Quote:

                 “Children who are successful at becoming literate view reading and writing as authentic

                  activities from which they get information and pleasure, and by which they                                       
                  communicate with others."                                         -Cunningham and Allington           

                                                                

               Weekly Blast!

Monday, January 14^th

8:00AM-12:30PM               Change Agent Mtg. – Jenny & Kristi

Tuesday, January 15^th

Wednesday, January 16^th     Staff Development 

                                      Topic: Finish Stage 1 of grade level reading backward plans 
                                      (outcomes, enduring understanding and essential questions)

Thursday, January 17^th       *Staff Mtg Moved to next Thursday due to PLC Day

12:00PM-3:30PM               Principal Feeder Mtg. – Jenny

Friday, January 18^th           PLC Day

                                     Topic: Gold Rush’s World Class Reading Outcome 
                                     *See Agenda Below

Sunday January 20^th          Happy Birthday Catherine Graham!

Monday, January 21^st          No School – MLK Day

Reminders/ Announcements/Opportunities

•  We are going to host a parent math night in early February. If you are interested in 
   helping please let Jenny, Libby or Kristi know. 

•  Please make sure the Gold Mine room is put back in order if you/your students use it.

•  Our school’s Spelling Bee for 4^th and 5^th graders will be on January 28^th at 2:30. 

•  Teachers, please pick up your students on time after lunch.

•  Spring conference dates:  February 28 and March 7 from 4:30-8:30 PM.

•  3^rd – 5^th grade teachers, please don’t forget to document accommodations for TCAP.

Principal's Blog

• Click here for the Jenny's parent blog.

Go For the GOLD!

• Thank you office staff for buzzing people in 5000 times a day.

• Have anyone you want to recognize?  Please let Libby know.

Golden Nuggets

Lounge Duty:  Hurley, Wilson, Ball

Friday Treats:  No Teats

Morning Announcements & Recycling: Dalcerri

Morning Supervision:  Rossi, McMillan, Hayes, Jones, Dalcerri, Conrad

Don’t forget your orange vest!

PLC Day Agenda: 

World Class Reading Outcomes: Incorporating the 4Cs

Time	Topic
8:30-9:00	Breakfast @ Lounge
9:00-9:30	Purpose of the 4Cs
9:30-10:30	4Cs & Collaborative Structures Activity
10:30-10:45	Break
10:45-11:45	Clarifying Synthesizing – Lori Conrad
11:45-1:00	Lunch
1:00-2:30	Cross Grade Level Discussion & Presentations of K-5 Strategy Outcomes
2:30-3:30	Grade Level Time for Website Updates

Quote

               “Children who are successful at becoming literate view reading and writing as authentic

                activities from which they get information and pleasure, and by which they                   

                communicate with others.”                                       -Cunningham and Allington

Weekly Blast!

Monday, January 14^th

8:00AM-12:30PM          Change Agent Mtg. – Jenny & Kristi

Tuesday, January 15^th

Wednesday, January 16^th      Staff Development 

                               Topic: Finish Stage 1 of grade level reading

                                  backward plans (outcomes, enduring

                                  understanding and essential questions)

Thursday, January 17^th       *Staff Mtg Moved to next Thursday due to PLC Day

12:00PM-3:30PM               Principal Feeder Mtg. – Jenny

Friday, January 18^th           PLC Day

                                   Topic: Gold Rush’s World Class Reading Outcomes

                                   * See Agenda Below

Sunday January 20^th          Happy Birthday Catherine Graham!

Monday, January 21^st          No School – MLK Day

Reminders/ Announcements/Opportunities

•  Please make sure the Gold Mine room is put back in order if you/your students use it.

•  Our school’s Spelling Bee for 4^th and 5^th graders will be on January 28^th at 2:30. 

•  Teachers, please pick up your students on time after lunch.

•  Spring conference dates:  February 28 and March 7 from 4:30-8:30 PM.

•  3^rd – 5^th grade teachers, please don’t forget to document accommodations for TCAP.

Go For the GOLD!

• Thank you office staff for buzzing people in 5000 times a day.

• Have anyone you want to recognize?  Please let Libby know.

Golden Nuggets

Lounge Duty:  Hurley, Wilson, Ball

Friday Treats:  No Teats

Morning Announcements & Recycling: Dalcerri

Morning Supervision:  Rossi, McMillan, Hayes, Jones, Dalcerri, Conrad

Don’t forget your orange vest!

PLC Day Agenda: World Class Reading Outcomes: Incorporating the 4Cs

Time	Topic
8:30-9:00	Breakfast @ Lounge
9:00-9:30	Purpose of the 4Cs
9:30-10:30	4Cs & Collaborative Structures Activity
10:30-10:45	Break
10:45-11:45	Clarifying Synthesizing – Lori Conrad
11:45-1:00	Lunch
1:00-2:30	Cross Grade Level Discussion & Presentations of K-5 Strategy Outcomes
2:30-3:30	Grade Level Time for Website Updates

                           Welcome Back!

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"Cheers to another year and another chance for us to get it right." - Oprah

Weekly Blast

Monday, January 7^th            Welcome Back!

Tuesday, January 8^th              

Wednesday, January 9^th        Staff Development

                                      Topic: Identify additional reading outcomes

                                      * AIMsweb testing window begins  
Thursday, January 10^th

Friday, January 11^th

Happy Birthday to everyone who celebrated over break:

Charlene Gilbert – December 21^st

Amber Hayes – December 30^th

Courtney Jones – January 4^th

Reminders/ Announcements/Opportunities

•  Please remind students that they need to check in at the office if they arrive to school late.

•  If you see visitors in the building, please ask them to return to the office if they do not have a visitor’s badge.

• Here is a link to great bullying articles that were discussed by our aides.

•  3^rd – 5^th grade teachers, please don’t forget to document accommodations   for TCAP.

Go For the GOLD!

• Thank you everyone for a fantastic first half of the year.  Our students are so lucky to have you!

• Have anyone you want to recognize?  Please let Libby know.

Golden Nuggets

Lounge Duty:  Braden/Isberg

Friday Treats:  Kindie &  Preschool

Morning Announcements & Recycling: Fleet

Morning Supervision:  Brownley, Woolums, Martino, Hawk, Holtzer

Don’t forget your orange vest!

             “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you
              might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by 
              default.”                           - J. K. Rowling

              Weekly Blast!

Monday, December 17^th Happy Birthday Lara Castro & Amy Fugier!

                                 Secret Santa begins!

Tuesday, December 18^th

2:15-3:15                      Aide meeting @ Gold Mine room.

Wednesday, December 19^th

                                 Staff Development Topic:  Holiday Cheer!

Thursday, December 20^th

8:30                            Holiday breakfast @lounge. 

                                 Ugly Seasonal Sweater Runway Walk off!

Friday, December 21^st   No School!  Happy Holidays!

Reminders/ Announcements/Opportunities

•  Please make sure you have your students’ most current DRA levels in Infinite Campus. 

• ILPS are due on December 21^st.

•  3^rd – 5^th grade teachers, please don’t forget to document accommodations   for TCAP.

• Parents will be able to view reports on December 20^th at 4:00.

Principal's Parent Newsletter
• Click here for the weekly parent newsletter.

Go For the GOLD!

• Thank you everyone for a fantastic first half of the year.  Our students are so lucky to have you!

• Have anyone you want to recognize?  Please let Libby know.

Golden Nuggets

Lounge Duty:  Coppinger/Evans

Friday Treats:  No treats

Morning Announcements & Recycling: Conrad

Morning Supervision:  Steckler, Schulte, Murray-Close, Simpson, Fleet, Kramer

Don’t forget your orange vest!

           Weekly Blast!

Monday, December 10^th

Tuesday, December 11^th

8:00AM-4:00PM                   Admin Mtg. – Jenny Brown

Wednesday, December 12^th  Happy Birthday Allison Hawk!

                                      Staff Development: Update ILPs

                                      *Submit you Go For The Gold Kids

9:15AM-2:45PM                  5^th Grade Field Trip-Fleet&Conrad

Thursday, December 13^th

9:15-2:45PM                      5^th Grade Field Trip–Jones&Delcerri

Friday, December 14^th       Happy Birthday Margie Ellis!

Reminders/ Announcements/Opportunities

•  We will come together as a school community on Thursday morning, 

   December 20th, to celebrate the season.  More information on our two 

   assemblies (one primary and one intermediate) will follow this week.

•  Please keep holiday classroom parties to an hour preferably in the

   afternoon. We want to make sure that students are engaged in learning

   as much as possible.

•  Teachers, please come to the office if you have morning supervision and

   get a lovely, fashionable orange vest. You don’t, however, have to wear 

   it at the grocery store like Kristi did on Friday!

•  Please turn in your Top Dog names to Penny by Wednesday.  Remember

   students who are nominated for Top Dog should be those students who 

   Go For The Gold on a daily basis.  Jenny will share this information with

   parents in her Friday blog.

•  The community is currently voting on whether the feeder schools will 

   adopt one calendar next year (the split modified) or if we remain on our 

   current calendars (modified). Jenny will let you know before break the 

   outcome of the decision.

•  3^rd – 5^th grade teachers, please don’t forget to document TCAP 

   accommodations.       

•  EPR window closes December 14^th at 4:00 pm.  Parents will be able to

   view reports on December 20^th at 4:00.

Go For the GOLD!

• Thank you Kristi Barta for an amazing Comprehension Toolkit class!

• Thank you Karen O’Day for hosting our holiday party!  Everyone had so

   much fun!

• Have anyone you want to recognize?  Please let Libby know.

Golden Nuggets

Lounge Duty:  Simpson/Willis

Friday Treats:  Office Staff

Morning Announcements & Recycling: Jones

Morning Supervision:  Aldridge, Billings, Castro, Evans, Menk, Willis

           “Frequent assessment of developing readers, and the use of that information for planning is
            the most reliable way of preventing children from falling behind and staying behind.”

                                                                                               -Learning First Alliance

             Weekly Blast!

Monday, December 3^rd

Tuesday, December 4^th

8:00AM                             Comprehension Toolkit Class

Wednesday, December 5^th    Happy Birthday Christy Schwalick!

                                       Staff Development

                                           * Topic: Grade Level Literacy Outcomes

4:15PM                              Comprehension Toolkit Class

6:30PM                              Kindergarten Registration

Thursday, December 6^th

8:00AM-12:00PM                        Admin Mtg.  – Jenny

Friday, December 7^th

Saturday, December 8^th

6:30PM                             Holiday Party @ Karen O’Day’s house.

Reminders/ Announcements/Opportunities

•  3^rd – 5^th grade teachers, please document accommodations for TCAP.

•  EPR Updates

·      The window closes December 14^th at 4:00 pm.  Parents will be able to view reports on December 20^th at 4:00.

·      Comments should be made for areas that are below a 3. One general comment about the student should also be made. 

·      Top Dog certificates will be given to students this year who demonstrate what it looks like to Go For the Gold in all parts of the school on a daily basis.  Top Dog is not tied to the EPR as it has been in the past.  Please select only those students who demonstrate this behavior on a daily basis.  The production room is working on certificates that will be put in students’ Thursday folders the day before we leave for winter break.  Jenny will write a letter for parents describing how students were chosen.  

•  Please pay your social committee dues if you haven’t already.

Go For the GOLD!

• Thank you Amber Hayes for offering to lead our Energy and Paper 

   Incentive program!

• Thank you Andrea Willis and Megan Fleet for supervising band and 

   orchestra students!

• Thank you Penny Jackman for organizing this year’s Secret Santa!

•  Have anyone you want to recognize?  Please let Libby know.

Golden Nuggets

Lounge Duty:  O’Day/Heitmann

Friday Treats:  SPED and SPED EA’s

Morning Announcements & Recycling: Dalcerri

Morning Supervision:  Graham, Marchese, Nelson, Braden, Hurley