Grade 4 Newsletter May 27th - 31st

Grade 4 Weekly Newsletter

May 27th - May 31st

Dear Parents,

Parents, please inform your classroom teacher if your child will be fasting so we can make any necessary arrangements to make sure they are comfortable. It is helpful to know if they fast for the whole or part of the day at school, food and water?

Curriculum

Reading:

Students are reading expository nonfiction. In this unit readers use their knowledge of the structure of the text from prior years to evaluate and analyze the text and glean the big ideas and supportive details from the text.

It is important for readers to distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text and to compare and contrast first and secondhand accounts of the same event. These comparisons help the reader understand the different perspectives that are possible around a topic or event.

When reading a cluster of related texts, a nonfiction reader pulls together information from related parts of many texts in order to move within and across any type of nonfiction text.

The lessons for this week are:

Lesson 1: Research Project

Lesson 2: Research Project

Lesson 3: Research Project

Lesson 4: Research Project

Lesson 5: Reading Celebration



Essential Question

When reading nonfiction, how do I hold onto important and interesting information?

Writing:

Students are working on an independent writing project with a focus on revision. They will select a seed idea they came up with throughout the year and work to create a story.

The lessons for this week are:

Lesson 1: Independent Writing Project

Lesson 2: Independent Writing Project

Lesson 3: Independent Writing Project

Lesson 4: Reflection

Lesson 5: Writing Celebration

Essential Question

Using what I know about the genre of my choice, how can I write with passion and craft so that my reader becomes absorbed in my writing?

Mathematics

The lessons for this week are:

Lesson 1: Remediation and Enrichment/Math Games

Lesson 2: Remediation and Enrichment/Math Games

Lesson 3: Remediation and Enrichment/Math Games

Lesson 4: Remediation and Enrichment/Math Games

Lesson 5: Remediation and Enrichment/Math Games

Here is the LINK to the Growth Mindset video (Jo Boaler). We suggest you watch it with your child and discuss what might create a positive math classroom at school. How can you build a positive math relationship with your child? What type of dialogue will you use? You might like the following sentence starters to help you!

Science: The Circle of Life

In this unit we will take a look at heredity and the traits that we have inherited. We will be using scientific methods to observe, collect, record, and analyze data. We will also discuss and compare the life cycle of plants, insects, reptiles, amphibians, birds and animals - from birth to adult. Students will explain that every organism requires a set of instructions that specify their traits.


Essential Questions:

o Why do we look the way we do?

o Do all living things have the same life cycle? Why?


Lesson Focus this week: Ask questions on Life Cycles

Read Aloud: Life Cycles

• Students will look at investigative questions regarding life cycles with their partners. 
• Student partners will discuss these questions which will lead them to their investigation.
• Students will discuss areas of interest for research of different life cycles. We will look at how comparing and contrasting can help us in our research.

Guidance News

Guidance Update - Flipping Your Lid! - A Tool for Managing Stress

The end of the school year is a busy and exciting time! It’s also a time that invites strong emotions and stress. End of year celebrations, final project deadlines, saying goodbye to those moving on, transitions to new school divisions or even to new schools, are only some of the events during this time that can lend themselves to complete meltdowns. It’s important to be mindful of this and prepared so we can use these times as opportunities to teach our children how to cope effectively during times of stress.

During Guidance we are teaching the students about their brains and how the brain functions when we are experiencing stress. The students were introduced to the following lesson, “Brain in the Palm of Your Hand - Flipping Your Lid and Finding it Again- ”. The concept of “Flipping Your Lid,” is very visual. We use the “flipped lid” signal to help the children acknowledge their feelings and the need to calm down when they are starting to feel stressed or angry.

We are providing you with the lesson (see link above) so you can use the same signal and the same language at home with your family! The following video is also very helpful for understanding the concept of a “flipped lid”.

Why Do We Lose Control of Our Emotions?

Important Information

Parents, please inform your classroom teacher if your child will be fasting so we can make any necessary arrangements to make sure they are comfortable. It is helpful to know if they fast for the whole or part of the day at school, food and water?

Skyward online payment for food services open

Elementary Parents,

We are pleased to announce our Skyward online hot lunch payment system will be open for Kindergarten-Grade 5 students from Sunday, May 13. Parents can pay into your family account for the hot lunch commencing via the CAC cashier’s office in our welcome center. For this week only (May 13 - May 17), the cashier's hours will be before 10:00 am and after 2:00 pm. Minimum payment of 500 LE per student is required.

This new system will give parents and students a more convenient way for their elementary child’s hot lunch.

Making payment is straightforward and offers you the freedom to pay CAC’s cashier in our welcome centre whenever you are on campus or send the money via your child and the class/grade aide will pay on your behalf and send the receipt to you. Your Skyward secure online food service tab is part of your Skyward account and the link can be found on your parent dashboard. This system will support if you have more than one child in our division as each child has a personalized bracelet which will register who, when and cost of each hot lunch purchased. Parents can view this on their Skyward account. Please see this link for a quick tutorial.

If a student orders hot lunch and the family account does not have funds, the meal will be given to the student and the parent will receive an automated email informing them. Also, when the amount drops to 300 LE the email will request the replenishment of the student’s account balance. At the end of the year, if the family account is overdrawn and you have a debit balance, the report card will be held until cleared. If there is a surplus it will be rolled over the following year for returning students, grade five and departing students will be notified by elementary school office and the refund can be collected from the cashier’s office.

From the student side their class/grade aide will hand out the bracelets to students having hot lunch and collect them after lunch. The food vendor will scan the bracelet and return to the student.





38 LE meal card & 45 LE Combo meal/ juice cards are acceptable in lieu of cash for your child’s meal until May 31 which is our last day for hot lunches. Please hand them to the cashier and receive a payment receipt.

Who do I see if I have a problem?


If you have feedback, questions regarding the Skyward online payment system please contact our technology office, Mr. Fadi Duweni, email: felduweini@cacegypt.org, Ph: 2755-5495


If you have feedback, questions regarding the payment please contact CAC’s cashier Reda Ibrahim, email: ribrahim@cacegypt.org, Ph: 2755-551


If you have feedback, questions regarding the use of the bracelet or general please contact Mrs. Jackson-Jin, email: jjackson@cacegypt.org, elementary office: 2755-5222


Parent questions so far?

What if my child uses their bracelet to buy a friend’s lunch? Your child will only be permitted to scan for their own lunch and the bracelet.

What if I don’t want my child to buy juice with lunch? We can add it as an alert for the vendor on the system, but please understand that it comes by practice and vendor may miss this sometimes initially.

I would like to thank our lunch committee chair, Sandrine Kachour and development chair Jackie Goodall Riley, for their support in trialling the system and giving us feedback. As we know with any new systems their may be glitches, so we would appreciate your feedback.

Best regards,

Julie Jackson-Jin

Elementary Principal

ES Yearbook 2017-2018 Pre-Sales

To our cashier, Mr. Reda in the Welcome Center.

May 13th till May 31st for L.E. 580 ($33)

After May 31st, price increases to L.E. 650 ($37)
Please note that for this week only (May 13 - May 17), the cashier will only be available before 10:00 am and after 2:00 pm.

21st Century Libraries for Parents: CAC Overdrive and ebook collections

Join us on May 23 at the MHS to access the CAC ebook collections. We have lots of options, and of all of them, Overdrive is our prize collection. Overdrive is an app that allows you to read ebooks and listen to audiobooks offline, and choose from hundreds of titles in our digital collection.

We will offer this session twice, at 8:15 am and at 2 pm. Both times will be at the MHS library.

Please download the Overdrive app before the workshop. It is available for free at all the app stores. You will need your CAC single sign on to access the CAC digital collection.

End of year dates for the ES library

May 29 Summer check out starts

ES Dismissal

Important message to ES parents,

We had two students who left campus without parental permission with a nanny. We have taken steps to ensure this does not happen again and ask for your cooperation in following our handbook guidelines for all Elementary students PreK to Grade 5. Our handbook states, that any change in the usual pattern of dismissal for your child at the end of the school day should be verified by a note or email from the parent or guardian to the classroom teacher. We have added that we need to receive this information before 12 p.m. which will give us the time to make sure all necessary personnel is informed before 2:30 p.m. each day. We appreciate CAC’s security as they have increased vigilance in making sure our students go home safely and with the person/s permitted. Ms. Samah will continue to be at the dismissal gate from 3:00 and Ms. Nadia from 4:00 for our after school activity dismissal time.

How to give permission?
Write to the classroom teacher informing the dismissal plan change.
Name the person you are giving permission to and the date/s.
In the case of a change in driver or nanny, full names and photos are needed.

What will happen if no permission has been given?

If we do not have a written record of a change in dismissal, security will not let the student leave campus. The student will be sent to the office. To avoid disappointment, please make sure to arrange the change in dismissal plans ahead of time.

Our student's safety is a school/home priority and we thank you for your understanding, support and welcome your feedback.

Drama Class Performance

Grades 3 - 5 have been hard at work, writing their own scripts. They have asked me to invite you to their final class performances. Please note, Drama class performances are not a typical performance, as it is a part of their classwork. They are very proud of their work, as am I.

Please find the schedule below:


5K - 8:15 - 9 on May 27th

3W - 9:15 - 10 on May 27th



5O - 8:15 - 9 on May 28th

3D - 9:15 -10 on May 28th

4F - 2:15 - 3 on May 28th



3H - 8:15 - 9 on May 30th

5J - 10 - 10:40 on May 30th

4M - 2:15 - 3 on May 30th



5G - 10 - 10:40 on May 31st

4D - 11:15 - 12 on May 31st

3C - 1 - 1:45 on May 31st



Thank you for your continued support,

Ms. Dolly

Sunday May 20th - 24th

Grade 4 Weekly Newsletter

May 20th - May 24th

Dear Parents,

Parents, please inform your classroom teacher if your child will be fasting so we can make any necessary arrangements to make sure they are comfortable. It is helpful to know if they fast for the whole or part of the day at school, food and water?

Student Led Conferences May 21st

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow at the conferences where grade 4 students share their learning and growth with you from the past year. We are so proud of the efforts and demonstration of the Core Values our fourth grader’s have shown and developed this year. Please see this link for possible questions you may ask your child tomorrow about their goals and learning: Possible Prompts for Parents

Curriculum

Reading:

Students will continue reading nonfiction. History isn’t just facts and information. Researchers don’t simply read for information. Rather, researchers are often moved by the feelings that are drawn out by the stories and images we encounter. As we read, we step back from all those names and dates, and ask, ‘How am I left feeling about this person or topic? Am I left with an extremely positive or negative feeling? Do I suspect that I’m missing part of the picture?’ In answering these questions, researchers find themselves with a much deeper understanding of the truth about a topic. Readers also realize there are patterns in history, specifically, patterns of points of view, and we ask ourselves, ‘What big ideas keep popping up in history and in modern times? What struggles do people continue to have? How have ideas about those struggles changed or stayed the same?’ Thinking about those struggles and people’s attitudes towards those struggles can help you think about what actions you want to take to solve big social issues.

The lessons for this week are:

Lesson 1: Student Led Conferences Preparations

Lesson 2: Student Led Conferences

Lesson 3: How am I left feeling about this person or topic?

Lesson 4: What patterns keep popping up?

Lesson 5: Review


Essential Question

When reading nonfiction, how do I hold onto important and interesting information?


Writing:

Students will continue working on their pieces of writing they would like to publish in our 4M book. Each student will take home a copy of this book at the end of the year.

The lessons for this week are:

Lesson 1: Student Led Conferences Preparations

Lesson 2: Student Led Conferences

Lesson 3: Editing for punctuation

Lesson 4: Revising for structure

Lesson 5: Revising for elaboration


Essential Question
Using what I know about the genre of my choice, how can I write with passion and craft so that my reader becomes absorbed in my writing?


Mathematics:

Trial Assessment Reflection Feedback: Please give your student’s teacher any feedback you have on the “I can” Student Reflection students will bring home to help them reflect on their end-module assessment. Do you feel it helps your child identify strengths and areas of growth? How could we improve it?

The lessons for this week are:

Lesson 1: Remediation and Enrichment

Lesson 2: Student Led Conferences

Lesson 3: Remediation and Enrichment

Lesson 4: Remediation and Enrichment

Lesson 5: Remediation and Enrichment

Here is the LINK to the Growth Mindset video (Jo Boaler). We suggest you watch it with your child and discuss what might create a positive math classroom at school. How can you build a positive math relationship with your child? What type of dialogue will you use? You might like the following sentence starters to help you!

Science: The Circle of Life

In this unit we will take a look at heredity and the traits that we have inherited. We will be using scientific methods to observe, collect, record, and analyze data. We will also discuss and compare the life cycle of plants, insects, reptiles, amphibians, birds and animals - from birth to adult. Students will explain that every organism requires a set of instructions that specify their traits.



Essential Questions:

o Why do we look the way we do?

o Do all living things have the same life cycle? Why?


Week 6 Focus: Researching traits


Lesson 1 Focus: Review Life Cycle vocabulary

Read Aloud: Read from one of our books on Genetics.



Lesson 2 Focus: Ask questions on Life Cycles

Read Aloud: Read from one of our books on Genetics.

Students will look at investigative questions regarding life cycles with their partners. Student partners will discuss these questions which will lead them to their investigation. Some classes are finishing up their trait research.


Lesson 3 Focus: Comparing and contrasting

Read Aloud: Read from one of our books on Genetics.

Students will discuss areas of interest for research of different life cycles. We will look at how comparing and contrasting can help us in our research.

*Some students are finishing their trait surveys this week.

Guidance News

Guidance Update - Flipping Your Lid! - A Tool for Managing Stress

The end of the school year is a busy and exciting time! It’s also a time that invites strong emotions and stress. End of year celebrations, final project deadlines, saying goodbye to those moving on, transitions to new school divisions or even to new schools, are only some of the events during this time that can lend themselves to complete meltdowns. It’s important to be mindful of this and prepared so we can use these times as opportunities to teach our children how to cope effectively during times of stress.


During Gudiance we are teaching the students about their brains and how the brain functions when we are experiencing stress. The students were introduced to the following lesson, “Brain in the Palm of Your Hand - Flipping Your Lid and Finding it Again- ”. The concept of “Flipping Your Lid,” is very visual. We use the “flipped lid” signal to help the children acknowledge their feelings and the need to calm down when they are starting to feel stressed or angry.

We are providing you with the lesson (see link above) so you can use the same signal and the same language at home with your family! The following video is also very helpful for understanding the concept of a “flipped lid”.

Why Do We Lose Control of Our Emotions?

Important Information

Parents, please inform your classroom teacher if your child will be fasting so we can make any necessary arrangements to make sure they are comfortable. It is helpful to know if they fast for the whole or part of the day at school, food and water?

Skyward online payment for food services open

Elementary Parents,

We are pleased to announce our Skyward online hot lunch payment system will be open forKindergarten-Grade 5 students from Sunday, May 13. Parents can pay into your family account for the hot lunch commencing via the CAC cashier’s office in our welcome center. For this week only (May 13 - May 17), the cashier's hours will be before 10:00 am and after 2:00 pm. Minimum payment of 500 LE per student is required.

This new system will give parents and students a more convenient way for their elementary child’s hot lunch.

Making payment is straightforward and offers you the freedom to pay CAC’s cashier in our welcome centre whenever you are on campus or send the money via your child and the class/grade aide will pay on your behalf and send the receipt to you. Your Skyward secure online food service tab is part of your Skyward account and the link can be found on your parent dashboard. This system will support if you have more than one child in our division as each child has a personalized bracelet which will register who, when and cost of each hot lunch purchased. Parents can view this on their Skyward account. Please see this link for a quick tutorial.

If a student orders hot lunch and the family account does not have funds, the meal will be given to the student and the parent will receive an automated email informing them. Also, when the amount drops to 300 LE the email will request the replenishment of the student’s account balance. At the end of the year, if the family account is overdrawn and you have a debit balance, the report card will be held until cleared. If there is a surplus it will be rolled over the following year for returning students, grade five and departing students will be notified by elementary school office and the refund can be collected from the cashier’s office.

From the student side their class/grade aide will hand out the bracelets to students having hot lunch and collect them after lunch. The food vendor will scan the bracelet and return to the student.






38 LE meal card & 45 LE Combo meal/ juice cards are acceptable in lieu of cash for your child’s meal until May 31 which is our last day for hot lunches. Please hand them to the cashier and receive a payment receipt.

Who do I see if I have a problem?

If you have feedback, questions regarding the Skyward online payment system please contact our technology office, Mr. Fadi Duweni, email: felduweini@cacegypt.org, Ph: 2755-5495

If you have feedback, questions regarding the payment please contact CAC’s cashier Reda Ibrahim, email: ribrahim@cacegypt.org, Ph: 2755-551

If you have feedback, questions regarding the use of the bracelet or general please contact Mrs. Jackson-Jin, email: jjackson@cacegypt.org, elementary office: 2755-5222


Parent questions so far?


What if my child uses their bracelet to buy a friend’s lunch? Your child will only be permitted to scan for their own lunch and the bracelet.


What if I don’t want my child to buy juice with lunch? We can add it as an alert for the vendor on the system, but please understand that it comes by practice and vendor may miss this sometimes initially.


I would like to thank our lunch committee chair, Sandrine Kachour and development chair Jackie Goodall Riley, for their support in trialling the system and giving us feedback. As we know with any new systems their may be glitches, so we would appreciate your feedback.

Best regards,

Julie Jackson-Jin

Elementary Principal

ES Yearbook 2017-2018 Pre-Sales

To our cashier, Mr. Reda in the Welcome Center.

May 13th till May 31st for L.E. 580 ($33)

After May 31st, price increases to L.E. 650 ($37)
Please note that for this week only (May 13 - May 17), the cashier will only be available before 10:00 am and after 2:00 pm.

21st Century Libraries for Parents: CAC Overdrive and ebook collections

Join us on May 23 at the MHS to access the CAC ebook collections. We have lots of options, and of all of them, Overdrive is our prize collection. Overdrive is an app that allows you to read ebooks and listen to audiobooks offline, and choose from hundreds of titles in our digital collection.

We will offer this session twice, at 8:15 am and at 2 pm. Both times will be at the MHS library.

Please download the Overdrive app before the workshop. It is available for free at all the app stores. You will need your CAC single sign on to access the CAC digital collection.

End of year dates for the ES library

May 15 Last day for check out

May 22 Last day for classes; All books are due

May 23 Overdrive and ebooks training - 8:15 am and 2 pm

May 29 Summer check out starts

ES Dismissal

Important message to ES parents

We had two students who left campus without parental permission with a nanny. We have taken steps to ensure this does not happen again and ask for your cooperation in following our handbook guidelines for all Elementary students PreK to Grade 5. Our handbook states, that any change in the usual pattern of dismissal for your child at the end of the school day should be verified by a note or email from the parent or guardian to the classroom teacher. We have added that we need to receive this information before 12 p.m. which will give us the time to make sure all necessary personnel is informed before 2:30 p.m. each day. We appreciate CAC’s security as they have increased vigilance in making sure our students go home safely and with the person/s permitted. Ms. Samah will continue to be at the dismissal gate from 3:00 and Ms. Nadia from 4:00 for our after school activity dismissal time.

How to give permission?
Write to the classroom teacher informing the dismissal plan change.
Name the person you are giving permission to and the date/s.
In the case of a change in driver or nanny, full names and photos are needed.

What will happen if no permission has been given?

If we do not have a written record of a change in dismissal, security will not let the student leave campus. The student will be sent to the office. To avoid disappointment, please make sure to arrange the change in dismissal plans ahead of time.


Our student's safety is a school/home priority and we thank you for your understanding, support and welcome your feedback.

Drama Class Performance

Grades 3 - 5 have been hard at work, writing their own scripts. They have asked me to invite you to their final class performances. Please note, Drama class performances are not a typical performance, as it is a part of their classwork. They are very proud of their work, as am I.

Please find the schedule below:


5K - 8:15 - 9 on May 27th

3W - 9:15 - 10 on May 27th



5O - 8:15 - 9 on May 28th

3D - 9:15 -10 on May 28th

4F - 2:15 - 3 on May 28th



3H - 8:15 - 9 on May 30th

5J - 10 - 10:40 on May 30th

4M - 2:15 - 3 on May 30th



5G - 10 - 10:40 on May 31st

4D - 11:15 - 12 on May 31st

3C - 1 - 1:45 on May 31st



Thank you for your continued support,

Ms. Dolly

Grade 4 Weekly Newsletter

Grade 4 Weekly Newsletter

May 6th - May 10th

MAP Testing

Monday May 7th Math MAP

In order to help your child feel prepared and confident about the MAP Assessments, do not place too much emphasis on the tests, which may may make a student feel anxious or stressed. Instead, maintain a typical schedule and atmosphere at home during the testing time, and make sure your child gets a sound sleep and healthy breakfast each day. Like all school activities and academics, students should be encouraged to do their best! 

Curriculum

Reading:

Students will be reading expository nonfiction. In this unit readers should use their knowledge of the structure of the text from prior years to evaluate and analyze the text and glean the big ideas and supportive details from the text.

It is important for readers to distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text and to compare and contrast first and secondhand accounts of the same event. These comparisons help the reader understand the different perspectives that are possible around a topic or event.

When reading a cluster of related texts, a nonfiction reader pulls together information from related parts of many texts in order to move within and across any type of nonfiction text.

The lessons for this week are:

Lesson 1: Questions: Why Does it Matter?

Lesson 2: Digging Deeper to Answer Our Questions

Lesson 3: What Patterns Do I See?

Lesson 4: Student Led Conferences Preparations

Lesson 5: Student Led Conferences Preparations


Essential Question

• When reading nonfiction, how do I hold onto important and interesting information?

Writing:

Students continue to work on their independent writing projects. They are revising a narrative, informational, or persuasive text. This week students will focus on revising for craft, structure, and punctuation. Students will be encouraged to rewrite certain paragraphs to help them revise more effectively.

The lessons for this week are:

Lesson 1: Revise for Craft

Lesson 2: Revise for Structure

Lesson 3: Revise for Punctuation (with a focus on commas)

Lesson 4: Student Led Conferences Preparations

Lesson 5: Student Led Conferences Preparations

Essential Question

• Using what I know about the genre of my choice, how can I write with passion and craft so that my reader becomes absorbed in my writing?

Mathematics:

This week we will be completing Module 6 - Decimal Fractions. 

This module gives Grade 4 students their first opportunity to work with and explore decimal numbers and their relationship to our previous module on decimal fractions. They will express a given quantity in both fraction and decimal forms. During this module students will build a solid foundation for working with decimal numbers in Grade 5.

End of Module Assessment - Wednesday 9th and Thursday 10th of May

Trial Assessment Reflection Feedback: Please give your student’s teacher any feedback you have on the “I can” Student Reflection students will bring home to help them reflect on their end-module assessment. Do you feel it helps your child identify strengths and areas of growth? How could we improve it?

Essential Questions:

• How can place value be used to create equivalent fractions?
• How can place value be used to add fractions?
• Why do we express quantities, measurements, and number relationships in different ways?
• How can place value be used to compare and order decimals?

The lessons for this week are:

Lesson 1: Express money amounts given in various forms as decimal numbers.

Lesson 2: MAP Testing

Lesson 3: Remediation and Enrichment

Lesson 4 & 5: End of Module Assessment


Parent Tip Sheets: Overall Module Tip Sheet, Topic A, Topic B, Topic C, Topic D.

Here is the LINK to the Growth Mindset video (Jo Boaler). We suggest you watch it with your child and discuss what might create a positive math classroom at school. How can you build a positive math relationship with your child? What type of dialogue will you use? You might like the following sentence starters to help you!

Science: The Circle of Life

In this unit we will take a look at heredity and the traits that we have inherited. We will be using scientific methods to observe, collect, record, and analyze data. We will also discuss and compare the life cycle of plants, insects, reptiles, amphibians, birds and animals - from birth to adult. Students will explain that every organism requires a set of instructions that specify their traits.

Essential Questions:

o Why do we look the way we do?

o Do all living things have the same life cycle? Why?

Week 5 Focus: Researching traits
Lesson 8 Focus:

Read Aloud: Read from one of our books on Genetics.

Student Research Students are researching a topic that they want to find out more about. The topic should be related to traits. Students may do surveys or research. Students will get their research ready to present to their class.

Lesson 9 Focus:

Read Aloud: Read from one of our books on Genetics.

Student Research Students continue researching a topic that they want to find out more about. The topic should be related to traits. Students may do surveys or research.10

Lesson 10 Focus:

Read Aloud: Read from one of our books on Genetics.

Student Research Students continue researching a topic that they want to find out more about. The topic should be related to traits. Students may do surveys or research. Students will get their research ready to present to their class.

Upcoming Events

Used Book Sale, May 8 to 10

We are getting ready for our annual used book sale, this year from May 8 to 10. We welcome donations of used books for all ages in saleable condition. This is a good time for departing families to dispose of books before packing. We will soon have a donation box at the front gate.

Important Information

ES Dismissal

Important message to ES parents

We had two students who left campus without parental permission with a nanny. We have taken steps to ensure this does not happen again and ask for your cooperation in following our handbook guidelines for all Elementary students PreK to Grade 5. Our handbook states, that any change in the usual pattern of dismissal for your child at the end of the school day should be verified by a note or email from the parent or guardian to the classroom teacher. We have added that we need to receive this information before 12 p.m. which will give us the time to make sure all necessary personnel is informed before 2:30 p.m. each day. We appreciate CAC’s security as they have increased vigilance in making sure our students go home safely and with the person/s permitted. Ms. Samah will continue to be at the dismissal gate from 3:00 and Ms. Nadia from 4:00 for our after school activity dismissal time.

How to give permission?
Write to the classroom teacher informing the dismissal plan change.
Name the person you are giving permission to and the date/s.
In the case of a change in driver or nanny, full names and photos are needed.

What will happen if no permission has been given?

If we do not have a written record of a change in dismissal, security will not let the student leave campus. The student will be sent to the office. To avoid disappointment, please make sure to arrange the change in dismissal plans ahead of time.

Our student's safety is a school/home priority and we thank you for your understanding, support and welcome your feedback.

End of year dates for students from the library

May 8-10 Used book sale

May 15 Last day for check out

May 22 Last day for classes; All books are due

May 29 Summer check out starts


Guidance Update: Managing Strong Emotions

In the current guidance unit, Managing Strong Emotions, students are taught proactive strategies to help prevent strong feelings from turning into negative behaviors. Students will learn to:


Recognize how strong feelings affect their brains and bodies by:
Focusing attention on their bodies for clues about how their feeling

Understanding that when they feel strong feelings, the feeling part of their brain, the amygdala, reacts, making it hard to think clearly.


Recognizing that thinking about their feelings helps the thinking part of their brain, the cortex, get back in control.

2. Manage strong feelings by using the following Calming-Down Steps:

1. Stop – use your signal

2. Name your feeling

3. Calm down (breathe, count, use positive self-talk or stress balls, etc.)

Home-School Connection:

Ask your child about his or her personal stop signal and how he or she plans to use it in order to STOP negative thoughts and calm down emotions in the amygdala.


Watch the following calm down song your child learned in class:

Calm It Down Song

Grade 4 Newsletter April 29th - May 3rd

Grade 4 Weekly Newsletter

April 29th - May 3rd

MAP Testing

Sunday April 29th Language MAP

Wednesday May 2nd Reading MAP

Monday May 7th Math MAP

In order to help your child feel prepared and confident about the MAP Assessments, do not place too much emphasis on the tests, which may may make a student feel anxious or stressed. Instead, maintain a typical schedule and atmosphere at home during the testing time, and make sure your child gets a sound sleep and healthy breakfast each day. Like all school activities and academics, students should be encouraged to do their best! 

Curriculum

Reading:

Students will be reading expository nonfiction. In this unit readers should use their knowledge of the structure of the text from prior years to evaluate and analyze the text and glean the big ideas and supportive details from the text.

It is important for readers to distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text and to compare and contrast first and secondhand accounts of the same event. These comparisons help the reader understand the different perspectives that are possible around a topic or event.

When reading a cluster of related texts, a nonfiction reader pulls together information from related parts of many texts in order to move within and across any type of nonfiction text.

The lessons for this week are:

Lesson 1: Spread your knowledge

Lesson 2: Question your learning

Lesson 3: MAP Testing Reading

Lesson 4: Vocabulary words

Essential Question

When reading nonfiction, how do I hold onto important and interesting information?


Writing:

Today, we will complete our last on-demand of the year. On Monday, students will begin an independent writing project with a focus on revision. They will select a seed idea they came up with throughout the year and work to revise it. This week we will focus on the structure of narrative, informational, and persuasive texts.

The lessons for this week are:

Lesson 1: MAP Language Assessment

Lesson 2: Elaboration

Lesson 3: Craft

Lesson 4: Review

Essential Question

Using what I know about the genre of my choice, how can I write with passion and craft so that my reader becomes absorbed in my writing?


Mathematics: 

This week we will be continuing Module 6 - Decimal Fractions.

This module gives Grade 4 students their first opportunity to work with and explore decimal numbers and their relationship to our previous module on decimal fractions. They will express a given quantity in both fraction and decimal forms. During this module students will build a solid foundation for working with decimal numbers in Grade 5.

Trial Assessment Reflection Feedback: Please give your student’s teacher any feedback you have on the “I can” Student Reflection students will bring home to help them reflect on their end-module assessment. Do you feel it helps your child identify strengths and areas of growth? How could we improve it?

Essential Questions:

• How can place value be used to create equivalent fractions?
• How can place value be used to add fractions?
• Why do we express quantities, measurements, and number relationships in different ways?
• How can place value be used to compare and order decimals?

The lessons for this week are:

Lesson 1: Apply understanding of fraction equivalence to add tenths and hundredths.

Lesson 2: Add decimal numbers by converting to fraction form.

Lesson 3: Solve word problems involving the addition of measurements in decimal form.

Parent Tip Sheets: Overall Module Tip Sheet, Topic A, Topic B, Topic C, Topic D.

Here is the LINK to the Growth Mindset video (Jo Boaler). We suggest you watch it with your child and discuss what might create a positive math classroom at school. How can you build a positive math relationship with your child? What type of dialogue will you use? You might like the following sentence starters to help you!

Science: The Circle of Life

In this unit we will take a look at heredity and the traits that we have inherited. We will be using scientific methods to observe, collect, record, and analyze data. We will also discuss and compare the life cycle of plants, insects, reptiles, amphibians, birds and animals - from birth to adult. Students will explain that every organism requires a set of instructions that specify their traits.

Essential Questions:
o Why do we look the way we do?

o Do all living things have the same life cycle? Why?

Week 4 Focus: Continue lessons on Inherited traits. Look at Learned traits. Start research.

Lesson 5 Focus: Continue working inherited traits. Look at our family trees. Continue research.
Lesson 6 Focus: Talk about learned traits. Watch video on mice and orangutans and their learned behavior. Discuss. Continue research.
Lesson 7 Focus: Discuss dominant and recessive genes. Continue research.


Grade 4 Homework:

Daily homework tasks will be written into student planners each day. Tasks may include reading for 20-30 minutes per night, writing for 10 minutes per night along with additional mathematics work. Homework may differ according to teachers and students. Any mathematics homework that students find challenging please advise their homeroom teacher so they can progress accordingly. Homework is not meant to be impossible, challenging for students to grow their brains, but not impossible!

Upcoming Events

Talent Show

Talent Show Update:

Our ES Talent Show date has been moved to April 30th. We are supporting our wonderful PTO with this change of date. Thank you all for your flexibility.

Please find below important dates and information regarding this year’s ES Talent Show:

Sunday, April 29th is the mandatory rehearsal in the CAC Theatre from 3:15 - 5:15. All students must have a way to go home; the late bus service is not available. Students will be dismissed from the CAC Theatre at 5:15.

All Choir students will attend the Choir rehearsal on Sunday, April 29th, then come directly to the CAC Theatre for the remainder of the rehearsal.

The Talent Show will be for ALL ACTS beginning at 5:30 - 7:30 on April 30th. The Show will end by 8pm. ALL ACTS must come to the Theatre at 5pm, performance ready.

ES Talent Show

April 30th, 2018

Tickets - 30LE per seat

Performances: 5:30-6:15

Intermission: 6:15-6:30

Performances: 6:30-7:15

Show ends 7:30pm.

Thank you for your continued support. Please contact Ms. Dolly for any further clarifications or questions.

ES Talent Show Team

Used Book Sale, May 8 to 10

We are getting ready for our annual used book sale, this year from May 8 to 10. We welcome donations of used books for all ages in saleable condition. This is a good time for departing families to dispose of books before packing. We will soon have a donation box at the front gate.

Important Information

ES Dismissal

Important message to ES parents

We had two students who left campus without parental permission with a nanny. We have taken steps to ensure this does not happen again and ask for your cooperation in following our handbook guidelines for all Elementary students PreK to Grade 5. Our handbook states, that any change in the usual pattern of dismissal for your child at the end of the school day should be verified by a note or email from the parent or guardian to the classroom teacher. We have added that we need to receive this information before 12 p.m. which will give us the time to make sure all necessary personnel is informed before 2:30 p.m. each day. We appreciate CAC’s security as they have increased vigilance in making sure our students go home safely and with the person/s permitted. Ms. Samah will continue to be at the dismissal gate from 3:00 and Ms. Nadia from 4:00 for our after school activity dismissal time.

How to give permission?
Write to the classroom teacher informing the dismissal plan change.
Name the person you are giving permission to and the date/s.
In the case of a change in driver or nanny, full names and photos are needed.

What will happen if no permission has been given?

If we do not have a written record of a change in dismissal, security will not let the student leave campus. The student will be sent to the office. To avoid disappointment, please make sure to arrange the change in dismissal plans ahead of time.

Our student's safety is a school/home priority and we thank you for your understanding, support and welcome your feedback.

End of year dates for students from the library

May 8-10 Used book sale

May 15 Last day for check out

May 22 Last day for classes; All books are due

May 29 Summer check out starts

Guidance Update: Managing Strong Emotions

In the current guidance unit, Managing Strong Emotions, students are taught proactive strategies to help prevent strong feelings from turning into negative behaviors. Students will learn to:

Recognize how strong feelings affect their brains and bodies by:

• Focusing attention on their bodies for clues about how their feeling
• Understanding that when they feel strong feelings, the feeling part of their brain, the amygdala, reacts, making it hard to think clearly.
• Recognizing that thinking about their feelings helps the thinking part of their brain, the cortex, get back in control.

2. Manage strong feelings by using the following Calming-Down Steps:

1. Stop – use your signal

2. Name your feeling

3. Calm down (breathe, count, use positive self-talk or stress balls, etc.)

Home-School Connection:

Ask your child about his or her personal stop signal and how he or she plans to use it in order to STOP negative thoughts and calm down emotions in the amygdala.

Watch the following calm down song your child learned in class:

Calm It Down Song

Grade 4 Weekly Newsletter April 22nd - 26th

Grade 4 Weekly Newsletter

April 22nd - 26th

Curriculum

Reading:

Students will be reading expository nonfiction. In this unit readers should use their knowledge of the structure of the text from prior years to evaluate and analyze the text and glean the big ideas and supportive details from the text.

It is important for readers to distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text and to compare and contrast first and secondhand accounts of the same event. These comparisons help the reader understand the different perspectives that are possible around a topic or event.

When reading a cluster of related texts, a nonfiction reader pulls together information from related parts of many texts in order to move within and across any type of nonfiction text.

The lessons for this week are:

Lesson 1: Launching into the unit
Lesson 2: Getting a broad overview of the topic
Lesson 3: Reading and synthesizing to gain knowledge and share with others

Essential Question

When reading nonfiction, how do I hold onto important and interesting information?


Writing:

Today, we will complete our last on-demand of the year. On Monday, students will begin an independent writing project with a focus on revision. They will select a seed idea they came up with throughout the year and work to revise it. This week we will focus on the structure of narrative, informational, and persuasive texts.

The lessons for this week are:

Lesson 1: Narrative On-demand
Lesson 2: Collecting ideas for the independent writing project
Lesson 3: Studying mentor texts within groups of the same genre


Essential Question

Using what I know about the genre of my choice, how can I write with passion and craft so that my reader becomes absorbed in my writing?


Mathematics:

This week we will be continuing Module 6 - Decimal Fractions. Today we completed a short mid-module assessment. Students will have time to reflect on their learning, understanding and practice standards before continuing on with the unit.

This module gives Grade 4 students their first opportunity to work with and explore decimal numbers and their relationship to our previous module on decimal fractions. They will express a given quantity in both fraction and decimal forms. During this module students will build a solid foundation for working with decimal numbers in Grade 5.

Trial Assessment Reflection Feedback: Please give your student’s teacher any feedback you have on the “I can” Student Reflection students will bring home to help them reflect on their end-module assessment. Do you feel it helps your child identify strengths and areas of growth? How could we improve it?

Essential Questions:

How can place value be used to create equivalent fractions?
How can place value be used to add fractions?
Why do we express quantities, measurements, and number relationships in different ways?
How can place value be used to compare and order decimals?

The lessons for this week are:

Lesson 1: Mid-Module Assessment
Lesson 2: Reflection
Lesson 3: Use the place value chart and metric measurement to compare decimals and answer comparison questions.
Lesson 4: Use area models and the number line to compare decimal numbers, and record comparisons using symbols.

Parent Tip Sheets: Overall Module Tip Sheet, Topic A, Topic B, Topic C, Topic D.

Here is the LINK to the Growth Mindset video (Jo Boaler). We suggest you watch it with your child and discuss what might create a positive math classroom at school. How can you build a positive math relationship with your child? What type of dialogue will you use? You might like the following sentence starters to help you!

Science: The Circle of Life

In this unit we will take a look at heredity and the traits that we have inherited. We will be using scientific methods to observe, collect, record, and analyze data. We will also discuss and compare the life cycle of plants, insects, reptiles, amphibians, birds and animals - from birth to adult. Students will explain that every organism requires a set of instructions that specify their traits.

Essential Questions:

o Why do we look the way we do?

o Do all living things have the same life cycle? Why?

Week 3 Focus: Delve into inherited traits, and data collection. Discuss our inherited traits.

Lesson 2 Focus: Introduce inherited traits. Look at a website that describes several inherited traits. Complete a survey on our personal inherited traits. Make a class graph. *Some classes are still finishing their class graphs.

Lesson 3 Focus: Explain the inherited traits. Look at the graph that we created. Explain what we have learned. Begin learning about our data collection activity.

Lesson 4 Focus: Investigate heredity. Look at a video on heredity. Partners will do the “Baby Mice” activity. Discuss observations. Write about what we learned.


Grade 4 Homework:

Daily homework tasks will be written into student planners each day. Tasks may include reading for 20-30 minutes per night, writing for 10 minutes per night along with additional mathematics work. Homework may differ according to teachers and students. Any mathematics homework that students find challenging please advise their homeroom teacher so they can progress accordingly. Homework is not meant to be impossible, challenging for students to grow their brains, but not impossible!

Upcoming Events

Talent Show

Talent Show Update:

Our ES Talent Show date has been moved to April 30th. We are supporting our wonderful PTO with this change of date. Thank you all for your flexibility.

Please find below important dates and information regarding this year’s ES Talent Show:

Sunday, April 29th is the mandatory rehearsal in the CAC Theatre from 3:15 - 5:15. All students must have a way to go home; the late bus service is not available. Students will be dismissed from the CAC Theatre at 5:15.

All Choir students will attend the Choir rehearsal on Sunday, April 29th, then come directly to the CAC Theatre for the remainder of the rehearsal.


The Talent Show will be for ALL ACTS beginning at 5:30 - 7:30 on April 30th. The Show will end by 8pm. ALL ACTS must come to the Theatre at 5pm, performance ready.


ES Talent Show

April 30th, 2018

Tickets - 30LE per seat


Performances: 5:30-6:15

Intermission: 6:15-6:30

Performances: 6:30-7:15

Show ends 7:30pm.


Thank you for your continued support. Please contact Ms. Dolly for any further clarifications or questions.

Used Book Sale, May 8 to 10

We are getting ready for our annual used book sale, this year from May 8 to 10. We welcome donations of used books for all ages in saleable condition. This is a good time for departing families to dispose of books before packing. We will soon have a donation box at the front gate.

Important Information

ES Dismissal

Important message to ES parents,

We had two students who left campus without parental permission with a nanny. We have taken steps to ensure this does not happen again and ask for your cooperation in following our handbook guidelines for all Elementary students PreK to Grade 5. Our handbook states, that any change in the usual pattern of dismissal for your child at the end of the school day should be verified by a note or email from the parent or guardian to the classroom teacher. We have added that we need to receive this information before 12 p.m. which will give us the time to make sure all necessary personnel is informed before 2:30 p.m. each day. We appreciate CAC’s security as they have increased vigilance in making sure our students go home safely and with the person/s permitted. Ms. Samah will continue to be at the dismissal gate from 3:00 and Ms. Nadia from 4:00 for our after school activity dismissal time.

How to give permission?
Write to the classroom teacher informing the dismissal plan change.
Name the person you are giving permission to and the date/s.
In the case of a change in driver or nanny, full names and photos are needed.

What will happen if no permission has been given?

If we do not have a written record of a change in dismissal, security will not let the student leave campus. The student will be sent to the office. To avoid disappointment, please make sure to arrange the change in dismissal plans ahead of time.

Our student's safety is a school/home priority and we thank you for your understanding, support and welcome your feedback.

End of year dates for students from the library

May 8-10 Used book sale

May 15 Last day for check out

May 22 Last day for classes; All books are due

May 29 Summer check out starts

Guidance Update: Managing Strong Emotions

In the current guidance unit, Managing Strong Emotions, students are taught proactive strategies to help prevent strong feelings from turning into negative behaviors. Students will learn to:

• Recognize how strong feelings affect their brains and bodies by:
• Focusing attention on their bodies for clues about how their feeling
• Understanding that when they feel strong feelings, the feeling part of their brain, the amygdala, reacts, making it hard to think clearly.
• Recognizing that thinking about their feelings helps the thinking part of their brain, the cortex, get back in control.

Manage strong feelings by using the following Calming-Down Steps:

1. Stop – use your signal

2. Name your feeling

3. Calm down (breathe, count, use positive self-talk or stress balls, etc.)

Home-School Connection:

Ask your child about his or her personal stop signal and how he or she plans to use it in order to STOP negative thoughts and calm down emotions in the amygdala.


Watch the following calm down song your child learned in class:

Calm It Down Song

Enjoy your week!

From the Grade 4 Team

Grade 4 Weekly Newsletter

April 15th - 19th

Curriculum

Reading:

This week we will be wrapping up our social issues book club unit. Students will be working on an end of unit project that will present a social issue they are interested in. Students will teach us about the different perspectives on that issue and share a possible solution they might have.

The lessons for this week are:

Lesson 1: Big Themes
Lesson 2: Making Connections
Lesson 3: End of Unit Project
Lesson 4: End of Unit Project
Lesson 5: In class Celebration

Essential Questions:

• How can I determine and reflect on the social issues in texts?

Writing:

Our Literary Essays unit ends this week. Students will be spending the next couple of days working on a rough draft for a comparing and contrasting essay. Towards the end of the week students will be taking 2 on-demand assessments. These assessments will help us evaluate student growth this year. Students may bring a single sheet of paper with some brief notes to help them with their essays.

The lessons for this week are:

Lesson 1: Developing Distinct Lines of Thought
Lesson 2: Exploring Commas
Lesson 3: Persuasive On-demand
Lesson 4: Informational On-demand

Essential Questions:

• How do writers select a claim to write a literary essay?
• How can I show evidence that supports the idea or claim I am making about a text?
• How do writers analyze text for reasoning?

Mathematics:

This week we will be continuing Module 6 - Decimal Fractions. 

This module gives Grade 4 students their first opportunity to work with and explore decimal numbers and their relationship to our previous module on decimal fractions. They will express a given quantity in both fraction and decimal forms. During this module students will build a solid foundation for working with decimal numbers in Grade 5.

Trial Assessment Reflection Feedback: Please give your student’s teacher any feedback you have on the “I can” Student Reflection students will bring home to help them reflect on their end-module assessment. Do you feel it helps your child identify strengths and areas of growth? How could we improve it?

Essential Questions:

• How can place value be used to create equivalent fractions?
• How can place value be used to add fractions?
• Why do we express quantities, measurements, and number relationships in different ways?
• How can place value be used to compare and order decimals?

The lessons for this week are:

Lesson 1: Model the equivalence of tenths and hundredths using the area model and number disks.
Lesson 2: Use the area model and number line to represent mixed numbers with units of ones, tenths, and hundredths in fraction and decimal forms.
Lesson 3: Model mixed numbers with units of hundreds, tens, ones, tenths, and hundredths in expanded form and on the place value chart.
Lesson 4: Use understanding of fraction equivalence to investigate decimal numbers on the place value chart expressed in different units.

Parent Tip Sheets: Overall Module Tip Sheet, Topic A, Topic B, Topic C, Topic D.

Here is the LINK to the Growth Mindset video (Jo Boaler). We suggest you watch it with your child and discuss what might create a positive math classroom at school. How can you build a positive math relationship with your child? What type of dialogue will you use? You might like the following sentence starters to help you!

Science: The Circle of Life
In this unit we will take a look at heredity and the traits that we have inherited. We will be using scientific methods to observe, collect, record, and analyze data. We will also discuss and compare the life cycle of plants, insects, reptiles, amphibians, birds and animals - from birth to adult. Students will explain that every organism requires a set of instructions that specify their traits.

Essential Questions:

• Why do we look the way we do?
• Do all living things have the same life cycle? Why?

Week 2 Focus: Delve into inherited traits, and data collection. Discuss our inherited traits.

Lesson 2 Focus: Introduce inherited traits. Look at a website that describes several inherited traits. Complete a survey on our personal inherited traits. Make a class graph.
Lesson 3 Focus: Explain the inherited traits. Look at the graph that we created. Explain what we have learned.

Grade 4 Homework:
Daily homework tasks will be written into student planners each day. Tasks may include reading for 20-30 minutes per night, writing for 10 minutes per night along with additional, differentiated mathematics work. Homework may differ according to teachers and students. Any mathematics homework that students find challenging please advise their homeroom teacher so they can progress accordingly. Homework is not meant to be impossible, challenging for students to grow their brains, but not impossible!

Guidance Update Gr. 4– Responding to Cyber Bullying

There are many ways to socialize with friends, such as talking to them in person or using technology to send emails or texts. Using technology to communicate can be really fun and useful, but technology can also be used to hurt or cyber bully other people. Cyber bullying is using electronic technology to purposefully hurt someone else. It is immediate, long lasting and can spread further and faster than people are usually aware. Students will learn that everything they say or do online can be tracked, nothing electronic is private and there is a lasting digital footprint.

Students will:

Discuss the importance of keeping their personal information (Y.A.P.P.Y your name, address, phone number, passwords or your plans) safe.

Review the 3 steps for handling hurtful messages:

1. Do not respond

2. Save it

3. Tell an Adult;

Demonstrate ways to support and/or stand up for someone being hurt online (such as reporting to an adult or leaving a chat group).

Typing Program

Our grades 3, 4, and 5 students learn touch typing in their classes to prepare for the work they do on computers in upper elementary and in middle school. The program we use is called ‘Typing Club’ and is an online program from Google. Link here. Students can access the program from home.

Upcoming Events...

EGYPT FESTIVAL 2018

Dear Parents,

Mark your calendar for our annual Egypt Festival on Thursday, April 19, 2018. Parents are invited to join us as we celebrate our host country, Egypt through music, dancing, food and grade level activities connected to the Egyptian Culture themes.

To add to the spirit of the day we invite you to wear a galabeya or perhaps clothes that reflect Egypt. You can purchase a galabeya on the 17th from 2:00 - 5:00 and on the 18th and 19th from 7:30-5:00 p.m. Our morning assembly will open the festivities for the day in the theatre and you are welcome to join us from 7:55 AM - 8:45 AM.

Our Egyptian lunch is for all elementary students, parents, teachers and staff and will be held during lunch/recess times between 11:00 - 11:30 for PreK, 12:00 - 12:30 for Kg, Grade 1 & 2, 12:30 - 1:00 for Grade 3,4 & 5 in the ES Hall. You will sample a variety of Egyptian dishes including freshly baked baladi bread (from our very own mud brick oven).

The bread will be on sale for PreK - 12 students during their recess. A loaf costs two pounds and last year our students loved the fresh bread for morning snack.

The school will be covering the cost of the lunch and all entertainment. Students have pre paid 40 LE for their grade-level activity at the beginning of the year.

Parents are an important part of our Egypt Festival. We would love you to come and enjoy the Hassaballa morning welcome, opening ceremony, learn crafts from our vendors, the Tanoura closing ceremony, and we would appreciate your support by volunteering at either lunchtime or bread selling. Please sign up to help us if you can.

Parent helpers

We are looking forward to you joining us to celebrate our host country, Egypt and thank you for your support.

Elementary Egyptian Culture/Arabic Team

Egypt Festival Schedule 

2017 -2018

Egypt Festival Schedule   2017 -2018
Time/Day	Activity/Grade	Where	Who
April 17 2:00 - 5:00 pm	Ghalabaya	ES Lawn	CAC Community
April 18 7:30pm-5:00pm	Ghalabaya Sale Vendors Sales - (Ceramics - Mashrabiya - Egyptian Toys)	ES Lawn	Classes during the day - CAC Community - after school
April 19 7:30am - 5:00pm	Ghalabaya Sale Vendors Sales - Ceramics - Mashrabiya - Egyptian Toys	Outside ES Cafeteria      ES Lawn	CAC Community Classes during the day - CAC Community - after school
7:00 - 7:50	Hassabala Musicians	Gate and ES Lawn	Everyone is welcome
7:55 - 8:45	Opening Egypt Culture Assembly	Theater	All elementary students, parents, teachers and staff
8:55 - 9:30	Population in Egypt Nubian Craft	Cafeteria	Grade 2 students Parents welcome
8:55 - 9:30	I Live in Egypt Palm Tree Scene	Cafeteria	KG students Parents welcome
10:00-10:30	Look What Comes From Egypt Grassman	Cafeteria	Pre K students Parents welcome
10:00- 10:35	Myths & Beliefs Mosaic Necklace	Cafeteria	Grade 4 students Parents welcome
11:00 - 11:35	Arabic Calligraphy Calligraphy project	Cafeteria	Grade 3 students Parents welcome
11:00 - 11:35	Capital Cities Fatimid Ceramics	Back of ES Building	Grade 5 students Parents welcome
11:00 - 11:30	PreK, Egyptian Festival Lunch	ES Hall	Pre-K, Students, parents, teachers, aides
12:00 - 12:30	Gr Kg & Gr. 1 & 2 Egyptian Festival Lunch Gr. 3/4/5 Outside Recess	ES Hall	Kg & Gr. 1 and Gr. 2 Students, parents, teachers,
12:30 - 1:00	Gr. 3/4/5  Egyptian Festival Lunch Kg & Gr. 1 & 2 Outside Recess	ES Hall	Gr.3, 4 & Gr. 5 Students, parents, teachers, aides
12:55 - 1:30	Famous Buildings Clay Pyramids	Back of ES Building	Grade 1 students Parents welcome
2:25  - 3:00	Closing Ceremony  Tanoura	Theater	Everyone is welcome

Talent Show

Talent Show Update:

Our ES Talent Show date has been moved to April 30th. We are supporting our wonderful PTO with this change of date. Thank you all for your flexibility.

Please find below important dates and information regarding this year’s ES Talent Show:

April 15th and 16th Acts will perform for the ES Talent Show team. They will come during their lunch/recess time to the Drama Room. Any Act that is not performance-ready will not participate in this year’s Talent Show.

Sunday, April 29th is the mandatory rehearsal in the CAC Theatre from 3:15 - 5:15. All students must have a way to go home; the late bus service is not available. Students will be dismissed from the CAC Theatre at 5:15.

All Choir students will attend the Choir rehearsal on Sunday, April 29th, then come directly to the CAC Theatre for the remainder of the rehearsal.

The Talent Show will be for ALL ACTS beginning at 5:30 - 7:30 on April 30th. The Show will end by 8pm. ALL ACTS must come to the Theatre at 5pm, performance ready.

ES Talent Show

April 30th, 2018

Tickets - 30LE per seat

Performances: 5:30-6:15

Intermission: 6:15-6:30

Performances: 6:30-7:15

Show ends 7:30pm.

Thank you for your continued support. Please contact Ms. Dolly for any further clarifications or questions.


ES Talent Show Team