Weekly Update: October 16, 2020

 

This week I wanted to spotlight our Family Resource center.  Ms. Kristi works daily communicating with parents about attendance, health issues and needs they may have.  She also works with several community agencies to meet needs in our area.  Please remember you can reach out to Ms. Kristi about any of your students and needs they may have.  

*If a child makes an indication that they don't have enough food to eat over the weekend, you can refer them to the backpack program.

*FRC is also taking referrals right now for the Salvation Army's Angel Tree drive.  Please let Ms. Kristi know about any students who you believe would have little to no Christmas without help.

If you haven't already done so, please have your class complete the STAR test for the 2nd round.  Remember to discuss with students their score last time and their goal for this next testing session.

*2nd AR Goal begins on Monday

*All grades for the 1st nine weeks need to be posted by the end of the day on Tuesday

*report cards go home on Thursday

Have a great week!

Weekly Update - October 2, 2020

I am so tremendously proud of how well this first portion of the school year has went.  There have been so many changes but it has went so well.  That is thanks to you all for the effort you have put into making this year great for our students.  Remember after fall break to continue with all the safeguards we have put in place to stop the spread of illness like handwashing, frequent sanitizing, social distancing and the wearing of face coverings.  

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Teachers please do not join the Morning Meeting on Google Meet until 7:32 or after.  I need to be the first person to join the meeting so I am the owner of it.  If another teacher joins first, they become the owner of the meeting and I lose the control to mute participants or kick them out of the meeting.  As we have more and more students at home joining our meetings, it is important that I have those abilities.  

PLC's will meet on Monday and Tuesday when we return.  Please bring your MAP scores with you so we can discuss.  

We will be having an Exact Path training on Wednesday afternoon at 3:15.  I will send you the link to the meeting.  I would like everyone to attend this training.  I think it is going to be another good resource for us to use.

Kona Ice truck will be here on Friday, October 16th.  Please share this with your parents on Remind.   VIP students will  be able to come purchase Kona Ice if they would like.  Social distancing and other guidelines will be in place.

Please take your class out to the Kona Ice truck during your recess time.   Please just stay distanced from other classes while you are out there.  

Hope you enjoy your Fall Break - you deserve a great one!

Weekly Update - September 25th, 2020

It is so hard to believe that we are one week away from fall break.  This first nine weeks has flown by.  It has been a great few weeks of in-person school even though it has been so different than anything we have experienced in the past.  As crazy as it seems  - school seems pretty normal right now.   

As with almost anything in life, we can choose to look at the positive or negative.  We can focus on the fact that we have to wear masks, take temps, regulate how far kids are standing apart, balance in-person and VIP, and the list goes.

OR  - we can focus on the positive.  We have kids that are extremely happy to be at school, class sizes are significantly smaller than they have ever been, we have fewer discipline problems, we are connecting with students on a whole new level, we have had 0 cases of Covid-19 after several weeks of in-person instruction, and that list goes on too.

Even when life is different...it can still be good.  It is up to us.  

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**Reminders**

-Please complete MAP testing for all in-person students before fall break.

-Don't forget our Retirement Celebration for Mrs. Emily at 315 in the library.

-Next Thursday will be our Panther Store for August and September.  Remember to have students count how many Panther Bucks they have as of Wednesday afternoon.  The Panther Store will be in the library and open at 8 am on Thursday.  Teachers can bring their class or they can take students orders and go get the things for them.  We will have it set up but only have one staff member in there working the store all day.  Teachers will need to collect the bucks and help the students get their items at the store.

• Students should not touch items at the store.  They will only pick up the items they are purchasing.
• Remember to have students buy big ticket items and not just buy several $1 and $2 dollar things - we don't have the inventory for that.  
• I am attaching the slideshow that has the items we have.  Please share that with your students.  
• Please sign up for the time you want to come or bring your class.  The 2nd slide on the slideshow has the sign-up.  

-Tuesday and Thursday we will be having our Fall Parent/Teacher conferences.  I will be sending out locations for all non-homeroom staff on Monday.  Each night it will be from 3:30-6:30.  

Weekly Update - September 18, 2020

 

We ask that each grade level complete MAP testing with their in-person students sometime during the next couple of weeks - before fall break.  The window is open and everything should be set to go for that testing.  MAP testing is another piece of data to use to gauge how a student is performing.  It is also a requirement for us to give a universal screener as part of our reading and math grants from the state.  Please encourage students to work hard and do their best!

• Please submit the No Internet list on this sheet by Monday afternoon.  
• If you are supposed to be evaluated this first window - please schedule that first observation with Mrs. Valerie or Mrs. Lisa.

Enjoy this beautiful weekend!  The weather is going to be perfect!

Weekly Update - September 11, 2020

 

There is so much we are learning and adjusting to with this virus. Information about this virus has been made very public and the line between what can be shared and what can't be shared may be hard to see.  Please remember that any information about a student's health (symptoms, diagnosis, etc) is private information under HIPAA.   If a parent gives you information about their child's health - please don't share that with anyone who doesn't have a need to know.  Also - please understand that the nurse isn't allowed to give out information either.  A nurse who discloses that information could lose their nursing licenses.

Homeroom teachers - please go back in your IC attendance to the first day of in-person classes and mark your VIP students as participating.  If there is a student that has not done any work for a particular day, then mark them as not participating. 

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Please remember to put in a lunch/breakfast count each day.  Also make sure that students need to take the lunch they ordered and not change their mind when they get to the room.

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Please remember to get your dairy products from the cafeteria cooler if you haven't already done so.  There is a food truck coming in Monday and there won't be room in there.

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Please take the One School One Book survey if you haven't already done so.    

*SBDM meeting at 4 pm on Monday in library.

*RTA/MAF meeting at 3:15  on Tuesday.  

CCES Weeky Update - September 3, 2020

 

VIP

Hopefully the changes that we are making to our virtual program are being beneficial to everyone involved.  This week has been a sort of "change over" week so hopefully next week it will be in full implementation.  Feedback from parents shows that they find the teacher videos to be extremely beneficial for the students.  I had conversation with several teachers yesterday and asked them to share with their grade level team members.  We would like to continue with the teacher video to some degree.  I am asking that each teacher submit one video per week for their content area.  For each grade level, that will be a total of three or four videos.  This should be an instructional video that either previews or reviews the learning for the week and should align with the content they are receiving through their VIP lessons.  We would like each video to be submitted on a different day.  My understanding is that all teachers are still teachers in the VIP Google Classroom so each one should be able to submit their own video.  If you have questions - please let me know.  And - thank you for being so flexible as we are building this plane. 

The Leadership Team meeting met on Wednesday and discussed the following:

1.  We are going to ask Kona Ice to come back once per month. I'll send a schedule as soon as I have it.

2.  Panther Cards - we are going to see the Panther cards as a fall fundraiser.  We usually sell those in the spring but didn't this past year.  Details will be coming soon.

3. Leader of the Month - it was decided to continue doing Leader of the Month but let each teacher choose their own along with their own criteria for selecting the leader.  Each teacher can reward their student in their classroom.  We will recognize the Leaders of the Month on the last Friday of each month at our morning meeting.  There will be a slide for you to add yours to.  We will do it for the first time on September 25th.  If you selected one for August - you can also recognize them as well.

4.  Panther Bucks - we want to implement our Panther Buck system again this year.  If you are new to CCES and don't know about this - ask your mentor or one of your team members.  Students earn $1 for each green day, $0 for yellow and lose a $1 for red.  We will do the Panther Store on October 1st.  

5.  Morning Assembly - please update the morning slides.  We are going to be recognizing students each day.

6.  House - we are postponing all house/pod activities for this year and hope we can pick up next year.

7.  We are going to do Spirit Week September thru Oct 2nd.  Andrea sent info out earlier about that.  

*Summer readers are receiving book fair gift certificates - they should be in your mailbox

*Library Coloring contest sheets will be in homeroom teachers mailboxes by tomorrow afternoon.  

Tuesday, September 8th 3:15/library - RTA/MAF meeting - calendar invite has been sent 

Friday Focus - August 28, 2020

 

It has been a great week for our first few days of in-person learning.  Thank you for working hard to make it good for our students!  

-Please make sure all students take the STAR test.  We will use that to set AR goals for the first nine weeks.

-Next week we will be making the change with our VIP program.  Homeroom teachers please remember to keep contact with your VIP students.  Mrs. Kelli will be giving you weekly updates.

We know that cases are rising and we want to do the best we can to help stop the spread.  Please remember this with co-workers - as well as students.  I think we are taking all precautions to social distance with students.  As you are having lunch  or planning with co-workers - remember the rule of 6 ft - especially for anything over a few minutes.  

*Leadership Team meeting in the library next Wednesday at 3:15 pm!