Dear Parents,
On Sunday November 22nd, students at DAA will begin their participation in a Character Counts Feature Week. This week will focus on caring and citizenship.
On Sunday November 22nd, students at DAA will begin their participation in a Character Counts Feature Week. This week will focus on caring and citizenship.
While we are going to work with students to make in school connections, we also want to give them a chance to take pride in the specific ways their families show a caring spirit and/or how they demonstrate that they are good citizens when reaching out to other communities in or outside of the UAE.
Kindly send in pictures that clearly tell such stories with your child by Monday, November 23, or at the latest, Nov. 24. They will then be displayed on the bulletin board outside our ES office. Please write your child's name and class on the back of any pictures you send it and we'll be sure to return them to you.
Many thanks for your help,
The Character Counts Committee
Here are a few of my personal pictures from various outreaches to children of the world. I hope they will inspire our students to get out there and make a difference in someone else's life by showing kindness, care, and by being a good world citizen.
Bolivia (2005, 2007)
Objective: Visit the Bolivia Life Center to spend time with orphaned boys, improve the property through construction, and teach lessons
Ukraine (2008)
Objective: Visit state, private, and church orphanages to teach, deliver materials, and encourage the children and workers
Haiti (2009)
Objective: Build bookcases for local school, teach lessons to children, visit orphans
New Horizons Service Dogs (2008-2010)
Objective: Raise and train a puppy to become a service dog to someone with a disability
Album 1 (too many others to share)
And, here is Kobe today, happily serving an author named Frank Caceres
France (2011)
Objective: Build a stone wall in Cavalaire-sur-Mer, which will ultimately protect and help develop the natural and cultural resources of the region.
One of my favorite poems is called Success by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It's one worth memorizing.
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