Great Things From the Week:
Thank you for getting second trimester report cards complete!
Roe or I will send you an email letting you know we reviewed them and they are good to print. This time around there is a "At Risk of Retention" that is automatically marked and Title 1!!!
Thank you to the entire team for doing such a great job last week.
Early dismissal went well, thank you all for helping out.
The Math Practice walk went well, thank you Gainer, Pham and Hawthorne.
Thank you Shelley for keeping the Tiger Store running, thank you staff for continuing to give points out.
This Wednesday, the 26th, we will have a very large group from the district walking the site. We will be in Sanci's room, 24, for most of the time. They will arrive at the side gate and go to room 24. We will have a sign in sheet there (Amy can you help with this? We can make paper badges for anyone without a name tag). Their schedule is below. Please make every effort to honor their visit. Say hi, introduce yourself if you see them but be mindful of their presence. Pham, Gainer and Hawthorne have worked really hard to prepare for this walk.
8:15-8:55- Activity in Room 24
8:55-9:10 - First classroom visit
9:10-9:30- Debrief visits/break
9:30-9:45- Second classroom visit
9:45-10:30 - Debrief and activities back in room 24
Grade Level Assignments for Next Year-
Lori will be putting grade level assignment request forms in your box soon. Please make sure you fill those out and get back to Lori by March 6th. My goal is to have your assignments out to you in early April so you can begin planning for next year. Additionally, if there are any physical classroom moves I want to give you time to plan and prepare.
Writing-
The kinder team and I went to some other schools to look at writing. We specifically looked at Pre-writing activities. What we saw was so cool! Students were writing, independently, at high levels. It was evident that the Pre-writing activities really made a difference. Some of the things we saw were multiple sources, whole group discussion, word banks, word webs, and lots student partner talk using sentence frames. The students then went and wrote independently producing high quality writing. We also discovered teachers are spending a lot of time on writing. Students were involved in the writing process daily (each writing pieces took several days ie, sources, brainstorm, collaboration, writing) AND they wrote EVERYDAY.
Biggest take away... "IF THEY CAN TALK ABOUT IT, THEY CAN WRITE ABOUT IT"
Upcoming Staff Meeting-
Please go back with your team and decide how you are going to post the three Close Reading Protocols. We will make posters for you if you chose, your grade level need to have posters up and using them by Monday 2/24.
Rememeber tie in your EQ- our next meeting will go over Note Taking. All of this is to support students in evidence based writing.
Thank you for getting second trimester report cards complete!
Roe or I will send you an email letting you know we reviewed them and they are good to print. This time around there is a "At Risk of Retention" that is automatically marked and Title 1!!!
Thank you to the entire team for doing such a great job last week.
Early dismissal went well, thank you all for helping out.
The Math Practice walk went well, thank you Gainer, Pham and Hawthorne.
Thank you Shelley for keeping the Tiger Store running, thank you staff for continuing to give points out.
This Wednesday, the 26th, we will have a very large group from the district walking the site. We will be in Sanci's room, 24, for most of the time. They will arrive at the side gate and go to room 24. We will have a sign in sheet there (Amy can you help with this? We can make paper badges for anyone without a name tag). Their schedule is below. Please make every effort to honor their visit. Say hi, introduce yourself if you see them but be mindful of their presence. Pham, Gainer and Hawthorne have worked really hard to prepare for this walk.
8:15-8:55- Activity in Room 24
8:55-9:10 - First classroom visit
9:10-9:30- Debrief visits/break
9:30-9:45- Second classroom visit
9:45-10:30 - Debrief and activities back in room 24
Grade Level Assignments for Next Year-
Lori will be putting grade level assignment request forms in your box soon. Please make sure you fill those out and get back to Lori by March 6th. My goal is to have your assignments out to you in early April so you can begin planning for next year. Additionally, if there are any physical classroom moves I want to give you time to plan and prepare.
Writing-
The kinder team and I went to some other schools to look at writing. We specifically looked at Pre-writing activities. What we saw was so cool! Students were writing, independently, at high levels. It was evident that the Pre-writing activities really made a difference. Some of the things we saw were multiple sources, whole group discussion, word banks, word webs, and lots student partner talk using sentence frames. The students then went and wrote independently producing high quality writing. We also discovered teachers are spending a lot of time on writing. Students were involved in the writing process daily (each writing pieces took several days ie, sources, brainstorm, collaboration, writing) AND they wrote EVERYDAY.
Biggest take away... "IF THEY CAN TALK ABOUT IT, THEY CAN WRITE ABOUT IT"
Construction Update-
Currently, the kindergarten area is slated to be complete by Summer - I am unsure about moving back in, I will keep you posted (with office under construction it may be too loud in first two rooms, we will keep looking at this).
Kinder playground should be back in full use next year. We will have to continue to review drop off and pick up, (Office construction may block the circle, we are still talking about this)
New building will be complete by summer, office will be moved to new building over the summer. We have a plan for the staff lounge to be the first room, health office the second room, front office the third room (only room accessible by gate for parents). Room 4/5 Admin/conference rooms and additional as needed. All rooms have interior access for staff, ie you can go from room 1-5 without going outside). Students will need to access all of these spaces through room 2 (health office).
*These are not going to be the room numbers I am just using them as an example
The new parking lot by new building will be complete this summer, will hopefully be used for buses. We will have temporary gates installed to direct community to office and prevent them from accessing campus.
Staff Parking Lot will remain parking for the staff, we will likely move the chain so enter and exit remain the same as they currently are, no new exit until after the circle is completely open. (AKA old exist still out of use)
Depending on the circle closure, we will have to pivot as needed to recieve and exit students from campus. We will continue to discuss this.
I appreciate your flexibility as we work through construction. It is never easy.
Upcoming Staff Meeting-
Please go back with your team and decide how you are going to post the three Close Reading Protocols. We will make posters for you if you chose, your grade level need to have posters up and using them by Monday 2/24.
Rememeber tie in your EQ- our next meeting will go over Note Taking. All of this is to support students in evidence based writing.
Video Example of MTSS
Upcoming Event:
5th Grade Physical Fitness testing through March 20th
K-6 ELPAC through May 22nd
3-6 ELA IAB2 enter by Feb 28th
4th Grade IAB 2 enter by Feb 28th
April 27th-May 1 (3-6 ELA)
May 4th-May 8th (3-6 Math)
May 11-May 15- (5th grade Science)
Make ups will occur throughout the three week testing window
No field trips during your grade level testing window please
Report cards go home Feb 28th. We will start looking at them Monday the 24th
2/24- Team to visit Triple Crown Elementary school - focus is on implementation of technology, coding and interventions. 2/25- Roe at CAASPP Training 1-3 pm
2/26- Site Math Walk - Pham, Hawthorne and Gainer room visits- we will have about 30 RUSD Managers and School Board on site from 8-11:30. Brown will be with the group, Roe will be available. This is a BIG group, please be very aware that they are here and walking around.
*Longi Summers and Meaghan Smith will be here to provide additional support as needed.
2/26-HILT
2/27-Brown and Roe out all day for district training
2/28- Brown and Roe out all day for district training
2/28- SARTS- (Sanci and Amy)
2/28-Report cards go home
2/28- Spring and Promotion Picture Day
2/29- Saturday School (Please Advertise)
NEXT WEEK:
3/2-Read Across America Day
3/4-DELAC - Brown offsite until 11:30
3/4-Classified Staff Meeting
3/4- Title 1 Meeting 3:45-5:15- Sanci
3/5- Chemawa and Miller coming for 6th grade
3/5-Principal Meeting (Brown) 8-12
3/5-State of Education Address (Roe and Brown) 11:30-1:00
3/5- New Admin Training (Roe) 2:30-5:00
3/5-SSC/ELAC 2:15
3/6- Kinder Eureka PD
3/8 Day Light Savings Time
*We will be doing a raffle for perfect attendance for third trimester, we have lots of bikes and scooters we are going to raffle off at end of year assemblies.
Happy Birthday!!!
Melissa Moore 2/22
Beth Voss 3/1
BHM assembly will be Thursday, 8:00 TK-2, 9:00 3-6.
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