Friday Focus - Thanksgiving Edition

     To say I am thankful and blessed is an understatement.  The kindness you all have shown me during the past week has been unbelievable.  The texts, calls, visits, the beautiful throw, all the food, the money, and the prayers - it was all so nice and appreciated.  I have said it before - but you all are the best people are on earth to work with. I love you all!

   Three weeks until Christmas break - that is unreal.  Hopefully this will be a relatively calm week and you can accomplish a lot of teaching and learning during these 15 days.  Keep up the good work.

PLC's this week - bring a student list with you to the meeting.  We have a new intervention system to discuss to help our struggling readers.  

Next Week at a Glance...

Monday - Student Shadowing for Mandy, Kassie and Angela
Tuesday - KONA Ice Truck - same schedule as last time
Wednesday - 3:00 Action Team meeting
Thursday - Student Shadowing for Lisa
Friday - 3rd grade Field Trip
               Black Friday sale at Panther Emporium in library

Have a great week!

     

Friday Focus - November 9, 2018

It's finally here!  We have 64 students who will be attending our trip to Sevierville next week to the Wilderness.  This is an awesome reward for students who have worked to have perfect attendance or great performance on the KPREP last spring! The students are very excited about this trip! This is a reward trip for our students so they are not responsible for work while they are gone.  It is their reward for working so hard the rest of the time. 

During the next few weeks, we are going to work to increase our attendance rate.  We are down this year compared to this time last year.  We are going to start a school-wide attendance incentive that you will hear about next week during PLC's.  We are also targeting our chronically absent students (those who have missed 10 percent of the year - either excused or unexcused) to improve their attendance.  For those who reach their individual attendance goal - they will be treated with a reward in December.

We still need a couple of Christmas trees for houses if you have one to donate. 

We will stay on the afternoon of Monday the 19th to decorate the house trees and get them ready for the house meeting on the 20th.  Any staff member who wants to stay and help us put up the trees - house points are up for grabs!

Ms. Angela needs volunteers for Panther Emporium if you want to help and want a good discount for your Christmas shopping!

*PLC's and Panther Time next week.

Next Week at a Glance...
Monday - Wilderness trip 
               -Mid-term ends
Tuesday - Wilderness trip
Wednesday - 4th/5th grade Guest Speaker in the gym at                            7:45
                      *Student Shadowing - Sarah, Nancy, Dana Duvall and Andrea

Thursday - K, 1st, and 2nd grade  - Grimm's Tales by                               Campbellsville University - 1 pm  in gym

                   -Midterm grades need to be posted today

Friday - Mid-term grades go home

            -Holiday pictures

            -Thanksgiving Potluck for staff (sign-up in Sonya's                  house)

Friday Focus - November 2nd, 2018

It's hard to believe that November is here!  This school year is flying by.  This week will hopefully be pretty calm - not a lot on the calendar this week. 

We will not be having PLC's this week but we will have Panther Time.  Homeroom teachers - hopefully you can use this extra time and it will give you a little breather this week.

Also - Panther Time for 4th grade on Tuesday will be moved to Wednesday - we will double up that day and do both 3rd and 4th grades.

We need Christmas trees if you have one to donate.  Each house is going to have a Christmas tree to decorate.  Grace Union has one they are going to donate and Kelli has one.  We need four more.  Please let me know if you have one.  We also need lights and other decorations if you have some to donate.  We are planning on putting these up on November 20th. 

This Week at a Glance...

Monday - Math PD for 2nd - 5th grade math teachers from 11 until 2:30

Tuesday - No School

Wednesday - 3:00 Leadership Team meeting

Friday - Student Shadowing for select teachers