**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.
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~from the ES BBE
~ from the Elementary Office
Please join us in congratulating Elif Cömert who accepted the Upper Elementary EAL Assistant Teacher position. Elif will join the EAL team to support the learning of EAL students in grades 3, 4 and 5. We are currently recruiting for a fixed-end EAL AT replacement for Elif in the EC. The Upper Elementary EAL Assistant Teacher position is a temporary position lasting until the end of this academic year. Elif will return to the EC EAL AT position in August 2019.
~from the Elementary Office
Newsletters (core and encore) will be sent home next Friday, November 9th 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, November 8th by 10 am latest), so they can review it before team leads send it home Friday, November 9, 2018. Please publish the newsletter on Weebly no later than 12 noon on Friday so Tracey can check the newsletter and photos have been loaded correctly.
~from the ES SLT
Please take a moment, while the SLJR experience is still fresh in your mind, to reflect on what worked and what could be better. Please also provide feedback on the parent handbook for SLJRs before the end of the month so that the handbook represents our collective understanding and approach. The handbook will be published and shared with ES parents prior to the March SLJR.
~from the Associate Principal
Monday, October 29th Important Information that Requires Action: (core teachers only)
- Your pumpkins will be delivered today. Please make sure they are carved before noon Wednesday.
Tuesday, October 30th Important Information that Requires Action: (core teachers only)
- Check the supervision schedule. Only students whose names are highlighted in GREEN are signed up for supervision. All other students must go home on October 31st. Please check the list with your students to ensure glitches can be fixed before Wednesday.
Wednesday, October 31at Important Information that Requires Action:
- There are no ES After School Activities or Hosted Clubs today.
- Please deliver your pumpkin to the ES PSA table in the ES Lobby after 9 AM but before noon.
- By 2 PM today core teachers will receive supervision wristbands for students who must attend supervision. Please place the wristbands ONLY on the wrists of students who are identified on the accompanying class list as being signed up for supervision.
- Please identify one member of your team to deliver students to Supervision in the Music/Drama area for check-in at 3:30.
- Please identify another 1 or 2 members of your team to escort all other students taking the bus at 3:30 pm to the parking lot. Please have the remaining members wait with students being picked up by parents until all students have been collected.
- In the unlikely event you have a student who thinks they should stay for Halloween but you know they are not signed up for supervision please contact their parents. Do not send any students to the office as we are all engaged in lockdown and supervision work.
- Please ensure all faculty children head directly to their parent's rooms unless they have signed up for supervision. No AISB students should be wandering Building A after 3:45 pm.
- Teachers, please look carefully at the volunteer schedule to locate the time and place your help is required.
- The Elementary will be locked down, as usual, during the Halloween festivities. If the weather cooperates, your only exit after 4:00 pm is the main doors on the Music entrance. Please be sure to shut the doors completely. Do not let parents or students in as they will not be able to get back out.
- The entrance for Halloween is Building B this year.
- Supervision pick up is at the building A Music entrance.
October
31-PSA Halloween Celebration- (4:00-6:00 pm)
November
2-PD Day (No school for students)
7-Grade 5 Informance (Arts Night)
8-All School PSA Meeting
9-EC Big Sing
~from the Fine Arts Department
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Talking Points
~from the Learning Innovation Team Record and playback up to 30 seconds of noise! You can create audio enabled displays, let children get their thoughts down quickly, or provide audio enabled station instructions that can be heard at the press of a button! Recording is as easy as sliding the record button on the back, speaking clearly into the Talking Point, sliding the button back to play, and listen! Speak to a member of the Learning Innovation team to book out a few, or even a class set. |
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You might find this site might be useful if you are struggling to deal with behaviors in the classroom. It gives clear ideas for Tier 1 and Tier 2 interventions as well as next steps when those aren't working. Teachers that Jenn Dunn shared this site with have found it very useful: http://www.pbisworld.com/
These Are The Skills That Your Kids Will Need For The Future (Hint: It's Not Coding)
~Written by Greg Satell
Number Sense 101
Are you are looking for something that will help you with those kiddos who 'just don't get it'. Do you have kiddos who have 'learned' the addition strategies, yet still revert back to using their fingers? Are you looking for how to help your kiddos understand that 13 is not just a 1 and a 3, but actually a 10 and 3!! And you want to do all this and make it FUN!!! Try this online course recommended by Kim Porter. Deadline for registration is today, October 29.
The little old lady who was not afraid of anything by Linda Williams
A little old lady who is not afraid of anything must deal with a pumpkin head, a tall black hat, and other spooky objects that follow her through the dark woods trying to scare her.
A favorite with our younger kiddos - interactive and really, not scary!
Bone Soup by Cambria Evans
An illustrated retelling of the French folktale Stone Soup, in which Finnigin, a hungry skeleton, travels to a new town on Halloween, but when the villagers refuse to share their food with him, Finnigin tricks the town's witches, ghouls, and zombies into helping him make soup.
You read to me, I’ll read to you: very short scary tales to read together by Mary Ann Hoberman
Contains poems that tell tales about ghouls, ogres, zombies, and phantoms - presented in two voices for children and adults to read together.