Apple Treats & Jeans!
It's been a wonderful FULL week of learning! Teams are nearing completion of W&W M1 to prepare for mini-units before the start of W&W M2. Math units are also coming to a close for the start of new units. In reading small groups, continue to plan intentional STEPS lessons - addressing every STEP, every day! Next week, our 5th grade students and several support staff (including Mandy, Lindsay, Katy, Anna, and Carrie) will be on the annual Blue Ridge overnight trip - Fall edition. Please reach out to Christina, Carla, or T'Shunta if you have any needs that would have been met by Mandy, Lindsay, Katy, or Carrie!
Before we welcome Fall Break and Autumn, let's bring on all the apple treats & and jeans with a mid-week celebration!
Wednesday - Apple Pies & Jeans!
Thursday - Apple Nacho Bar & Jeans!
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UPCOMING PLCs
There are several PLC/MTSS schedule shifts and changes in the upcoming weeks due to field trips, coordination of district staff, etc. Please notate when your team will have PLCs over the next few weeks.
- 9/16 (K-4th Grade) - Conference Week Prep & GRS Training w/ Herman
- 9/17 (3rd & 4th Grade) - Bridge Unit Overview w/ Kany
- 9/18 (5th Grade) - Conference Week Prep & GRS Training w/ Herman
- 9/18 (K-2nd Grade) - Team MTSS Meetings w/ Compton + Counselors
- 9/30 (K-2nd Grade) - SBRC ELA Revision Training w/ Kany
- 9/30 (4th Grade) - Number Sense, Pt. 1
- 9/30 (5th Grade) - Bridge Unit Overview w/ Kany
- 10/2 (3rd-5th Grade) - Team MTSS Meetings w/ Compton + Counselors
- 10/7 & 10/8 - SOR PLCs
- 10/14 - Conference Week! NO PLCs
- Sub coverage has been arranged for you! You can view sub assignments HERE.
- All teachers should ensure sub plans are complete.
- Team Leaders will create agenda to submit to admin by 9/18. Time should be reserved for Reading/ELA and math planning only.
- Teams should meet in Katy's office to leave conference rooms available for meetings.
TKES WALKS
- NO TD, Media Literacy, or whole class Counseling during conference week
- All reading small groups should continue
- Pull-out math small groups for 1st & 4th grade are unable to continue, but in-class small group should carry on
- SOR Walks: SOR Facilitator will be on campus 9/29-10/1 for SOR walks. All teachers scheduled to be visited will receive an email from Katy by 9/19, along with the observation rubric.
- SOR PLCs: SOR Facilitator will be on campus 10/6-10/9 for PD and coaching support. SOR PLCs are scheduled for 10/7 and 10/8.
Do your lessons activate prior knowledge to build new background knowledge and content vocabulary?
How often do you revisit the purpose of reading throughout the lesson (before, during, and after reading)?
Have you explicitly introduced or reviewed text structure when working with text?
Do students use or teachers model use graphic organizers to organize narrative text (character/setting, initiating event, internal response, plan, actions/attempts, consequence/resolution)? K-2 teachers: Story Grammar Marker
Do students use or teachers model with graphic organizers to organize information from expository text?
Do your lessons purposefully support the construction of a mental model by engaging students in conversation about the content and help students communicate what they learned?
Are TWR strategies used daily to support sentence level writing?
It’s finally that time! Microsoft is ending their support for Windows 10 requiring our laptops to migrate over to Windows 11 for security. If your laptop was given to you after June 2025, it already has Windows 11. Look for my email on Monday to choose an appointment time between September 16th and November 3rd.
Some of you will receive a notification indicating your laptop does not have enough storage available for the update. Mine is definitely in that group! If so, you will need to move unnecessary files to a thumb drive or upload them to Google Drive. Pictures and videos take up the most space, Fyi. Please get started! Thanks!
For you techies out there, our update will take up to 50
GB of free space remaining in Disk C.
Look in File Explorer
> This PC >
- 9/18 - GF-24 DUE (if applicable)
- 10/24 – Last day for TD Session 1 (TD Session 2 begins
in January)
- 10/27-11/14 – NO MILE, due to gifted testing
- 10/27-11/20 – Fall Gifted Testing
- 11/3 – GRS DUE
- 11/17 – MILE Resumes
- mid-December – MSO DUE
Making progress on Q1 standards should be a priority, using formative assessments to monitor mastery of skills/expectations. Instructional goals for the next two weeks:
- Well-planned whole group lessons aligned to pacing (phonics/morphology, Reading/ELA, & Math)
- Data-driven small group instruction for re-teaching or extension, provided daily in reading and math
- Maintaining high expectations for students
- Text both Carla and Lindsay.
- Fill out Employee Leave Yellow form (DIGITAL FORM HERE).
- Complete absence in Kelly/Frontline.
- 9/15-9/17 - 5th Grade Blue Ridge FT
- 9/15-9/16 - 4th Grade FT
- 9/16 - PLCs
- 9/17 - Faculty Meeting
- 9/18 - Dress Down Day
- 9/18 - MTSS Meeting
- 9/18 - Kinder & 2nd Grade 1/2-day Planning
- 9/19 - 3rd & 1st Grade 1/2-day Planning
- 9/19 - Kinder FT
- 9/22-9/26 - Fall Break, whoohoo!
- 9/29-10/1 - SOR Facilitator on campus (SOR Walks)
- 9/30 - PLCs
- 9/30 - 4th Grade FT (MHS Pathways)
- 10/1 - 5th grade 1/2-day planning
- 10/1 - Leadership Meeting
- 10/2 - P2P Series The 3-5 Hive
- 10/2 - 5th Grade FT (MHS Pathways)
- 10/2 - 4th grade 1/2-day planning
- 10/6-10/9 - SOR Facilitator on Campus
- 10/6 & 10/7 - 4th FT (Youth Museum)
- 10/8 - 5th Grade FT
- 10/8 - Vertical Teams
- 10/10 - MHS HOCO!
- 10/9 - Fall Picture Day
- 10/13-10/17 - Conference Week, dismissal at 1:10 PM
- 10/16 - Q1 Report Cards Published
- 10/16 - Fall Festival!
- 10/16 - Admin Lunch & Learn
- 10/21 - PLCs
- 10/22 - Faculty Meeting
- 10/23 - Dress Down Day
- 10/24 - 2nd Grade in-house FT
- 10/27-10/31 - Red Ribbon Week
- 10/27 - 3rd Grade FT (Tellus)
- 10/28 - PLCs
- 10/29 - Leadership Meeting
- 10/30 - MTSS
- 10/31 - CCYA PJ Day!
- 10/31 - 1st Grade FT (Petit Creek Farm)
- 10/31 - Kinder FT (Sleepy Hollow)
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