{Week of April 4-8}
Monday, April 4: Lunch: Chicken Nugget Combo
- MLB Opening Day (thanks to Sean for informing me of this)! Might be a fun day to wear those staff shirts!
- Reminder for Classroom Teachers ~ MCOMP Week!
- 10:45: 5th Grade Team Meeting with Val
- 3:30: District Facilities Meeting (Val)
Tuesday, April 5: Lunch: Nachos
- 3:00: Preschool IEP Meeting (Yuri covers for Val, Stacey)
- 3:30: District PD Team Meeting (Val, Crystal, Lesley)
Wednesday, April 6: Lunch: Hamburger/Fries
- Walking Wednesday during lunch
- 1:15: 2nd Grade Team Meeting with Val
- 1:45: 1st Grade Team Meeting with Val
- 2:30: Kinder Team Meeting with Val
- 3:00: IEP Meeting (Lamm & Spec. Ed. Team)
Thursday, April 7: Lunch: Slice O' Pizza
- 8:45: 3rd Grade Team Meeting with Val
- 9:30: Specials Team Meeting with Val
- 10:00: 4th Grade Team Meeting with Val
- 2:05: 4th Grade Guest from Kelly's Whitewater Park / 5th Grade @ 2:30
- 8:15: Community Meeting for Grades 1-2
- School Spirit Day!
- Green Team collects Recycling Day
- Last day of Positive Action Classes for Friday Rooms ~ Thank you Laura for a great year!
- 9:00-9:30: RTI Team with 4th Grade (Nancy cover Pedrow / Victoria cover Truxel / Stanley - can't find coverage...unless anyone thinks of someone)
- 9:30-10:00: RTI Team with 3rd Grade (Nancy cover Aronson / Victoria cover Brown / Evonne cover LaFay)
- 10:15: SLP IEP (Homeschool Student so no coverage needed)
- 1:30: SLP IEP (Victoria cover Bennett / Nancy cover Hamilton/Wright)
Saturday, April 9: Happy Birthday Michelle Smith!
{Other NOTES from the DUGOUT}
Parent Teacher Conferences: Enjoy your time conferencing and be sure to visit the book fair too. Donna, Jodi, and Val are not in the office Friday.
Grades K-4 / Next Year Student Placement Process: Please use the pink and blue slips to start filling in your data on your current students. If your team has time during conferences, fill free to create 'piles' and turn into the office when done. I will then pass them off to a Specialist team for the next review and they will return to you for a final check.
Kim Update: Kim continues to keep me posted on her accident recovery but still hasn't been released to return to work. Because we are running out of subs, I made the decision to move Katie Wright into Kim's classroom until Kim can return to hopefully provide some stability to the classroom so we don't have to put a different sub in each week. Katie is excited for the opportunity and will do a great job! Karen Borg will fill for Katie's Reading Team job.
PTA May Event: The PTA elected new officers for next year. The current officers also voted to not host a traditional carnival this year but to try a new event. It will be called, "Spring COLOR Fling". It will begin at 5:00 PM on Friday, May 13th. It is essentially going to be a crazy obstacle course out on our playground fields where our families come together and get powdered with color. Every participant needs to register (free) via the back of the April Parent Newsletter or by using this online code: Click here. If you wish to purchase a tshirt, they are $5.00 each. Get your own families excited and consider joining in the fun!
Silent Auction Baskets: The PTA has asked for our help by creating some silent auction baskets to give those who like to spend some money an option to bid on. If your class or grade level can take on a basket, please sign up here: Click here. The PTA goal is to make this a low cost event, mostly free and to simply 'give back' and encourage our families to come together to have fun; thus this was the best idea to generate some revenue to cover costs.
Milk Jugs: I have been asked to collect any empty/cleaned out milk jugs for one of the Capitol Christmas Tree Ornaments for the Payette National Forest. If you have any, leave them in the office for collection.
Calling Classrooms: I'm striving to reduce the number of phone calls to classrooms from the office. As a goal, I have asked the office to only call the classrooms if it's for a parent checking out their child. Sometimes there may be an exception to this rule. Please keep kids in your classroom who come with a note that says 'be in the office at 1:00' for example, until the office calls for them.
Deliveries throughout the Day: It seems to be working great to have our 5th grade student take on the job with Miss Carissa's team to check the office a few times throughout the day to deliver items to classrooms.
Placement of New Students: As a general rule, I have reviewed our placement of new students protocol with Donna and Jodi and just want to recap it here for everyone to understand. Nothing has changed. They will place students first based on which classroom has the lowest numbers. If there is a tie for lowest, then gender is considered next. The office will then make the placement, tell the parent who the teacher(s) will be and then as a general rule we do not make changes and the student starts the next school day. The teacher will be notified of the students basic information and start date via an email.
SBAC: As a reminder, there are NO CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES to do this year prior to any SBAC test. They are no longer available even.
Earth Day: Our Green Team would like to encourage everyone to invite students to learn about Earth Day through an essay or art project as well as consider participating with your class in a Schoolwide Clean Up Day on April 22nd. More details to come later.
Attendance: As a reminder, all classrooms must take attendance daily by 8:30 AM (morning) and 12:30 PM (afternoon) in Powerschool for student safety and to avoid unnecessary automated calls going out to parents.
Common Expectations and Acknowledgements Thank you for the quick feedback before break. We are clearly united and ready and excited to have some common expectations and to focus more of our time on acknowledgments for kids! I had so many kids tell me how many compliments or 'Eagle Eyes' they had received and got some emails and calls from parents even about how excited their kids were about this program. Please invite all staff - custodians, kitchen staff, parent volunteers, etc to know about our expectations and use Eagle Eyes too! I put extras in the work room. Take what you need. Schoolwide Goal is to acknowledge 1-5 students per day for each staff member! Have students deposit 'Eagle Eye' tickets into his/her classroom can for rewards whenever you want to draw winners or we'll do some schoolwide ones too later on.
National Xmas Tree Ornaments ~ I got some new ornaments with all the supplies this week if anyone is up for more crafting! Come by and you can see what I have. All ornaments due by June 1.
Parent Teacher Conferences: Enjoy your time conferencing and be sure to visit the book fair too. Donna, Jodi, and Val are not in the office Friday.
Grades K-4 / Next Year Student Placement Process: Please use the pink and blue slips to start filling in your data on your current students. If your team has time during conferences, fill free to create 'piles' and turn into the office when done. I will then pass them off to a Specialist team for the next review and they will return to you for a final check.
Kim Update: Kim continues to keep me posted on her accident recovery but still hasn't been released to return to work. Because we are running out of subs, I made the decision to move Katie Wright into Kim's classroom until Kim can return to hopefully provide some stability to the classroom so we don't have to put a different sub in each week. Katie is excited for the opportunity and will do a great job! Karen Borg will fill for Katie's Reading Team job.
PTA May Event: The PTA elected new officers for next year. The current officers also voted to not host a traditional carnival this year but to try a new event. It will be called, "Spring COLOR Fling". It will begin at 5:00 PM on Friday, May 13th. It is essentially going to be a crazy obstacle course out on our playground fields where our families come together and get powdered with color. Every participant needs to register (free) via the back of the April Parent Newsletter or by using this online code: Click here. If you wish to purchase a tshirt, they are $5.00 each. Get your own families excited and consider joining in the fun!
Silent Auction Baskets: The PTA has asked for our help by creating some silent auction baskets to give those who like to spend some money an option to bid on. If your class or grade level can take on a basket, please sign up here: Click here. The PTA goal is to make this a low cost event, mostly free and to simply 'give back' and encourage our families to come together to have fun; thus this was the best idea to generate some revenue to cover costs.
Milk Jugs: I have been asked to collect any empty/cleaned out milk jugs for one of the Capitol Christmas Tree Ornaments for the Payette National Forest. If you have any, leave them in the office for collection.
Calling Classrooms: I'm striving to reduce the number of phone calls to classrooms from the office. As a goal, I have asked the office to only call the classrooms if it's for a parent checking out their child. Sometimes there may be an exception to this rule. Please keep kids in your classroom who come with a note that says 'be in the office at 1:00' for example, until the office calls for them.
Deliveries throughout the Day: It seems to be working great to have our 5th grade student take on the job with Miss Carissa's team to check the office a few times throughout the day to deliver items to classrooms.
Placement of New Students: As a general rule, I have reviewed our placement of new students protocol with Donna and Jodi and just want to recap it here for everyone to understand. Nothing has changed. They will place students first based on which classroom has the lowest numbers. If there is a tie for lowest, then gender is considered next. The office will then make the placement, tell the parent who the teacher(s) will be and then as a general rule we do not make changes and the student starts the next school day. The teacher will be notified of the students basic information and start date via an email.
SBAC: As a reminder, there are NO CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES to do this year prior to any SBAC test. They are no longer available even.
Earth Day: Our Green Team would like to encourage everyone to invite students to learn about Earth Day through an essay or art project as well as consider participating with your class in a Schoolwide Clean Up Day on April 22nd. More details to come later.
Attendance: As a reminder, all classrooms must take attendance daily by 8:30 AM (morning) and 12:30 PM (afternoon) in Powerschool for student safety and to avoid unnecessary automated calls going out to parents.
Common Expectations and Acknowledgements Thank you for the quick feedback before break. We are clearly united and ready and excited to have some common expectations and to focus more of our time on acknowledgments for kids! I had so many kids tell me how many compliments or 'Eagle Eyes' they had received and got some emails and calls from parents even about how excited their kids were about this program. Please invite all staff - custodians, kitchen staff, parent volunteers, etc to know about our expectations and use Eagle Eyes too! I put extras in the work room. Take what you need. Schoolwide Goal is to acknowledge 1-5 students per day for each staff member! Have students deposit 'Eagle Eye' tickets into his/her classroom can for rewards whenever you want to draw winners or we'll do some schoolwide ones too later on.
National Xmas Tree Ornaments ~ I got some new ornaments with all the supplies this week if anyone is up for more crafting! Come by and you can see what I have. All ornaments due by June 1.
Espanol Rapido: No more classes until May 5th.
Positive Action Update: Done for this year.
MDEF Grants Update: These are due to me/District Office by April 6th in order to get on the Board Agenda for the April 11th meeting to be reviewed. Deadline to MDEF is April 15th.
Homework (please) for ALL STAFF: Will you all consider helping me out with a bulletin board idea? All I need is ONE SPORTS PHOTO of YOU, from your childhood. Come on, we all have some random sports photo of ourselves from our youth. I promise I'll give them back to you. Please be sure your name is on the back. I need your photo by April 29. Please! DIG one out or call your families to find just one. (any extracurricular photo of you would work - dance, ballet, basketball, soccer, ski, etc).
Positive Action Update: Done for this year.
MDEF Grants Update: These are due to me/District Office by April 6th in order to get on the Board Agenda for the April 11th meeting to be reviewed. Deadline to MDEF is April 15th.
Homework (please) for ALL STAFF: Will you all consider helping me out with a bulletin board idea? All I need is ONE SPORTS PHOTO of YOU, from your childhood. Come on, we all have some random sports photo of ourselves from our youth. I promise I'll give them back to you. Please be sure your name is on the back. I need your photo by April 29. Please! DIG one out or call your families to find just one. (any extracurricular photo of you would work - dance, ballet, basketball, soccer, ski, etc).
{Future Events}
April 12-May 12: SBAC testing at our school (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays) - No Computer Lab time open in the mornings during the testing days. Consider using the lab in the afternoons or on a Monday or a Friday.
April 22: Earth Day - Schoolwide Clean Up (on back of April Parent Newsletter or online)
April 22: Deadline to register for Spring Color Fling Event
May 2-6: Staff Appreciation Week
May 5: Kindergarten Field Trip to Fire Station & Smoke Jumper Base (AM)
May 6: (10:00 AM): 5th Grade PLMS Orientation/Tour
May 13: Kinder Registration (Day 2 option) 9:00-3:00 in Kinder Rooms or an online option (No Kindergarten today)
CHANGE OF DATE: May 13: PTA Spring COLOR Fling! 5:00 PM ~ Register by April 22
May 18: Track Meet (Grade 5) - 10:30-2:00 @ PLMS
May 23, 24, 25: 5th Grade Field Trip to MOSS
May 26: 4th Grade Field Trip to DES and Roseberry
May 26: Kindergarten Field Trip to Hatchery (AM)
May 27: No School / Snow Day
May 31: 2nd Grade Field Trip to Public Library (11:15-1;30)
June 2: Field Day (Grades 1-5) - AM for Grades 3-5 / PM for Grades 1-2 (No PE Classes today)
June 3: 4th Grade Field Trip (Ponderosa and to release trout)
June 6: 2nd Grade Field Trip to Ponderosa
June 7 (9:30-10:15 AM) End of the Year Awards Program for Grades 2-5 in the gym
June 7 (1:30 PM): Samson Trail Walk/Run (Grades 1-5)
June 8: Last Day of School - Early Release - PM?
June 8: 5th Grade to Ponderosa
June 8: 2nd Grade Swimming Field Trip
June 8: 3rd Grade Biking Field Trip
Let me know these details when you know them...
- TBD: 3rd Grade Field Trip (Ponderosa Hike)
- TBD: 3rd Grade Field Trip to Boise?
- TBD: 5th Grade Ambassador Shake party at My Fathers Place
- TBD: 1st Grade Field Trip...
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| Weekly Compliment Slips turned into me ... please sign them too! |
- Batter of the Week ~ Carrie LaFay! Who will be our next Home Run hitter?
- Custodians, Maintenance, Tech. Team for extra tasks/deep cleaning projects doing over Spring Break! It is so appreciated!
- Carrie for helping a new team learn about 3rd grade
- Sean for putting up with my class obsession of Jumprope for Heart!
- Win for noticing and giving out 'Eagle Eyes' to some students who needed it most!
- Everyone who has handed out 1-5 'Eagle Eye' tickets this past week or offered specific praise to a student! Yahoo! The kids are so excited!!!
