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OCTOBER 2015 KINDERGARTEN

Specialist
Newsletter

FROM LOWER SCHOOL PRINCIPAL

Dear Lower School Parents, sending an email to all parents with
directions on how to sign-up for con-
Welcome to our first edition of the Specialist Newsletters! ferences in the coming weeks.

Our Specialists Teachers (also referred as single-subject teachers) play I look forward to seeing you all here
an integral and important role in the Primary Years Program. The arts, for Parent/Teacher conferences on
physical education, and language study are essential elements to a December 1.
comprehensive and holistic primary school education. The content of
these subjects is transdisciplinary in nature, meaning that the skills and Sincerely,
concepts developed by Specialist Teachers have relevance throughout
the Lower School curriculum, including our students’ lives beyond Brian H. Lettinga
school. Our Specialists Teachers work alongside our classroom teach-
ers to develop lessons that are both interesting and connected to the Lower School Principal
classroom Units of Inquiry. An example of this ‘connecting’ might be
a recent field trip or other learning experience here on campus or at
home when students identify ‘connections’ between subjects. Recent
examples this year have been our grade level field trips, current school
-wide service projects with support for refugees here in Belgrade, and
our newly redesigned grade five class trip.

For this reason, we think it is important that we keep our parents in-
formed about the teaching and learning taking place in our specialists
classrooms. You will receive the specialist newsletter six times during
the school year. This is the first edition of the newsletters for this
school year. As always, if you have any questions about your child’s
education, feel free to contact us. Be sure to schedule individual con-
ferences with all teachers during parent conferences on December 1.
We will also have additional conference times for parents and teachers
of specials on Wednesday, December 2 from 8:20-12:00. I will be