February 2018

This Week
Monday
* Sports Wear
* Lunch Love from the PTO - Chick Filet 

Tuesday
* Rainbow Wear

Wednesday
* Superhero Day - No Masks
* Valentines Parties
* No Staff Development
* Love Lunch Provided by Jenny, Kristi & Lbby - Mad Greens

Thursday
* GRE Spirit Wear
* 2nd Grade Plan Day

Friday
* PLC Day

Reminders
* We are looking forward to a meaningful and fun PLC day Friday! Click here for the agenda.  We will spend the afternoon celebrating our great work at an Escape Room at Outdoor Ed.  We have allowed for travel time and lunch will be provided at the site.
* Please update your blog for February.  You may want to include any Investigations videos that align to your current math unit.  These help parents tremendously!
* If you have not done so already, please complete the plans for next year survey.
* Please continue to track accommodations for CMAS. Click here for the building schedule.

* Please let Libby know if you have students who should test in a small group.

* Please try to avoid needing a sub on Fridays as they are hard to come by!

* You received information regarding the TELL survey in your mailbox.  This public survey provides information on Jenny's leadership.

* Legend's Wish Week is February 12th-15. This year the proceeds benefit a senior at Legend High School.  Click here for a video for more information on this student.  Students will bring change each day to participate.  Please send the information down to the office each day.

At the end of the week (Thursday, Feb. 15th), we will have our optional door decorating contest. Your class can decorate your door in a way that represents kindness. We will have judges walk around in the afternoon on the 15th and pick a winner for K-2, and a winner for 3-5. These will be announced, and the winning classrooms will receive a treat! 

Each teacher will have a class set of the Kindness Checklist to pass out to students on Monday, Feb. 12th. (These will be in your copy box in the workroom). Students will be challenged to complete as many of these acts as they can throughout the week. Please let Bev or Kylee know if you have any questions!

Book Fair Fun!

Scholastic has a fun idea for a book fair activity. We would like the name(s) of your pets and a photo. We will create a "match game" where students will try to match the staff member to their pet. We will use this on Tuesday and Thursday nights as one of the fun activities. Please send a picture of your pet and his/her name to Linda at Lgen4@yahoo.com by March 5th!

Budget Information
We are excited that our enrollment is remaining the same for next year and we are not having to reduce staff.  Our consistent enrollment is a testimony to your great work and collective comittment to our students and school! Go GRE!!

Here is some basic information regarding our budget and our sections for next year.  Jenny is more than willing to provide more detail about budgets and enrollment.  She will put a presentation in the parent blog next week that will be included in the Barker.  Feel free to see her prior if you have any questions.

* Average teacher costs include benefits (Darn!).

Google Expedition AR
Our Google Expedition AR day is quickly approaching. On February 26th, students in grades 2nd-5th will have a 30 minute Google Expedition Augmented Reality experience that enhances classroom curriculum content. Please see the documents below for your scheduled time, location, and for a copy of the discussion questions and agreements we brainstormed during our last technology planning day. Any questions can be directed to Megan.
Schedule

4th Grade Technology CoTeaching
This week 4th graders authentically collaborated and problem solved as they built and programmed Lego WeDo robots. Students did such an incredible job collaborating creatively, being open and courageous to explore new tasks, and redefining Lego builds and coding programs to better meet the identified challenge.

Happy Birthday
Naomi Meredith - February 14th
Kathy Brown - February 18th

Go For the Gold
* Thank you Leadership Team for a great meeting!
* Thank you Karen Warner for your efforts with Jump Rope For Heart! We are amazing that we raised just under $10,000!

Golden Nuggets
Morning Announcements: Lautenbach
Lounge Duty: Rayens/ S. Brown