Congratulations to Angie and Jayme on the birth of their baby daughter Natalie Elizabeth Gawrych born on November 27th. Mom and baby are doing well (and dad is too).
Upcoming Week at a Glance:
Repeat Announcement
REPORT CARDS
Semester 1 Overviews
Here are the semester 1 overviews for reading, writing, SS/Science, and specials. Here is a short tutorial video from Priya on completing report cards in PowerSchool including how to autofill the semester overviews.
Virtual Learning Semester 1 Guidelines - repeat announcement
Here are the guidelines for this semester’s report card.
New Students - repeat announcement
The latest date for new student arrivals to receive a full report card is Friday, October 30th. If you have students who started after this date, please write a personal, social, emotional comment and a narrative comment for any subjects that you can. Many of you may be able to write about areas of success for reading, writing, and math. These comments do not have to be as long as the comments for the other students. You do not need to mark any of the standards.
Specialists do not need to fill out a report card for students starting after Oct. 30th. Homeroom teachers please communicate the names of these students directly with specialist teachers.
Students Attending Another School
If you have students attending another school who may be completing some or none of the AISC virtual work, please complete what you can for the personal social emotional and subject area comments as well as check any appropriate standards. You can use the statement below for subject areas where you do not have enough information to write a comment.
There is insufficient data to assess XXXX’s growth at this time.
Archive Seesaw Posts
Please regularly archive Seesaw activities. You can go ahead and archive any activities prior to November 9th. The posts accumulate and some students are reporting to have 30+ incomplete Seesaw activities on their feed. Looking at the long feed of activities can be stressful for kids (and parents!). If a student would like to make up any unfinished work, you can always reassign the activity.
2021 Winter EAL Jumpstart Program
It's that time of year again! AISC is looking for educators interested in being a Classroom Teacher at this year’s Winter EAL Jumpstart Program. Our Winter Jumpstart Program will run from 4-8 January 2021 (9 am-2 pm). This 1-week program helps new AISC students acclimate to school routines while learning foundational English words, structures, and phrases needed for academic success. This year, our program will be virtual.
If you are interested in being an instructor of this January 2021 EAL Jumpstart, please complete this form by 8th December 2021. We will be selecting 7 teachers for the EAL Jumpstart program, possibly more based on enrollment. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Dan Love.
Padlet for Departing Students
We’d like to send off our semester 1 departing students with well wishes. If you have a student who is leaving at the end of this semester, please create a goodbye Padlet for each departing student and ask the class to write memories, best of luck and we’ll miss you messages, upload pictures, etc…You can export Padlets and share with the departing student. Feel free to recognize students in other ways as well. You can also talk to Linda or Michele to plan a special goodbye.
Last Day Before Winter Break Grade Level Events
Similar to the grade level events we did with Halloween, we are encouraging grade level teams to consider planning an event for the last day before winter break with some fun games or activities. Lynn, Dave, and Elliot are happy to lead an activity, read a story, or help out in some other way.
On Campus Classroom Preparation
We had planned to have teachers go to campus to “ready” their classroom before the end of the first semester but that has been put on hold since campus is still closed. If you would like to go to campus to organize your room, you may do that at any time (even over the break) - just let Angeline know. We have ordered lots of canvas bags to put student work in from last year. The bags won’t be ready for another week or so. Please do not throw out any student work even if the student is no longer at AISC.
We will find time in the 2nd semester for everyone to prepare their space so there is no expectation to go to campus beforehand unless you choose to do so on your own.
Coaches Corner
Check out Flipgrid’s Discovery Library, where you can find topics for discussion to share with your learning community! Explore organizations such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, music education from WURRLYedu, DiscoveryEdu, LEGO Education, Wonderopolis, and consider how they might support your students.
From the Counselors
Thank you to our ES teachers for
Bringing joy and care to students in every classroom, small group, and individual Zoom time while dealing with many things that we will never know about
Transforming your home into a first class classroom and school
Endless hours on Seesaw checking posts and giving encouragement and feedback
Becoming super videographers
Always being ready to collaborate via Zoom
For being role models in flexible thinking and compassion
For managing homes, answering doorbells, calls, children, dogs, and cyclones without missing a beat
For fixing tech problems like Apollo 13 astronauts while giving a lesson or leading a song
For those of you working at night on different time zones, thank you for giving it your all
Thank you everyone!
Have a wonderful weekend. Stay dry.
Lynn, Dave, and Elliot
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