmMolCas0M

Met Corner

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCORg07RqJrSZ7AHhOB9dEWA

https://youtu.be/qPmMolCas0M

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In celebration of Teachers’ Appreciation Week,

Metropolitan School took the time, effort and care

to deliver gift boxes of home made cookies

to all our wonderful academic staff members.

The cookies were decorated with different slogans,

thanking and appreciating the teachers for their hard

work and dedication to the newly implemented

E-learning process. “A teacher takes a hand, opens

a mind, and touches a heart.”

Parent Testimonials

Perfect communication between us and the homeroom teacher, she is very helpful and supportive.

I am so proud of our school, you are all doing a wonderful job. Nothing like other schools. For sure attending the online sessions is a wonderful thing because it keeps the kids busier instead of spending the whole time on internet .

Thank you so much for your support , my children are being so busy on e-learning.

I am satisfied with the content, the interaction is increasing.

Date June Diary Dates

18 June Last day for school (Students and Teachers)

I am satisfied with what the school has been trying to do during the lockdown.

Met Corner

Interesting application. We are all enjoying it.

Amazing job. We are all enjoying the e-learning.

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