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May 2005 Newsletter

Math Foundations Contest 2005

52 contestants participated at the first annual Math Foundations Content conducted by ATFS Learning center on April 30th in Shrewsbury. Tests were conducted in 5 different levels and the winners were awarded trophies and medals besides all sponsor prizes. This years event was sponsored by India New England, Kahani, American Express and Gold Star. This was followed by ATFS's first prize distribution ceremony where all ATFS students were rewarded for their performance in the last academic year 2004 - 2005.There was excitement , motivation, encouragement and a sense of accomplishment on all faces. The event was a huge success and has been covered in leading publication of the area. For winners list and more information about contests that ATFS conducts visit our website : Contests...

ATFS Rewards Program

ATFS Learning Center rewards the kids for their achievements and performances. Children at ATFS are enrolled for either the After School Program, Remote Learning or the Accelerated Learning Programs. Children enrolled in any of these programs for 6 months continuously qualify for the Rewards Program. We follow a Semester System and children need to be enrolled for the whole semester. Topics for each semester are decided in the beginning of the semester. All topics selected are included in the 6 month program and children are assigned custom workbooks. Completion of these workbooks make them qualify for a reward in that topic. A child is awarded a medal and a certificate for each completed topic based on the criteria specified on our website. For details on how this works, please visit our website : Rewards Program...

ATFS is Growing

ATFS Learning Center started in a small room on a single table. Since then it has evolved from a tutoring service to a learning center of various environments. Afterschool Learning, Accelerated Learning, Remote Learning and Summer Camps are just a few. We have grown as needed in space and in number. You have asked for it and we have always fulfilled it. It has been a pleasure so far and we hope to continue doing it. Here we are again in need of more space. We are moving in July to another facility in Shrewsbury itself. With it will come a separate parking, more programs and the same personalized service. For details please check our website: Contact us...

Be a Volunteer

ATFS welcomes volunteers during the summer camps. If you like to work with children of ages 5 - 13, and have a skill to share , please call me and we can work with schedules. Possible areas for volunteering would be academic time from 9 to 12; Hindi hour 1 - 2, hobby hour 2 - 3, science experiments and projects 3 - 5. Hobby hour could be sharing any of your creative skills like, art, crafts, cake decorating, story time, quizzes, yoga, music time, chess or any other games. You could choose from one day a week to 5 days a week. Our camps would be open from July 5th through August 26th. Moms and dads, elder sisters and brothers, high schoolers, college students and grand moms - can join in and make this a fun camp.

For other positions open at ATFS visit our website : About Us..

Parent Reminders

May 28th - Last Saturday class for this academic year.
May 30th - ATFS will be closed for Memorial Day
June 24th - Last day at ATFS for the academic year 2004 - 2005
July 5th - ATFS reopens for Summer Camp

Remote Parents - Please remember to send in score cards before the 15th of each month. Your child will not be included in the Rewards program unless we have the score cards for all workbooks sent home.

Bus Routes: For those students who are taking the bus to ATFS, please remember to put the new center address in the forms for bus routes next year. 433 South Street, Shrewsbury. If this is an issue, please discuss with me.

Old Books and Class work: A lot of you have books that your children do not use any more, and also have class work / Home work sheets from the graduating grade that you will shred or hide in the attic. Please check with us. We can put that to some good use.

Email newsletter: This will be the last month for the paper newsletter. Starting next month, only emails updates will be sent and no paper newsletters will be sent with the invoices. If you are not receiving the electronic newsletter yet, please sign up using our website.

Math Puzzles

Congratulations to Neha Sharma and Sanjay Shah for getting the correct answer to last months Math puzzle. This months puzzles are as below. Please send your answers to gauri@atfsonline.com

Puzzle 1: How can you make 100 by just using four 9's?

Puzzle 2: You are traveling through a difficult country, taking with you a wolf, a goat and a cabbage. All during the trip, the wolf wants to eat the goat and the goat wants to eat the cabbage, and you have to be careful to prevent either calamity. You come to a river and find a boat which can take you across, but it is so small that you can take only one passenger at a time - either the wolf, or the goat, or the cabbage (along with yourself). So, how can you get them all across the river?

Answer to the last months puzzle:

Ask to see a sample from the box labeled MIXTURE, because you know it isn't one. If it's gold, that box must be full of gold; take it. If the sample is of iron, then take the box labeled IRON, because you know the gold is in neither the GOLD nor the MIXTURE.