WEEK  04

Dear Team, 

Thank you for a great week together!

We'd like to stress Caro Martinez' words "Every child at Menor feels special because of you." Thank you for making magic happen at every corner of Elementary. 

Here are some pictures of special moments that truly capture the essence of the high quality learning experiences that take place every day. 

Keep up the amazing job!

Moni & Marga

WEDNESDAY SEPT 17th

3pm 

MUSIC CLASS

TEACHER ASSISSTANT AGREEMENTS RESCHEDULED: 

TUESDAY SEPT 23rd 8AM 

Teacher Assistants please come to Moni's office on Tuesday Sept 23rd 8am  

7:45 - 8am 

Rafa & Cate

Metacognition in Practice Facilitated Course

Sign up remains open for our 8-week course beginning in October! The course provides an opportunity to explore how to enhance teaching and expand practice by encouraging metacognition and applying the Learner Ambitions (or any skills framework) through goal setting and embedding Project Zero Thinking Routines. There will be the opportunity to work and learn alongside teachers from Nord Anglia schools around the world. If you or anyone in your school would like to join us, please sign up HERE

As shared during our Staff Meeting, Catequesis classes will take place on Tuesdays at the Elementary building (3rd grade area) starting Tuesday October 7th. The classrooms that will be in use are the following: 

• 111

• 112

• 113

• 114

• 115

• 116

• 117

• 118

• 119

• 120

Cleaning staff will ensure to clean the classrooms after Catequesis. 

3rd grade planning meeting will take place on classroom 101 @Kari Durango. 

We encourage teachers whose classrooms will be in used to take advantage of our campus beautiful spaces to work: library, rotonda, teacher's lounge, plazas. Thank you for your collaboration!

Extracurriculars will start on Monday September 22nd. 

Once you receive the list of students signed up, please add the extracurriculars tags on students' dismissal cards. 

On Monday Sept 22nd and Tuesday Sept 23rd all TAs should bring students to the Soccer Bleachers and stay with them for the opening ceremony. For the first week of extracurriculars students should be accompanied to the soccer bleachers by TAs to meet their Extras teacher. 

Extracurricular Maps HERE

Rainy Days locations HERE

WELCOMING JULLIARD TEACHERS ON CAMPUS!

The regional Julliard Professional Development will take place at our beautiful school from Thursday October 2nd to the 4th. 

2nd and 3rd grade students will be in charge of giving Julliard LATAM teachers a warm welcome to Colegio Menor on Thursday Oct 2nd 8:30am. We will create a street of honor from the school entrance street, turn right to nurse / Playgroup building, and street to Soccer bleacers (both sides).  

Set high expectations so that students say "hello, welcome". Each class should create 3 posters welcoming the special guests. 

Please work on the T-shirt design process and share it with Room Parents by October 1st. 

Read the T-shirt process Guidelines here. All t-shirts must include "Goodness, Beauty and Truth"

The colors and Learner Ambitions assigned to each class can be found below:

This information was shared with Room Parents today**

Please take a close look to the picture below, indicating how to arrive to the soccer field and how to exit the soccer field, in case of a real emergency or drill. 

It is important to follow this order to be able to return to the building in a safe and organized manner. 

Thank you for your collaboration!

Our wonderful Teaching & Learning Coordinator, Cassie Feith, will be visiting classrooms throughout the upcoming weeks. Make sure to give her a warm welcome and make her feel part of Elementary team!

THANK YOU SOFI V for sharing this FUN Lesson Plan to roll out CANVAS with students!

We encourage you to adapt it for your grade-level and students' needs accordingly. The scavenger hunt was a great suceess!

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Reserve computers for these blocks

Learning Objective: Students will be able to explore and use our new learning platform: Canvas

Learning Activities, steps, and planned practice:

Use this presentation to guide your teaching.

• Use the first slides to teach students how to access Canvas.

• Starting on slide 13, show them how to find the learning materials & resources from all their classes.

• Starting on slide 19, teach students how to send messages to their teachers.

• **The last slide says "How to see your grades?" But we are not ready to see that yet. We can come back to this presentation and show this to students around mid-partial**

• Afterwards, have students complete this scavenger hunt individually or in partnerships (If you'd like, make a copy of the presentation and edit it to personalize it for your class).
  To do this, print copies of the scavenger hunt for students to have it handy and/or project its QR code for students to scan and have the questions available. (If you made a copy of the presentation, you need to generate its QR code in Canva -- Share -- See All -- QR Code).

Closure / Assessment: 

As an exit ticket, have students answer on a post it their answer to the following thinking routine:

Before I used to think...

Now I think...

Important: Before this lesson, make sure you:

• Manually added your students to your Homeroom course in Canvas (They need to accept the invitation)

• Added all the resources from this current and past weeks to all your courses in Canvas.

• Published all your courses in Canvas.

• Published all your modules in Canvas.

• Talked to your teaching team to ensure everything is published.

• Tried your Student View option to see that everything is working.

• Tried to use your QR code from a computer to see if it opens correctly, OR printed the scavenger hunt questions for students to have them handy.

Summer Reading Project Celebrations!