Let's kick off our theme of "We're going to College" by encouraging students to wear the colors of your grade level's adopted university. It will be really cool to see students in color groups more and more as the year progresses!
Also, be ready to bring your class's Responsibility Mind Map to the your grade level's assembly this Friday! Stay tuned for how we will incorporate the Mind Maps into the program!
Monday Morning Cheer 8:00 in the Gym!
Thank you for:
- all of your hard work preparing for Back to School Night! We had a gym full of parents! Thank you for communicating this event in your newsletters and with your students.
- the fantastic and beautifully written and illustrated "We Are" poems from each team. Remember to point those out to your students.
- greeting students at the door
- monitoring the hallways during transitions
- walking your students to/from specialists and recess
- reinforcing common area expectations: 4-point line, silent hello/wave, quiet voices, walking to the right
- walking your students to the bus loading and loop area
- alerting us at the office for any tardy and/or absence pattern you're already noticing with specific students
- remembering to sign-out when you leave the campus
Thank you for completing the following: (If you haven't done so, please complete what applies to you as soon as possible)
- daily schedule using the building template provided and submitting it to LouAnn
- updating your yellow staff emergency information by connecting with LouAnn
Are you ready to...
tell/email Almai your grade level team's adopted university? This is first come, first serve. It means a university cannot be adopted more than once. So if you want "first dib" in adopting your favorite university, let Almai know ASAP before another team grabs it. The office team (LouAnn, Christina and Melissa) has adopted University of Michigan, while the Administrative Team has adopted Washington State University (Go, Cougs!).
THIS WEEK:
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. - Individual Planning LIC
9/29 Wed. - Fall PTA Fundraiser Kick-off Assembly, 8:30-8:50 Primary, 9:00-9:20 Intermediate, Please be sure to be seated and ready to go right at the start time for your assembly. 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. 10/1 Fri. - Character Trait Assembly (Responsibility); included is the kick-off for our Wednesday Walking School Bus, 9:00-9:30 Intermediate (grade 6 with chairs), 10:00-10:30 Primary
OTHER THINGS TO NOTE:
Math Training Opportunity for Grades 3, 4, 5 on Sept. 29, Wed. (I LIC), 2-5, Ballou Commons
Why? To support you in implementing the (fairly new) Math Frameworks. Additionally, you will receive the following:
- 3 clock hours
- 3 hours pay
- class set of linear strips
- powerful strategies for using math visual models
The format of this workshop is "break-out sessions." Sign-up at https://staffdev.puyallup.k12.wa.us/StaffDev/class_info.php?CID=3592
Wednesday Walking School Bus - Teresa and Carie coordinated this last year and have expressed interest to continue their leadership in this initiative. There will be a flier to send home soon to re-introduce this practice to our families. This will be briefly re-introduced to our students during the Oct. 1st Character Trait Assembly. The first Wednesday Walking School Bus will be Oct. 13th, changed from last week's post, to coordinate it with the PTA Box Top Breakfast.
October 7th, Supplemental Day #4: Continuing our Student-led Conference/Navigation 101 Initiative. This day will be used as a school-wide conference for our families and the opportunity to roll-out our Navigation 101 initiative. Specialists will be participating in their own department's planned activity unless there is not one planned. If they don't have a department training, they are expected to be in the building that day with their posted schedule of when they can have families/parents drop by for questions or consult with other staff members. The schedule needs to be posted outside the specialist's office/room and provide a copy to the main office.
COMING-UP:
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. - Individual Planning LIC 9/29 Wed. - Fall PTA Fundraiser Kick-off Assembly, 8:30-8:50 Primary, 9:00-9:20 Intermediate, Please be sure to be seated and ready to go right at the start time for your assembly.
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.
10/1 Fri. - Character Trait Assembly (Responsibility); included is the kick-off for our Wednesday Walking School Bus, 9:00-9:30 Intermediate (grade 6 with chairs), 10:00-10:30 Primary
10/6 Wed. - PR LIC - Learning Teams Work
10/7 Thurs. - No School BUT School-wide Goal-setting Conferences/Roll -out the Navigation 101 Program to our families; Specialists post available time for questions and consult outside their office (provide copy to the office as well).
10/8 Fri. - No school, State Teacher Inservice Day
10/12 Tues. - Health Screening for certain grade levels
10/13 Wed. - CT LIC Grade Level Collaboration (Grades 4, 5, 6 will have a 50-minute training in FLASH, the newly adopted Sex Education curriculum, by Rick Wells, Director of Athletics and Health & Fitness, at Spinning library, beginning at 1:15 PM.)
10/13 Wed. - PTA Box Top Breakfast and our First Wednesday of Walking School Bus
10/14 Thurs. - PSD Diversity, 3:30, ESC Pioneer
10/19 Tues. - Individual Pictures (including staff)
10/19 Tues. - Staff Meeting, 3-4, Library
10/20 Wed. - EC/SS LIC (SS is job-alike collaboration for SpEd, Title, LAP)
10/20 Wed. - District Reading Cadre, 4-5:30, Shaw Road Library
10/21 Thurs. - PTA Skate Night, 6-9 PM, Tifanny's Skate Rink
10/25 Mon. - Safety Team, 7:40-8:15 AM, Nina's Room
10/26 Tues. - Char and Almai at Region 2 Nuts and Bolts, 7-8:30 AM, SHSB
10/27 Wed. - Individual Planning LIC
10/27 Wed. - Char and Almai at K-12 Principal Pro Dev (1-4 PM) and Administrative Meeting (4-5:15 PM) @ Mt. View Com. Ctr.
11/1 Mon. - PTA Book Fair begins (and lasts until the 5th)
11/3 Wed. - Evaluation and Conference LIC 11/4 Thurs. - PSD Diversity Committee Mtg., 3:30 PM, ESC Pioneer
11/4 Thurs. - PTA Reading Night (associated with PTA Book Fair), 5:30- 8:00 PM
11/5 Fri. - Character Trait Assembly: Trustworthiness, 9:00-9:30 4th-6th, 10:00-10:30 K-3rd
