It’s a bit hard to believe, but we’re down to our last 8 weeks of school. The end of the year always gets busy. Please note the important dates below. And enjoy every minute with your students.
Upcoming Week at a Glance:
Important Dates
April 18th-22nd - Earth Week
April 19th 3:3-5:30 p.m. - ES Art Show Exhibition Open House
April 21st 3:00 p.m. - Staff Appreciation Walk
April 21st & 22nd - Book Swap
April 22nd - Grade 4 sleepover
April 25th - May 13th F & P testing window
April 27th & 28th - Vision Days
May 3rd - May 13th - MAP Testing G2-5
May 3rd - May 13th - Matt Glover Meetings with HR/EAL teachers
May 6th - Grade 5 sleepover
June 3rd 9:00 a.m. - Grade 5 Celebration
June 3rd 2:45 p.m. - End of Year Assembly
Game Time with Grade 5
Grade 5 have been inquiring into 'Traditional Indian Games' in Indian Studies and as a part of this unit, they have designed board games that teach about, connect to or celebrate India.
The students invite you to 'Game Time with Grade 5', a chance to play the board games they have ideated and created.
Who is invited ? All students & faculty of Elementary School
Days & Dates : Mon - Wed, April 11th -13th
Time: During Snack Recess (10:25-50 am)
Where: In the Design studio
Please announce this to your class and maybe even build it into the daily schedule for next week as a reminder. Please also come by to support the kids and for a FUN time!
Vision Day Student Invitations
Faculty involved in our grades 3-5 Vision Days later this month, please complete/update your student invitation by Wednesday, April 13th. Thank you.
2021/22 Strand Feedback
Many thanks to everyone who submitted the feedback form to help us evaluate our strands from 2021/22! We had more responses at the end of this year than we did at the midpoint. Thank you!
The feedback on format and facilitation will be shared with the strand leaders and consultants along with your comments. Below please find the overall feedback on the content of the strands.
The Office of Teaching and Learning in partnership with the principals are busy at work lining up strands for next year. We hope to share a firm plan with you at the OTL wrap up meeting in May!
ES Art Exhibit - Open House
We are inviting students, parents and teachers to attend the ES art exhibition on Tuesday, April 19th.
Staff Appreciation Walk
After a gap of two years, our fourth annual staff recognition event is scheduled on Thursday, April 21st. This is the event when all students and faculty get together to celebrate our staff by forming a gauntlet from the FAC cafeteria, across the field, through level 1 corridors ending at the Unity Fountain Courtyard, for staff to parade through. Below are the schedule and maps.
Schedule
2:50pm - All ES student council members head to the FAC cafeteria with Fer
2:55pm - Rest of ES start to move; head to form gauntlet walkway
Grade 5 - Join end of HS line on field (Lynn and Grade 5 teachers will direct)
EY3/4 - meet in the covered area to join end of Grade 5 line (Dave will direct)
Grade 2 - head to covered area (where gauntlet will split) - form the line that crosses covered area, into the plaza towards amphitheater (Greg will direct)
Grade 1 - join end of Grade 2 line, outside grade 1 classrooms and past health center towards unity courtyard
Grade 4 - head to covered area (where gauntlet will split) - form the line that goes from covered area down ES cafeteria side (Greg will direct)
Grade 3 - join end Grade 4 line, outside ES cafeteria
KG - join where Grade 3 ends; outside of CIC and towards unity courtyard
Parade will start between 3:05 and 3:10 p.m.
Once the staff parade passes by, students may return to classes to pack up.
From the Counselors
Growth mindset helps to foster confidence that anything can be learned with the right amount of effort. With a growth mindset students worry less about being right and put more energy into learning and growing. Growth mindset can also help students stay open to friendship changes, avoid assumptions and generalizations about others, and have the confidence in knowing mistakes are made in friendships and we can practice and grow social skills. Each new friendship dynamic provides an opportunity to practice social skills and learn to manage emotions in healthy ways. Growth mindset keeps the focus on practicing these skills and allowing for mistakes in the process. Students stay open to growth in themselves and others.
Here are some words to encourage growth mindset with social skills:
You can work this out.
You are thinking the problem through.
You shared the difficulties you are having and accepted advice.
You are looking at the problem from different perspectives to find a solution.
You are practicing friendship skills and improving.
Friendship skills take time and effort.
Mistakes in friendships help us learn how to be a better friend.
Remind the student of their ability to build understanding. Ask them to engage in a perspective taking exercise. Ask them how they might feel if someone did this to them. Ask them to reserve judgment until they make an effort to look at the situation from the other perspective.
Your effort in learning to…… was apparent in your group work today.
Have a great weekend.
Lynn and Dave
