VLD end of week 4
Hi everyone,
Great week, and even better ‘seeing’ many of you at the faculty meeting on Wednesday. Keep up the wonderful work, keep supporting each other, and keep checking in with us if you need support with anything.
We had about 40 children complete the enrichment ‘masterchef’ challenge! Look at the parents blog to see their pics!
We only had a couple of questions from our faculty meeting- one of which we feel many of you may be facing; how to respond/report out on children who are not engaging? See below!
Children Not Engaging
If you notice children are not engaging at all or with a particular subject area, please direct email the parents. It is important they realise this will be reflected on the report cards. The following steps are outlined to support you with this.
Consolidating Office Hours by Grade Level
Posted here are the office hours - we thank you all for sticking to these and not overlapping to avoid any clashes for children. You will notice a new column of ‘open specialist hours’. Many specialist teams will begin offering live sessions soon too e.g a PE session, an Art class, a language conversation or a Music sing along for different grade levels. This offers another opportunity for children to connect, and will be recorded for those unable to participate during IST.
Upcoming Faculty Meeting
Dan has two scheduled MSA meetings as the upcoming faculty meetings on the 22 and 29 April.
All those in an MSA team, they will meet to complete that work.
Anyone not in a MSA team, then we ask you to please work together in your teams on the curriculum map/pacing guides for 2020-21.
- Find each grade levels curriculum map in this folder
- Copy over units from this year
- Update any modifications to all units that have occurred over the year.
- Determine the order of the units of study (Sci/SS/Math/LA)
- *Please know that units need to alternate between Sci/SS in case we are faced with virtual school at any point next year and so children have balanced experience with both subject areas.
- Reach out to coaches if you need any support with completing curriculum maps.
- Each map needs to have all units outlined; specialist and homeroom core subjects.
- Due date for all curriculum maps is Friday 15 May.
ES Social - Trivia Night
Put your thinking caps on because it’s Trivia Night! Linda, Vanessa, and Dave are hosting our next ES Social on Friday, April 24th from 5-6 p.m. Get ready to have some fun and test your knowledge about the world around you. Also, grab a snack and a favorite drink. Here is the link for the get together. We will also be sending out an invite next week.
Resources and Ideas to Support Live Sessions!
Need more resources or ideas for your morning meetings and office hours? Check out this list of Virtual Authors and Live Story Times by some of our favorite authors. Feel free to add to this list as you find other authors offering recorded sessions.
Math Learning Resources K-6
Here is a link to a Padlet that Calley created which has different math resources and sites to support student learning and teachers’ planning of math lessons and small group sessions.
From the EAL Department: EAL Strategy Talk, #6!
EAL Strategy Talks are still happening! Our next Talk focuses on Translanguaging at AISC, specifically: What parts of translanguaging do we do well? What parts may not be a good fit for us and our students? How are students possibly using translanguaging in a virtual environment? These questions and many more will be answered next Tuesday!
When: Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 7:30-8:15am
Password: 9jUcED
End of Year Report Cards (repeat announcement)
These will look different to previous years end of year report cards, and will reflect the learning we have been able to observe and assess as submitted in a virtual learning environment.
- Report cards will have reduced commenting for all core subject and specialist subjects
- No individual standard assessments.
- Templates will be shared asap.
- Homeroom/EAL teachers will write one overall PSE comment and assess learning habits as meeting/working towards as observed in a virtual learning environment. Specialists can contribute to this
- All subjects will have a 2-3 sentence narrative comment - teams/teachers can begin working to determine how they will need to structure tasks to obtain any assessment evidence to be able to write this.
- We went over this further at our faculty meeting on Wednesday at 3:45 p.m.
Virtual Report Card Timeline
Have an enjoyable and relaxing weekend!.
Keryn, Dave, and Calley
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