Thursday, March 8, 2012

What a glorious day already!  Our first graders are headed to the zoo.  Dr. Madison will chaperone, thank you Dr. Madison.  Tonite is Family Math Night for the third graders.  Dinner will be provided for the students and their parents compliments of Home Moravian Church.  They are so supportive. This is an excellent opportunity for our students and their parents to "practice" math! Way to go third grade team for increasing our parent involvement. Tomorrow morning, we will have our monthly Instructional Coaches Meeting.  Our Asst. Superintendents will be here. Tomorrow will be Hospitality Lunch and Mr. Gale's last day.  We are sad to see him go but he has a new grandaughter in his future and will be extremely busy and happy!!!  Teachers, don't forget to complete your student surveys (4-5) with your students and turn them in.  Also, complete your teacher survey.  They are very important.  In planning for next week, we will have another short picture day for those students that wish to purchase individual pictures.  We will send out an Alert Now Message for parents and Cheryl will get a schedule to you.  Thank you for all who have turned in your PEP Documentation Form.  Everyone else, don't forget to get yours to me:)

Today is International Women's Day.  We honor and respect all of our incredible women.

Wednesday, March 7th

Important: We have had a water leak outside my office between the two buildings.  There is no water in bldg. B this morning.  Ther workman have been here since 6:30.  We hope to have this resolved today.  In the meantime, use bathrooms by media and art centers.  Thank you for your understanding.  Please reiterate to the students that they need to be very frugal with soap, paper towels and toilet tissue.  I have just placed an order and we are very low.  Our budget has already been spent.  Please supervise.

TORNADO DRILL this morning at 9:30. Review directions again with students.

As part of our TITLE I Needs Assessment, we are sending out surveys to 4th and 5th grade students.  Please take some time to explain survey to students and let them fill them out in class.  You might want to do them together. Collect them and when completed, put your name on them and then put them in my box outside of my door.  The parent surveys will go home next Tuesday. Collect them as they come in.  Please fill out the teacher surveys as honestly as you possibly can and return those to my box as well. They can be anonymous:)  Thank you for all you do.  You are the best!

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Good Morning!  Thank you to all grade levels who have turned in their CWT-Action Plans.  I appreciate you.  If your grade level has not turned that in, I would like them asap.  Last call. 5th graders will be going to the Mary Starling Concert this morning. Mrs. Dobson will also go along.  Please practice tornado drills with your students today in preparation for tomorrow's state wide drill at 9:30.  Please remind them that they should be on a zero talking level during  the drill for safety sake.  As you know, there have been tornados all around us and we need to be prepared to keep everyone safe. Cheryl will begin half days (am) this week beginning tomorrow.  Third Grade will have a Family Math night this Thursday night from 5:30-7:00.  Several of you have asked about taking an annual day on the 30th.  Kindergarten does have a 1/2 day common core training but barring "no snow", beforehand, it will be a RS day and you can take leave if you have it. Yeah! MRS. KENNEDY will have a sign up sheet for you to state your intentions for that day. I attended the AIG Steering committee yesterday.  No real news as of yet.  We are still working on details. Have a wonderful day and thanks for all you do.

PEP Information

Above, I mentioned that an attestation about DL completing PEPs was to be sent to Steve.  I will do that part.  If for some reason there are some you have that are not complete, get that info. to me asap.  Thanks:)

Monday, March 5th, 2012

Good Morning and Happy Monday.  I wanted to pass along some information to from our Assistant Superintendent. In order to fulfill DPI requirements I need an email from each of you stating that all students requiring PEPs indeed have a PEP.  Please send the email to the attention of Sarah as she will document all have been received. This document will stay on file in my office.  This documentation is to support a similar verification that is required of the Superintendent. Please make sure that ALL of your PDPs have been done and are complete to this point.  We will be checking. If you are having trouble getting a parent in to sign one, arrange with Mr. Madison to get an appointment set up so that he may try to contact them or provide transportation.  It is your responsibility to make sure the PEP is a working document. I know many of you have already completed these and have written one for everyone who needs one.  Please stay on top of this.  If there are problems, please see me at once.

Also, from Steve:
Please review with your staffs the proper protocol for children getting physically hurt at school. My basic rule of thumb is that at a minimum, if a child is in enough physical discomfort to complain to the teacher the parent needs to be notified. Not necessarily to come pick up the child but as an alert for the parents.
I believe we at DL do a pretty good job at this so let's continue to do so.  Document injury or illness, send child to the office, if it is an accident, be sure to fill out accident report. Call parent.

I have LEA training/ refresher at the end of the day.
Welcome Back Mrs. Crookshank!  Danielle will work with her during reading workshop and math to ease the transition this week.
Mrs. Frazier will be back 1/2 days starting Wednesday morning, and full time on Monday.  Friday will be Mr. Gale's last day.  He has been an incredible asset to our team and will be missed very much.

The program on Friday afternoon was outstanding!  Thank you all for your dedication and hard work.

Friday, March 2, 2012

Happy Friday! It will be a very busy day.  You will see workers out by the playground today working on the flood plain area. We will have our faculty picture at 7:30 am sharp along with class pictures today.  Our photographer has let us know that students can take individual pictures but we were not sent the order forms for this.  A few parents did pre-pay this morning for individual pictures when they were informed.  Thank you so much to Amanda Gordon and her wonderful committee for all of their hard work in planning for today's Black History Celebration.  We will have many special guests including the Diggs sisters:).  I would also like to thank Judy and everyone that assisted her with Read Across America Day.  You all amaze me, you continuously go above and beyond.  Reminder that Juliette will be here on Monday, March 5th and the 12th for Imagine It Training with a focus on routines, etc...  You all had asked for extra training in this area. I hope that you all have a wonderful weekend.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Good Morning Faculty and Staff!  Happy Thursday.  We would like to welcome Cassandra's cohort and administration to our school today.  We will be giving them a brief overview of our program.  They will be here until 11:30 or so in room 200.  Thank you SIT Members for your hard work and dedication during yesterday's SIT meeting.  Reviewing the feedback from the Star 3 team was very informative.  I am impressed that you have taken such ownership of our school plan.  Working together as a team is crucial to our success.  If your grade level has not turned in your CWT Action Plan yet, please do so asap. Have a great day!