Dear colleagues,
We hope you had a great weekend and were able to enjoy the sunshine on Sunday. Today we will have one of our Gr. 5 student's grandfather Sir James Fraser Stoddart visiting Canadian Academy. He recently won the Nobel Prize. You can enjoy his journey and recent science discoveries by joining a community lecture at 7 pm.
Also this week we will enjoy the warm weather and busy schedules as well as focus on the MAPs testing in grades 3-5. The MAPs testing requires some flexibility and collaboration from us all to make sure our students will have the time and organization to successfully transfer their understandings and skills into a test situation.
The last few weeks are often creating emotional and social tensions amongst the students. The best antidote to this is to make sure you have regular class meetings, maintain all the routines, keep the behavioral expectations high by modeling routines and staying extra vigilant in class, corridors, and of course in the playground.
Let's all 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 15
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Jerome
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Jennifer W
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Toyoko
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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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8:45 ES Student Support Team Meeting
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7:00 James Fraser Stoddart: Nobel Prize winner in the main theater
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Tue
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MAPS testing G3-5 Language
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Wed
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MAPS testing G3-5 Maths
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14:40-15:45 Tankyuu Closure (Location?)
15:45-16:30 TBA
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Thu
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MAPS testing G4-5 Reading, G3 Rest
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Fri
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MAPS testing G3 Reading G4-5 Catch-up
Report Card Committee creating the report template in the ELAC Conf. Room
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Professional Learning
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Wednesday Professional Learning:
UOI & Literacy:
Trevor and Kim will meet together with teams to look toward next year. At this meeting, we will discuss and decide how units of inquiry will be ordered, and which units of study will be matched with them. As only one meeting is allocated, please consider your units in advance so we are ready to discuss the alignment.
- Mon: PreK-KA 15:40 in Kaoru's class
- Tues: Gr 4: 8:45 Book room
- Wed: KB: 10:00am in Ellen's class
- Thurs: Gr 1 12:45, Gr 2 2:00, Gr 3 Thurs 2:45, Gr 5: Thurs 8:45 (all Book room)
Future Dates:
22-26 May: Secondary School Jazz Week in the Atrium
26 May: Gr 3-4 Concert
27 May: International Kids Day Festival on Rokko Island
30 May: ES Assembly
31 May: KB Parent Coffee: Transition from KB to Gr 1
10 June: Faculty End-of-Year Dinner - 6:30 at the Kobe Club
16 June: Last Day of School, ES Assembly 9:00-10:00, school day finishes at 11:30
