American School of Ulaanbaatar

Dear Parents,

Welcome back and we hope that you all had a fantastic time on this vacation with family and friends. What a spectacular week we had here at ASU before the Tsagaan Tsar Holiday! ASU boys’ basketball team was victorious in the ASU vs. Elite School game!  In the ASU students vs. ASU staff hockey game our students won the match.  Our Kindergarten through second grade field trip to the Toy Museum was a huge success; all students were in awe of the amazing toys and puzzles.  Thursday our Student Council sponsored a Valentine’s Day Dance for the high school.  Our students came, some brought guests and all looked lovely and acted like perfect ladies and gentlemen.  It was a magical evening for all.  Thank you Ms. Gill and Mr. Nefstead, the Student Council Advisors, and the ASU Student Council for organizing this successful evening for our students.  Friday was a wondrous day.  Everyone looked magnificent in national dress and the performance at the end of the day by the Children’s Palace Performers was outstanding.  I am so very proud to say that our ASU students were a perfect audience in their behavior and appreciation.  Friday was also the last day for our “Toys for Tots” drive.  I want to thank Ms. Anna and the 1A class for sponsoring this wonderful campaign for the ASU learning community to donate items for those in need at the Verbist Care Center.  We did an outstanding job!  Captain Hagan of the US Marines came and personally thanked our first graders and then carried away the many huge boxes of things that YOU all donated for this cause.  Thank you all for your support!  ASU wants to adopt a school or an orphanage so we can continue to learn through the gift of giving, if you know of a needy organization please let us know.

It is hard to believe but February is winding down: we have this short week, followed by the last week in February. To be sure the ASU learning community will be soaring high with learning and reflection in this wondrous month.

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Feb 17 – 19 will be a “Week 1” for the swimming schedule and

Wednesday, February 17^th – Day 1 schedule

Feb 22 – 26 will be a “Week 2” for the swimming schedule. 

Wednesday, February 24^th – PTA Meeting

Please join together in room 308, at 5:00 to 6:00pm for our ASU PTA meeting.  All parents are welcome.  The meeting will be conducted in English and Mongolian.

Information for our ASU Learning Community:

Our PTA is sponsoring a raffle!  All students whose parents return the Parent Survey will receive an entry into the raffle.  There will be a drawing on Friday, Feb 19^th.  Two winners from elementary, middle school and high school (six winners in all) will receive a prize.  So if you haven’t done so yet – please turn in your Parent Survey by Thursday afternoon.  Thank you PTA for your support in promoting this very important step in our WASC process.

Mr Epu our IT Coordinator has been working on our ASU webpage.  It is a work in progress, but  – it is looking great. Thank you Mr. Epu!   Please check it out and let us know what you think, and what you would like to see on our ASU website.

A suggestion was made at our January PTA to have a survey put in place for students to respond to the weekly ASU cafeteria menu, so they could let us know what food they liked and didn’t like.   If you would like to participate, please have your child list on the menus below what they liked or didn’t like and return them to Ms Chimgee in the Admin Office.  She will let the cafeteria personnel know the results so we can continue to improve our service in the ASU cafeteria.

LUNCH MENU FOR 3^rd WEEK – February 17-19

LUNCH MENU FOR 4^th WEEK – February 22-26

I hope you find this information useful.  Please feel free to e-mail me if you have questions, concerns, or successes and delights you would like to share with us.  I also, would enjoy hearing your ideas on what you would like me to include in my “Letter to Parents”.

As always,

Dr. Kristina Nefstead