Friday Focus - August 24, 2018

Everyone loves good news so let's start out with that.  The district is giving every teacher $200 to buy instructional resources to start the year off.  Woohoo!  Think about what you really need and will make student learning better in your classroom.  This money isn't for regular office supplies but materials or resources that you will use to help your students.  Here's what  you do:
1.  Fill out a PAPER PO and submit it to me by next Friday, August 31st.  It will be paid from Title 1 as the funding source.  
2.  Choose a company to buy from that is on the bid list - if you have questions about that  - ask Sonya.  Most places that we normally buy from are on there - Walmart, Amazon, School Speciality, etc. 
3.  Once it has been approved, you will receive the purchase order back so you can place your order!

First round of MAP testing begins this next week.  Please make every effort to encourage and motivate your students to do their very best on this test.  

iFamily

It is time for iFamily once again.  We are excited about changes that we are making to the program to hopefully make it more convenient and helpful to families.  This year 21st Century will be collaborating with us on the programming.  Instead of 7 weeks we will only have 5.  Our hope is this will help people commit to all the nights.  We will begin on Thursday August 30th and end on September 27th.  We will begin each week with a meal for the entire family at 5 pm and should be finished by 6:30.  If it is your week to work, your group should be there at 4:30 to help set up the cafeteria.  You will welcome and mingle with the families during meal time ( and eat too).  At 5:30, all students will go with the teachers for a fun, engaging activity focused on the habit(s) for that night.  Everyone will be back in the cafeteria at 6 for games and closing activities.  We ask everyone to stay and pitch in on the clean-up.  Each teacher will receive two hours planning time for working their night.  I have assigned nights below - if you need to switch a night just let me know.

Date	Habit Focus	Staff
8-30	Habit 1	1st grade/Special Class teachers
9-6	Habits 2 and 3	2nd grade/Kindergarten
9-13	Habits 4 and 5	3rd grade/Special Education teachers
9-20	Habits 6 and 7	4th grade/Intervention teachers
9-27	Carnival for kids/Guest Speaker for Parents/ Prizes	5th grade

Reminders...

• Turn your House Point sheet into Kelli on Monday morning.  She only needs the bottom portion with the total points for each house.  You keep the portion with individual points on there so we can reference back if we need to.
• Your classroom mission statement along with classroom leadership jobs should be posted in or right outside your classroom by next Friday.
• Show on the Road is due next Friday as well.
• Please continue working on  your assigned jobs for the Fall Festival.  We are only 2 weeks away.  Contact those on your list for the silent auction!
• PGPs need to be completed by next Friday.  Use this form, make a copy of it, name the copy Your Name PGP (Lisa Perdue PGP) and share with me.   
• PLCs next week will be our first RTI meetings for the year.  Please bring all relevant data (Core, STAR, SNAP, etc) to the meeting so we can analyze as we make those decisions.  Also - special education and intervention teachers will need to come to PLCs of all grade levels you work with!

Next Week at a Glance....

Monday - 

Tuesday - Experienced SBDM member training at CCHS at 3:30

Wednesday - CCES Literacy Team will meet at 3 pm in Lisa's office

Thursday - 

Friday - PGP, $200 PO and Show on the Road all due

Class Mission Statement and Class Leadership Jobs posted