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Thank you...
...teachers for coming prepared to your Advisory sessions last week. It allowed each thirty-minute session to be meaningful and focused on discussing the needs of each student we discussed and in the identification of the next step for each of them. Also, thank you for some of you who have taken the time to share that you found the suggestions given during Advisory to be very useful, meaningful yet easy enough to implement.
...teachers who already began entering their DIBELS Progress Monitoring data into the DIBELS Data Management System.
Reminders of the Week:
Please begin follow-up on the following suggestions that apply to you per your own session during Advisory:
- fluency opportunities built-in the literacy block choosing from these materials: Read Naturally, Six-Minute Solution, OC Passages. See Bobbi or Cecilia or Almai or Lisa if you need help acquiring your chosen materials
- Fry Words Mastery opportunities built-in the literacy block. See Lisa or Almai if you need (more) ideas on how to provide these opportunities
- Use of MSP Reading Stems and Templates to power-up our students' comprehension skills and strategies. Get one of the bookmarks on Almai's box that has some of these stemps. The stems documents will be available by Tuesday, Nov. 1st, in this shared folder: Y/FIR/FACULTY/Reading/MSP Stems
This week:
10/28-11/4 - PTA Fall Book Fair, Portable 39
10/31 Mon. - Monday Tech Madness, 3-3:20, Library; Focus: SMARTBOARD features
- Zumba, 3:30-4:30, Gym
11/1 Tues. - Zumba, 3:30-4:30, Gym
- Adult ELL Classes, 6-7:30, P38
11/2 Wed. - Evaluation/Conference LIC
- Zumba, 3:30-4:30, Gym
11/3 Thurs. - Evening Parent-Teacher Conferences
- Zumba, 3:30-4:30, gym
- Adult ELL Classes, 6-7:30, P38
11/4 Fri. - Zumba, 3:30-4:30, Gym
Coming up:
11/7 Mon. - Monday Tech Madness, 3-3:20, Library; Focus: SMARTBOARD features
- Zumba, 3:30-4:30, gym
11/8 Tues. - Safety Team Meeting, 7:40-8:10, Conference Room
- Veteran's Day Assembly, 9-9:45, Gym
- Zumba, 3:30-4:30, gym
- Adult ELL Classes, 6-7:30, P38
11/9 Wed. - Evaluation/Conference LIC
- Zumba, 3:00-4:00, gym
11/10 Thurs. - CSIP, 3-4, Library
- Lisa and Almai at PEP and then to Region 2 Meeting, 8:30-11:30, ESC
- Firgrove Literacy Night "Bananas for Books" Theme
- Zumba, 3:30-4:30, gym
- Adult ELL Classes, 6-7:30, P38
11/11 Fri. - No School/Veteran's Day
11/14 Mon. Monday Tech Madness, 3-3:20, Library; Focus: SMARTBOARD features
- Zumba, 3:30-4:30, gym
11/15 Tues. - Staff Meeting, 3-4, Library
- Zumba, 4:00-5:00, gym
- Adult ELL Classes, 6-7:30, P38
11/16 Wed. - Evaluation/Conference LIC
- Thanksgiving Themed Staff Luncheon, 12:00, Staff Room
- Zumba, 3:00-4:00, gym
11/17 Thurs. - Almai at Required Student Services Meeting, 8-10, ESC
- Zumba, 3:30-4:30, gym
- Adult ELL Classes, 6-7:30, P38
11/18 Fri. - Living the Creed Awards Assembly; 9:00 Intermediate (sixth graders on chairs during separate assemblies so please be early enough for students to get chairs off the rack and be ready to go by the start time); 10:00 Primary
- Zumba, 3:15-4:15, gym
Other BIG Events to Note in Calendar/Planbook:
11/22 Tues. - Individual Student Picture Retake
11/23-24 - Thanksgiving Break
12/19-30 - Winter Break
2/10 Fri. - Grandparent's Day Lunch
REPOST:
From District Communications Regarding 2011-2012 Winter Break
Winter break is scheduled for Monday, December 19, 2011- Friday, December 30, 2011. December 23, 26, 29 and 30 are designated holidays for full year employees.
To accommodate the plans of many employees, the District central offices will be closed to the public from December 26-30.
To account for hours on regular work days during this time (December 27 and 28), District central office full year employees may choose from the following:
- use vacation hours for work time they choose not to work, or
- use pre-approved, accumulated compensatory hours for work time they choose not to work, or
- work their normal hours on items not related to dealing with "customers." While the building will be "closed", individual employees may elect to report to work during normal work hours.
