Summer Plans 2019

We made it!  Thanks for all your work last week to make sure our kids had a great last week.  
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Here is some info for plans for this summer as well as for next year:

                                                

Our theme for next year is:  Explore, Be Brave, Have Courage.  We will use camping decor for this theme.  Please remember - this is a school theme. You do not have to redecorate your room each year to go with the theme.  

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Summer According to Humphrey is the book we have selected for One School One Book.  We will have a 2 hour PD day on August 2nd to plan.  Get the ideas rolling of things we can do with this book. 

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-We are needing academic coaches for next school year.  If you are interested - please let me know.

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2019-2020 Professional Development Plan

This link contains all the PD/Planning events that are scheduled at this time.  Please make sure to refer to this doc so you don't miss anything.  

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Upcoming Important Dates:

May 24th - Read 180/System 44 training for Angela, Melanie and Kassie

June 3rd and 4th - Artful Reading - Cohort 2 Training

June 3rd and 4th - Special Education meeting

June 7th - Artful Reading PD for all staff (MANDATORY)

June 10th - Leadership Team Planning Day - 9 am

June 24th- Kindergarten Camp 9-3

Enjoy your summer!!!

Friday Focus - May 10, 2019

Only five days less but they will be a super busy five days.  Hang on and hang in there!

As we approach the last day of school here are some reminders:

-Mrs. Sonya is going to be getting file folders for everyone next week.  Please get enough folders for everyone in your homeroom and place all their intervention data for the year (Core, SNAP, STAR, etc) in those folders. You will box them alphabetically by grade level and store in one of your rooms.  At the beginning of next year - you can pass along to the next grade level.  We are going to keep these cumulative folders on students for intervention progress monitoring over time. 

-We are not going to purchase school supplies for every student this year.  So - we will need each grade level to turn in a supply list by next Friday before you leave.  We will make those available to parents in a few weeks.  Please be very conscientious about what students need and the amount it costs.  

-Please make sure your rooms are prepared for summer cleaning when you leave next Friday.  Unplug refrigerators or any other appliances that you have.  Second and third floor people - please have your students stack chairs and desks out in the hall.  First floor people - leave your chairs and desks in the room as we will be using those for 21st Century Summer Camp and BAFA camp.  

-All staff members are invited and encouraged to attend both kindergarten graduation and 5th grade graduation on Tuesday evening at CCHS.

-Remember to supervise, supervise, supervise these last few days.  We are giving students a lot of free time and that is sometimes when we have problems.  Don't let your guard down!

-Special class every day this week except on Thursday.  

Next Week at a Glance...

Check the Living Calendar for more details - it is one busy week!

Monday	Panther Lab Trip Dippin Dots *Please have 4th nine weeks grades and final grades posted before you leave.   3:00 Leadership Team meeting 4:00 SBDM meeting
Tuesday	200 Vocabulary Word party Kindergarten graduation at 5 pm 5th grade graduation at 6:30
Wednesday	Redneck Waterslide and Glow Party & Kona Ice 3:00 Tammy's retirement party and a short teacher's meeting following
Thursday	House Olympics  Kona Ice Secret Sailor Reveal in the library
Friday	8:00 Senior Walk 5th grade Picnic at BBC Report cards go home

Make this last week a great one!

Friday Focus - May 3rd, 2019

I cannot believe that KPREP time and the last 10 days of school is here.  It has flew by and been a great year.  

Next week is an important week for our students.  Not only because those scores reflect on us as a school but it is an opportunity for our students to shine individually.  Now shining can be different things for different students.  For one student it may mean being distinguished across the board and for another student it can be moving from novice to apprentice.  Whatever the case, they have worked hard this year and we want the results of that test to show their hard work and yours.  Let's do everything we can to support our kids next week. That means being positive and letting them know we believe in them.  Push them to persevere and keep trying next week even when the test is long and difficult.  That is a life lesson in and of itself.

I also know that it is a long week for staff as well - especially days in a row without a planning.  We will work to send people around to give you breaks.  If you need one - please call the office and we will get someone there.  Every instructional person in this building is working on testing next week in some way - so just hang in there.  

We will have special class and planning on next Friday, May 10th.  

This afternoon 3rd thru 5th grade will return to gym by 1:00 so we can recognize Amazing Race teams and give out prizes.  We will begin calling Kindergarten through 2nd grade students about 1:45. When you get your students seated - you can go get dressed.  We will try to get started with the skit about 2:00. 

K, 1, 2 classes - don't forget your surprise boxes for testing homerooms each day.  Please have them delivered and to the room by the time they arrive back from morning assembly.  

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Congrats to the 2019-20 SBDM Council

Hannah Hopper

Erika Murphy

Kassie Sewell

Candi Graves - minority representative 

Other Items
*I need to hear from each teacher about your wishes for Simple Solutions. Please respond by letting me know if you want it for your content area and if you have to have one for every student or would be okay with a class set.  They are very expensive but valuable at the same time.  I want us to be able to use them to help our students and we will try to make that happen.

*Next Thursday - we are going to do our Reading WIG celebration for the last round of STAR testing.  We are purchasing popsicles and as a grade level you can decide some type of fun time for them - this may be chromebook time, extra recess, games on front lawn, etc.  Just please make sure that grade levels aren't mixing as that can lead to discipline problems.  Please get me the number of popsicles that you need by Monday morning - by grade level.  Remember those students getting popsicles are those who are at a 1.9, 2.9, or have grown 1.2 since the August test.  

*Also please fill out the following form regarding programs for next year - Programs Survey.  

Next Week at a Glance:

Monday	KPREP Parade on Monday morning - K-2 students will leave gym at 7:25 to go get ready for the parade
Tuesday
Wednesday	Multiplication Masters Party in gym at 12:00 -Wedding Shower for Candi and Erika in the library afterschool
Thursday	-Kindergarten Fun Day at Veterans Park -3rd grade Lexia Bash at 8:30 in the gym -1st grade FRY word Party in the gym at 11:30 -Reading WIG celebration (popsicles) in afternoon
Friday	-I Survived the KPREP celebration for 3rd thru 5th - rotations in gym, front lawn and big playground from 11:00-2:30

Have a great week!