**Please check the Meeting Schedules (in the sidebar) and the calendar at the bottom for information regarding this week's meetings and events. Laptops are not required unless requested. Thank you for leaving them in your classrooms.
***Please bookmark the Mindset link so you can access it easily.
~from the ES BBE
~from the Elementary Office
Newsletters (core and encore) will be sent home this Friday by 4:00 pm via instructional leads on behalf of the grade level. Please use the templates provided (core and encore). All School important dates can be found at the end of the Parent Update or in the sidebar of the Mindset => Schedules => ES Event Calendar.
If you need support embedding your newsletter, organizing your core or encore site pages, or setting up composer to send the newsletter, please check the step by step guide. If you are still struggling, check in with Nate and his team. Please give both Krista and Leigh editing access and let them know when your newsletter is published Thursday, January 31st by 10 am latest, so they can review it before team leads send it home Friday, February 1st, 2018. Please upload and publish your email and photo slideshow on Weebly no later than 10 am on Friday so Tracey can check formatting.
February
1- EC Big Sing
1- ES Grade 1-5 Assembly
1- Reports go live (4:00 pm)
4- 15 Teacher sign-ups for session 3 ASAs
5- Lunar New Year
8- EC Big Sing
9 PSA Quiz Night
~from the DTL
Please continue your practice of encouraging students to reflect on the development of their Learning Identities through Seesaw. This year we are aiming for a range of between 1-3 Seesaw posts per child each week between core and encore classes. These posts should ideally be student driven, and include the learning purpose and the student's reflection. Please see our AISB Learning Journey Guidelines for specifics. There is currently a task force studying our use of Seesaw to support student learning. If you have suggestions or ideas for this task force, please see Kim Porter, Josh Berghuis, Valerie Valdez, Lauren White, or Tracey Reed.
~from the Innovation Team (Nate, Paul, and Vlad)
Once a parent submits the Parent Permissions and Agreement Form to the ES office, Nate is notified of their preferences. If the parents consent to the use of Seesaw at AISB he enrolls the child into Seesaw and adds them to the appropriate class. The homeroom teacher is then notified.
Both parents are sent a letter inviting them to sign up for parent access to Seesaw so they can connect with their child. We require parents to use their registered Veracross email when creating their account to ensure we can clearly identify who is attempting to connect with students. This step is necessary for GDPR compliance.
Please remember that teachers should not be approving parent/student connections. If you receive a notification from Seesaw that a parent is attempting to connect, please forward it to Nate. He doesn't receive notifications of parent connections, but does sweeps of classes with new parents who have been sent invites each week.
If you have any questions about this process please email or see Nate ([email protected])
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The Most Overlooked Reason Why Kids Won't Listen- Are you struggling to get your students to focus? Read this article to find out some simple ways to help them focus and increase their personal health and well-being at the same time.
If you are looking for practical and insightful ideas for classroom behavior management, check out this blog post by Tom Sherrington.
~from the ES Librarian
Word play! Word play helps kids love language, it inspires writing and helps kids learn new vocabulary. Celebrate the love of words with these best, playful picture books all about words.
- Lexie the Word Wrangler by Rebecca van Slyke
- The Circus of Words: Acrobatic Anagrams, Parading Palindromes, Wonderful Words on a Wire, and More Lively Letter Play by Richard Lederer
- Mom and Dad are Palindromes by Mark Shulman
- The Word Collector by Peter H. Reynolds
- Did You Take the B From By -ook? by Beck Stanton