Dear Parents,
This week, we held our Lower Elementary Celebrate India Month assembly, and what a colorful and vibrant show it was! I hope you enjoy these photos. You will need to enter a password to access the photos. The password is raptors14. The Upper Elementary assembly will be held on Thursday, beginning at 8:45 in the FAC Auditorium.
Don’t forget that next Friday, we will be serving an Indian lunch catered by the Taj Madras Flight Kitchen. Lunch will be jeera pulao, vegetable makhini, poori, channa, aloo tikka, chicken tikka, jalebi, pappad and pickle. Spices in the food will be minimal. Please note that is the only food that will be served to students. If your child does not want this lunch, you are asked to send in a packed lunch from home.
Standards-Based Grading and Reporting
Standards-based grading is a system of reporting student proficiency in a number of specific learning goals (or standards). The goal of this approach is to provide the teacher, student, and parent as accurate a picture as possible of the student’s learning and to encourage a dialogue about how the student can master the subject matter. Next month, we will launch our new standards-based report card.
Do you want to learn more about standards-based grading and reporting? I will be hosting a parent information session on Monday, October 13th in the ES Cafeteria for parents who have children in Kindergarten to Grade 2. On the following day, I will host another session, also in the ES Cafeteria, for parents who have children in Grades 3 to 5. Each presentation will be similar to the parent presentation we held this past spring. Both presentations begin at 8:45.
Grade 4 Parents of English Language Learners
The Grade 4 EAL teachers cordially invite you to attend an afternoon session with us to learn more about inclusion in the grade four classrooms.
Please join us at 2:00 on Wednesday, October 15 in room 3607.
We look forward to meeting with you!
Ms. Andrea Morris
Ms. Lauren Schneider
Ms. Deanna Doherty
Vision and Hearing Screening
Each year, we conduct a vision & hearing screening test for students in our Health Office. This will happen during the week of October 27 – 31, 2014.
The hearing screening will be conducted by the Madras ENT Research Foundation (P) Ltd., First Cross Street, II Main Road, R.A. Puram, Chennai. Dr. Sudha Maheswari and her team will conduct this screening.
The vision screening will be done by “Dr. Agarwal’s Eye Hospital”, 19 Cathedral Road, Chennai. The team will be led by Dr. Sudha.
Teachers will choose a time to take their students to see the doctors. The Health Office will notify you if a doctor recommends any further assessment.
Halloween- October 31
If you look at the Community Calendar, you will see that on Friday, October 31 "Halloween Celebrations" is marked on the calendar. Soon, your child's classroom teacher will share with you activities that are specific to the class. In general, there are class parties and students will parade around the school and receive a small candy at various points along the parade route. New parents will benefit from knowing that most children wear a costume, so this may be something to put on your Fall Break shopping list. We do ask that costumes not be too scary and that any weapons that are accessories to a costume stay at home.
Hosting for SAISA Swimming
We need your help. In just about a month from now, we will be hosting SAISA Swimming. We have approximately 150 visiting students and still need to host 40 more students. We are asking our AISC Parent Community to help us make this happen. If you can host 2 or more students please let Ron Thomson (tronald@aisch.org) know as soon as possible. As usual we can provide transportation for those willing to host 4 or more students. The dates we need to host our visiting SAISA Athletes are October 29th through November 2nd.
I hope to see you at the Diwali Mela tomorrow, beginning at 5 pm.
Have a great weekend,
Kevin Hall
Elementary School Principal