{Week of April 18-22}
Monday, April 18: Lunch: Corn Dog Bites
- 3:00: District Wellness Committee Mtg.
- 3:05-3:30: Planning out Acknowledgements/Rewards Events till Year End in Lounge (Each Grade Level Team, send 1 rep. if you wish, and Sara, Evonne, Yuri, Janna)
Tuesday, April 19: Lunch: Super Tostadas
- SBAC: Labs closed in the morning
- Truxel, Pedrow @ 8:20
- LaFay & any makeups thus far @ 10:00
- 11:00-6:00: Val @ Project Leadership Mtg (Mike Kraemer will be Principal Intern)
Wednesday, April 20: Lunch: Rib BBQ/Mashed Potatoes
- Walking Wednesday during lunch
- 3:15-3:45: Advisory Team Mtg in the Lounge (Agenda items due by Tuesday)
- SBAC (Labs closed in the morning)
- Pedrow, Truxel @ 8:20
- Aronson, Brown @ 10:00
Thursday, April 21: Lunch: Slice O' Pizza
- No Reading Groups (IRI Starts)!
- Kindergarten IRI Day!
- SBAC (Labs closed in the morning)
- Baldrica, Davydov, Sandeen @ 8:20
- Makeups (Send any kids who have missed a test to the lab) @ 10:00
- Earth Day!
- 1st Grade Earth Day Picnics outside at lunch
- Deadline to Register for Spring COLOR Fling!
- 8:15: Community Meeting for Grades 1-2
- School Spirit Day!
- Green Team collects Recycling Day
- 9:00-9:30: RTI Team with 2nd Grade (Nancy cover Crawford / Victoria cover Steers / Janna? cover Hamilton) (??? cover Stanley)
- 9:30-10:00: RTI Team with 1st Grade (Nancy cover Hulbert / Victoria cover Lamm / Evonne cover Doane)
{Other NOTES from the DUGOUT}
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.
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.
Public Library Webinar: Meg Lojek invited anyone interested in listening to a webcast with author Kate Dicamillo to register for it via this link. The webcast is May 13th. It could be something to do with your class: Click here to register.
Staffing Update:
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'.
Jumprope for Heart: Thanks to Mr. Jeffries for leading the American Heart project this year and donating $2357.25.
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 1st, 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.
Common Expectations: It is super important to talk to your class about the specific green chart/expectations about once per week. Look on You Tube for many fun teaching examples of expectations for a specific area and discuss how the video is the same or different as our school.
School Wide Acknowledgements: Continue (as a goal) to have 1-5 students in your class earn a ticket per day / or each staff member can challenge yourself to find 1-5 AMAZING students to highlight and recognize. I'm looking for a small team to just finalize the year end 'reward days'. I need just one rep. per grade level and a few others who have expressed so much excitement about this year to join me Monday @ 3:05. My goal is to do a reward every week, likely Mondays.
National Xmas Tree Ornaments ~ Keep up the great work!
Jumprope for Heart: Thanks to Mr. Jeffries for leading the American Heart project this year and donating $2357.25.
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 1st, 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.
Common Expectations: It is super important to talk to your class about the specific green chart/expectations about once per week. Look on You Tube for many fun teaching examples of expectations for a specific area and discuss how the video is the same or different as our school.
School Wide Acknowledgements: Continue (as a goal) to have 1-5 students in your class earn a ticket per day / or each staff member can challenge yourself to find 1-5 AMAZING students to highlight and recognize. I'm looking for a small team to just finalize the year end 'reward days'. I need just one rep. per grade level and a few others who have expressed so much excitement about this year to join me Monday @ 3:05. My goal is to do a reward every week, likely Mondays.
National Xmas Tree Ornaments ~ Keep up the great work!
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.
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.
Public Library Webinar: Meg Lojek invited anyone interested in listening to a webcast with author Kate Dicamillo to register for it via this link. The webcast is May 13th. It could be something to do with your class: Click here to register.
Staffing Update:
- Nicole Quirk/Annika Olson: Based on our SLP numbers, next year Nicole Quirk will take on the entire caseload of SLP needs for Barbara Morgan kids and Annika Olson will cover the other schools, allowing her one less school.
- Jim Cavens: His retirement was accepted by the board on Monday night. Until year end, Sara, Yuri and Ben will cover the student needs.
{Future Events}
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: 2nd Grade Chess Night for Parents/Students in 2nd
May 18: Grade 5 Track Meet at PLMS 10:30-2:00
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 3: 3rd Grade Field Trip (to Birds of Prey in Boise)
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
- TBD: 5th Grade Ambassador Shake party at My Fathers Place
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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?
- Evonne for being such a positive example for all of us.
- Alice for her flexibility!
- Katie for going to Kim on a regular basis to brainstorm and plan together!
- Yuri for making a difference for my students!
- Crystal, Nancy, & Karen for giving and scoring everyone's MCAP and MCOMP!
- Honey, Donna, Paula, Abby, and Peggy for their leadership and dedication to register 35 incoming Kindergarten students!
- Dorinda for making artistic posters
