Happy Labor Day!

                                                                          SEPTEMBER 2013

  

             Reminders:

•  MAP Math testing is next week.  Please have all students bring paper and pencil to their session.    

   Know your user name and password.

•  Teachers  meet your students at the end of lunch on time.  Remember to give yourself travel time!

•  Please do not pull students from Specials to do DRAs.

•  In the event that we would need to evacuate GRE we would walk to Prairie Crossing.

•  Please have Golden Tickets turned in to the office by 3:30 on Thursdays.

Math Nights Official Dates

September 11^th  K & 1^st

September 12^th  3^rd

September 19^th  2^nd

September 24^th  4^th & 5^th

Staff Development Preparation:

•  Have Lucy Calkins' reading completed by September 11^th

Go For the GOLD!
•  Thank you to everyone for your patience with MAP testing!

•  Thank you Courtney Menk for allowing us to take over the lab!

•  Thank you Karen Deal for weathering the heat!

•  Thank you Karen O’Day for allowing us to use the gym for our Digger Dash assembly!

•  Thank you teachers for being such great sports during the assembly!

Birthdays!

September 3^rd -  Janis Panico & Rochelle Evans

September 4^th – Megan Fleet

September 7^th – Carolyn Alvey

September 7^th – Jamie Marchese

Golden Nuggets!

Lounge Duty:  Gray/Murray-Close       Friday Treats: First & Second Grade

Morning Announcements: Lautenbach

Morning Supervision:  Cieply, Woolums, Martino, Hawk, Holtzer, Fier

Remember your lovely orange vest!

                                                                      AUGUST 2013

                                                                 SEPTEMBER 2013

Click here for GRE's Professional Development Site

Leadership Opportunities

Standard 6 Committee - Student Assessment Data

* Standard 6 will count for 50% of teacher evaluations starting NEXT year 

* Standard 6 measures student and school data 

* The team will identify assessment categories and specific assessment types we will use next year

* Participants will meet monthly and pilot some existing school/classroom assessments

* Participants will receive a stipend of $900 from the District

Response to Intervention Team (RtI)

* Meet every Friday starting this Friday at 8:15 to problem solve for students

* Participants brainstorm academic and behavioral supports

Reminders
* See Jenny by Wednesday if you are interested in serving on RtI or the Standard 6 team.
* Please share any changes with your classroom schedule from now on with Jenny.
* The abuse & neglect moddle training was due Friday.

Thank You!
* Everyone who helped out during our end of the day dismissal.
* Kristi, Tobey, Gail. Kim Layton & Cindy Bell for helping with Western Night!
* Have some you want to recognize...email Libby.

Birthday Blast
August 27th - Karen Deal
August 28th - Kari Lacy

Golden Nuggets!
Lounge Duty:  Rossi/Hoff Friday Treats:  Kindie & Preschool
Morning Announcements: Rayens
Morning Supervision:  Steckler, Hoff, Murray-Close, Simpson, Fleet, Kramer
Remember your lovely orange vest!

First Day of School Funny!

                                                                 August 2013

Click here for GRE Staff Site

Reminders:
Abuse & Neglect Training
*Please complete the online training for reporting abuse and neglect by August 23. Please use the link below to view this training.

Student Pictures on Blogs
* If you are putting pictures of your students on your website or blog please make sure you have permission from their parents.  We will put a class list in your box by Monday stating who has permission to be on the internet. Before then, you can check with the office.

Request for Special Education Testing
* See Tammy Simpson or Megan Isberg asap when a parent requests testing.

Field Trips
*Please log on to Staff Corner and select Field Trips to access the new information and forms. Janis will add it to the Master Calendar. Please allow 3 weeks advance notice for your field trips.  Check the staff corner for additional information.

Social Committee Dues
* Janis is collecting dues for social committee.  It is $25 for full time certified staff and $12.50 for
classified staff.

* Thank you for walking your kids in and out of the building during arrival and dismissal. Go NORMS!  Please send children directly to BASE in the cafeteria at the end of the day.

Go For the GOLD:
*  Thank you everyone for an amazing first week of school.  All of the students are so happy!
* Thank you EAs, support staff, and specials teachers for all of your help with registration.
*  Thank you Christy Schwalick for rockin’ the copy room!
*  Thank you everyone!  Our Health Room visits are way down!
* Thank you for following our norms! Thanks are running so smoothly!

Happy Birthday!
* August 19 - Becky Woolums

Golden Nuggets:
* Lounge Duty:  Martino/McMillan Friday Treats:  Office Staff
* Morning Announcements:  Dalcerri
* Morning Supervision:  Aldridge, Lewis, Castro, Evans, Rude, Isberg
* Remember your lovely orange vest!

 Celebrate the Start of A New Year!

Calendar: August 2013

* Click here for the GRE professional development site. 

To view the calendar events click on the professional 

development calendar on the right tab.

Reminders:

*All teachers have morning supervision next week. Please be outside to meet your class at 8:55AM.  

* Go For The Gold Teacher Style Norms in your mailbox. Thank you for following them this year!

* Turn in your classroom schedule, team norms & emergency forms to the office by Monday at 3 PM.
* Don't forget to sign up for MAP/MPG & DRA/IRR assessment days. 

Go For the Gold:

*Thank you everyone for working so hard this week!

*Kristi, Libby, Stephanie, Janet, Karen ODay, Gail & Courtney for presenting great ideas last week!

*Let Libby know if you have other people you would like to recognize.

Golden Nuggets:

Lounge Duty: Alridge & Lewis

Morning Announcements: Hawk

Friday Treats: Sped & Sped EAs

*Please be on time and wear your hot orange vest!

Learning & Leadership:
*We determined the conference dates for next year: November 5 & 7 and March 18 & 19

*The team decided that we would host grade level math trainings for parents in the month of
  September from 4:30-5:30PM. The purpose of the evening is to give parents a preview of the grade  
  level concepts and teach them how to help their children.  Teachers will have time to plan their  
  sessions. Mark your calendar...
  Sept. 5 - K & 1
  Sept. 10 -  FourthGrade
  Sept. 17 -  Third Grade
  Sept.19 -  Second Grade
  Sept. 24 - Fifth Grade  

 Quote

                “Summer vacation is the time when parents realize that teacher are grossly underpaid.”

                                                                                                            -Unknown

              

             Weekly Blast!

Monday, June 3^rd               Happy Birthday Meghan Hoff!

9:15-11:00                          Kindergarten Field Day

Tuesday, June 4^th

8:30-9:55                          How to Back up your Computer Files @ Computer Lab

                                 * You must back up your files before you drop off your 

                                        computer

Wednesday, June 5^th          Last day of school!!

                                       5^th grade field trip

4:30                                 End of year celebration at Brewery Bar II

Thursday, June 6^th             Clean Up & Check Out

Friday, June 7^th

Reminders:

• All computers need to be re-imaged by Thursday at noon. Please sign up for a time with Jessica at one of the following time slots:  Wednesday AM, Wednesday PM, Thursday AM.

Opportunities:

• If you are interested in a training of trainers class on Thinking Maps, click here or see Libby for more information.

Go For the Gold

• Thank you Karen O’Day for an amazing field day!  Everyone had a great time!

• Congratulations Kari Lacy on your new baby boy Cohen Michael! What a great picture 
  below!

• Congratulations Mary Rossi on your new baby granddaughter Charlotte Elizabeth!

• Happy birthday to all of our summer birthdays:

June 12 Megan Iseberg

June 12 Sumer Sandel

June 14 Pam Jones

June 17 Karen O’Day

June 19 Kelly Bare

June 22 Deborah Murray-Close

June 23 Joelle Padilla

June 25 Karry Dazzio

June 29 Meghan Steckler

July 1 Kathryn Kramer

July 8 Elizabeth Farrar

July 19 Shazia Imam

July 22 Sharon MacLeod

July 24 Libby Bergner

July 26 Bev Holtzer

July 30 Diane Brown

August 4 Annelise Lawrence

August 5 Sherry Dowling

August 7 Corissa Nelson

Golden Nuggets

Lounge Duty:  Coppinger/Evans

Friday Treats:  No treats!

Morning Announcements & Recycling: Jones

Morning Supervision: Steckler, Hoff, Murray-Close, Simpson, Fleet, Kramer Don’t forget your orange vest!