Dear colleagues,
Summer has arrived in Japan! What a beautiful weekend we had and it looks like the weather will continue to be warm and sunny the three days of school and the long weekend ahead. Congratulations and thank you for the successful Exhibition, Student-Led Conferences, and art festival we concluded in the past week. We have observed only overwhelmingly positive reactions and feedback from parents, students, and colleagues. Our learning environment looks amazing and as usual, the students raised to the occasion throughout. Have a look at all the amazing art around us in the hallways and public spaces, and please, check out your colleagues’ classrooms, as they all speak loudly about the talent and creativity of students and teachers at CA. Very proud times for us all.
This Sunday another Tankyuu project became reality where a quite a large group of parents, students and teachers were working on the ELAC playground. The hard working group of volunteers designed and built flower beds, storages, boards with chalk paint, and of course the pallet hut. Thank you to Karen Hesterman for putting her Tankyuu into practice and organizing the event. We will have a grand opening of the hut very soon.
This week the IB Diploma exams will start today and finish on the 19th of May. Please, avoid bringing/letting the students to the atrium to ensure that the grade 12 students will have the optimum circumstances for performing well in their final IB challenge. Should it rain during our recess times, we will try to use other venues than atrium for the indoor recess for the next three weeks.
We meet on Tuesday morning at 7:50. On the agenda we have the end of year procedures, report card writing timeline and guidelines, as well as the use of spaces & classroom moves for 17-18.
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
/ Gym
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Playground
/ Atrium
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Cafeteria line
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Indoor recess ELAC Gym
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May 1
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Jen C
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Karen H
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Shunsuke
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Maiko, Kaight
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This week's schedule:
Day
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Morning
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Afternoon - After School
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Mon
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Kim and Trevor working on the Social Studies and Science curriculum mapping
ES Student Support Team Meeting
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Tue
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7:50 ES Faculty Morning Meeting
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Wed
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Wed PD time:
14:40-15:45 Math/Lit/EC Committees
15:00-15:45 New teachers check-in
15:45-16:30 T2T Sessions/ COT
18:00 Pub Quiz
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Thu
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Golden Week Holidays!
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Fri
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Professional Learning
Webinar: offers variety of ways to bring new energy to the end of your school year and prepare for next year by using a variety of kid culture and media favorites as ways to tackle two writing topics commonly described as dull or hard to teach: grammar and writing about reading. LINK to details and registration
May 10th 7am JST
May 24rd 7am JST
14:20 - 16:30 Preparing classroom and stations for Student Led Conferences
A great idea (discussed at lunchroom past week) for helping parents with questions: “Attach to every station a list of suggested questions for parents.”
UOI: Plan for UOI #6 and Reflect on UOI #5 - Library and Tech are free to join as need be
- No Meetings with Trevor
- Kim and Trevor working on Science and Social Studies curriculum mapping
- Tues G4 from 8:45-10:00, G1 from 12:45, G2 14:50
- Wed: G5 PYPX Reflection
Future Dates:
15-19 May: MAPS testing Gr 3-5
Current UOI comments for handing in?
Due dates for comments?
