We are re-starting our ‘Teacher Spotlight‘ section with one of our new elementary teachers – Emma Wilson. Introduce yourself using three words only, please. Happy, goofy and helpful What’s something most people may not know about you? I played football (soccer) internationally when I was 13. My team won two tournaments in Sweden and Denmark….
Teacher Spotlight: Jude Little
Introduce yourself in one sentence, please I am Jude Little. I am a sporty, adventurous, mountain-obsessed, motivated and happy Grade 4 Teacher with a lot of wanderlust! How long have you been at AAS? This is Year 3 (already!) Share something we do not expect to hear from you? I get bored easily and have…
Teacher Spotlight: Matthew Wiest
Get to know Mr. Wiest, one of our Grade 5 Teachers. Introduce yourself in one sentence, please. My name is Matthew Wiest, I am a father, a husband, a teacher, and a Third Culture Kid. How long have you been at AAS? I am concluding my third year. Share something we do not expect to…
Teacher Spotlight: Heidi Whitfield
Ms. Heidi grew up in Northern California and then went to school in Southern California. She started teaching in Los Angeles and taught third and fourth grade. Along with her family, she moved to Bulgaria 15 years ago. She has two children – a daughter Grace who is almost 17 and currently in 11th grade…
Bulgarian Culture Week
During Bulgarian Culture Week the AAS campus became even more beautiful when a mural was painted on one of its walls. The mural is a recreation of the painting “Fruit” by the Bulgarian painter Vladimir Dimitrov – the Master, whose 140th birth anniversary is celebrated this year. If you are interested, you can visit two…
Make the Most of Travel With Your Kids
Traveling with children and young adults can significantly boost their development and with summer approaching, a lot of us are already deep into vacation planning. Family travel has the potential to expand our children’s perceptions, to build stronger family bonds, to improve adaptability and flexibility, to ignite creativity and adventure, and to teach our…
Grade 4 Creative Market
As part of our Grade 4 Economics Unit, the students planned, designed, made prototypes, presented & shared their ideas, received feedback, then refined and perfected their products before mass-producing them for our Grade 4 Creative Market!…
Students Fundraise For Ukraine
This week grade 7 students organized an American Candy Sale Fundraising in the Middle School They raised a total of 506.10 Bulgarian leva, which will be donated to UNICEF in support of Ukraine. …
Learning About Patterns
Grade 1 students are learning about the concept of patterns in nature, math, and language….
