Week of 9/16 - 9/20

Hey Panda Family,

We adore all your great work as we finish Week 4! 

School Pictures: Picture Day is this upcoming Wednesday, September 25. Please let your students and families know. Bring your best smile! 

Flu Shots: Kernersville Pharmacy will be here next Friday, September 27 from 7:00-9:00am to provide flu shots to staff. 

Spirit Wear: PTA Spirit Wear is online this year. Check out the store to get you some new Panda gear! Here is the link: https://machinegungraphics.com/piney_grove/shop/home

Schedules: Please post a detailed time schedule of your day outside your classroom by the end of the month, September 30. Make sure you have the allotted 90 minute time blocks for Reading and Math. 

Hospitality Dues: We encourage everyone to pay their Hospitality dues of $20. These funds go to support our staff outings, sympathy/celebration cards & gifts, and so much more. Dues can be paid to Ms. Mabe. 

Positive Contact: Please make sure you are making those positive parent contacts. It could be a phone call, text, Dojo message, or in-person contact. Fill that bucket :) Each teacher should make a positive contact for each student and complete their log sheet by the end of the quarter.  

Jose: We are so glad you are back! We will continue to pray that your mother will regain her strength as she recovers.  

PDP Sign-Up Sheets: Located outside Ms. Gardner's door and my door. Please sign up for a time slot to review your self-assessment & PDP goals. Please check the Observation Calendar located on the school's PowerSchool page (under NCEES tab) to know if Gardner or Elkins is your observer. PDPs are due and should be signed off on by this Wednesday, September 25. 

Family Tree Mural: If you or your class has not completed their hand for our family tree mural that Ms. Mason is creating please make sure you do so.

PTA Membership: We encourage you to join PTA. It is only $5 and they do so much for our school. Including the funds for each classroom. Membership forms are in the front office. 

Class Dojo Spanish Sign-Up: Please see the email from Ms. Pereda with the PDF instructions in Spanish for how to add your student to Class Dojo.

Staff Spotlight: Congratulations to Ms. Harman! This week she received the Reflex Educator Math Grant for her class. Way to go, Erin!

Teacher Tuesday Spotlight: Our school Facebook page is highlighting a teacher each week (thanks for organizing this Ms. Jones)! Our spotlight this past week was Ms. Brookshire. Check it out! 

Healthy Panda: This year the Wellness Committee wants to promote staying active and eating healthy to students and staff. In order to promote the phrase "Active Body, Active Brain" to the students we have decided to have a Healthy Panda of the Month (Just like good citizen) Three things that teachers need to look for in order to pick a healthy panda include:

1. Eating healthy foods (choosing healthy lunch options)
2. Drinking water
3. Staying active during recess 

We want to encourage the teachers to let the students vote on the Healthy Panda and tell the students what to look for. The students that are picked as the Healthy Panda of their class will receive a certificate and an "Active Body, Active Brain" wrist band.

Click on the link to enter your Healthy Panda by September 25:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hKr75hVMT24hNsZi4V3cModMHYzi9_VuaNRZN3cKPM8/edit?usp=sharing

Good Citizen: Please enter your first good citizen of the 2019/20 school year by Monday, September 23.  This year we are changing things up a bit.  Mrs. Ceglowski will place certificates and buttons in your boxes.  The names will be read out by Mr. Elkins in morning announcements.  

Your grade level chair will be responsible to send Mrs. Ceglowski a picture of your grades winners by the end of the week.  You can do this in the hallway, lunch, recess, wherever it works for you.  Creativity is encouraged! Send the picture to Mrs. Ceglowski at 631-235-3161.  Pictures will be displayed by grade level on the big board.  This should avoid missing absent kids and should make each student more visible on the board.  

Click on the link to enter your Good Citizen:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/159J71_cqOqGau-SRbXDUUu__c1rBPatVX4_bs4pUGOQ/edit?usp=sharing

Field Trip Calendar: There’s a master field trip calendar list on the closet door across from Gardner’s office. This is for your information when planning trips. Please do not write on the calendar. This will allow grade levels to see what days already have trips so you avoid those dates. 

Lesson Plans: Friendly reminder that Lesson Plans should be posted to the PowerSchool Wiki the first day of each week by 8:00am.

IF Updates

Graphing software: Here is a great site for you to use when graphing your data for Supplemental Plans.  Bookmark it and save it for later! 

Istation testing:  We are making great progress in Istation!  Thank you to my ‘Istation posse’ who has been helping to test, including Mrs. Christopher, Mrs. Owens, Mrs. Gray, Mrs. Bolchalk, and the Kindergarten TAs.  I appreciate everyone being flexible and working together to get this done!  Please make sure, teachers, that you have signed up for 2 sessions.  We will need both sessions in order to complete the testing.  Also, have you wondered where the ORF is?  WELL….. it turns out that there is a software glitch.  If it is not fixed by September 30, then we just will not use it as a benchmark assessment.  I will keep you posted! 

PD after school October 3: Don’t forget that we will have PD after school on October 3 at 3:30.  It should be no longer than 45 minutes.  We will meet in the media center. We should have the agenda finalized soon. 

Upcoming Dates:

September 24 - SCC & Media Committees meet @ 3:30
September 25 - School Picture Day!
September 25 - ACCESS testing window closes
September 25 - PDPs due for certified staff
September 27 - Flu Shots on campus from 7-9:00am
September 30 - CogAt Window Opens
September 30 - Istation Window Closes
October 1 - PBIS & Wellness Committees meet @ 3:30
October 3 - SECU Retirement planning (sign-up for time slot)
October 3 - 4th Grade Field Trip to Heritage Theater 
October 3 - Staff PD (TBD) after-school @ 3:30
October 4 - Big Sweep from 3:00 - 5:00
October 8 - Vision Screening (1st, 3rd, & 5th grades only)
October 9 - Early Release Day
October 10 - FCAE Meeting in Ms. Ball's room @ 3:30
October 11 - PTA Breakfast cart
October 14-18 - Book Fair
October 14 - PTA Meeting @ 6:30
October 15 - Elkins @ Principal's Meeting from 8-12
October 18 - Science NC Check-In
October 18 - Read to Achieve Test



Fall officially begins this Monday! In the comment section below list you favorite thing(s) about the fall season! Have a wonderful weekend.