The Buzzness June 2

The Buzzness 

Calendar 5           5th Grade Trip to Lake Monacan  9:30 am -2:00 pm  (Rain date: June 6)              Fire Drill 8:15 (watching 2nd grade evacuation)              End Of Year sign-out sheets will be in your box   6           Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast Conference Room 8-10:00 am              PTO meeting 6pm 7           Team Leaders 2:45 8           MUD: Moving Up Day 5th 9:30 am Comm. Theater Rm/ Reception in Gym              Chik fil a  Lunch for Staff in Teachers Lounge                               Faculty Celebration 2:45 Library 9           Last day of school.  Early release at 11:30 am.   Parent Portal reopens.                Normal Specials schedule, 1st Grade Specials end at 11am.                Begin sending students to the cafeteria for a bag lunch, if needed, at 10:30.  26-30     Kindergarten Camp 9:00-11:30 am June 26 -July 14 Summer School

Specials Schedules during Moving Up Day - Thursday June 8th Homeroom Teachers Music will be out of sorts with their schedule on this day. We may need teachers to keep music classes in their classrooms and possibly P.E. if it rains. We will get a more definitive schedule to you by Tuesday.   Specials Teachers If you have a role in MUD and need coverage, please let us know asap.

Our new OA IV - Avis Key Introducing Avis Key, our new OA IV to take over for Marianne. Avis is currently an OA at Western Alb. H.S. and yes, she is somehow related to Mr. Key (I think they are still trying to figure that out). Avis is amazing and I will see if she can make it for our Faculty Celebration this Thursday. If you would  like to welcome her, you may email her at: akey@k12albemarle.org

Old Learning Resources If you have old learning resources such as textbooks, or old Investigations kits, you may start leaving them outside of your classroom doors in the evenings. Hold on to Investigations card kits they can be used with new Investigations..

Power Teacher - Teacher Trainers Dates All 3 of you have let me know they will be interested in this training. Now that the dates will be posted, I expect more of you will let me know. Here they are: Mon July 24 Weds July 26 Fri Aug 4 Mon Aug 7 Once you are selected, DART will send out more info.

Investigations Update Here is a link for your team to fill in Investigations materials needed for the upcoming year. We will need this by next Friday. https://docs.google.com/a/k12albemarle.org/spreadsheets/d/19RNXKbuBA1JvxD5b-Z--kcQbULX5MLP5K9WzNh9mpqk/edit?usp=sharing Included in the most recent Division Compass is an interest form for division summer work teams, including an Investigations work team. If interested, here you go: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScl4A27fGO-JWZ6DInW0hV6JCfPvAjwkwBL_EFWhqxHnYnZ2Q/viewform?c=0&w=1 The Math Vertical Team will meet this Thursday after our Faculty Celebration. We will share out planning outcomes as soon as we are done.

 

Library Checkout Here is info that was sent to Team Leaders by Anne James earlier today. This will be a check-off on the EOY sign-out sheets. Directions for Technology Collection 2017 Tech Collection Sign-ups

Bad and Good Tech News Bad News - So I just received the final word today, that we will not be able to keep a “classroom” computer to run Pro Boards and such. Good News - We are getting the news in enough time to start planning for it.

May 30, Buzzness

The Buzzness 

Calendar May 30           4th Camp Albemarle rain date Fiddner Foreman Sullivan 31           K  Author Share: 9:30 McCart/Campb,  11am Sprad/Whit, 1pm Davis June               1             SOL - 5th Science                1st Grade Author Share  12:45 – 1:30 pm                Faculty Meeting 2:45 Library Student Progress Celebration 2             Field Day   (Rain date: June 7) 5             5th Grade Trip to Lake Monacan  9:30 am -2:00 pm  (Rain date: June 6)                Fire Drill 8:15 (watching 2nd grade evacuation) 6             Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast Conference Room 8-10:00 am                PTO meeting 6pm 7             Team Leaders 2:45 8             MUD: Moving Up Day Ceremony for 5th Grade 9:30 am                Faculty Celebration 2:45 Library 9             Last day of school.  Early release at 11:30 am.   Parent Portal reopens.       26-30     Kindergarten Camp 9:00-11:30 am June 26 -July 14 Summer School

Field Day Schedule The weather looks to be dry leading up to field day and hopefully any rain will hold off until Saturday. Bees, let your team leader know if you foresee an issue with this schedule. We can adjust it as needed. This was adopted from last year. Field day - Friday June 2nd Grades K-2     9-11am Grades 3-5     12-2pm Lunch All classes, except 1st grade, will eat in their classrooms on Tuesday, Field Day. Here’s the schedule for getting lunch from the cafeteria: 11:00 – 3rd Grade 11:15 – 4th Grade 11:30 – 5th Grade 11:50 – 2nd Grade 12:05 and other regular times per class – 1st Grade 12:35 – Kindergarten Teams coordinate plans for transition.

New Power Teacher Pro Roll Out - Trainers needed Mark Leach and the Student Information Support Team have been piloting a new Power Teacher Pro version, within our division, this year and they are ready to train a Brownsville Team of teachers for a 2017 -18 school year implementation. If you are interested, let Jason know and he will get a summer date to you as soon as possible.

  

No Teacher Desk Challenge Go on and google it...the benefits of more space in your classroom for students are clear. Will you take the challenge? Do you know someone who already has?

 

Tech that’s Leaving the Building Here is a message from Chris: Please have staff backup any data if needed from these machines before leaving for the summer. Recycling White MacBooks Silver iMacs (I have a laptop I’ll be updating with Windows 10 can use at Circ Desk Anne) Chubby Lenovos (x131e) (the 4th grade Chubbys are to be replaced for next year) EDEP (Afterschool) Dell Desktop in office (I have a laptop I’ll be updating with Windows 10 for this office) Thank you – Chris

 

Last Day of School Schedule Bee on the lookout for a last day of school schedule.We are currently accepting suggestions. When asked if we have a half-day schedule on file, Freda said, “We haven’t had one in a long time”.  We will definitely start having students who ordered a lunch, to go get them around 10:30am. We are anticipating about 30 students.

May 19, 2018 Buzzness

The Buzzness

Calendar 23           1st Grade Music Performance  6:00 pm / 1:25pm 2nd attends 25           Kindergarten Music Performance  6:00 pm / 1:25pm 3rd attends                Admin / Grade level class roster Meetings 29           Memorial Day Holiday - No school for students or students 30           4th Camp Albemarle rain date Fiddner Foreman Sullivan 31           K  Author Share: 9:30 McCart/Campb,  11am Sprad/Whit, 1pm Davis June               1              1st Grade Author Share  12:45 – 1:30 pm                 Faculty Meeting 2:45 Library Student Progress Celebration 2              Field Day    (Rain date: June 7) 5              5th Grade Trip to Lake Monacan  9:30 am -2:00 pm  (Rain date: June 6)                 Fire Drill 8:15 (watching 2nd grade evacuation) 6              Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast Conference Room 8-10:00 am                 PTO meeting 6pm 7             Team Leaders 2:45 8              MUD: Moving Up Day Ceremony for 5th Grade 9:30 am                 Faculty Celebration 2:45 Library 9              Last day of school.  Early release at 11:30 am.   Parent Portal reopens.                 26-30     Kindergarten Camp 9:00-11:30 am June 26 -July 14 Summer School

Ms. Alexander After taking this year off as our PALS instructor, we heard from Linda Alexander last week and received the news that she will not be returning next year. If you would like to wish her well, you may contact her at: linalexa1001@gmail.com We will definitely invite her back for our end of year celebrations.

Our last 2:45 Thursday’s to meet Thursday May 25 - Grade Level Team Meeting: Teacher Roster Assignments     2:45pm 1st and 2nd     3:10pm 3rd and 4th     3:40pm 5th           ( Bee diligent to only use these 20 minutes given to think about next         year’s kids. This year’s kids need you these next 3 weeks ) Thursday June 1 - School Improvement Assessment     Mountain Climber progress completion     SIP Strategies Assessment     Student Progress Celebration Thursday June 8 - End of Year Faculty Celebration 2:45 - 3:30     Service awards     PD Achievements     Welcomes     Farewells

End of Year Activities As we begin to wrap up the year, keep in mind that the more engaged students are in the activities we plan the better, it also keeps us more watchful as we enjoy participating with students as well. Structured fun - Whether it is indoor or out, provide parameters that keep students focused on a task. Free choice for too long can lead students to get bored and begin to think of unsafe behaviors. Movies - Reminder that you need admin permission to show full length films. Films should be reviewed for content, have strong connections to content,and with parent notifications for PG movies that explain tricky scenes in the movies. Common Sense Media is a good source of for classroom movie appropriateness. Here is an excerpt of this policy. We will be sure to update the staff handbook to reflect these requirements. Resources used by students under the guidance of teachers to extend, expand, and supplement basal materials constitute an integral part of the instructional program.  Resources selected for instructional use must relate directly to the established essential understandings,knowledge and skills of the Curriculum Framework content area in which they are used. Professional staff, to include teachers and library/media specialists, must carefully review materials prior to use and exercise a high degree of professional judgment in their selection and use of learning resources, to ensure that the use of such resources serves to both support and complement the basic instructional objectives within the specific subject areas and classrooms.

End of Year Library Message: While all student library books aren’t due until next Friday, we are hoping to print overdue notices later today. Please send down to the library any lingering books in your classroom collection baskets. Thanks! Anne Squared

Last Day School Lunch We will serve school on the last day of school beginning at 10:30. Grade Level Teams will send students to the cafeteria if they want a bagged lunch in the usual grade level order, with admin facilitating. Eating will be done in classrooms. Teachers get ready! Families will begin sending you notes or emails about whether they want their student to receive a bag lunch. A message will go out this Monday and Tuesday to remind parents. Paper notices will go to families that have requested. Teachers, bee sure to check with families they may not attend to this message. Gwen, our cafeteria manager, needs orders by Friday May 26. No worries, she will order extras. Team Leaders have to eat the leftovers.

End of Year Check Out Attached is a DRAFT end of year check off sheet. If you see anything missing or you think it needs an adjustment, let us know. Anne, Jason and Nancy are working with Chris Kierwa to develop a tech turn in plan. We will get that out as soon as possible.

Investigations Update Much is going on, but we are still feeling the excitement about investigations. Currently we have at least 1 Kit for each grade level in case you need to take a look. We will bee sure to have a kit for each teacher before school starts next year. Keep an eye out for a survey to help us figure what we need to order to make sure classrooms have all the materials they will need for full implementation. If you want to start looking at what is suggested, find your grade level kit, look at the first 5 or so pages for the list of manipulatives. Your math vertical team member can help with this. Analisa Herring Anne Whitlock Erica McLaughlin Kristen Hunter Victoria Chernauskas Nancy Fiddner Karen Morris