RAA Week

 

Happy Read Across America Week! Here is the link to all the Seusstastic fun morning meeting slides and more. Please utilize this resource as much as you would like and most importantly let's make time for READING this week!  IYou can share the PDF of this week's plans with your students too. 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1y9wdfmnhWn9vOlS1uaTN_j14oejhuCsNRv51SoWFEnI/copy

VIP Parking: 2/26 - 3/4

 This week's VIP Parking goes to two awesome teachers!

 

Thomas Sidebottom is the first: The nominee stated, "I'm nominating Thomas Sidebottom. He is always doing so much as an Athletic Director, special education teacher/co-teacher,  his own grad work, etc....and does it with a smile on his face and a sense of humor." 

Holly Stone is the second winner. The nominee said, "Holly's leadership in writing for our whole school is wonderful! She provides incredible help to every teacher, and she is the reason many of our fifth grade writers continues to produce exemplary pieces!" 

Thomas, please get your pass from Nurse Ray. Holly, please get yours from Ms. Dossett.  

NTI - 2-19-2025

 

ALL:

• We will have an NTI day tomorrow, 2-19-2025. No staff are required to report to campus, but all need to be able to support students remotely. 
• School-age care (BEEP) will be OPEN, and staff childcare will be CLOSED.
• School leadership will be accessible via text, cell phone, and Google Meet.
• BCS will send a message out to families letting them know we will be on NTI tomorrow. You are welcome to post anything on DoJo or Google Classroom AFTER BCS sends this message out. (Our message cannot beat the district announcement out!)

HOMEROOM TEACHERS:

• ALL homerooms should have one Google Meet and invite all students to a Morning Meeting at 10 AM. Teachers should touch base with students, let them know how help can be accessed for any remote work, and go over any assignments for the day.
• Reasonable work expectations for the day include:
• 2nd and 3rd grade: 20ish minutes of reading and 20ish minutes of math
• 4th grade: 20ish minutes of reading, 20ish minutes of math, and 20ish minutes of science or SS
• 5th grade: 20ish minutes of reading, 20ish minutes of math, 20ish minutes of writing, and 20ish minutes of SS

RELATED ARTS TEACHERS:

• Please join one homeroom for their Morning Meeting Google Meet with a teacher of your choosing.
• Complete one activity and post it on DoJo for families that kids can do at home. This should be simple.

INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANTS:

·       Please complete this module: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15JxHdrOpdcon9MxFZ545qSiaHC7uYY70/view

• When you are finished, please send your certificate to Josh. IF YOU DO NOT GET YOUR CERTIFICATE, PLEASE EMAIL THE CONTACT in the instruction DOCUMENT, and have it sent to you.

SPECIAL EDUCATION STAFF:

• Please work on the following after co-teaching as usual:
• Calling/ video meeting with folks (individual or group, if resource classes) to check, provide help or feedback, etc.
• Call parents and give a general update on how students are doing in relation to class and their IEP goals.
• Work on upcoming IEPs that are due.
• Ensure progress monitoring data and IEP progress report information are up to date in Infinite Campus and that that information has been sent to families

All staff can also update their toolboxes with any completed PD hours AND reflections. Online PD is also available at the CKEC website if anyone still needs hours.

Lastly, please make sure you are inputting NTI participation into the spreadsheet. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11F9qVtH8_nZmTVSqR8QIJPxPvIFcUeruLjodCvk8sDs/edit?gid=0#gid=0

Please let me know if you have any questions!

-Josh

VIP Parking - 2/18 through 2/25

 

Happy Monday!

Our VIP Parking winners for this week are listed below. VIP winners, your passes are in your mailboxes. Because of the shortened week, you can park in your stall starting TOMORROW, 2/17/25 – and go through next Tuesday, 2/25. Thank you for all you do!

Our first winner: Anne Marie Dossett: as her nominator stated, “Anne Marie Dossett does many things behind the scenes for the 4th Grade Team. When she retires, we are going to miss her immensely for all the little things she does for us. It is going to be hard for someone to fill her shoes.”

Our second winner had TWO folks nominate her. The first nominator stated: “I would like to nominate Madelyn Ray for VIP for dealing with all our sick kids so well over the past few weeks. She is so organized and helpful. It has especially been helpful with her addition of prioritizing the students by marking them low, medium, or high priority.”

Nurse Ray’s second nominator stated, “I think that Nurse Madeline deserves a VIP parking pass for ALL the work she does to keep illnesses to a minimum and to help families get better. She's a rockstar!”

Updates for Planning Purposes

As we look to the future, here are some things coming up this spring. All dates and events have been added to the school calendar.

• We are moving our fire drill from 2/21 to 2/20, same time, 8:10 AM.
• MS Band Sign up for 5th grade will be 2/25 from 4-7 PM in the cafeteria.
• We will have a special celebration after school on March 6 for one of our faculty members. More info. to come. 
• Special Education Inclusion Week will be March 17-21. Look for an announcement of activities to come next month. 
• Crusade for Children Coin Wars (and ducks!) will be back April 14-18. This year, the winning class will receive custom t-shirts! More details to come
• Cultural Awareness Week is April 14-18. Mrs. Edelen will have special things to do during Morning Meeting, and some of our students will share unique things about their own cultures or languages. We will highlight a different county each day from where we currently have a student.