WEEK  30

Wednesday April 23rd

3pm

Music Class

Rescheduled

New Dates: 

2G: Tuesday April 22 at 3pm

3G: Tuesday April 22 at 3pm

4G: Tuesday April 22 at 3pm

5G: Tuesday April 22 at 3pm

All team members expected

Location: Grade level C.D committee will let you know.

** UPDATE: Report Cards will be shaerd after Easter Break, wait for the "error free" message! ***

Partial 3 deadline: April 9th 3:45pm 

Elementary Assessment Policy

*Important Reminders*

• All formative assignments should be over 10 points (Use PS adjust scores)

• All summative assignments should be over 100 points (Use PS adjust scores)

• 4th & 5th Grade should include a Conduct Grade: 

  • Use S2 Conduct Grade Scoresheet 

  • Conduct Teacher Rubric 

  • Student Version Rubric (Self-assessment) 

  • Conduct grade is entered by Homeroom teacher only, using letter grades (over 32 points). 

• Progress Reports should be emailed by Friday April 11th 

  • What Report should I generate? 

    • 2nd & 3rd: ES S2 2-3 Progress Report

    • 4th & 5th: ES S2 4-5 Progress Report 

• Progress Report meetings will take place from April 21 - 25 for students with an average grade of BE/AE or D/E, or based on need (professional judgement, check in with Support Team)

APRIL TOPIC OF THE MONTH: 

DIGITAL FOOTPRINT & IDENTITY 

You may access the access the Digital Citizenship Curriculum here. 

4th & 5th Grade: Teach DC lesson with non-homeroom class on week 27 (No Library) 

2nd & 3rd See planning on Atlas

📚We will celebrate World Book Day with amazing Authors' Visits and the Book Fair! 📚

These events will take place on the following dates: 

Author Visits: April 21 & 22. 

Book Fair: April 23rd 

Sign up your class here

High Schools students from Movimiento Verde are setting up an exciting challenge to celebrate Earth Day. The challenge will take place from April 21st to the 25th. This is what you need to know:  

• They will share a short video introducing the challenge. Please share it with your Core/ Homeroom students.

• On Monday April 21st, they will visit each classroom for 10-15 min to relaunch Botellas de Amor. Thank you for welcoming them and for getting your students on board. Expect them within the assigned times: 

• 2nd GRADE Monday 8am - 8:45 

• 3rd GRADE Monday 8am - 8:45

• 4th & 5th GRADE Monday 9:30 - 10 (They will visit the students at Specials if needed) 

April 22nd: Reducing our Carbon Foot Print:  

As a section, we will work collaboratively to reduce our carbon footprint! How? 

• • We will encourage parents, students and teachers to carpool, take the bus or ride/walk to school. 

  • We will ask parents not to send any plastic bottles, wrappers or single-use plastic containers. 

  • In the classroom, we will not use printouts nor paper - notebooks only- and we will avoid the use computers and projectors for the day. 

  • We encourage you to teach at least one lesson outdoors! 

Marga & Moni

Please be at the gate by 7:45 am welcoming students.

• IT Survey :  Please complete the following survey so our amazing IT staff can assess our devices functionality HERE

• Active Supervision! We know that March is the month with highest incident rates. Please keep behavior expectations high, walk students and maintain lines during class transitions. 

• Library: Make sure students leave books in the right place after using them. If misplaced, they are to return it to the library front desk.

• DUTIES: Don't forget to wear your vest and to be on time. Phones should be used only in case of an emergency. If you have a personal day, you are in charge of finding someone who will cover your duty. 

• ELEOT PEER OBSERVATION S2: You are to complete the second peer observation throughout S2. Please upload your observation to Staff Development 24-25

3rd Grade MIT Challenge Designing Solutions for Climate

Our students immersed themselves into the Design Thinking Process to propose a solution to mitigate a weather hazard caused by Climate Change. Plus, they showed off a structured informative paragraph! 

Creativity, Collaboration and Critical Thinking at its best!

Congratulations 3rd grade team!

5th Grade "Music Explorations"

5th graders had the opportunity to visit Middle School Instrument lessons to support their upcoming "electives" choices.  Thank you Cate, Santi and 5th grade team for your support in this transition!