Archives for March, 2012

Living with Laptops

Wow! What a great turnout at our parent session this morning! We had around 40 parents join us for an extended hour and a half session to strategize ways to help our children maintain a healthy, balanced lifestyle. Huge thanks to Joy Eckhoff for helping us get this session organized! We can all relate to the [...]

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Supporting your child with EAL

  EAL Parent Workshop March 2012 Parents can also find information about EAL in Elementary by visiting the YIS website.

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Parent Technology and Literacy Coffee Morning: Google Docs

Continuing our Google Apps for Education theme, this month’s Parent Technology and Literacy Coffee Morning was focused on Google Docs. All students at YIS have their own Google Apps for Education account, and one of our most important and essential features is Google Docs. Here’s a brief intro to why Google Docs is so powerful: [...]

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ENGLISH as an ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE Parent Workshop

Is your child learning English as an additional language (EAL)? EAL Workshop for ELC and Elementary Parents Date: Thursday – March 15 Time: 9:00 AM -10:30 AM Location: Loft This workshop is geared towards parents of students, ELC to Grade 5, whose first language is not English and who would like to know about EAL [...]

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