September 2017

October 2017

                          Click here for the staff / professional development the calendar for the year. 

This Week
Monday
* 7:30 Social Media Committee
* Goal setting conferences

Tuesday
* 7:45 Tech office hours
* Goal setting conferences

Wednesday
* Parent/teacher conferences
* Goal setting conferences

Thursday
* 4th Grade Planning Day

Friday
* Digger Dash

Reminders
* If you haven't done so already, please sign up for your goal setting conference on the calendar on Janis' desk.
* If you have students on READ plans, please make two copies. Give one copy to parents at conferences and have them sign the other for our records. You will also need to progress monitor and log parent communication. Click here for instructions.
* The Istation window for Kindergarten closes on September 29th.
* If you would like Jenny or Libby to attend any of your parent/teacher conferences, please let them know.

Library Norms
* Please remember that if you miss your library time due to a field trip or we don't have school, we do not make up that time on a different day.
* If you need Gail to pull books for you, please give her enough notice to do so.

Digger Dash Schedule

8:45 – 9:00            Stretching (Preschool and Kindergarten)

9:00 – 9:15            Race  (Preschool and Kindergarten)

9:10 – 9:25            Stretching (1^st and 2^nd grades)

9:25 – 9:55            Race  (1^st and 2^nd grades)

9:50 – 10:00         Stretching (3^rd and 4^th grades)

10:00 – 10:45       Race  (3^rd and 4^th grades)

10:40 – 10:50       Stretching (5^th grade)

10:50 – 11:35       Race  (5^th grade)

2nd Grade Technology CoTeaching

This week second graders synthesized their civic learning about roles, rights, and responsibilities using Adobe Spark Video. Students identified specific roles, rights, and responsibilities in locations around Gold Rush. Then as writers they took the time to pick out meaningful teaching graphics, wrote essential ideas in captions, and then elaborated on the ideas when they added their voices to the slides.

See sample presentations by our 2nd graders below.

Go For the Gold
• Congratulations Janis Panico on your retirement! We love you and will miss you!
• A huge thank you to Lauren Rayens, Allison Hawk, Naomi Meredith, Jenn Poli, Rochelle Evans, Melissa Robart, Jamie Marchese, and Stephanie Brown for presenting at our PLC day!
• Thank you first, second, and third grade teams for sharing your awesome math work!
• Thank you everyone for your participation during our PLC day!
• Thank you Karen Warner and Bev Holtzer for delivering our lunches to Parker Task Force!
• Congratulations Betsy Zankey on your wonderful news! We can't wait to meet your little one!

Golden Nuggets
Morning Announcements: Rayens
Lounge Duty: Martino/Robart

September 2017

                      Click here for the staff / professional development the calendar for the year. 

This Week
Monday
* 11:30 - Flu shots
* Istation

Tuesday
* 7:30 - Leadership Team Meeting in the Gold Mine room
* 7:30 - Tech Committee Meeting in the lab
* 9:30-2:30 - 3rd grade field trip to Plains Conservation Center
* Istation

Wednesday
* No staff development
* Istation

Thursday 
* COUNT DAY - please see below
* Kindie planning day

Friday

* PLC Day

Important information regarding COUNT DAY
* The official count day is Thursday, September 21st. Our school funding is based on enrollment and attendance on this date. PLEASE make sure your attendance is accurate, especially during the count window, which is September 14th - 28th! You MUST complete the roster verification on this date as well as September 28th. If you have any questions regarding this process, please see Anita.

REMINDERS

* PLC Day is Friday. Click here for the agenda.

* If you have not had your picture taken yet, or if you want re-takes, Lifetouch will be here on     Monday until around 1:30.
* Social Committee Dues - $30 for full time certified employees, $15 for half time and classified employees. Please make checks out to GRE Social Committee and give to Janis.
* Teachers 1 - 5, please remember to test all students on Istation the 18th, 19, or 20th. 

Digger Dash

* Parents should not be requesting funding for additional costumes/flair for the Digger Dash.  Flair should be limited to same color t-shirts, socks, Gold Rush T-shirts etc.

Digger Dash Schedule

8:45 – 9:00            Stretching (Preschool and Kindergarten)

9:00 – 9:15            Race  (Preschool and Kindergarten)

9:10 – 9:25            Stretching (1^st and 2^nd grades)

9:25 – 9:55            Race  (1^st and 2^nd grades)

9:50 – 10:00         Stretching (3^rd and 4^th grades)

10:00 – 10:45       Race  (3^rd and 4^th grades)

10:40 – 10:50       Stretching (5^th grade)

10:50 – 11:35       Race  (5^th grade)

3rd Grade Technology CoTeaching: Planning Doc
Third graders tackled the ever exciting world of Google Apps to document how historians ask questions to learn about the past. Using a google document students recorded their observations about their historical artifact from home. They learned how to access documents from Google Classroom, create a google document in Google Drive, aka their Digital Desk, name and share a document, and collaborate on a google document digitally with a small group. See below as one third graders describes our work together.

Welcome
Please welcome our new lunch/recess EA Shari Hokanson!



Happy Birthday
Tobey Vogt - September 20th
Justin Brakefield - September 23rd
Jenny Brown - September 24th

Go For the Gold
• Thank you Tammy Simpson, Stephanie Brown, and Krista Hardin for all of your help writing READ Plans.
• Thank you Tobey for helping with Western Night.

Golden Nuggets
Morning Announcements: Dalcerri
Lounge Duty: Padrnos/Zankey

This Week

Monday

Tuesday

READ Plan meetings

Wednesday

7:30 Staff Meeting in the Gold Mine room

READ Plan meetings

Thursday

1st Grade Planning Day

Jenny admin meeting

Friday

7:30 New teacher meeting

Western Night

Reminders

* We will have a rotating sub to cover your class to write READ plans on Tuesday. Click here for the revised schedule. Please bring the hard copy that was given to you at the beginning of the year and current reading data. 

* Conferences are September 27th and October 5th. Please block out your conference times by Sunday, September 17th. Parents will be able to schedule their conferences on September 18th. 

* We will review the new CITE rubric at our staff Meeting on Wednesday. 

Opportunity

Our Cherry Creek Valley Rotary Club of Parker has an opportunity forteachers to apply for micro grants, and for non-profits to also apply for grants.  Here is the website.  Look at the menu on the left side and you will see both opportunities.  The first round of teacher grants will be read/awarded at the end of Sept.  If teachers aren't awarded the $50 grants for their classroom supplies in their first application, they can apply again and again.  We're hoping to have a beneficiary larger than just our club in the future to support this effort.

https://portal.clubrunner.ca/6057

Home Page | Rotary Club of Cherry Creek Valley portal.clubrunner.ca

4th Grade Technology CoTeaching: 4th grade Planning Document

This week we used Seesaw as a way for students to demonstrate their understanding of
factor pairs and to reflect on the the strategies they used in order to solve for the factor pairs of their number. Seesaw allowed for students to stop and analyze their mathematical thinking and provided an interim assessment of student mastery of factors and multiples.

Go For the Gold

* Thank you Kylee Lautenbach, Karen Warner, and Bev Holtzer for representing Gold Rush at the Legend parade!
* Thank you Leadership team for your time and contributions!
* Thank you Kylee Lautenbach and Bev Holtzer for organizing student council!

Golden Nuggets

Morning Announcements: Hawk

Lounge Duty: Dean/Marchese

Click here for the staff / professional development the calendar for the year. 

We have several morning meetings this year due to our book study and these days are listed through December.

This Week
Monday
* No School!

Tuesday
* 7:30 - Leadership Team Meeting

Wednesday
* SD: Enter CITE 6 data
* 11:00 Erin Kane visit
* Cogat testing

Thursday
* 2nd Grade planning day
* Jenny admin meeting
* Cogat testing

Friday
* Cogat testing

Student Council

Important Dates:

Friday, September 8th- Officer Elections (only 4th and 5th graders)

4th & 5th will come to the gym for the Officer Elections. Officer Elections are only for 4th graders running for Vice President and Treasurer and 5th graders who are running for President and Secretary. Speeches for these elections will need to be sent to Bev and Kylee for approval. We will organize the ballot so after the speeches, the kids will go back to your classrooms to vote. 

Monday, September 11th- Friday, September 15th- Class Representative Elections (run by classroom teachers)

Tuesday, September 19th- First Student Council meeting

Mandatory Trainings 
Click here for information regarding mandatory trainings that are required for all staff members.  The following trainings are due by September 8th:

• Respect at Work
• Standard Response Protocol
• Run, Hide, Fight
• Child Abuse and Neglect Mandatory Training
• Privacy Act Compliance
  
  

Cogat Testing 
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
* 8:45 AM 3rd Grade
* 11:00 AM 5th Grade

Technology Co Teaching Celebrations
Based on feedback from our Tech Committee, we will share highlights from our co-teaching weeks on the Barker to expose staff to various digital tools and the content they are rooted in.

Fifth Grade students created Google Slides presentations to synthesize their learning about the importance of having a Growth Mindset and to teach others what a Growth Mindset is. In addition to learning best practices about the content, formatting, and presentation of Google Slides, students used the extension Screencastify to publish their presentation in a digital way. This allows 5th graders to reach and teach a greater audience. Below is a sample presentation created this week.

5th Grade Rotation #1 Planning Document

Happy Birthday
Janis Panico - September 3rd
Rochelle Evans - September 3rd
Megan Fleet - September 4th
Jamie Marchese - September 7th

Go For the Gold
• Thank you everyone for participating in our Digger Dash assembly!
• Thank you Carolyn Alvey for being so flexible!

Golden Nuggets
Morning Announcements: Broecker
Lounge Duty: Rayens/Stephanie Brown

Best Staff Ever!

This Week

Monday
7:45 Social Media Meeting

Tuesday
7:45 Tech office hours
7:45 Book Study  (See below)

Wednesday
SD: Continue WTW discussions

Thursday
7:30-8:15 Tech committee meeting
3rd Grade planning day

Friday
7:30 New teacher meeting
Digger Dash Assembly - (See below)

Reminders
* If you have not done so already, please share classroom reading and spelling data and with Jenny, Libby, and Kristi, Stephanie Brown, Jamie Marchese, Tammy Simpson, Justin Brakefield, and Krista Hardin.

* Enter all reading data into Infinite Campus by September 1st.

* Click here for Istation norms. Grades 1-5, please assess ALL students on Istation between September 18-September 20. The window closes on September 20th. Kindergarten, please assess the week of September 25th.

* We will enter CITE 6 data during staff development on September 6th.

* Digger Dash assembly will be on Friday. The whole school will be on the front black top from 1:40-2:00. Classroom teachers please plan on participating (we will make it harmless!) If you are not a classroom teacher, please plan on helping supervise the students. Our rain day plan will be as follows: K, 1, 2 will be in the gym from 1:20-1:40. 3rd-5th grades will be in the gym from 1:45-2:05.

Norm Review
* Please remember the office copier is for office staff only. All teachers, please use the copier in the book or production room.

Conference Dates
Our fall conferences will be September 28th and October 5th. These changed from our Leadership  team meeting because our Lockdown training was moved until after fall break.

Teacher Leadership Opportunities
* Book Study - If you are interested in leading a book study with Jenny, Libby, and Kristi please join us for more information on Tuesday morning at 7:45.

* Fun Committee - Strengthening our school culture by celebrating and having fun. Please let Jenny know if you are interested.

* Social Media Committee - If you are interested in serving on this committee, please join us Monday morning at 7:45 in the office conference room.

* RtI - Please let Stephanie Brown know if you are interested in serving on the committee. We meet Friday mornings at 7:30.

Happy Birthday
Michelle Anderson - August 30th

Go For the Gold
* Thank you everyone for giving up your time for extra duties last week!
* Thank you Jenny Brown for the eclipse glasses!

Golden Nuggets
Morning Announcements: Lautenbach
Lounge Duty:  Hawk/Lautenbach

August 2017

Click here for the staff / professional development the calendar for the year. 
We have several morning meetings this year due to our book study and these days are listed through December.

DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP WEEK:

Monday: 
Being a Digital Team - Wear Your Favorite Jersey / Sports Team

Tuesday: 

Digital Footprint - Wear Crazy Socks
7:30 Leadership Team meeting in the Gold Mine room
2:30-3:30 4th & 5th band demo

Wednesday

Giving Credit / Copyright - Twin Day

SD: Words Their Way 
9:00-10:00 Orchestra demo

Thursday

Internet Safety - Dress As A Super Hero (*Please remind kids no weapons or masks)
Plan Day 5th grade am - 4th grade pm

Friday
Privacy & Security - GRE Spirit Wear

REMINDERS:

Solar Eclipse Viewing
* Our glasses arrived! We were able to get solar glasses for all teachers and students. Please plan on meeting on the field by your grade level cone at 11:30.

·    * Glasses will be given to teachers as their classes head outside.  They are extremely dark so please pass your glasses out to students when you are seated on the field.  You might want to bring blankets for your class to sit on during the viewing. As students are walking out remind them not to look at the sky.  If you have any students that you are concerned about let Jenny or Libby know no later than 9 AM Monday.

* Please remind students that they may not remove their glasses while outside.  Students who take them off should be sent indoors.  Active supervision is essential!

The lunch schedule will be tweaked to accommodate this event.

* Morning kindergarten classes will view this event from 11:10-11:30.

* If your students bring in glasses you must check to see that the following number is present: ISO 12312-2 international standard. Please also make sure that glasses are not scratched. If you are unsure have students wear GRE's glasses.

* Please preview/discuss the eclipse with students prior to coming out (see resources below).

What it Will Look Like During the Solar Eclipse

Kid Video Explaining How a Solar Eclipse Happens 

Why is this Eclipse a Big Deal

School Norms
* Please remember to post on your blog once a month. If you haven't posted for August already please do so.  Please provide an overview of content/curriculum for August and things parents can do to help their children at home.  You can use other methods of communication (See Saw, Email, written letter etc), but the content must also appear on the blog monthly.  Please plan on your second post occurring on September 1. 

PTO Reimbursement of $100 - Teachers Only
* Please turn in your receipts for school supplies to PTO for reimbursement by September 1.  Please submit all receipts at once totaling $100.  Receipts should only show school items and spirit wear can be included.

Gifts from the Heart for Western Night
* Parents are able to participate in a raffle to win a variety of gift baskets.  If you are interested in offering a simple gift, such as a special breakfast or lunch together at school, please complete this google survey.

Staff Development Reminder
* Please come to staff development with your class Words Their Way Initial Inventory scored.  We will talk about groups and best instructional practices then.  Here are staff development times for the year.

Tech Support 
* Please email Megan Fleet if you have tech questions or if something isn't working.  See tech office hours on the pd calendar.  You can also reach out to the following tech leaders:

Stephanie Brown (K)

Melissa Robart (1)

Naomi Meredith (3)

Becca McMillan (3)

Allison Hawk (5)

Ashley Dalcerri (5)

Mandatory Trainings 

Click here for information regarding mandatory trainings that are required for all staff members.  The following trainings are due by September 8th:

• Respect at Work
• Standard Response Protocol
• Run, Hide, Fight
• Child Abuse and Neglect Mandatory Training
• Privacy Act Compliance

WELOCOME

Jennifer Hunsinger - OT

GO FOR THE GOLD

* Thank you to everyone for a great Back to School Night and Assessment days!
* The Karens for helping set up for the principal's presentation on Back to School Night!
* Toby for making the building shine for parents this week and for all the help with set up!

GOLDEN NUGGETS

Morning Announcements: Rayens

Lounge Duty: Broecker/Dalcerri