{Week of April 11-15}
Monday, April 11: Lunch: Breakfast for Lunch
- Reward Day: Each classroom, draw 5 winners any way you wish it to happen in your class for 'Hat Day'! Those students should have a sticker on to indicate they earned it and can wear a hat during school this day only. Stickers will be handed out Monday morning.
- 3:10: Certified Staff Meeting in the library (Classified Staff will be April 25)
- 6:00: Student Council presents our Top 10 Student Highlights to the School Board
Tuesday, April 12: Lunch: Supreme Tacos
- Happy Birthday Kim Hamilton!
- SBAC Kick Off Day! Labs closed in the morning
- Sandeen, Davydov, Baldrica @ 8:20
- Brown, LaFay @ 10:00
- No 3rd Grade Reading Groups through May 5
- 9:00: Val @ Admin. Meeting
- 12:00-3:00: Kindergarten Registration in Standar/Saucier's Classrooms
- No Afternoon Kindergarten Intervention
Wednesday, April 13: Lunch: Mandarin Chicken
- Walking Wednesday during lunch
- SBAC (Labs closed in the morning)
- Pedrow, Truxel @ 8:20
- Aronson, Brown @ 10:00
Thursday, April 14: Lunch: Cooks Choice
- Val Out @ Idaho Prevention Conference (Mike Kraemer will be Interning as Principal today)
- SBAC (Labs closed in the morning)
- Baldrica, Davydov, Sandeen @ 8:20
- Aronson, LaFay @ 10:00
- Happy Birthday Ryan Aronson!
- Val Out @ Idaho Prevention Conference
- 8:15: Community Meeting for Grades 1-2 with a teacher or cancel
- School Spirit Day!
- Green Team collects Recycling Day
CANCELED this week: 9:00-9:30: RTI Team Meeting (Victoria cover Stanley)DELAY a WEEK: 9:30-10:00: RTI Team with 2nd Grade (Nancy cover Crawford / Victoria cover Steers / Evonne cover Hamilton)- 12:30: Annual IEP (Yuri covers for Val / Victoria cover Crawford)
- 1:30: 3 Year & Annual IEP (Yuri covers for Val / Nancy covers for Baldrica)
{Other NOTES from the DUGOUT}
Spring Color Fling: Friday, May 13th our PTA will host a family friendly, mostly free, night at BRMES. Even though it's free to participate in the 'color course', we need all participant to register by April 22. Click here. If you wish to purchase a tshirt, they are $5.00 each. Please help advertise and remind parents they must register so PTA orders enough 'color powder'.
Silent Auction Baskets (Due May 13th): 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. Thanks to the 2nd & 3rd grade teams for signing up already!
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, send them to the office until the end of the month.
Class List Process: Fill out your own slips when you have time. Meet as a grade level team during the next month when your team is ready to place kids into groups. When you have your slips paper clipped together into groups, please bring them to the office or my mailbox and I'll pass them on to the Specialist team. You will get them back one more time after Specialists make any edits.
Earth Day (April 22nd): Every team has some ideas of how you'd like to celebrate Earth Day. I didn't take note of what each team would do. Please send me a quick note/email on what you plan to do for Earth Day as the Green Team wants to showcase what we are doing.
SBAC: Please help remind all students the important tips of setting up a good testing environment without added stress. It is a great idea to do warm ups with 'Go Noodle', take an outside walk, walk in the gym, etc minutes before your class heads into testing. String cheeses are available in the small frig in between the labs if/when your students need a snack. Teachers stay with your students to support management of kids and noting when kids need a break. Let the Proctors do what they are trained to do. Proctors should have headsets, scratch paper, tickets, and all materials. Students can take a book to the lab to put under their chair to read if they finish early. It is up to each teacher when you have enough students done and want to take them back to your room. Remaining students can stay with Proctor.
Here is a cute letter you may want to edit to fit your grade and consider giving to your students before testing. If it doesn't work on this link, I shared it on the Share Drive called 'Testing Letter to Students'.
Common Expectations and Acknowledgements Keep up the great work. The kids are sooo excited to get acknowledged by the Eagle Eye or a high five! Now we gotta get going with some random rewards. If you have a fun, easy, and free/inexpensive idea that we could do before year end, please send it to me. I am hoping to share the rewards on the announcements and do them mostly on Mondays. My goal till year end is one reward per week; but I need help coming up with the ideas.
Eagle Eye Count: If you've been using the Eagle Eye slips, will you please enter a rough estimate how many are in your can (you can ask a few students to count them up). Enter total here.
National Xmas Tree Ornaments ~ Any finished ornaments can be brought to the office. If you want more, let me know.
Silent Auction Baskets (Due May 13th): 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. Thanks to the 2nd & 3rd grade teams for signing up already!
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, send them to the office until the end of the month.
Class List Process: Fill out your own slips when you have time. Meet as a grade level team during the next month when your team is ready to place kids into groups. When you have your slips paper clipped together into groups, please bring them to the office or my mailbox and I'll pass them on to the Specialist team. You will get them back one more time after Specialists make any edits.
Earth Day (April 22nd): Every team has some ideas of how you'd like to celebrate Earth Day. I didn't take note of what each team would do. Please send me a quick note/email on what you plan to do for Earth Day as the Green Team wants to showcase what we are doing.
SBAC: Please help remind all students the important tips of setting up a good testing environment without added stress. It is a great idea to do warm ups with 'Go Noodle', take an outside walk, walk in the gym, etc minutes before your class heads into testing. String cheeses are available in the small frig in between the labs if/when your students need a snack. Teachers stay with your students to support management of kids and noting when kids need a break. Let the Proctors do what they are trained to do. Proctors should have headsets, scratch paper, tickets, and all materials. Students can take a book to the lab to put under their chair to read if they finish early. It is up to each teacher when you have enough students done and want to take them back to your room. Remaining students can stay with Proctor.
Here is a cute letter you may want to edit to fit your grade and consider giving to your students before testing. If it doesn't work on this link, I shared it on the Share Drive called 'Testing Letter to Students'.
Common Expectations and Acknowledgements Keep up the great work. The kids are sooo excited to get acknowledged by the Eagle Eye or a high five! Now we gotta get going with some random rewards. If you have a fun, easy, and free/inexpensive idea that we could do before year end, please send it to me. I am hoping to share the rewards on the announcements and do them mostly on Mondays. My goal till year end is one reward per week; but I need help coming up with the ideas.
Eagle Eye Count: If you've been using the Eagle Eye slips, will you please enter a rough estimate how many are in your can (you can ask a few students to count them up). Enter total here.
National Xmas Tree Ornaments ~ Any finished ornaments can be brought to the office. If you want more, let me know.
Espanol Rapido: May 5th it will start up again.
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).
MCOMP/MCAP: If you've already given your April MCOMP, awesome, you are done! (If you haven't yet did your April one, skip it)! Thanks to the Reading Team, they will administer in place of Michelle Mooney the final math benchmarks for the year in the next couple of weeks.
Data Meeting: We didn't have enough interest to do another round of reading data meetings. If your team needs to do any switches of kids for groups, please let Crystal know and either she will meet with your team on a Friday or we'll do it during your RtI meeting.
16-17 Finished Supply List: I think it's done. Please review it here for one last edit.
New Kids Benchmarks: At this point of the year, Crystal will continue to do benchmarking for new students to help with group placements. If you wish to have the MCAP/MCOMP administered, classrooms will need to administer those.
Volunteer Names and Community Partners: I'm working on typing up a list of all the volunteers and community partners who have volunteered at our school this year. I will need each teacher to check it so we can provide some recognition at year end for those who provided for us. In the meantime, be thinking about names and watch for my list to come out soon.
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).
MCOMP/MCAP: If you've already given your April MCOMP, awesome, you are done! (If you haven't yet did your April one, skip it)! Thanks to the Reading Team, they will administer in place of Michelle Mooney the final math benchmarks for the year in the next couple of weeks.
Data Meeting: We didn't have enough interest to do another round of reading data meetings. If your team needs to do any switches of kids for groups, please let Crystal know and either she will meet with your team on a Friday or we'll do it during your RtI meeting.
16-17 Finished Supply List: I think it's done. Please review it here for one last edit.
New Kids Benchmarks: At this point of the year, Crystal will continue to do benchmarking for new students to help with group placements. If you wish to have the MCAP/MCOMP administered, classrooms will need to administer those.
Volunteer Names and Community Partners: I'm working on typing up a list of all the volunteers and community partners who have volunteered at our school this year. I will need each teacher to check it so we can provide some recognition at year end for those who provided for us. In the meantime, be thinking about names and watch for my list to come out soon.
{Future Events}
April 22: Deadline to register for Spring Color Fling Event (on back of April Parent Newsletter or online)
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)
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 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?
- Carrie, Lindsey, Brandi, Honey, & Tricia for submitting a MDEF grant (thus far)! Good Luck!
- Chris for moving our mini frig to the computer lab office to stock it with string cheese, ready to go for SBAC.
- Felicity for whipping up a great parent note home on the silent auction basket idea (ask her to share if you want a good sample)!
- Dan for going above and beyond the call of duty!
- Honey, Abby, and Donna for teaming up to organize our upcoming Kinder Registration! It takes a team!
