September 2014

Reminders

•  On your library day, please have a student helper return the books in the crate to be checked back in first thing in the morning.

•  Please remember to send a red note to the office if your class is going to be in any location other than your identified specials or lunch.

•  If you have supervision duty and have an IEP meeting or you have a sub that day, please make sure you arrange coverage for your duties.

•  Please allow travel time when going out to supervision duties or picking up your class after lunch.

•  If you are interested in facilitating a before or after student activity (Math Olympiad, Student council) please submit the name of the activity and the number of student contact hours to Jenny by Tuesday. We need this information to figure out the teacher rate for this school year.

•  Please see information regarding Student Council below.

•  Parent conferences will now be on Thursday, September 18 and Tuesday, September 23.

Digger Dash Assemblies: Friday September 5th

• K-2 assembly 2:40-3:00

• 3-5 assembly 3:05-3:25

If anyone has a kiddie pool, we need a couple for the Digger Dash assembly next Friday. Let us know!

Don’t forget to wear your 80’s workout gear! We will need some audience participation to run a lap!

Staff Development

At staff development this week, we heard how helpful it would be to have some collaborative scoring time with our narrative formative assessments.  Especially with new teams and teachers, it is valuable to work together in creating like ideas about this scoring, so....

We have created some time blocks over the next couple weeks in which you will be able to have 45 minutes specifically for scoring these pieces.  During this 45 minutes, your students will rotate between 3 stations and will participate in activities geared to social-emotional health.  More specifics about places for these activities will come later.

Time blocks:

Thursday, September 4 - 2:00 - 2:45 (Grade 4)

Friday, September 5 - 10:30 - 11:15  (Grade 2)

Monday, September 8 - 10:30 - 11:15 (Grade 1)

                                      2:00 - 2:45 (Grade 3)

Friday, September 12 - 10:30 - 11:15 (Kindie)

                                     2:00 - 2:45 (Grade 5)

Go For the Gold

• Thank you Karen Petty and Karen Warner for braving the rain and doing extra duties.

•  Thank you everyone for you help and patience during our delayed dismissal.

Happy Birthday

Rochelle Evans – September 3

Janis Panico – September 3

Megan Fleet – September 4

Jamie Marchese – September 7

Carolyn Alvey – September 7

Golden Nuggets

Lounge Duty:             Pearne/Steckler                                Friday Treats:  Kindie/Preschool

Morning Announcements:  Lautenbach

Morning Supervision:  Martino, Woolums, Cieply, Hurley, Vanderveen, Holtzer

Guess who:

Which staff member got her arm stuck in a McDonald’s garbage can when she tried to get her daughter’s toy?

Student Council Lowdown:

            ★  GRE Student Council members need to be responsible role models that can lead students. We will be deciding on and participating in spirit days, fundraisers, and other activities throughout the year.

            ★  Officer elections will be held Sept. 12th. Please announce this in 4th/5th classrooms!! (President and Secretary will be 5th graders, Vice President and Treasurer will be 4th graders)

            ★  4th/5th grade teachers ­ please send home the informational meeting reminder for those students interested in Thursday folders!!!

            ★  There will be an informational meeting for those students interested in running for officer positions on Friday, September 5th, at 8:30 am, in Mrs. Wilson’s room. This is mandatory unless students talk to either Mrs. Gray or Mrs. Wilson prior. (This is where they will get an application and permission form)

            ★  There will be an election assembly (for 4th/5th grades) for students to give speeches on September 12th in the afternoon time to be decided. 

            ★  All GRE students will vote using a google form that will be shared with teachers.

            ★  All classrooms in grades 2-­5 will then elect one representative by September 19th. This can be run and decided by individual classroom teachers based on the needs of their students. We recommend having students give brief speeches to classes and voting.

            ★  Our first student council meeting will be on October 3rd, at 8:30 am, in Mrs. Wilson’s classroom.

            ★  Any questions should be directed to either Mrs. Gray or Mrs. Wilson