Office Team Welcomes School Year 2010-2011 with a "spring on their steps"

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Welcome to the 2010-2011 School Year!

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." ~Henry Ford

Welcome back, Hawk Staff!
Most of you probably already heard either in person or via email the spectacular news---we met AYP in ALL cells! Thank you for all your hard work--- it definitely paid off. We know and believe that we'll do it again this year.


Help us welcome new members of the Hawk Team:

• Marlene Miller, 4th grade teacher
• Destiny Ostrander, PE teacher (starting-out as a guest staff, but may be assigned to us the rest of the school year to teach the three sixth grade PE sessions)
• Renae Green, Speech Language Pathologist
• Melanie Williamson, Library Para-educator (Welcome back, Melanie!)
• Melissa Parsons, office secretary
• James Pyette, evening maintenance operations

This week:
8/30, Mon. - Supplemental Day #1- see agenda below
8/30, Mon. - First Grade Testing, 4-7 PM
8/30, Mon. - Co-Op Family Orientation, 6 PM, gym
8/31, Tues. - Supplemental Day #2 - see agenda below
8/31, Tues. - Open House Meet & Greet, 4-6 PM, gym and classrooms
9/1, Wed. - Supplemental Day #3 a.k.a. 181st Day - see agenda below
9/2, Thurs. - First Day of School - Look-out for those bright-eyed Hawks "soaring" through the hallways!

Coming up:
9/6 Mon. - Labor Day - No school
9/7 Tues. - Char and Almai at Region 2 Puyallup Elementary Nuts and Bolts, 7:30-8:30 AM, SHSB
9/9 Thurs. - Char and Almai at Puyallup Elementary Principals (PEP) Training, 8-11 AM
9/14 Tues. - Kinder Curriculum Night, 6-7 PM, Rms. 24, 25
9/15 Wed. - Fair Day, Early Dismissal, no lunch service
9/15 Wed. - Stipend Applications due by end of the day to Almai (Put in Stipend Folder in her mailbox right on her door)
9/16 Thurs. - CSIP, 3-4 PM, Library
9/17 Fri. - Emergency Exit Bus Drill, 9:30 AM - remember to show the Bus Exit Drill video before the drill
9/20 Mon. - Fall DIBELS Assessement Week window by the District Reading Assessment Team and building Title I team
9/21 Tues. - Staff Meeting, 3-4 PM, Library
9/22 Wed. - Stipend Review Team Mtg., 3 PM, Room 7
9/22 Wed. - District Writing Cadre, 4-5:30 PM, Woodland Library
9/23 Thurs. - Grades 1 - 6 Curriculum Night, 6 - 7:30 PM
9/27 Mon. - Safety Team, 7:40 - 8:15 AM, Rm. 26
9/28 Tues. - Char and Almai at Region 2 K-12 Nuts and Bolts, 7 - 8:30 AM, Brouillet
9/29 Wed. - Char and Almai at K-12 Principal Pro Dev, 1:30 - 3:45, Mt. View Com. Ctr.
9/29 Wed. - Char and Almai at PSD Administrative Team, 4 - 5:15 PM, Mt. View Com. Ctr.

Aug. 30, Supplemental Day #1 Agenda
7:30 am registration at PHS: Erin Jones, Keynote Speaker to begin at 8:00 am
10:30 PHS session ends, make your way back to Firgrove
11:00 Come Together! Pizza lunch provided
11:45 Building session on Social Justice begins
3:30 Adjourn (see you in the morning at our modified start time of 10:30 am)
Please remember that tomorrow's lunch is only 30 minutes and on your own.
Sign up for these classes for clock hours if you haven't done so:
2010 August Firgrove Supplemental Days Training: https://staffdev.puyallup.k12.wa.us/StaffDev/class_info.php?CID=3537
2010 – 2011 Firgrove CSIP-based Professional Development: https://staffdev.puyallup.k12.wa.us/StaffDev/class_info.php?CID=3544

“We will come together, learn together, and labor together to ensure all students can access their path to success.”

Aug. 31, Supplemental Day #2 Agenda
10:30 Welcome! Coffee and Pastries
10:50 Building Data: Celebrations and Next Steps
12:00 Lunch (on your own)
12:30 - 1:30 Building Management Systems - Schedules, Budget, Handbook and Nuts and Bolts
1:30 - 4:00 HR Required On-line Training - your password is your employee number with the capital letter E in front (example: E123456) http://puyallup.wa.safeschools.com/login
4:00 - 6:00 Meet and Greet Open House

“We will come together, learn together, and labor together to ensure all students can access their path to success.”

Sept. 1, Supplemental Day #3 Agenda (Classified Staff Also Comes at 8AM)8:00 Building Management Systems Continued
9:45 Powerful Instructional Strategies Part I: GLAD
10:30 Team Collaboration Time
11:30 PTA Fiesta Lunch (Thank you, PTA!)
12:30 Learning Teams and School Improvement Initiatives
1:30 Adjourn (the remaining 2 hours will be set aside for our Back to School Night on Thursday, September 23rd)

“We will come together, learn together, and labor together to ensure all students can access their path to success.”

New Information regarding our 2010-2011 Bell Schedule: Our school district needed to make adjustments on the bell schedules to ensure that all students arrive on time. The only impact it has on Firgrove is the Wednesday schedule. The other days of the week's bell schedule is still the same as last year's. Below is the schedule for your reference.
Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri:

• Bus Arrival @ 8:10
• Warning Bell @ 8:20
• Tardy Bell @ 8:25
• KAM Dismissal @ 11:03
• KPM Bus Arrival and Warning Bell @ 12:03
• Tardy Bell @ 12:08

Early Release Wed: (Please help us publicize this to our parents and guardians.)

• Bus Arrival @ 8:00
• Warning Bell @8:10
• Tardy Bell @ 8:15
• Dismissal @ 11:51 KAM and KPM will continue to alternate attending school on Wednesdays.

Two Items to Note From the Information Technology Center (aka ITC)
TAC and eSchool+ Users
If you need help or have questions with TAC or eSchoolPLUS+, ITC would like to invite you to stop by during one of our open drop-in lab times. Our Student Systems staff will be on hand to offer assistance.

When: Wednesday, Sept. 1st 7:30AM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, Sept. 8th 7:30AM - 9:30AM and 12:30 - 3:30PM
Wednesday, Sept. 15th 7:30AM - 9:30AM and 12:30 - 3:30PM
Where: Information Technology Center (ITC) - Commons Training Room
ITC is located on S. Hill adjacent to the Warehouse & Food Service.
Who: Any PSD staff member who uses TAC or eSchoolPLUS+. Teachers - Please bring your laptop.

If a drop-in lab isn't convenient, please remember that you can contact the Help Desk by phone at x8600/option #4, or by email with eSchool or TAC in the subject line.
Phone Users in the Buildings: Critical Safety Information
If you need your phone moved from one wall jack to another (for example moving from one room to another), call or put in the work ticket to ITC Help Desk to request the move. Key reason to follow this: If a 9-1-1 call is made from a phone that has been moved without ITC's knowledge, the E911 system will provide incorrect location thereby delaying emergency help deployment.

It's time to "Saddle-up"

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Ready, set....go, Hawks!

This week:

8/23, Mon. - School Board, 6:30 PM, Ballou JH

8/25, Wed. - Registration begins 8/26, Thurs. - Mail postcards to families

8/26, Thurs. - Open GLAD lab for GLAD-trained teachers, 12:30 - 4:30 pm @ PSS Burgundy Room

Coming up:

8/30, Mon. - Supplemental Day #1- see agenda below

8/31, Tues. - Supplemental Day #2 - see agenda below

9/1, Wed. - Supplemental Day #3 a.k.a. 181st Day - see agenda below

9/2, Thurs. - First Day of School - Look-out for those bright-eyed Hawks "soaring" through the hallways!

Aug. 30, Supplemental Day #1 Agenda

• 7:30 am registration at PHS: Erin Jones, Keynote Speaker to begin at 8:00 am
  
• 10:30 PHS session ends, make your way back to Firgrove


• 11:00 Come Together! Building session on Social Justice begins
  
• 3:30 Adjourn (see you in the morning at our modified start time of 10:30 am)
  

“We will come together, learn together, and labor together to ensure all students can access their path to success.”

Aug. 31, Supplemental Day #2 Agenda

• 10:30 Welcome! Coffee and Pastries
  
• 10:50 Building Data: Celebrations and Next Steps
  
• 12:00 Lunch (on your own)
  
• 12:30 - 3:35 Nuts and Bolts: Staff Handbook and Systems - Master Schedule, Meeting Dates, Assemblies and Character Traits, Weekly Blog, Master Calendar, Staff Schedule Template, Evaluation and Observation, Discipline Referrals, Buddy Rooms, Lunch Service, Field Trip Procedures, Money handling (fundraisers, field trips, book orders), Supply budget, HR required trainings, Other
  
• 4:00-6:00 Firgrove Meet and Greet Open House
  

“We will come together, learn together, and labor together to ensure all students can access their path to success.”

Sept. 1, Supplemental Day #3 Agenda (Classified Staff Also Comes at 8AM)

• 8:00 Building Management Systems Continued


• 9:45 Powerful Instructional Strategies Part I: GLAD
  
• 10:30 Team Collaboration Time
• 11:30 PTA Fiesta Lunch


• 12:30 Committee Selection and School Improvement Initiatives
  
• 1:30 Adjourn (the remaining 2 hours will be set aside for our Back to School Night on Thursday, September 23rd)
  

“We will come together, learn together, and labor together to ensure all students can access their path to success.”

New Information regarding our 2010-2011 Bell Schedule: Our school district needed to make adjustments on the bell schedules to ensure that all students arrive on time. The only impact it has on Firgrove is the Wednesday schedule. The other days of the week's bell schedule is still the same as last year's. Below is the schedule for your reference.

Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri:

• Bus Arrival @ 8:10
• Warning Bell @ 8:20
• Tardy Bell @ 8:25
• KAM Dismissal @ 11:03
• KPM Bus Arrival and Warning Bell @ 12:03
• Tardy Bell @ 12:08
  

Early Release Wed:

• Bus Arrival @ 8:00
• Warning Bell @8:10
• Tardy Bell @ 8:15
• Dismissal @ 11:51 KAM and KPM will continue to alternate attending school on Wednesdays.

Gearing Up for 2010-2011

This week:

8/17-18, Tues - Wed - Char and Almai @ WWU Superintendent classes
8/18, Wed. - LouAnn back
8/19, Thurs. - Christina back
8/19, Thurs. - Char and Almai @ PSD Principals Conference, 8:30 - 4:30, Chief Leschi

Coming up:

8/23, Mond. - School Board, 6:30 PM, Ballou JH
8/25, Wed. - Registration begins
8/26, Thurs. - Mail postcards to families

8/26, Thurs. - Open GLAD lab for GLAD-trained teachers, 12:30 - 4:30 pm @ PSS Burgundy Rm.
8/30, Mon. - Supplemental Day #1- see agenda below
8/31, Tues. - Supplemental Day #2 - see agenda below
9/1, Wed. - Supplemental Day #3 a.k.a. 181st Day - see agenda below
9/2, Thurs. - First Day of School - Look-out for those bright-eyed Hawks "soaring" through the hallways!

Aug. 30, Supplemental Day #1 Agenda

• 7:30 am registration at PHS: Erin Jones, Keynote Speaker to begin at 8:00 am


• 10:30 PHS session ends, make your way back to Firgrove


• 11:00 Come Together! Building session on Social Justice begins


• 3:30 Adjourn (see you in the morning at our modified start time of 10:30 am)
  
  “We will come together, learn together, and labor together to ensure all students can access their path to success.”

Aug. 31, Supplemental Day #2 Agenda

• 10:30 Welcome! Coffee and Pastries


• 10:50 Building Data: Celebrations and Next Step
  
• 12:00 PTA Luncheon


• 1:00 Nuts and Bolts: Staff Handbook, Field Trip Procedures Money handling (fundraisers, field trips, book orders), Supply budget, HR required trainings, Other


• 4:0-6:00 Firgrove Meet and Greet Open House
  
  “We will come together, learn together, and labor together to ensure all students can access their path to success.”

Sept. 1, Supplemental Day #3 Agenda

• 8:00 Start: Powerful Instruction: Research and Strategies


• 10:00 Team Time


• 11:30 Lunch


• 12:00 Committee Selection and School Improvement Initiatives


• 1:30 Adjourn (the remaining 2 hours will be set aside for our Back to School Night on Thursday, September 23rd)
  
  “We will come together, learn together, and labor together to ensure all students can access their path to success.”
  
  
  New Information regarding our 2010-2011 Bell Schedule: Our school district needed to make adjustments on the bell schedules to ensure that all students arrive on time. The only impact it has on Firgrove is the Wednesday schedule. The other days of the week's bell schedule is still the same as last year's. Below is the schedule for your reference.
  
  Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri:
  Bus Arrival @ 8:10
  Warning Bell @ 8:20
  Tardy Bell @ 8:25
  KAM Dismissal @ 11:03
  KPM Bus Arrival and Warning Bell @ 12:03
  Tardy Bell @ 12:08
  
  Early Release Wed:
  Bus Arrival @ 8:00
  Warning Bell @8:10
  Tardy Bell @ 8:15
  Dismissal @ 11:51
  KAM and KPM will continue to alternate attending school on Wednesdays.

Second Week in August - How Time Flies

EPCOT...I never knew it wasn't a giant golf ball!

Seattle Children's Museum: So that's how the carabao (Philippine's animal symbol) came to have split hooves.

It seems it was only yesterday when this picture was taken as we waved goodbye to the 2009-2010 school year...

...now we're gearing up to say hello to the 2010-2011 school year!

This week:
8/9, Mon. - School Board, 6:30 @ Ballou JHComing up:
8/12, Thurs. - Char and Almai @ PSD Administrative Conference, 8:30 - 4:30 @ TYC

Coming up:
8/17-18, Tues - Wed - Char and Almai @ WWU Superintendent classes
8/18, Wed. - LouAnn back
8/19, Thurs. - Christina back
8/19, Thurs. - Char and Almai @ PSD Principals Conference, 8:30 - 4:30, Chief Leschi
8/23, Mon. - Building opens for staff desiring to come back (can be as early
as 8/21 if needed
School Board, 6:30 PM @ Ballou JH
8/25, Wed. - Registration begins
8/26, Thurs. - Mail postcards to families
8/30, Mon. - Supplemental Day #1- Cultural Compentency and Social Justice Training,
Session 1 @ PHS; Session 2 @ Firgrove
7:30 AM Registration begins at PHS, speaker begins promptly at 8:00 AM
10:00 AM leave PHS, 11:00 AM session 2 promtly begins @ Firgrove
8/31, Tues. - Supplemental Day #2 - Building Data and Nuts and Bolts; Open House
Day begins at 10:30 AM to accommodate Open House later in the day
Firgrove Open House, 4-6 pm
9/1, Wed. - Supplemental Day #3 a.k.a. 181st Day - School Initiatives and Powerful
Instruction, 8:30 - 3:30 @ Firgrove
9/2, Thurs. - First Day of School - Look-out for those bright-eyed Hawks "soaring" through the hallways!


New Information regarding our 2010-2011 Bell Schedule: Our school district needed to make adjustments on the bell schedules to ensure that all students arrive on time. The only impact it has on Firgrove is the Wednesday schedule. The other days of the week's bell schedule is still the same as last year's. Below is the schedule for your reference.


Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri:
Bus Arrival @ 8:10
Warning Bell @ 8:20
Tardy Bell @ 8:25
KAM Dismissal @ 11:03
KPM Bus Arrival and Warning Bell @ 12:03
Tardy Bell @ 12:08

Early Release Wed:
Bus Arrival @ 8:00
Warning Bell @8:10
Tardy Bell @ 8:15
Dismissal @ 11:51
KAM and KPM will continue to alternate attending school on Wednesdays.

Firgrove Elementary Hawk Happenings First and Test Blog Post

Firgrove Hawks Rock!

Welcome back, Firgrove staff! In keeping with our green initiative and the feedback we've received regarding weekly communication, we now have our blogsite. This is our first post, hence it is also the publishing and editing test post for our new staff weekly communication.

This Week:
8/2, Mon. - Begin full speed at work

8/5, Thurs. - Char and Almai create tasks list

8/6, Fri. - Char and Almai begin on tasks list

Coming up:

8/10, Mon. - School Board, 6:30 @ Ballou JH

8/12, Thurs. - PSD Administrative Conference, 8:30 - 4:30 @ TYC

8/17-18, Tues -Wed - Char and Almai @ WWU Superintendent classes

8/18, Wed. - LouAnn back

8/19, Thurs. - Christina back

8/19, Thurs. - Char and Almai @ PSD Principals Conference, 8:30 - 4:30, Chief Leschi

8/23, Mon. - Building opens for staff desiring to come back (can be as early
as 8/21 if needed)
School Board, 6:30 PM @ Ballou JH

8/25, Wed. - Registration begins

8/26, Thurs. - Mail postcards to families

8/30, Mon. - Supplemental Day #1- Cultural Compentency and Social Justice Training,

Session 1 @ PHS; Session 2 @ Firgrove

7:30 AM Registration begins at PHS, speaker begins promptly at 8:00 AM

10:00 AM leave PHS, 11:00 AM session 2 promtly begins @ Firgrove

8/31, Tues. - Supplemental Day #2 - Building Data and Nuts and Bolts; Open House

Day begins at 10:30 AM to accommodate Open House later in the day

Firgrove Open House, 4-6 pm

9/1, Wed. - Supplemental Day #3 a.k.a. 181st Day - School Initiatives and Powerful
Instruction, 8:30 - 3:30 @ Firgrove
9/2, Thurs. - First Day of School - Look-out for those bright-eyed Hawks "soaring" through the hallways!

New Information regarding our 2010-2011 Bell Schedule: Our school district needed to make adjustments on the bell schedules to ensure that all students arrive on time. The only impact it has on Firgrove is the Wednesday schedule. The other days of the week's bell schedule is still the same as last year's. Below is the schedule for your reference.

Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri:
Bus Arrival @ 8:10
Warning Bell @ 8:20
Tardy Bell @ 8:25
KAM Dismissal @ 11:03
KPM Bus Arrival and Warning Bell @ 12:03
Tardy Bell @ 12:08

Early Release Wed:
Bus Arrival @ 8:00
Warning Bell @8:10
Tardy Bell @ 8:15
Dismissal @ 11:51
KAM and KPM will continue to alternate attending school on Wednesdays.

For the Krause and Idler families: Summer fun is...

Diving for sand dollars with Frank and Fran

Duck Tours of Seattle on a sunny day with Maddy, Jared and Alex