August 29
Dear colleagues,
Thank you all for the great start of the year. Wonderful collaboration, great interaction with students and overall smooth transition from holidays to school life. We hope you had a good little break during the weekend. Let’s take a deep breath and see how we can handle the first full week. We are sure the students will be rather exhausted by the end of the week. Please, take a lot of photos of the first events at school and share them with Rob and Kae-san for communication in general and our Facebook page. Stephen Taylor has sent out the John Joseph schedule. Please note, that teachers are expected to join the learning with the students. Specialists, Learning Support and ESOL, can pick the best time and group for them.
Finally, just to remind all that we will be continuing posting our curriculum updates on the class websites and in the resource folders for the specialists. Kaight Forgi is planning to launch a PE blog to be linked to each class website to create a similar page to PE and Library for students and parents to explore. Can we have all the class website posts uploaded as soon as possible? If you don't remember how, please ask Kae-san to help. We are sending a message to parents on Wednesday morning to check out their child’s class website for curriculum and learning information.
Have a great week!
Time
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12:15-12:40
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12:25-12:55
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12:25-12:55
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12:15-12:40
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12:25-12:55
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Duty
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Cafeteria Tables
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Playground
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Playground
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Cafeteria line
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Indoor recess ELAC Gym
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August 29
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Yoshiko
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Heikki
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Trevor
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Kim
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Maiko, Kaight
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Week of 29 Aug - 2 Sept 2017
Monday, 29 August: ES Student Support Meeting
Tuesday, 30 August:
Wednesday, 31 August: 6:00-8:00 IB PYP Curriculum workshop for parents
Thursday, 1 Sept:
Friday, 2 Sept: Listening conferences: PreK - Gr 5 1 - 4 pm., ES Leadership Team, Schoo Leadership Team
Professional Learning, Wednesday, 31 August at 2:40 pm - 4:30 pm
2:40 - 2:50 Report Card Review R&D Invitation
2:50 - 3:10 Math #1 Program and Curriculum view, Update
3:10 - 3:20 Grade level Literacy and Math Committees
2:50 - 3:20 Specialists Check-In (With Heikki)
3:20 - 3:40 Back to School Night Collaborative session (all)
3:40 - 4:30 Back to School Night Preparation
Future Dates:
Mon-Fri, 5-9 September: MAP Testing (Gr 3-5)
Wednesday, 7 September: Tankyu Launch
Wednesday, 7 September: Tankyu Launch
Wednesday, 7 September: Back to School Night 6 - 8 pm
Literacy: This week will focus on planning first reading/writing units
PYP: This week's goal:
- Homeroom Teachers: Create 'Rubric of Understanding' for the UOI#1 & Sketch unit timeline
- Specialist Teachers: Set up Collab schedule and year goals.
Building Professional Capital:
