I really look forward to our Wednesday assemblies and, judging by the enthusiasm with which they join the Zoom meeting, our students do too. It is great to see everyone’s face in one place and to be reminded how strong and fun our community is. 

Providing students with opportunities to share their work is an important reason for having assemblies. It takes confidence and sometimes courage for many of our students to share their work and ideas with others. Online learning is not perfect but I do think that it has helped some students build the confidence to share their ideas – in an assembly or in class.

When students see others sharing their ideas in a less than perfect situation (and having fun doing it), they realize that they don’t need to be perfect to make a valuable contribution. This very important realization is reinforced by how gracefully and positively you all approach the many and varied challenges of online teaching. It was certainly reinforced for me as I visited classes this week.

 Semester 1 (Q1 + Q2) Reports

Here are some overviews for Semester 1 Report Writing:

• Pre-Kindergarten & Kindergarten
• Grades 1 to 5

TIMELINE:

By 12pm on Wednesday, January 12: Subject Comments to be completed. 

By 12pm on Friday, January 21: Individual Student Comments to be completed. Please share your Google Document directly with Mike as soon as you have completed your comments.

By 12pm on Tuesday, January 25: Individual Student Comments and Grades to be entered into Powerschool.

Reports go out on Friday, January 28

Interdisciplinary Units

Curriculum Maps and Q2 Scope and Sequence

Here is where you can find our Curriculum Maps (updated for Q1 using report subject comments).

Here is where you can find our Q1 Scope and Sequence. Please link your planning to the Scope and Sequence. I have done this for PE and Culture and Communication to give you an example. We want to give you some autonomy as to how you organize your planning and resources but your planning needs to be in an ISY Shared Drive. 

Here is where you can find our Q2 Scope and Sequence. 

To fill out this year’s Q2 Scope and Sequence, you might want to refer to the skills you focused on this time last year in these Q2 scope and sequence documents:

PK-1 Q2 Scope and Sequence 2020-2021

2-3 Q2 Scope and Sequence 2020-2021

4-5 Q2 Scope and Sequence 2020-2021

Please also link your planning to the Scope and Sequence. 

If you have not already, please check off the standards that you intend to cover in your subject in Quarter 2. Please make sure there is an ‘x’ in the second column of any standard you will cover in these Grade Level Standards Checklists.

These documents are really taking shape and will be a valuable resource in years to come.

From our TIFs