Week of 1/20 - 1/24

Hey Panda Family,

Week 20! We made it halfway through the year! 🙌 Thank you to everyone for all your hard work so far this year, and especially over the two workdays this week. Your commitment to organizing and executing productive parent conferences definitely did not go unnoticed. I am so honored and proud to work with the best staff 🐼 

Report Cards: Report Cards are due to Ms. True by this Friday, January 31.

Mid-Year PDPs: Friendly reminder that your Mid-Year PDP is due by February 3. Please update the progress on your goals and then let Ms. Gardner or me know so we can review and finalize (see email from 1/6/2020 with instructions). We do not have to formally meet for the Mid-Year.

Sports Team Day: The Superbowl is coming up! This Friday, January 31 we encourage everyone to wear items from their favorite sports team - NFL, College, NBA, High School, etc. We will advertise it on the announcements this week.

Spring Pictures (date change): We had to adjust the date for Spring Pictures. They will now be on Monday, March 23.

Tours: The Kindergarten registration window opens next week. We will be giving periodic tours during the registration period. If you see any of these tour groups in the building, please don't hesitate to welcome them, say Hi, and help make them feel a part of the Piney Grove family! If you know of anyone that will be enrolling next year, or is interested in switching schools to PGE, please have them reach out to Sharon, Pam, or Vickie in the office with any registration questions.

SIOP Presentation (Vocabulary Strategies): Here is a link to Ms. Pereda's presentation on Vocabulary Strategies from our staff meeting. These are great strategies for all students! Make vocab visual!
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15eiZBgDQSWFhyo8pW0-PFoUdbpfPA0PlEnCX3CDg_KM/edit?usp=sharing

District Support: This past Friday the district made all schools aware of changes to Instructional Support staff across the county. Effective immediately, most district support staff have been reassigned to fill teacher vacancies in various schools. What this means for us - Jerry Yale (Digital Learning Coach) & Chris Shafer (PLT Coach) will no longer be in their support roles to help us. We are working to get clarity on how staff will get their technology credit for the remainder of the year. Unfortunately, all schools have been impacted by these staffing changes. It is out of our control, but we will work together as a family to continue to support each other. At this time our Office of Early Learning Coach, Shannon Thompson, will still remain in her support role.

Fraudulent Email: It was brought to my attention this past week that multiple staff members received an email from what looked like me with the header “KINDLY FOLLOW UP”. It actually came from the email, brelkins.wsfcs.k12.nc.us@gmail.com, impersonating me. Please delete this email if you see it.

Boosterthon Fun Run: Please note in the calendar below that the Boosterthon Fun Run has been moved to Friday, February 21. We will not have any Boosterthon pep rallies on February 19, which is an Early Release Day. 

PGE Talent Show: Mark your calendars for Friday, March 27th @ 6:30.  Daytime show @ 1:15. We will use ER day lunch schedule. More details to come.

February 6 PD Update: February 6 after-school we will have a training for our 3rd-5th teachers on I-Ready @ 3:30 in the media center (please make sure your MOY diagnostic is completed by then). We will also have a training for our 1st & 2nd grade teachers on Heggerty. Shannon Thompson will conduct this training and it will also start @ 3:30. Location for the Heggerty training is TBD. 

Discretionary Funds: Don't forget about your discretionary funds for instructional materials that was allotted at the beginning of the year. Your discretionary funds need to be spent by the end of February. Send items to me, or Ms. Gardner, for approval and then complete a prior purchase approval form for Pam (yellow sheet). If you need to know how much is left in your grade level/individual account, please email Pam. 

Conferences: These conferences should be a mid-year check-in to discuss each student's progress (academic, behavior, etc.). I encourage you to schedule them in 15-20 minute increments, unless you feel you need more time with the parents. If a parent can not come in for the conference please attempt to schedule a phone conference with them. Once you have your schedule set please share with Ms. Landreth so she can expect the parent visitors. We will be following up with everyone on how the conferences are going in PLTs. Feel free to use all or some of the teacher workday on January 24 for your conferences. The deadline for K-2 conferences is Friday, January 31. The deadline for 3-5 conferences is Friday, February 14 (we should have all 2nd quarter testing results in at this point for 3-5 to be able to share with parents).   

Staff Spotlight: Shout-out from Ms. True to Ms. Jones, Ms. Mabe, Ms. Crisp, and Ms. Edwards for already having their report cards done a week early (hope I didn't leave anyone out)! Thanks to everyone for working so hard on these! 

Check out the Letterland Parade article from the district: https://www.wsfcs.k12.nc.us/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=1&ModuleInstanceID=12708&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=269056&PageID=1

Teacher Tuesday Spotlight: Our school Facebook page is highlighting a teacher each week! Our spotlight this past week was Ms. Sweeney. Check it out! 

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

Math Night: Math Night will be held at the Food Lion (near Panera) will be held on March 12^th.  Mark your calendar!  We hope that many teachers will be able to attend to interact with our families as they complete the math activities. 

i-Ready: The Mid-Year Diagnostic period has begun runs through February 14^th. However, we have scheduled our next training for 2/6/2020, which means that we need to have all assessments completed by 2/5/2020.   If you have specific questions that you would like to have addressed at our training, or if there is an element of the program that you want to learn more about, please send me those questions by Thursday.  I want to send them to our trainer so that she can be prepared to address them.

SSP reminder: As we begin 3rd quarter, please make sure your SSP data and contacts are up to date.  If you are ready to end the plan, great!  If you are ready to move on to a new skill, fantastic!  If you need to move to IST, please let me know when you would like to meet.  We will find a time that is convenient and discuss what changes need to be made.

Upcoming Dates:

January 27 - Jerry Yale @ PGE

January 28 - Elkins @ Principal's Meeting 8:00 - 3:00

January 28 - SCC & Media Committees @ 3:30
January 29 - Class Pictures
January 30 - Gardner @ AP Meeting 8:00 - 11:00, Elkins @ Principal's Meeting 12:00 - 3:00
January 31 - Sports Team Day

January 31 - Reports cards due to Ms. True

January 31 - K-2 Parent Conferences completed by this date
February 3 - Midyear PDPs due
February 4 - Science EOQ Check-In

February 4 - Jerry Yale @ PGE

February 4 - PBIS & Wellness @ 3:30

February 6 - Iready Training @ 3:30 (3-5 grades only), Heggerty Training @ 3:30 (1st & 2nd only)
February 7 - Testing Team meeting @ 7:30

February 7 - Report cards go home

February 10 - PTA Meeting @ 6:30

February 11 - Boosterthon Assemblies (3-5 @ 1:30, K-2 @ 2:10)

February 11 - Staff Meeting @ 3:30

February 12 - 19 - Boosterthon Pep Rallies during Specials

February 12 - Jerry Yale @ PGE

February 13 - Mary Starling @ 10:00 (5th grade only)

February 13 - FCAE Meeting @ 3:30

February 14 - 3-5 Parent Conferences completed by this date

February 18 - Elkins @ Principal's Meeting 8:00 - 3:00
February 18 - SIT @ 3:30

February 19 - Early Release Day

February 20 - Kindergarten Registration Day from 10:00 - 6:30
February 21 - Boosterthon Fun Run (times TBD)
February 21 - Baby Shower for Ms. Jones @ 3:30

Thank you to everyone who took my challenge and wrote a thoughtful note to someone this past week! I love to celebrate successes :) In the comments below, share a notable success from the first half of the year. I know we have plenty to celebrate! 

Week of 1/13 - 1/17

Hey Panda Family,

Week 19, done! One more for Second Quarter 🐼😊

Staff Meeting: Reminder that our January Staff Meeting will be this Tuesday, January 21 @ 3:30. The agenda items are - Staff Awards, PBIS professional development, SIOP, IST Updates, FCAE, Ms. Ceglowski, Fire Marshall Updates, and Boosterthon Vote.

Teacher Workdays: Friendly reminder that you need to enter your workshop absences in Frontline if you are at a workshop on the workdays. If you are not working, please enter Annual Leave. Please make sure you fob in on the workdays too.

Staff Update: Please join me in welcoming Ms. Gwen Ashburn as our new 3rd grade teacher! Gwen has previously worked at Brunson Elementary, as a Dual Language teacher, and most recently at the NC Public Virtual Academy. She also speaks Spanish fluently :) Ms. Ashburn's first day with us will be on February 13. We are so excited to have a new member of our Panda family! 

Cafeteria Management & Visit from Cash ES: Please continue to review the cafeteria expectations with your students (lunch line procedures, zero voice volume during music, etc.) It is imperative that each class is following the same expectations. The PBIS team from Cash will be visiting PGE on Wednesday, January 22nd to see how we use music in the cafeteria during lunch. We want to make a good impression. Thanks!   

PBIS Event: Our next PBIS event will be this Wednesday, January 22 during Specials with Master Posey. All students will participate in a Taekwondo session with Master Posey, and then the students that paid their Paw Bucks will break their board. All Specialists will help monitor in the gym.

Boosterthon Fun Run: Please note in the calendar below that the Boosterthon Fun Run has been moved to Friday, February 21. We will not have any Boosterthon pep rallies on February 19, which is an Early Release Day. 

Fire Marshall: Mrs. Gardner is still working to correct things reported from the Fire Marshal.  We are almost there!!

PGE Talent Show: Mark your calendars for Friday, March 27th @ 6:30.  Daytime show @ 1:15. We will use ER day lunch schedule. More details to come.

February 6 PD Update: February 6 after-school we will have a training for our 3rd-5th teachers on I-Ready @ 3:30 in the media center (please make sure your MOY diagnostic is completed by then). We will also have a training for our 1st & 2nd grade teachers on Heggerty. Shannon Thompson will conduct this training and it will also start @ 3:30. Location for the Heggerty training is TBD. 

Discretionary Funds: Don't forget about your discretionary funds for instructional materials that was allotted at the beginning of the year. Your discretionary funds need to be spent by the end of February. Send items to me, or Ms. Gardner, for approval and then complete a prior purchase approval form for Pam (yellow sheet). If you need to know how much is left in your grade level/individual account, please email Pam. 

Mobile HR: Human Resources will have a representative onsite at Piney Grove on January 22 from 12:45 - 3:45 to answer any HR related questions (pay, benefits, retirement, etc.). They will be located in room 126 for anyone that would like to speak with them. 

Conferences: As discussed at our last staff meeting, please begin scheduling mid-year parent conferences for each of your students. These conferences should be a mid-year check-in to discuss each student's progress (academic, behavior, etc.). I encourage you to schedule them in 15-20 minute increments, unless you feel you need more time with the parents. If a parent can not come in for the conference please attempt to schedule a phone conference with them. Once you have your schedule set please share with Ms. Landreth so she can expect the parent visitors. We will be following up with everyone on how the conferences are going in PLTs. Feel free to use all or some of the teacher workday on January 24 for your conferences. The deadline for K-2 conferences is Friday, January 31. The deadline for 3-5 conferences is Friday, February 14 (we should have all 2nd quarter testing results in at this point for 3-5 to be able to share with parents).   

Staff Spotlight: Huge shout out to Ashley Owens for organizing and managing such a smooth testing week! Thank you to everyone that helped administer tests and pull-out groups this past week. Awesome job! 

Teacher Tuesday Spotlight: Our school Facebook page is highlighting a teacher each week! Our spotlight this past week was Ms. Musten. Check it out! 

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

Math Night: Math Night will be held at the Food Lion (near Panera) will be held on March 12^th.  Mark your calendar!  We hope that many teachers will be able to attend to interact with our families as they complete the math activities. 

January 23 RC Day updates: Here is the most up to date list of the PD opportunities for January 23.  Please get together with your grade level and send me ONE LIST for your grade level of who is attending which PD that day.  Please make sure that we cover as many subject areas as possible. 

i-Ready: The Mid-Year is set to begin on January 20th and runs through February 14^th. However, we have scheduled our next training for 2/6/2020, which means that we need to have all assessments completed by 2/5/2020.   We will be posting on our new iReady bulletin this week for the week of 1/13 to 1/17!

SSP reminder: As we move into third quarter, please make sure your SSP data and contacts are up to date.  If you are ready to end the plan, great!  If you are ready to move on to a new skill, fantastic!  If you need to move to IST, please let me know when you would like to meet.  We will find a time that is convenient and discuss what changes need to be made. 

Letterland Parade: Kindergarten will be holding their annual Letterland parade on January 22^nd at 9:00.  Mark your calendars so that you can see the cuteness!  We invite all staff members to join the kindergarten teachers dressing like Letterland characters.  If you need help brainstorming a character, I am happy to help!

Interventionists Schedules: Our interventionist should be rolling with their regular schedules this week!  If you have students who should be seen and are not, please let me know.  I hope that I preserved the time of all students when making the new schedules, but if I didn’t, just let me know and I will take care of it.  They are all doing a great job and we are lucky to have them!

Upcoming Dates:

January 20 - MLK day (no school)

January 21 - Staff Meeting @ 3:30
January 22 - Kindergarten Letterland Parade @ 9:00
January 22 - Master Posey PBIS event (during Specials)
January 22 - Mobile HR @ PGE from 12:45 - 3:45

January 22 - End of 2nd Quarter

January 23 - Workday (reserved for central office)

January 24 - Workday (conference day - reserved for schools)

January 27 - Jerry Yale @ PGE

January 28 - Elkins @ Principal's Meeting 8:00 - 3:00

January 28 - SCC & Media Committees @ 3:30
January 29 - Class Pictures
January 30 - Gardner @ AP Meeting 8:00 - 11:00, Elkins @ Principal's Meeting 12:00 - 3:00

January 31 - Reports cards due to Ms. True

January 31 - K-2 Parent Conferences completed by this date
February 3 - Midyear PDPs due
February 4 - Science EOQ Check-In

February 4 - Jerry Yale @ PGE

February 4 - PBIS & Wellness @ 3:30

February 6 - Iready Training @ 3:30 (3-5 grades only), Heggerty Training @ 3:30 (1st & 2nd only)
February 7 - Testing Team meeting @ 7:30

February 7 - Report cards go home

February 10 - PTA Meeting @ 6:30

February 11 - Boosterthon Assemblies (3-5 @ 1:30, K-2 @ 2:10)

February 11 - Staff Meeting @ 3:30

February 12 - 19 - Boosterthon Pep Rallies during Specials

February 12 - Jerry Yale @ PGE

February 13 - Mary Starling @ 10:00 (5th grade only)

February 13 - FCAE Meeting @ 3:30

February 14 - 3-5 Parent Conferences completed by this date

February 18 - Elkins @ Principal's Meeting 8:00 - 3:00
February 18 - SIT @ 3:30

February 19 - Early Release Day

February 20 - Kindergarten Registration Day from 10:00 - 6:30
February 21 - Boosterthon Fun Run (times TBD)
February 21 - Baby Shower for Ms. Jones @ 3:30

This past week I got a very thoughtful note just when I needed a pick me up! I challenge you this week to pick one person (student or staff member) to write them a nice, encouraging note to let them know you are thinking about them. I hope you will join me in this challenge! 

Week of 1/6 - 1/10

Hey Panda Family,

Week 18 is done. Check! ✔ 

February 6 PD Update: February 6 after-school we will have a training for our 3rd-5th teachers on I-Ready @ 3:30 in the media center (please make sure your MOY diagnostic is completed by then). We will also have a training for our 1st & 2nd grade teachers on Heggerty. Shannon Thompson will conduct this training and it will also start @ 3:30. Location for the Heggerty training is TBD. 

Change in Specials Schedule (1/14 & 1/15): Due to testing please follow these changes for Specials on January 14 & 15. 

K- 8:30        5^th- 11:15

1^st grade- 10:10       4^th- 12:10

Discretionary Funds: Don't forget about your discretionary funds for instructional materials that was allotted at the beginning of the year. Your discretionary funds need to be spent by the end of February. Send items to me, or Ms. Gardner, for approval and then complete a prior purchase approval form for Pam (yellow sheet). If you need to know how much is left in your grade level/individual account, please email Pam. 

Mobile HR: Human Resources will have a representative onsite at Piney Grove on January 22 from 12:45 - 3:45 to answer any HR related questions (pay, benefits, retirement, etc.). They will be located in room 126 for anyone that would like to speak with them. 

Visit from Cash Elementary: The PBIS team from Cash will be visiting PGE on Wednesday, January 22nd to see how we use music in the cafeteria during lunch.  Make sure you review cafeteria expectations before January 22nd.  

Fire Marshall: Ms. Gardner been working with individuals to correct things reported from the Fire Marshal.  If you are using a power strip that is not labeled WS/FCS, please let her know by Wednesday, January 15 so she can request maintenance to come out and install them. 

Math Night: We are working to schedule a Math Night at the local Food Lion. This will be a hands-on event for our families to attend. More information to come! 

PBIS Event on 1/22: Please submit the names of your students participating in board breaking by Tuesday, 1/15 to your grade level PBIS team member.  

United Way: Our final total for United Way was $1584! We had 70% staff participation. This is an awesome percentage, but we didn't quite meet our goal. We will still have our January staff meeting on 1/21, but we will work to keep it as brief as we can due to the high participation number :) 

Conferences: As discussed at our last staff meeting, please begin scheduling mid-year parent conferences for each of your students. These conferences should be a mid-year check-in to discuss each student's progress (academic, behavior, etc.). I encourage you to schedule them in 15-20 minute increments, unless you feel you need more time with the parents. If a parent can not come in for the conference please attempt to schedule a phone conference with them. Once you have your schedule set please share with Ms. Landreth so she can expect the parent visitors. We will be following up with everyone on how the conferences are going in PLTs. Feel free to use all or some of the teacher workday on January 24 for your conferences. The deadline for K-2 conferences is Friday, January 31. The deadline for 3-5 conferences is Friday, February 14 (we should have all 2nd quarter testing results in at this point for 3-5 to be able to share with parents).   

Staff Spotlight: Thank you so much to Ms. Adams for organizing a successful Science Fair that resulted in PGE having the 2nd place winner in the K-2 division for the district, Larkin Mack! 

Also, thank you to Ms. Sweeney for organizing and hosting another successful Spelling Bee. Good luck to our champion, Madison Russell, as she moves on to the district competition. 

Teacher Tuesday Spotlight: Our school Facebook page is highlighting a teacher each week! Our spotlight this past week was Ms. Tall, our Teacher of the Year. Check it out! 

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

EOQ Testing: EOQ testing will be this week - 1/14 (ELA) & 1/15 (Math). Please help us create an ideal testing environment for all our students by reminding them to be on a voice volume zero in all areas of the building during the testing times. Good luck to all our students testing. 

i-Ready: The Mid-Year is set to begin on January 20th and runs through February 14^th. However, we have scheduled our next training for 2/6/2020, which means that we need to have all assessments completed by 2/5/2020.  We will discuss more details about the assessments in PLT. Also, we will start an incentive program that will track hitting usage goals AND to highlight overall percentages of passing scores for each class.  The bulletin board for this program will revealed very soon!

Upcoming Dates:

January 13 - PTA Meeting @ 6:30
January 14 - ELA Check-In & EOQ Test (3rd - 5th grades)
January 14 - SIT @ 3:30
January 15 - Math Check-In & EOQ Test (3rd - 5th grades)
January 20 - MLK day (no school)

January 21 - Staff Meeting @ 3:30
January 22 - Kindergarten Letterland Parade @ 9:00
January 22 - Master Posey PBIS event (during Specials)
January 22 - Mobile HR @ PGE from 12:45 - 3:45

January 22 - End of 2nd Quarter

January 23 - Workday (reserved for central office)

January 24 - Workday (conference day - reserved for schools)

January 27 - Jerry Yale @ PGE

January 28 - Elkins @ Principal's Meeting 8:00 - 3:00

January 28 - SCC & Media Committees @ 3:30
January 29 - Class Pictures
January 30 - Gardner @ AP Meeting 8:00 - 11:00, Elkins @ Principal's Meeting 12:00 - 3:00

January 31 - Reports cards due to Ms. True

January 31 - K-2 Parent Conferences completed by this date
February 3 - Midyear PDPs due
February 4 - Science EOQ Check-In

February 4 - Jerry Yale @ PGE

February 4 - PBIS & Wellness @ 3:30

February 6 - Iready Training @ 3:30 (3-5 grades only), Heggerty Training @ 3:30 (1st & 2nd only)
February 7 - Testing Team meeting @ 7:30

February 7 - Report cards go home

February 10 - PTA Meeting @ 6:30

February 11 - Boosterthon Assemblies (3-5 @ 1:30, K-2 @ 2:10)

February 11 - Staff Meeting @ 3:30

February 12 - 19 - Boosterthon Pep Rallies during Specials

February 12 - Jerry Yale @ PGE

February 13 - Mary Starling @ 10:00 (5th grade only)

February 13 - FCAE Meeting @ 3:30

February 14 - 3-5 Parent Conferences completed by this date

February 18 - Elkins @ Principal's Meeting 8:00 - 3:00
February 18 - SIT @ 3:30

February 19 - Early Release Day

February 20 - Boosterthon Fun Run (times TBD)
February 20 - Kindergarten Registration Day from 10:00 - 6:30

I need some more good read aloud picture books for my Friday night story time on Facebook. Please share any good titles in the comments below that I could put on my list for the second half of the year. Thanks! 

Week of 12/16 - 12/20

Hey Panda Family,

Week 17 is complete! I hope everyone had a wonderful break with friends and family! 😊 

Staff Updates: We are excited to announce that Danielle Wiebking will be joining us in a part-time instructional assistant role in the coming weeks. She will be serving in a substitute role initially, but we plan to officially hire her after HR frees up some funds for us in the new year. Mrs. Wiebking's children were Pandas here at Piney Grove and she is very familiar with a lot of our staff. She has been recently serving as a consistent substitute for KMS, but we are so happy to have her here at Piney Grove in an instructional role. Welcome Mrs. Wiebking! 

On a sad note, we wanted to let everyone know that Angela Gray will be resigning from her 3rd grade teaching position. Angela served our students so well in both her role as a Reading Interventionist and as a 3rd grade teacher. This was a very difficult decision for her, but she felt it was best to allow herself time to fully recover from her leg injury. We want to thank Angela for her service to our school, and she will always be a part of the Panda family! 

Conferences: As discussed at our last staff meeting, please begin scheduling mid-year parent conferences for each of your students. These conferences should be a mid-year check-in to discuss each student's progress (academic, behavior, etc.). I encourage you to schedule them in 15-20 minute increments, unless you feel you need more time with the parents. If a parent can not come in for the conference please attempt to schedule a phone conference with them. Once you have your schedule set please share with Ms. Landreth so she can expect the parent visitors. We will be following up with everyone on how the conferences are going in PLTs. Feel free to use all or some of the teacher workday on January 24 for your conferences. The deadline for K-2 conferences is Friday, January 31. The deadline for 3-5 conferences is Friday, February 14 (we should have all 2nd quarter testing results in at this point for 3-5 to be able to share with parents). 

PBIS Expectations: Take time to review PBIS expectations as well as your classroom expectations over the next 2 weeks.  Doing this now will save you headaches later :) We will also be reviewing PBIS expectations over announcements. 

Fire Marshall: Thank you again for making sure exit doors are clear.  We have a few other things to to address this month after receiving the Fire Marshall's report.  Please look for an email from Ms. Gardner if this affects you. 

Mid-Year PDPs: Please update your mid-year PDP plan by Monday, February 3.  Please look for an email from Elkins or Gardner with instructions. 

Healthy Panda: I plan to announce the Healthy Pandas for December this upcoming week on the announcements. Please add your Healthy Panda to the Google doc if you haven't already: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hKr75hVMT24hNsZi4V3cModMHYzi9_VuaNRZN3cKPM8/edit?usp=sharing 

Good Citizens: I also plan to announce the Good Citizens for December too. Please add your Good Citizen to the Google doc if you haven't already: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DmA16a0lO9MBrA_wduNN9XlSvxbtHZBUwSan4X8nqlE/edit?usp=sharing 

Purchase Pre-approval: Reminder that per district policy we must have a pre-approval form completed for all purchases. The pre-approval form is a yellow form located in the front office. Even if I approve your purchase over email, you must complete a pre-approval form and have me sign off before you make the purchase. Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.  

Spelling Bee (4th & 5th grade only): The school Spelling Bee will be this Wednesday, January 8 at 8:30 in the media center. Please see Ms. Sweeney with any questions. 

United Way: Our final total for United Way was $1584! Great job! Ms. Ballou and Ms. Mathis will have the final staff participation percentage this week. We will share it with everyone once we have that figure. We really appreciate everyone who contributed. Thank you to Ms. Ballou and Ms. Mathis for overseeing this fundraising effort. 

Staff Spotlight: Thank you, Mr. Jose for helping hang our new banner outside the main entrance. It celebrates our wonderful state academic growth over the years! 

Teacher Tuesday Spotlight: Our school Facebook page is highlighting a teacher each week! Our spotlight this past week was Ms. Mason. Check it out! 

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

i-Ready: Diagnostic MOY window has CHANGED AGAIN! The Mid-Year is set to begin on January 20th and runs through February 14^th. However, we have scheduled our next training for 2/6/2020, which means that we need to have all assessments completed by 2/5/2020.  We will discuss more details about the assessments in PLT. Also, we will start an incentive program that will track hitting usage goals AND to highlight overall percentages of passing scores for each class.  The bulletin board for this program will revealed very soon!

Istation: It’s Istation MOY time!  This should be administered in a testing-friendly environment (quiet in the room, take a bathroom break before you start, etc).  We anticipate having enough adults in the room for your whole class to test at once instead of in small groups.  For some grades, testing will occur over several days.  You should have access to the testing schedule in your google drive (search for MOY Istation if you want to reference it). 

Upcoming Dates:

January 6 - School resumes
January 7 - PBIS & Wellness Committees meet @ 3:30
January 8 - Spelling Bee @ 8:30
January 9 - FCAE Meeting @ 3:30
January 13 - PTA Meeting @ 6:30
January 14 - ELA Check-In & EOQ Test (3rd - 5th grades)
January 14 - SIT @ 3:30
January 15 - Math Check-In & EOQ Test (3rd - 5th grades)
January 20 - MLK day (no school)

January 21 - Staff Meeting @ 3:30

January 22 - End of 2nd Quarter

January 23 - Workday (reserved for central office)

January 24 - Workday (conference day - reserved for schools)

January 27 - Jerry Yale @ PGE

January 28 - Elkins @ Principal's Meeting 8:00 - 3:00

January 28 - SCC & Media Committees @ 3:30
January 29 - Class Pictures
January 30 - Gardner @ AP Meeting 8:00 - 11:00, Elkins @ Principal's Meeting 12:00 - 3:00

January 31 - Reports cards due to Ms. True

January 31 - K-2 Parent Conferences completed by this date
February 3 - Midyear PDPs due
February 4 - Science EOQ Check-In

February 4 - Jerry Yale @ PGE

February 4 - PBIS & Wellness @ 3:30

February 6 - Iready Training @ 3:30 (3-5 grades only)

February 7 - Report cards go home

February 10 - PTA Meeting @ 6:30

February 11 - Boosterthon Assemblies (3-5 @ 1:30, K-2 @ 2:10)

February 11 - Staff Meeting @ 3:30

February 12 - 19 - Boosterthon Pep Rallies during Specials

February 12 - Jerry Yale @ PGE

February 13 - Mary Starling @ 10:00 (5th grade only)

February 13 - FCAE Meeting @ 3:30

February 14 - 3-5 Parent Conferences completed by this date

February 18 - Elkins @ Principal's Meeting 8:00 - 3:00
February 18 - SIT @ 3:30

February 19 - Early Release Day

February 20 - Boosterthon Fun Run (times TBD)

As you prepare to return tomorrow, just remember this...