Week of 3/7 - 3/11

Hey Panda Family,

What an awesome week! With your help we raised over $26,000 for our school. We will be able to get all the advertised items plus some additional surprises that PTA has planned 😊 Thank you so much for supporting Boosterthon and your class's participation through the entirety of the program. I look forward to getting duct taped to the wall! 😬

Here are the Weekly Wrap updates for this week:

Staff Meeting: We will have our monthly staff meeting this Tuesday, March 15 at 3:30 in the Media Center. Here is the agenda:

• Positives/Good News
• Draw Duck Prizes
• AIG Financial
• Lunch in the Cafeteria
• Step Challenge (Ms. Fox)
• Instructional Round Data Update
• Allotment Update for 2022-2023
• Teacher Working Condition Survey (Certified Staff Only)

Teacher Intent Form (Certified Staff): The Teacher Intent Form will close this Friday, March 18. Please make sure to complete it. You should have received an email from district with information. 

PLTs: We will have regularly scheduled PLTs this week. I look forward to working with you! 

District OSHA Visit: Our district representative for OSHA will visit on Tuesday, March 15.  Please make sure your back door is not blocked (6 squares). 

3^rd Quarter Check-ins: Testing will occur March 16 & March 17. The 5th grade Science Check-In will occur later, during 4th Quarter. Please see the updated plans below.  

• Review the test plans linked below 
• Please pick up your testing materials from room 126 
  
• Students in pull out groups will return to their classrooms when they finish testing. 
  
• Elkins will run testing on Thursday, March 17 (Gardner at AP meeting) 
• Make-up testing will begin Friday, March 18.  Those students not receiving testing accommodations will test in in their homerooms/grade level. 

ELA

Math

Paw Store: Please see schedules linked below. 

March 23                           

March 24

March Drills: Fire and Lockdown.  Please review lockdown procedures before Friday, March 18. 

Media Center Updates (from Ms. Epperley): Please see the Media Center updates below.

Congratulations to our Reading Olympic Winners! 

2022 Winter Reading Olympics Results

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Miller	Sloan	Rinfrette
Musten	Keller	Finley
Wise	Rempe	Youtz
Laws	Vaden	Edwards
Jones	Sherrill	Laughlin
Adams	Brookshire	Corlett

Morning Announcements: Ms. Ceglowski will email out the Morning Announcement links. 

Shoutout: Shoutout to Ms. Mathis, her students, and the amazing coffee cart! 

Items From Previous Weeks

LETRS/Mental Health Trainings Coverage: In an effort to help provide certified staff with some extra time to complete the required district/state trainings we are going to offer Ms. Lloyd's assistance again for the spring semester. All certified teachers that have to complete LETRS/Mental Health Trainings may sign up for one 1/2 day on Ms. Lloyd's schedule to work on their coursework. This is how it will work:

• Pull up Ms. Lloyd's schedule here - Ms. Lloyd's Schedule
• Pick one 1/2 day that is available between now and the end of school
• Write your name and Trainings in the box - i.e. "Cox Trainings"
• Ms. Lloyd will cover your class for the 1/2 day that you sign up
• On your day, you will stay on campus and find a quiet space to work on your coursework
• Teacher workroom, Teacher lounge, etc. 
• If a Covid/Emergency Sub situation occurs and Ms. Lloyd must cancel, you will be able to pick another date and time
• This is optional, and is not required

Field Trip Fund: Please see below for information regarding field trip funds that have been provided to each school from the district. 

• We have an ESSER Field Trips allocation available this school year and next to support learning recovery efforts.  We have roughly $10,000 to spend between this year and next year.  
  
• Each grade level has about $1,600 to spend.  
• Certain field trips have already been approved by the district for these funds (see Gardner for specifics on if your field trip would meet requirements)

Please remember that on and off campus field trips must: 

• be standards aligned that either build background knowledge and/or allow students to participate in culminating learning experiences, 
• meet federal requirements of reasonable and necessary, and 
• include all students (no exclusions for behavior, missing assignments, etc.)  
• When you want to use this specific pot of money, please indicate it on your request. 

IF Updates

Need assistance while I am out?  Contact one of these wonderful folks: 

ELA- Kathryn Kear kakear@wsfcs.k12.nc.us

Math- Adrienne Egerton abegerton@wsfcs.k12.nc.us

Early Learning- Anna Crisp amcrisp@wsfcs.k12.nc.us 

MTSS- Robyn Varga rmvarga@wsfcs.k12.nc.us 

PLT- Mollie Jenkins mbjenkins@wsfcs.k12.nc.us 

AIG/CogAt/ITBS school-based questions- Teresa Sweeney tsweeney@wsfcs.k12.nc.us

Upcoming Dates:

March 14 - PTA Meeting @ 6:30

March 15 - Staff Meeting @ 3:30

March 16 - NC Check-Ins 3rd - 5th Grade

March 17 - NC Check-Ins 3rd - 5th Grade

March 17 - Leslie @ AP Meeting

March 18 - Teacher Intent Form closes

March 21 - Lunch in Cafeteria for all classes (more details to come)

March 22 - SCC & Wellness Committees @ 3:30

March 23 - Paw Store

March 24 - Paw Store

March 24 - End of 3rd Quarter

March 25 - Teacher Workday

March 30 - Report Cards due to Ms. True

PGES 2021-2022 Master Staff Calendar

Thank you to Ms. Harman for capturing this glamour shot! 😂

Week of 2/28 - 3/4

Hey Panda Family,

Get your running shoes ready! Our Fun Run is this week and we can't wait to see how many laps our students will run 🏃 Thank you for cheering your class on during their huddles as we work to raise funds for our school! Have fun with your kids this week! We hope to have a lot to celebrate 😊

Here are the Weekly Wrap updates for this week:

LETRS/Mental Health Trainings Coverage: In an effort to help provide certified staff with some extra time to complete the required district/state trainings we are going to offer Ms. Lloyd's assistance again for the spring semester. All certified teachers that have to complete LETRS/Mental Health Trainings may sign up for one 1/2 day on Ms. Lloyd's schedule to work on their coursework. This is how it will work:

• Pull up Ms. Lloyd's schedule here - Ms. Lloyd's Schedule
• Pick one 1/2 day that is available between now and the end of school
• Write your name and Trainings in the box - i.e. "Cox Trainings"
• Ms. Lloyd will cover your class for the 1/2 day that you sign up
• On your day, you will stay on campus and find a quiet space to work on your coursework
• Teacher workroom, Teacher lounge, etc. 
• If a Covid/Emergency Sub situation occurs and Ms. Lloyd must cancel, you will be able to pick another date and time
• This is optional, and is not required

MTSS Grade Level Meetings: We will not have scheduled PLTs this week (you will still have PLT coverage). Instead, all grade levels will have a scheduled time to meet with Ms. Balint, our MTSS Coordinator, to update and review plans. These MTSS grade level meetings will occur on Tuesday, March 8th during your Specials time. Here is the schedule:

March 8th MTSS Meetings

8:30 - 4th grade (Tall's room)

9:20 - 2nd grade (Howell's room)

10:10 - 1st grade (Harman's room)

11:00 - Kindergarten (Sloan's room)

12:00 - 5th grade (Medley's room)

1:30 - 3rd grade (Gant's room) 

Tornado Drill: The district-wide tornado drill will be this Wednesday. See details below. 

• District-wide tornado drill - Wednesday, March 9 @ 9:30.  
• 9:30 a.m.: a Tornado WATCH will be announced. Watches are called for an area when conditions exist for the formation of tornados, but no tornado has yet formed or been sighted. No action is required of employees during a watch.
  
• 9:45 a.m.: a Tornado WARNING will be announced. The Tornado Drill will start with this announcement. Warnings are called when a tornado has been sighted nearby. Accordingly, once the warning has been announced, employees are to move immediately to the nearest Tornado Shelter Areas designated for your school. For the purpose of this drill, employees will be asked to stay in the tornado Shelter Areas for five (5) minutes.

3^rd Quarter Check-ins: Testing will occur March 16 & March 17. The 5th grade Science Check-In will occur later, during 4th Quarter. Please see the updated plans below. 

ELA                 

Math

PBIS Updates: Please see below for PBIS updates. 

• The team discussed smartwatches and developed the statement we will share with parents. 
• Per the WS/FCS Student-Parent Handbook, all electronic communication devices should remain in student backpacks during regular school hours.
• We will share this in the March 11th parent message 

Paw Store: Please see schedules linked below. 

March 23                           

March 24

Boosterthon Updates:

• Please wear your Boosterthon shirt on Thursday, March 10
• Fun Run schedule
• 9:00-10:00  K and 1^st grade
• 10:10-11:10  2^nd and 3^rd grades
• 11:15-12:15  4^th grade
• 1:40-2:40  5^th grade 

• Regular specials
• Regular lunch EXCEPT- Ms. Adams, please go with Medley's class at 12:50
• You may want to encourage students to pack a lunch if possible 
• Use your Fun Run as recess for the day 

Field Trip Fund: Please see below for information regarding field trip funds that have been provided to each school from the district. 

• We have an ESSER Field Trips allocation available this school year and next to support learning recovery efforts.  We have roughly $10,000 to spend between this year and next year.  
  
• Each grade level has about $1,600 to spend.  
• Certain field trips have already been approved by the district for these funds (see Gardner for specifics on if your field trip would meet requirements)

Please remember that on and off campus field trips must: 

• be standards aligned that either build background knowledge and/or allow students to participate in culminating learning experiences, 
• meet federal requirements of reasonable and necessary, and 
• include all students (no exclusions for behavior, missing assignments, etc.)  
• When you want to use this specific pot of money, please indicate it on your request. 

Media Center Updates (from Ms. Epperley): Please see the Media Center updates below.

PGE Winter Reading Olympics - March 7 is turn in day!

K-2 students can turn in their forms to the media center.  The class with the most minutes will win a freezer pop party during media specials.  3-5 students will fill out a google form for the most pages read.  There will be Gold, Silver, Bronze and Honorable Mention Awards given to each class. 

Print Shop! If you need large items printed or special color printing, the print shop has a very quick turn around.  Go to the print shop orders on the WS/FCS employee links to submit your pdf for copying!

Please fill out this survey if you need a printer added to your laptop: Printer Survey

 

Morning Announcements: We will have old school intercom announcements tomorrow. Ms. Ceglowski will email out the student video announcement links for Tuesday - Friday. 

Shoutout: Shoutout to Ms. Adams class this week for completing their first debate! Her students did an amazing job! 

Shoutout to all K-2 teachers for completing Sound Wall training and working on their Sound Walls! We can't wait to see how these Sound Walls will help our youngest pandas become readers! 

Technology Updates

💡 NCTIES Follow-up: On Thursday and Friday of last week, I was at NCTIES in Raleigh. I attended some excellent sessions and cannot wait to start sharing some of the resources and strategies with you and your students. The highlight of the conference was having the opportunity to hear Gerry Brooks who was the opening keynote speaker. Trust me, he did not disappoint those who were in attendance. His motivational speech blended with some of his infamous videos was an inspiration to all. For a moment, he even tugged at my heart strings by inspiring me to go back to the classroom. I'll share more from his speech in the weeks ahead.

⚠️ Google Play Store: I just learned this past week that the district has blocked access to the Google Play Store until 2:30 pm each day. This information was passed along to me from Megan Mayo after Ms. Howell was trying to install a St. Patrick's Day wallpaper on her Promethean panel. So, if you need to install anything from the Play Store, you will need to do it at the end of the day rather than during the school day.

✅ Favorite Things: Please take a few moments to help me get to know you a little better by completing the Favorite Things survey! One thing that I learned from Gerry Brooks is that everyone needs to participate. So, I would like to see 100% participation in the completion of this survey. Thank you in advance for your responses!!!

IF Updates

Need assistance while I am out?  Contact one of these wonderful folks: 

ELA- Kathryn Kear kakear@wsfcs.k12.nc.us

Math- Adrienne Egerton abegerton@wsfcs.k12.nc.us

Early Learning- Anna Crisp amcrisp@wsfcs.k12.nc.us 

MTSS- Robyn Varga rmvarga@wsfcs.k12.nc.us 

PLT- Mollie Jenkins mbjenkins@wsfcs.k12.nc.us 

AIG/CogAt/ITBS school-based questions- Teresa Sweeney tsweeney@wsfcs.k12.nc.us

Upcoming Dates:

March 7 - 3rd Grade RTA Virtual Meeting for Parents @ 5:30

March 8 - MTSS Grade Level Meetings during planning times

March 8 - SIT @ 3:30

March 8 - PTA Spirit Night @ Elizabeth's Pizza in Walkertown

March 9 - Class Picture Retakes (only for select classes)

March 9 - Tornado Drill @ 9:30

March 10 - Boosterthon Fun-Run

March 14 - PTA Meeting @ 6:30

March 15 - Staff Meeting @ 3:30

March 16 - NC Check-Ins 3rd - 5th Grade

March 17 - NC Check-Ins 3rd - 5th Grade

March 23 - Paw Store

March 24 - Paw Store

March 24 - End of 3rd Quarter

PGES 2021-2022 Master Staff Calendar

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