Saturday, August 4, 2018

August 6th to 10th

Video of the Week
Here is a look at CreateSpace Beginnings, created by John C, Lucy, and Dan H.  It is a great motivation for us all….if you can dream it, it can happen!

First Week of School Parent Letter
Here is the letter we sent to parents explaining the 1st week of school.  Familiarize yourself with the information so you can let students know if they have questions.

First Day/Week of School and Lunch/Recess Schedule
First Day of School for G1-5
  • On the first day of school, parents and students in JK- G5 will begin coming to classrooms at 8:10.  This will allow parents to help their child get settled in the new classroom and greet the teachers.   
  • All specialist teachers are asked to be at the front of the ES at 8:10 to help direct parents to classrooms. HRT, please be in your classrooms to welcome students. 
  • At 8:30 all parents will be asked to leave the campus so our regular school day can begin.  There are no specialist classes from 8:30 to 9:30 on Thursday.  This allow time for students to settle in to the new school year.
  • We will have 2 assemblies on Thursday in the ESPAC.  G1-3 will be at 9:45 and G4-5 will be at 10:30. 
  • Here are your class lists, faculty roles, and individual class schedules (hyperlinked to your name).
  • All schedules should be completed and posted on your blog by August 24th
  • Individual student supply packets will be delivered to classrooms on Wednesday.  Please put the packets on student desks or in their cubbies so parents can see them on Thursday morning.
  • All classrooms must have a DRAGONS poster, Kelso’s Choice poster, evacuation map and folder.  If you need any of these items talk to Theresa Cook.
  • If you would like an Agenda Book for your students or yourself, feel free to pick them up in the ES Office. 
  • All homerooms have new carpets!  If you are not going to use your old carpet, send Bill Rago an email.  He will come pick it up. If your carpet is too worn out simply put it outside your room by Tuesday afternoon and they will be cleared away. 
  • Teachers can get classroom supplies from the Business Office in the MS or HS. Have your Team Leaders show you the process.
  • Sun (ysjung@kis.ac) is our ES Textbook Manager. Email her when you need to checkout textbooks.
  • Here is the ES Suggestion Box.  This form is for ideas, solutions or comments about issues that matter to the ES community.
  • If you have issues with hardware (laptops, projectors, etc) and network (wifi). Simply submit an IT Repair Request Form.
Blog Expectations
Blog should be live by August 18th. Email Bonnie your blog link and put it on the ES Faculty/Class List 2018/2019  

All Homeroom Teacher’s blogs need to include:
  • “The Week Ahead" section that tells what topics will be covered during the upcoming week. This must be aligned by grade level and updated weekly.
  • Pictures that are updated at least biweekly (do not include student names).
  • “Meet the Teacher" page with some background information about the teacher.
  • Links to all Specialist teachers blogs.
  • Homeroom daily schedule (timetable) linked to blog.
  • Homeroom Teacher’s Blogs need to be updated weekly no later than Sunday. When your blog is updated send an email to parents and Mareena.  Parent email addresses can be found on PowerSchool or the ES Faculty/Class List.  

All Specialist Teacher’s blogs need to include:
  • “The Weeks Ahead" section that tells what topics will be covered during the next two weeks.
  • Pictures that are updated at least biweekly.
  • “Meet the Teacher" page with some background information about the teacher.
  • Specialist Teacher’s Blogs need to be updated biweekly no later than Sunday. When your blog is updated send an email to parents and Mareena.  Parent email addresses can be found on PowerSchool or the ES Faculty/Class List.

Classroom Libraries
Common Understandings
We will be having a short stand-up meeting on Friday at 1:30 in Science room B to talk about our common understanding of classroom libraries. We have guidelines for our classroom libraries in this document. You are welcome to read this before the meeting. Here is an important guideline ..."The number of books to be leveled varies, but a general rule of thumb falls around the 60% of your total books being leveled. The other 40% can be grouped into series, author, genre etc." You are, of course, welcome to start designing your classroom library as soon as you can, but please following these guidelines.
New Books.
We have boxes of new books for you classroom libraries sitting in the ES Science Lab B. Each grade level is sitting on a different table. They are yours to take as soon as you get your classroom library ready for stocking. Team leaders, please coordinate the dividing up of these books according to your orders.
New Cabinets and Baskets
Workmen are currently making a new cabinet/cubby for each class to help hold the new books in your classroom library - 6 cubbies x 2 storage baskets per cubby.
The new baskets are currently sitting in the new Grade 3D classroom. Everyone, please collect 16 of these baskets at your earliest convenience to get them out of this teacher's classroom.
Labels for Baskets
To help you create a library with genre labeled boxes, I have attached a PDF of genre labels. If you fill in this doc with how many laminated labels you want, I can have those ready for you ASAP.
Scanning Classroom Libraries
A new initiative. We have purchased a new portable ISBN scanner. It plugs into a computer usb port. We have prepared all the spreadsheets and will ask you and your TA's to scan your classroom library books so we have a data base record of all books. We only have 1 scanner so maybe we can aim to have that task completed by the end on Q1. More on this later.

Important Phone Numbers
Here is a document you can print and have by your classroom phone.  If your phone is not working let the IT department know.

Important Documents and Links


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