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"There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; only a child who hasn't found the right book."                                                                            - Frank Sarafini

Weekly Blast

Monday, February 18^th          No School!

Tuesday, February19^th

8:00-11:00                              PK12 Admin Mtg. – Jenny Brown

Wednesday, February 20^th      Staff Development Topic: Assessment

7:00                                      Specials 2^nd Grade Night

Thursday, February 21^st

8:00-8:50                               Staff Mtg. – Technology Sessions

7:00-8:00                               Math Parent Night @ Library

Friday, February 22^nd

9:00-11:30                              Jenny & Patty Visit Classrooms

Reminders:

•  Please turn in your January accommodation sheet to Libby. Please don’t forget to document accommodations for TCAP thru February.

Mark Your Calendar:

•  February 28 - We are going to have two assemblies.  
      * 9:30  Grades K-2  “The Amazing Food Detective”
      * 10:45 Grades 3-5  “Choose Your Life”

•  February 28 & March 7 – Parent teacher conferences.

Go For the GOLD!

•  Thank you Corissa, Kayla, and Ashley for helping with our math night! 

•  Thank you Corissa, Meghan S., and Lori for sharing your students’ work at       our PLC day!

•  Thank you Karen for leading “Alley Cat!”  So fun!

•  Thank you everyone for a great PLC day!

•  Thank you third grade teachers for smooth TCAP sessions.

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

Golden Nuggets

Lounge Duty:  Martino/McMillan

Friday Treats:  SPED and SPED EAs

Morning Announcements & Recycling: Jones

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

Don’t forget your orange vest!

Quote:
"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many get through to you."   -Mortimer J. Adler

Weekly Blast:

Monday, February 11^th

8:00-11:00                       Read Act Mtg. – Jenny Brown

Tuesday, February12^th

8:00                              PAC meeting @ Gold Mine Rm

10:15-11:35                       Third grade TCAP Reading session 1

Wednesday, February 13^th

10:15-11:35                       Third grade TCAP Reading session 2

                                    Staff Development Topic: Data review

Thursday, February 14^th   Happy Valentine’s Day!

Friday, February 15^th   PLC day with Stephanie Harvey!

9:00-3:00                       * Remember to bring a reading assessment (formal or informal) that show students who are at grade level, above or below for certain concept.  

                                         
               

Opportunities

•  If anyone would like to join Andrea as our co-leader for the health and wellness program, please let her know.

Reminders:

•  Please remind students to…

·      Walk quietly in the hallway, especially during TCAP.

·      Follow the rules from lunch recess at all recesses (i.e. no twisting on swings, jumping off equipment or walls, climbing on top of the monkey bars etc).

• Please turn in your January accommodation sheet to Libby. Document accommodations through February.

Mark Your Calendar:

•  February 28 Assemblies:

       9:30         Grades K-2 - “Amazing Food Detective”

       10:45        Grades 3-5 - “Choose Your Life”

•  February 21^st @ 9:00AM – Staff Meeting

•  February 28 & March 7 – Parent Teacher Conferences

Go For the GOLD!

•  Thank you Pam Jones for all of the copying you did last week! 

•  Thank you Margie Ellis for organizing third grade TCAP!

•  Thank you Mary Beth for coming in on your day off to participate in our collaboration 

   day? Thank you all for giving your time to collaborate with your colleagues!

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

Golden Nuggets

Lounge Duty:  Aldridge/Billings

Friday:  No treats

Morning Announcements & Recycling: Dalcerri

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

Don’t forget your orange vest!

Quote:

             “The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in highest sense, an exercise, a          
                 struggle: that the reader is to do something for him or herself, must be on the alert,
                 indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay-the text furnishing the
                 hints, the clue, the start, the framework."                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                          -Walt Whitman

                 Weekly Blast!

Monday, February 4^th

9:30-11:30                       Change Agent - Jenny & Kristi

Tuesday, February 5^th    Collaboration day with SPED @ Gold Mine Rm

6:30-7:30                       PTO meeting @ Gold Mine Rm

1:00-3:00                        Elementary Principal Meeting - Jenny

Wednesday, February 6^th Staff Development Topic: Midyear reflection in Halogen

                                    * Bring your computer

Thursday, February 7^th   Collaboration day with SPED@ Gold Mine Rm

8:00-4:00                       Middle School Hiring Committee - Jenny

7:00-8:00                       State of Gold Rush Parent Meeting @ Gold Mine

Friday, February 8^th

Reminders:

•  February 4^th – February 8^th:  Please block out your schedules for conferences through the online scheduler.  The window for parents opens on February 13^th.

•  February 12^th and 13^th from 10:15-11:35 -3^rd grade Reading TCAP

·      Click here to view the 2013 TCAP schedule

·      Turn in your December accommodation sheet to Libby.

·      Don’t forget to document February TCAP accommodations

•  February 28 - We are going to have two assemblies. 

·      9:30 Grades K-2 “Amazing Food Detective”

·      10:45Grades 3-5 will see the performance “Choose Your Life”

•  February 28 and March 7 – Parent Teacher Conferences.

Go For the GOLD!

• Thank you Karen O’Day, Kerry Dazzio, and Jessica Alvey for stepping up and helping with 

   morning duties!  You Rock!

•  Thank you Lara Castro for helping with the Spelling Bee.

•  Thank you Anita for doing your new job as Registrar as well as being the health assistant 

    while we are hiring!

•  Thank you to all of our aides, Jenny, Kristi, and Libby for making vertical staff 

    development possible.

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

Golden Nuggets

Lounge Duty:  Lacy/Marchese

Friday Treats:  Specials

Morning Announcements & Recycling: Fleet

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

Don’t forget your orange vest!

 Quote

“Readers may be divided into four classes:

1.) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied.

2.) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time.

3.) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read.

4.) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also.”                            - Samuel Taylor Coleridgev

                                                                        

                Weekly Blast!

Monday, January 28^th        Vision & Hearing

2:30 PM                             Spelling Bee @ gym. Grades 3-5 are invited

Tuesday, January 29^th         Vision & Hearing

                                        Happy Birthday Jessica Alvey!

8:00 AM                             Staff Meeting @ Gold Mine room - CITE

8:00 AM                             Battle of the Books final elimination

Wednesday, January 30^th     Vision & Hearing

                                        Staff Development

                                        Topic: Vertical conversations. 

                                        * We will let you know the schedule on Monday.

Thursday, January 31^st

8:00AM-3:00PM                  Jenny Brown State Conference

Friday, February 1^st

8:00AM-3:00PM                  Jenny Brown State Conference

Saturday, February 2^nd Happy Birthday Kayla Schulte!

Opportunities:

•  We are going to host a math night in early February and we are looking for one representative per grade level to help.  Please let Jenny or Libby know if you are interested.

•  Teachers Grades 2-5: Please let Jenny or Libby know if you are interested in piloting a District interim assessment this spring and in what content area(s).  If they are approved by the state these District assessments may be tied to growth next year (standard 6). It might be nice to take a look at them and be part of the process. Let us know if you are interested in participating.

•  Click here for a description of the collaborative structures modeled on our PLC day.

Calendar

• February 12^th & 13^th -3^rd grade Reading TCAP

•  February 28 - We are going to have two assemblies. 

              9:30AM             Grades K-2: “Amazing Food Detective”

              10:45AM            Grades 3-5 “Choose Your Life”

• February 28 & March 7 – Parent teacher conferences.

Reminders:

•  Please check when you teaching license expires on the CDE website. By state law you

   cannot teach in the classroom if your license is expired.

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

•  Please turn in December accommodation sheets to Libby.

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

   thru February.
•  Click here for the principal's blog.

Go For the GOLD!

• Thank you Christy Schwalick for supervising the band students on Tuesday!

•  Thank you to all of our wonderful aides for being so flexible and helpful.

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

Golden Nuggets

Lounge Duty:  Brown/Graham

Friday Treats:  Fifth and Child Care

Morning Announcements & Recycling: Conrad

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

Don’t forget your orange vest!

    

               “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. 

               Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”           

                                                                                                   -Martin Luther King, Jr.

                Weekly Blast

Monday, January 21^st             MLK Birthday - No School

Tuesday, January 22^nd

9:15AM-10:15AM                    Coffee Chat @ Gold Mine room

Wednesday, January 23^rd

                                        Staff Development Topic: Update Goals

Thursday, January 24^th

8:00AM-12OOPM                   Admin Mtg. - Jenny 

Friday, January 25^th              Happy Birthday Stephanie Braden!

Mark Your Calendar!

•  Wednesday, January 23- Please make sure your websites are up to date

•  Monthly - Please also make sure that you send some form of parent communication

   briefly previewing upcoming curriculum goals.

• Friday, January 25 - 3^rd-5^th grade teachers turn in your December accommodations 

  sheet to Libby.

• January 28 @ 2:30 -  4^th & 5^th Grade Spelling Bee

• Tuesday, January 29 @ 8:00 – Staff Meeting

• February 12 & 13 - 3^rd grade Reading TCAP

• February 28 & March 7 – Parent teacher conferences

Opportunities:

• We are going to host a math night in early February and we are looking for one representative per grade level to help. Please let Jenny or Libby know if you are interested.

•  The Assessment Unit is seeking Colorado educators to participate in development and review of new TCAP items and TCAP scoring anchors in  math, reading & writing.  If you are interested click here.

Reminders:

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

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

• School Safety / Doors

·      School staff must supervise children at all times.

·      School staff should be the only people opening exterior doors for students.  

·      Please make sure that the exterior door is closed securely behind your class before and after school/recess.

·      Help us make sure that all exterior doors and the childcare doors are closed at times.

·      Please remind students not to hold open exterior doors for students or parents.

Go For the GOLD!

• Thank you Tobey for hanging the coat racks in the cafeteria!

• Thank you Lori, Libby & Kristi for facilitating on Friday’s PLC day!

• Thank you teachers for a wonderful PLC on Friday!

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

Golden Nuggets

Lounge Duty:  Office Staff

Friday Treats:  Third & Fourth

Morning Announcements & Recycling: Jones

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

Don’t forget your orange vest!