• There will be no regular classes on that day.
• Each child will have a passport. As they visit the different classes/stations, they will check off or stamp this passport. In the homeroom class, you’ll hear about their progress in literacy, unit, mathematics, and on their learning path goals. You’ll also visit single subject classes (PE, music and German. Art will be shared in the classroom).
• This is a student-led conference, rather than a traditional parent/teacher conference. Your child will lead the conference and teachers will not be involved in giving feedback.
• Follow this link to open our class’s sign-up sheet.  Sign up for a slot either in block 1 (8:30-10:00 AM), block 2 (10:30 AM-12:00 PM), or block 3 (1:00-2:30 PM). On the conference day, your child will begin in either our classroom or in the single subject classrooms. The students and I will work out their starting points together.
• Please attend during the block for which you sign up. We want to keep the number of families in at one time to a manageable number.

Here is the link to sign up (the same as that embedded above).

Dear 5R Families,

On Wednesday your child will be bringing home their orange assessment folder to share three recent assessments with you. These include their Fractions Assessment, Energy Report and Energy Transformation Diagram. Details regarding all of these are on a printed letter in the folder. It is also available online here. The folder is to be returned to school by Friday, February 9, please.

In the folder there is also a page of “homework” for you and your child. It is on the reverse of the letter described and linked above. While sharing the contents of the folder, please take some time to complete the short reflection together, describing several things your child should be proud of, and one target you would like to see them work towards. There is also a space for them to share their own points of pride and set a learning target.

Please enjoy sharing these with your child over the next couple of nights, and please return them to ZIS on Friday, February 9. If you need more time to share, please let me know.