ISY Elementary Blog
HALLOWEEN FUN CONTINUES
Sandy Sheppard , Elementary School Principal
4th November, 2022
Dear all,
Thank you so much to those who offered to support this evening. The Parent Association has organized a great event, and your support definitely helps the night run smoothly.
Thank you to Patty and our Student Council for organizing the Earth Day events.
Next Friday we have an assembly. Please let me know if your class or any students have something to present.
The Halloween Parade was enjoyed by both teachers and students. Thank you for your support.
Enjoy your long weekend, and we will see you on Tuesday.
Sandy
If we put in more ramps (inclusion strategies) we will support a larger range of students and if we take down the fence everyone can learn.
DATES TO REMEMBER
4th November – Halloween Evening Event 5PM/Progress Reports Go home
7th November – Holiday
11th November – Next Assembly
16th November – Parent Conferences 9-5 PM
26th November – International Day
Message re: Focus on Learning 2022-2023
After such a disrupted couple of years, this year is an important year to figure out exactly what our student’s needs are in every subject area and how we are going to address them next year and beyond.
We will do this with Focus on Learning Collaborations, which we introduced before Covid hit and also did in April last year. The idea is to identify our students’ Critical Learner Needs, which then become our Problems of Practice. This language comes from WASC and ties in with how we will review all curriculum areas this year.
A Problem of Practice isn’t a shortcoming on the part of us as teachers – it just recognizes the fact that we are the ones who cause learning, and meeting student learning needs is our problem to solve.
Below are links to Focus on Learning Collaboration documents which we will review on Monday, November 7 – once the reports cards are finished. We do it at this time as we have just reported on the needs of our students, and we also have MAP data that we can use to guide us.
For now, focus on finishing your Quarter 1 report cards. Once you have finished with them, take a moment to fill out the document to be reviewed at a later date. On the documents, you will also see what was recorded last year.
- ES PK Focus on Learning
- ES KG Focus on Learning
- ES Grade 1 Focus on Learning
- ES Grade 2 Focus on Learning
- ES Grade 3 Focus on Learning
- ES Grade 4 Focus on Learning
- ES Grade 5 Focus on Learning
- WS Health & Wellness (incl. Lifeskills) Focus on Learning
- WS Music Focus on Learning
- WS Technology (incl. Comp. Sci) Focus on Learning
- WS Visual Art (incl. Film & Photo) Focus on Learning
- WS World Languages Focus on Learning
SDGs
We want to ensure that the SDGs become a focus in Social Studies and Science. There will be more discussion on this in the coming weeks. To help make them a priority when planning, always consider the SDG focus before anything else.
TEACHER NOTICES
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You will get your conference schedule sent to you the day before parent conferences. Parents have until Monday the 14th, 3 PM, to sign up
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Progress Reports and conference sign-ups are live.
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Please promote composting in your classrooms.
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I will share the video on cashless payments; please review it with your classes before it starts on the 1st of November.
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We have field trip procedures. The first step is to discuss this with your Principal.
STUDENT NEWS
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There are games that can be borrowed at break times outside the office. Please make sure you read the guidelines for the game’s use before borrowing.
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The back playground can only be used during 1st break.
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The swing in the back playground should not have more than 2 students on it. Be careful when pushing and be safe, don’t go too high.
MONDAY MATH ANSWERS
Grade 2 – Ms. Sandy has a big bag of candy. There are 102 blue candies and 100 red candies. How many are there in total? 202
Grade 3 – If you have 4 pieces of candy spilt evenly into 2 bags. How many pieces are in each bag? 2
Grade 4 – If you have 80 tickets for the haunted house and each visit is worth 5 tickets. How many times can you go inside? 16
Grade 5 – There are 89 pumpkins for sale. 16 are big, 34 are small, and the rest are medium-sized. How many are medium-sized? 39
DUTIES BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL after the break
Monday – Ian/Saw John, Tuesday – Bekka, Mabel, Wednesday – Laura, Snow, Thursday – Beth, Sandy, Friday – LuAnn, Htut Htut
Previous Elementary School Posts
Elementary School Faculty Blog – June 4, 2021
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Elementary School Faculty Blog – May 28, 2021
Here is another article that is worth reading as we think about how schools might come out of this year stronger… For Keeps.
Elementary School Faculty Blog – May 21, 2021
ISY Elementary School Faculty Blog Something else to think about for next year… Mike Simpson May 21, 2021 We still might not know what next year will look like yet but I found this blog post useful in helping me think about what it could look like…"No More Easy...
Elementary School Faculty Blog – May 7, 2021
We will have no classes this Thursday and Friday, May 13 and 14. Happy Eid-al-Fitr to our Muslim students and families
Elementary School Faculty Blog – April 30, 2021
We might not know what next year will look like yet but we can begin to think about what we will need to focus on.
Elementary School Faculty Blog – April 23
Parent Teacher Conferences have come at a perfect time to reassure our parents that they are doing a good job and that their children are going to be ok.
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