October
This Week
Monday
Tuesday
* 7:30 Lockdown training in the Gold Mine room
* 11:00 Lockdown drill
Wednesday
* SD: OYO
Thursday
* Parent/Teacher conferences
* 1st grade plan day
* Jenny admin meeting
Friday
* 2:45 Digger Dash celebration
Reminders
* Kindergarten teachers, please administer the iReady probe to students who fell below the cut score by Friday, October 5th.
* We will have our Digger Dash egging ceremony on Friday, October 5th. Please bring your class to the front playground at 2:45.
* Click here for how to edit READ plans, including where to enter progress monitoring data, parent communication and how to print the report. See Libby if you need help.
* i-Ready data will be available after October 14th.
* Conferences: The leadership team determined we would all share the following information with parents during conferences:
* Students DRA level
* The DRA range for the grade level
* The characteristics of the different DRA levels
* A current writing sample
* A celebration and goal for reading, writing and math
We were not going to share I READY reports for math or reading as this is a new assessment for us. We decided we would refer to this for certain students and situations.
* Please let Jenny or Libby know if you would like them to attend a conference.
* Walktober is here and it is time to get moving! If you haven't signed up already, go to dcsd.walktober.com to register for Walktober today! We begin logging steps or activity minutes on Monday, October 1st (but you can sign up through 10/5). Good luck!
* DCSD employees receive discounts on various services/items. Click here for the employees discount page.
District Lock Down Training -
Please inform your students of the following:
*If they were not in their classroom when a lockdown was announced on the overhead that they would run to the closest room or hiding spot.
* If they were in the bathroom students are told to remain in a locked stall with their feet up.
* If they are outside they need to run away from the school and find a safe spot until safe person finds them.
October Count
The process is simplified this year:
- Official Count Day: Tuesday, September 25
- Eleven Day Window: Tuesday, September 18 - Tuesday, October 2
- Make sure you are taking attendance in IC in your class during the eleven day window. If you are having problems with IC during that time, please let Christi Dismang know.
- If you have a substitute during the eleven day window, we will give your sub a Sub Attendance Roster for them to take attendance on. They need to sign the bottom of the form, and we will keep it for our records.
Opportunity
We are still in need of a Spelling Bee coordinator. You will receive a stipend for this position! Please let Libby know if you are interested.
Happy Birthday
Kim Gopsill - October 3rd
Christi Dismang - October 4th
Jen Dale - October 6th
Amanda Widdeson - October 11th
Megan Wallace - October 13
Go For the Gold
* Thank you for a great, first night of conferences. We appreciate all of the time and thought you put into them!
* Thank you Fat Friday team for the delicious soup and potato bar!
* Thank you Elizabeth Meuli for all of the painted hearts!
Golden Nuggets
Morning Announcements: Broecker
Lounge Duty: Anderson/Graham
3rd Grade Technology CoTeaching
Third grade readers are remarkable! They took an interim assessment from Lucy, revised their thinking, learned various digital editing tools like, scrolling, spelling, capitalization, indenting, punctuation, and growing text boxes while publishing their revised work. After typing their responses students learned how to share a google document with their Literacy Partners. Then these brave collaborators digitally provided feedback on their partner’s reading reflection using a checklist that combined items from Lucy’s Reading Progressions & Lucy’s Editing Checklist. To communicate meaningful feedback, students used the comment feature within Google Documents.
You can imagine minds were blown this week; kids & teachers alike.
