Weekly Update

 C Week - October 11-14, 2022

North PE will be outside this week (weather permitting)

Best Practice...Paine Practice

Mrs. Jenkins providing deliberate and explicit instruction with a small group of 4th graders.

Mrs. Jenkins' Noise-O-Meter to guide discourse in her classroom.

A student in Mrs. Swatek's room building conceptual knowledge of area & perimeter.

Mrs. Moore working with a small group of 4th graders on literacy skills.

PES counselors organized and led a 5th Grade Leadership Rally focusing on how they are the leaders representing the 3 Rs in our school.

Tuesday - Schedule Change for 1st & 4th Grades

Our 1st Grade Music Program is Tuesday.  We will need to switch 1st grade specials/pe times with 4th Grade.  Each grade will go to their typical rotation, just at a different time.

1st Grade -  12:50-1:50

4th Grade - 10:20-11:20

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October Collaboration Schedule

We will have our 2nd District PD with Dr. Berry this Wednesday in the North Training Room.  We will have collaboration on Thursday from 2:15-3:15 in grade level chair classrooms.

See October collaboration calendar below.

Wednesday	Thursday
October 5th ·         Grade Level Collaboration (No/So Coll Rooms)	October 6th ·         Leadership Team Meeting (No Training Room) ·         STEM Leadership Team Meeting (STREAM room) ·         New Teacher Meeting (Library) ·         All oth/Per certified staff will collaborate
October 12th ·         District PD with Dr. Berry (No Training Room)	October 13th ·         Grade Level Collaboration (Grade Level Chair Classrooms)
October 19th ·         STREAM Studio PD with Dr. Lothspeich & Hannah McCauley (STREAM Studio)	October 20th ·         Grade Level Collaboration (No/So Coll Rooms) ·         Sped Meeting (Library)
October 26th ·         Grade Level Collaboration (No/So Coll Rooms)	October 27th   ·         Faculty Meeting/PLC Break-out Sessions/Collaboration

Important Library Updates

• Updated Circulation Policy
• 2^nd through 5^th grade students can now check out 3 books at a time!
• They should choose 2 level books and 1 free choice book.
• Updated Library Classes
• 2^nd through 5^th grade classes will not have check out time during Tuesday library classes moving forward. We will use this time to build library and information literacy skills!
• Please continue sending students to check out books during Open Library Hours.
• You can sign up to bring your entire class to check out books. This folder has sign up sheets for upcoming months.
• Kindergarten & 1^st grade classes will continue doing book check out during Tuesday library classes.
• Book Fair – Oct. 31-Nov. 10
• Check this document to review important information and sign up for times to preview and shop!
• All of this information (and more!) can be found on our Library for Teachers Schoology page! (Please let me know if you don’t have access)

Paine Fall Festival

Please save the date for our Fall Festival.  Include the save-the-date in your parent newsletters.  The official invitation with details will go out soon.

4th & 5th  Grade Skills Rotations

Due to the increased focus on writing with their new reading curriculum and the emphasis on cursive handwriting with our new ELA standards, we are making a change to the skills rotation focus for 4th & 5th grade.  We will be working on cursive handwriting during this time.  

This change will not begin until A Week (not this week but next).  Beginning A Week, 4th & 5th grade skills will held in the Art Room (instead of the Music Room) but taught by our music teachers.  This location change is necessary because students must be able to sit in a chair at a table/desk to engage in cursive handwriting.  

Red Ribbon Week

Please include the information below in your upcoming parent newsletters so they have time to prepare.

                           

 

Upcoming Important Dates

Tuesday, October 11 - 1st Grade Music Program (8:30 & 10:00)

October 17-21 - Bus Driver Safety Week

October 24-28 - Red Ribbon Week

Saturday, November 5th - Paine Fall Festival (9:00-1:00)

Thursday, November 10th - Veterans Day Program

Paine Precepts (Responsibility)

Our PACE characteer trait for October is Responsibility.  Our precepts will be focused on this trait for the month of October.

• “If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.” – Les Brown
• “Though I am not always responsible for what happens to me, I am responsible for how I handle what happens to me.” – Zig Ziglar
• “Winners take responsibility.  Losers blame others.” – Brit Hume
• “In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.” – Michael Korda