Sunday, September 7, 2014


September 2014





Reminders
  If you are interested in serving on our RtI committee, please let Libby or Stephanie Brown know by Tuesday. RtI meetings are held Friday mornings.
  Please let Jenny know who your grade level representative is for CITE 6 by Tuesday.
  Please remember to set up your goal setting conference. If you received an email from Jenny, please sign up with Janis. If you received an email from Libby, please schedule directly with her.
  Please block out your times for conferences. It will open for parents on September 8.
  Parent conferences will now be on Thursday, September 18 and Tuesday, September 23.
  Collaborative writing times for this week are as follows:
            Monday – 10:30-11:15 First grade
                               2:15-3:00 Fifth grade
            Friday – 10:30-11:15 Kindergarten
                            2:15-3:00 Fourth grade
  Please see Student Council reminders below.

Staff Development
The purpose for staff development this week is to have meaningful conversations about our students’ data and brainstorm best instructional practices for them moving forward. This will also give you the opportunity to develop talking points for parent conferences. In order to utilize our short time together, please come with your data sheets complete.

Go For the Gold
• Thank you for your participation in the Digger Dash assembly!

Happy Birthday
Margaret Cieply – September 10

Golden Nuggets
Lounge Duty:             Woolums/Castro                               Friday Treats:  First and Second
Morning Announcements:  Holtzer
Morning Supervision:  Rossi, McMillan, Nolan, Isberg/Nelson, A. Lewis, Rayens

Guess who:
Which staff member got her arm stuck in a McDonald’s garbage can when she tried to get her daughter’s toy? Answer:  Anita Rudman!

Student Council Reminders
*Only 4th and 5th graders are running next week (8th-12th)
*Representatives from all classrooms will be elected the following week (15th-19th)
*Look for general guidelines for classroom representative elections in the Barker
*The link to the prezi that we shared with students is at the end of this email - in case you need more information, or students who weren't able to attend are curious.

****Students will be bringing their applications back to you on Monday, September 8th.  Please collect these and put them in either Mrs. Wilson or Mrs. Gray's boxes.  
****Please remind students who are running for officer positions next week that they may come at 8:45 am on Monday (waiting for us to come let them into the building) to put up their posters in the cafeteria only.

Thank you for all of your help and support in getting our student council up and running!  Please let us know if you have any questions.


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