Dear colleagues,
Here is the overview for the New Families Orientation this Wednesday 21st August.
On the Atrium
9:15 - Tables will be set up by grade-levels for registration and for water. (Yoshiko and Remi)
9:50 - All specialists, LSAs, and classroom teachers gather in the Atrium.
9:50 - 10:05 New families arrive, sign in, receive student name tags, and are led by specialists or
LSA's to their grade level gathering point. Homeroom teachers stay at the gathering point.
Specialists, LSAs and Student Council members should introduce themselves when they meet a
family, before leading them to the designated grade level areas. Here are the grade level
assignments:
- PreK-KA Kae, Rose, Satsuki (11 new students)
- KB Emi, Jan, Tangala, Trevor (16 new students)
- Gr 1 Saiko, Kaho, Amy (8, possibly 9 new students)
- Gr 2 Ava (3 new students)
- Gr 3 Kasumi, Noriko, Vallory (6 new students)
- Gr 4 Seth, Celia,(5 new students)
- Gr 5 Riana, Enoch (3 new students)
- **40 families total
Move to the Classrooms
10:05: Specialists, LSAs and Homeroom teachers lead both parents and students to their grade
level classroom. To avoid families standing in the heat, one homeroom teacher can lead a group
down earlier to one of the homeroom classes.
At the Classrooms
10:10 - 10:20: Parents and students receive a brief introduction of teachers, specialists, and LSAs
who happen to be in the classroom at that point.
REUNITING PARENTS & STUDENTS
10:50ish
PreK-KA Parents will check the classroom first and then go to the ELAC playground if they are not in
the classroom for pick-up.
G1-5 For fair weather, parents will pick-up their children on the playground. *For a rainy day please
wait in front of the cafeteria in the designated area from 10:50. Homeroom teachers stay with their
students until parents pick them up.
10:55 New Parents sign-up for Cezars, ES Listening Conferences, etc. in the cafeteria.
