Weekly Update - March 29, 2021

Grade levels that will be having Easter Egg hunts can choose to either do it in the morning or during their afternoon recess time.  Morning times are as follows:

9:00  Little Panthers

9:30  Kindergarten

10:00 1st grade

10:30  2nd grade

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Since our VIP end of the year testing is going to be spread out over several weeks  - we are going to do the same with the conferences.  Homeroom teachers - you can schedule a conference anytime during the assigned week - during your planning or afterschool.  Hopefully this will prevent you from having to spend a lot more time after school doing these.  If you need me, Valerie, Kelli or Tammy to attend one of these meetings - please let us know.  

4th/5th grade - week of 4/12

2nd/3rd grade - week of 4/19

1st grade - week of 4/26

Kindergarten - week of 5/3

Let me know if you have questions!

Weekly Update - March 26, 2021

 

MAP testing window is open and available for teachers to test anytime.  Please have all in-person students tested by April 16th. 

Monday and Tuesday we will be having Parent Teacher conferences with our in-person students.  Homeroom teachers have been setting up appointments with parents.  Classified staff will not need to work unless they need the planning hours and have contacted Ms. Lisa.

We will still use three entrances (2nd/4th at Minit Mart entrance, K/5th main entrance and 1st/3rd at gym entrance), do temp checks and require masks.  The book fair will also be going on so we need people to work that.  Please let me know if I have left anyone off.

Monday/Tuesday schedule

Also - homeroom teachers - please sure your conference schedule with us so that we can have that at the front tables.  

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We are going to ask all VIP students to come in to do end of the year testing on the following dates:

March 30 - 5th grade                April 1 - 4th grade 

April 13 - 3rd grade                   April 15 - 2nd grade

April 20 & 22 - 1st grade           April 27 & 29 - Kindergarden

OTHER UPCOMING DATES

KPREP testing will begin on May 3rd for VIP students and continue the next week with in-person students.

Kindergarten graduation - May 17th 5 pm

5th grade graduation - May 17th 6:30 pm

*graduations will be held at the city park, weather permitting

5th grade Picnic - May 19th

Weekly Update - March 15, 2021

 

As some of the Covid restrictions lift around the state, we will start to see some changes at school.  The district office gave us the green light to allow students to return to the cafeteria to eat (with some restrictions) and I believe the middle school is returning today.   At CCES - it would cause a major change to our schedule to move students back to the cafeteria for lunch.  I didn't want to do that without getting feedback from all of you.  Please let me know if we should continue the year like we are or if you think we should transition back to the cafeteria.

In the meanwhile, please allow students to eat outside when they can.

We are also going to try to let grade levels have recess TOGETHER on Fridays.  I think this is something that students have missed and will be something for them to look forward to.  However, please remind students of playground expectations and that a large number of strikes and discipline issues normally come from the playground.  If they don't follow the playground expectations, we will take away those Friday's of playing as a grade level.  

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*Application for Summer School Teachers is available here. Those applications are due this Friday.

Please remember to send out sign-up forms for parents to select a time for Parent Teacher conferences for the 29th and 30th. Remember this is for in-person students only. We will have a separate time for our VIP students.

*Bring STAR results to the grade level meetings this week.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK - ONLY 8 1/2 LEFT IN THE YEAR!

Weekly Update - March 5, 2021

 

After discussion with some teachers - we feel like it may be best to do conferences for our in-person students ONLY on March 29th and 30th.  We will wait until after spring break to start scheduling our VIP students.  Also - if you need to schedule some conferences before 4:00 on those days to get everyone in - that is fine.  

Congratulations to Mrs. Nancy Flowers and Mrs. Hannah Hopper.

Mrs. Nancy will receive the Campbellsville University Excellence in Teaching award and Ms.  Hannah has been nominated for the WKU Distinguished Educator award for Preschool/Elementary.    

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Special class for next week will be PE, Leadership and SEL/Bullying.

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We will be having a Staff Meeting for certified staff on Tuesday beginning at 3:15 in the library.  Please let me know if you cannot attend.

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All grades for the 3rd nine weeks need to be posted today before you leave please.  Grade cards will go home on Tuesday.  

NO SCHOOL NEXT THURSDAY AND FRIDAY

Weekly Update - February 24th, 2021

 The year is flying by and it is once again time for STAR testing.  Please complete the fourth round of STAR testing sometime the first couple of weeks of March.  Remember to discuss with students their goal for this upcoming assessment.

Also - we will soon be taking our last round of MAP testing.  We will open up the window the week before spring break.  As a grade level - decide if you want to do the last round the week before or the week after.  

We also have scheduled Parent Teacher conferences for March 29th and 30th.  We will do two evenings  - 4 to 6 each evening.  We are going to do this like we did in the fall - 20 minute sessions that allows you the opportunity to meet with parents alone.  Please send out a form or way for parents to sign up for their time.  This will be a great opportunity to discuss progress for the year.  

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Also next week is our Panther Store for January and February.  Please remember to fill out the Class Party form and submit by tomorrow afternoon.   Here is the schedule for Panther Store on Tuesday in the library - please fill in a time for your homeroom to visit.  

Ms. Sue Elise sent an email about Jason Lindsey, the Science Guy, doing a Google Meet with all grade levels next Tuesday, March 2nd at 1 pm.   You will access this through the CCES 2020-2021 Google Classroom - just like morning meeting.  

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Also - please be very cautious to view and listen to all videos that you are using in class - whether in-person or VIP.  This includes videos from trusted sources like BrainPop, Flocabulary, etc.  This week we had an issue with a BrainPop video sharing content that we are not comfortable with for our students.  We are in a day and time that there are issues that can be very controversial to discuss with students and we need to be cautious.  Let me know if you have questions.  

Have a great weekend!

Winter MAP Scores - January 2021

 

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Weekly Update - February 4, 2021

KPREP Assessment Link

Mrs. Parson sent this link in email this week.  If you have not already checked it out - please do so.  This is a really good indication of what we are preparing students for as far as assessment goes. 

After looking at survey results, we have decided that we are going to do two more Panther Stores during the remainder of the year.  We will do one on March 2nd for January and February.  Please continue doing behavior calendars and some system of awarding Panther Bucks.  We will give more details about the Panther Store toward the end of the month.  

Jason Lindsey will be conducting a live science show on February 18th for all CCES students @ 1:00.   It will be a 30 minute live science show with hands-on activity. The students will receive an activity kit to be completed at that time with Jason Lindsey. Also, the students will receive a 2nd kit for family science engagement activity where the students take it home to complete with parents.  A 15 minute pre recorded video will be provided for families to watch that evening or over the weekend.   Students that complete the family engagement activity (post a photo) will have their name entered into a drawing.   We will draw the following Monday, February  22nd.  The family portion will need to be through Google Classroom. 

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