Family News

Please place Lisa Oliver's daughter, Amber in your thoughts and prayers.  She is in the hospital.  

Please continue to lift up Rachelle Taylor and Mary Rountree's husband, Charles.

Welcome back to Angie Gulledge!

Weekly News

A Week

Class(es) of the Week:  Barker & LoPresti (3rd)

Please send a group of students to the office each day by 7:55 (with a post-it containing their first names)

PACE Character Trait:  Knowledge
Paine Power Word:  Delineate
Please utilize PowerPoint (from link on blog) to teacher Power Word.

Duty Schedule: Please refer to your duty schedule for this week to ensure all students are supervised. 

Wednesday Collaboration

Collaboration will be in the South building this week.  Please use our Google Classroom to provide a brief summary of your work.  Grades 2-5, please work on your Review Plan (for ACAP), including days, standards, Edulastic, etc.

Paine Leadership Team will meet Wednesday after school.

Thursday Afternoon Meeting

Precept Teams will not meet on Thursday so grades 2-5 can use that time to work on their Review Plan for ACAP.
Kindergarten & 1st Grade - Will work on math in the collaboration room.

PST Meetings

Tuesday, January 28th - 1st Grade

Thursday, January 30th - All other grades

Paine Pack

Please remember to get your Paine Pack "Favorite Book" notes to Ellen Ormond by the end of the day on Wednesday.

TAC Questions are due by February 3rd.

Paine GROWTH MINDSET Precepts this Week

M:  If you quit once it becomes a habit.  Never quit.  - Michael Jordon
T:   It's kind of fun to do the impossible! - Walt Disney
W:  Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid.  Courage means you don't let fear stop you. - Bethany Hamilton
T:   There is a difference between not knowing and not knowing yet. - Sheila Tobias
F:   Believe you can and you are halfway there! - Theodore Roosevelt

Important: Performance Series Express

Thank you to those who responded to the Performance Series Express survey.  As you know we took the Fall assessment late since Express was new.  Due to Christmas break, there has only been approximately one month of instruction since the last test.  Based on your input, Paine Elementary (as a whole) will not administer Performance Series Express again until the spring window opens.  At that time, we will administer the test similar to how we did in the Fall.

Important:  Since 35% wanted to go ahead and obtain this data, you may administer the winter test in your classroom if you would like.   Your students will still take the assessments again with our school in early March.  If you do decide to administer the tests now, please make sure they are completed by January 31st.  The Site ID for Paine Elementary School-Express is 88-4139-6527.
If you have any questions, please let us know.

Family News

Please keep Lori Phillip's mother in your thoughts and prayers (as well as the family).  She has been in the hospital since last week and is very ill.  

Also, please continue to lift Rachelle Taylor up in your thoughts and prayers.

Weekly News

B Week

No school on Monday due to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday.

Class(es) of the Week:  Cramer & Waites (4th)

Please send a group of students to the office each day by 7:55 (with a post-it containing their first names)

PACE Character Trait:  Knowledge
Paine Power Word:  Represent
Please utilize PowerPoint (from link on blog) to teacher Power Word.

Duty Schedule: Please refer to your duty schedule for this week to ensure all students are supervised. 

Mid Year Performance Series Testing

More information will follow in a subsequent post.  We are obtaining more details on testing options.

School Board Appreciation - Board Meeting Tuesday Night

Many of our Paine Performers will be performing a special song for our Board on Tuesday night at 6:00.  Thank you to our fabulous music teachers, Lesley Rogers and Taylor Duren, for preparing these students!

Wednesday Collaboration

We will meet in the North Collaboration Room.  During collaboration we will discuss the recent STAR data for all grade levels.  Mrs. Bruno will join us to discuss Sonday System results.

Thursday Afternoon Faculty Meeting

We will have a faculty meeting Thursday at 2:15.  Our agenda is as follows:

1) STEM Certification Update

2) ACAP - Review important information

3) Paine Pack - Prepare communication to students in pack

PST Information

January PST Meetings

First grade PST meetings will be held on Tuesday, January 28th.  All other (K, 2-5) PST meetings will be held on Thursday, January 30th.  Meetings will be held in Dr. Lothspeich's Office.

For New Referrals

Use the link below to submit a new referral by 3:00PM on Wednesday, January 22^nd.  Students who have an F in reading, math, or ELA will need a referral unless already referred. Kindergarten students who are being considered for retention will need a referral unless already referred.

PST Referral

For Reviews

First Grade: We will meet to discuss all students in Sonday groups. If a student is not in Sonday but they have been discussed previously, please update their Summary of Progress and whether or not we need to meet in Section III of the referral in their Google folder (see below). You may need to click twice when checking “Yes” or “No”.

K, 2-5: Please update their Summary of Progress and whether or not we need to meet in Section III of the referral in their Google folder (see below). You may need to click twice when checking “Yes” or “No”.

 Upcoming Assemblies

The following are the Assembly Dates for December and January Recognitions:

February 4^th: Grades 1 and 3

February 6^th: Grades 4 and 5

February 7^th: K and 2

Please use the Google Form links (in the blog)  to nominate your students for the awards below. Since you will nominate two students (one for December and one for January), you will need to submit two forms in order for each form to populate into a certificate - one for each student. Other recognitions do not require a Google form. We will also recognize Respectful Bus Riders, Millionaires, and 3rd Grade All A’s.

• PACE
• Pride
• Reader Leader (K-3)

Paine STREAM Precepts this Week

T:   Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems. They love a challenge. - Andrew Wiles

W:  Quiet people have the loudest minds. - Stephen Hawking
T:   You can make anything by writing.  - C.S. Lewis
F:  The important thing is to never stop questioning. - Albert Einstein