Paine Science Olympiad Team Earns 2nd Place Overall

We want to congratulate Mrs. Rashel Darnell and her Science Olympiad Team for earning 2nd Place this weekend!  There were many tough competitors so this is a great honor.  We are so proud of them!

To PES Family...From 2nd Grade Teachers

 

Duty Schedules for Trimester 3

Thank you for working on the duty schedules for the remainder of the year.  It definitely takes a village!  All of the schedules are posted below (they will also be posted in the building near the stations).

Important duty guidelines are listed below.  Please read carefully because some have changed.

1. Must be on morning duty station by 7:20 am.
2. Students should not be dismissed for buses until the wing before you has cleared.  This includes those student exiting on the side doors (because they are traveling the opposite direction from the younger students. We want the younger students to get to the buses first).
3. Each teacher with bus duty should stand on/near the newly painted pawprints to ensure we are spread for adequate supervision of all students. There should be no running, no walking in grass, no cell phones out, etc.
4. Teachers with afternoon duty should have a partner or neighboring teacher watch her class in the hallway so he/she can get to afternoon duty promptly at 3:00.
5. Teachers on carline duty should escort the carline students to the carline. You may want to have one other teacher on the hall assist with walking them.
6. All other teachers on the hall should stand in the hallway in front of their rooms until all students have exited past their rooms.
7. If you cannot make it to your duty due to absence, meeting, etc, you must find a replacement by contacting someone on your duty team.

GRADE LEVEL HALLS

AM ONLY

PM ONLY

OTHER

THURSDAY PM

ACAP Information

 ACAP Information from our Counselors

Note:  We will not have any lunchroom visitors on ACAP testing days.  Please communicate this to your parents.

Please communicate to your parents that each student will need plug-in headphones for testing.

Teachers,

 Remain calm. ACAP Testing information is below. We got this! 😊

 

Relaxing waves video to play in the background while reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uom6RoyqFiE

 

We are attaching a test preparation checklist as a resource. Please read it slowly and carefully as there is a lot of information that needs to be followed exactly. In the checklist are very specific dates (trainings, etc.) that need to be followed exactly to ensure we are prepared for testing. The checklist will need to be completed fully by Friday, March 17^th and turned into Mrs. Naylor or Mrs. Kidd.

 

2^nd-5^th Grade Teachers- your students will be receiving DRC ACAP Prep every Tuesday for the next 3 weeks during their skills time. They will be learning the platform and how tests will be worded, etc. It is vital that your students bring their chromebooks to Skills for the next 3 weeks.

 

In your checklist, we are including additional resources that you can use in your classroom to prepare for testing. There is a link to Schoology resources that you can use per content area (instructions in checklist).

 

In your checklist are dates for chromebook system readiness checks. In this form, there are step by step instructions on HOW to talk your students through this process. It is REQUIRED that you complete this form so that we know what classes are having chromebook issues.

Link to PES Chromebook Check REQUIRED Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScT7tTpeaZAR9DiQM8x1HRvCwknxDbXHQonI5dkU2Op0qN0Pg/viewform?usp=sf_link

 

Attachment to this email for your weekly newsletters- HEADPHONES (wired earbuds) graphic (all students will need a working pair of headphones or wired earbuds for testing). Also, the digital device policy is attached. Please include these two items in your weekly newsletters to parents!

 

Seating chart attached- see checklist  for due date.

 

Testing Checklist is attached but also a copy is being placed in your box.

 

Remember, we got this! We are here with any questions, concerns, fears, worries, and great ideas! Let’s make this the BEST testing season yet!!!

 

Caroline, Christy, and Sara

Weekly Updates

  B Week - February 27-March 3

South PE will be outside this week (weather permitting)

PACE Character Trait for March - Self Control

Paine Practice ... Best Practice

Students in Coach Burnett's classes engage in Chinese Jump Rope

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Beth Lang monitoring student discussions during Turn & Talk.

Kristi Brooks leads a powerful discussion during morning meeting.

Reese Guthrie uses an engaging game to review fraction concepts.

Chromebooks - 3rd & 4th

3rd & 4th Grade Teachers, Please take an inventory of your student CBs and chargers 1st thing Monday.  Please have a list of anything that is missing with the student name beside it (CB and/or charger).  Technology will need this when they come to replace them with the new CBs.

They will begin replacing the Chromebooks for 3rd & 4th with new ones.  Please do not send any CBs home.  We need to make sure all CBs and chargers remain in the room for

Read Across America

Please communicate our Read Across America Dress-Up Days in your parent communication.

Read Across America Decoration Contest

Please procced with your door/wall decorations.  The main judging criteria is CREATIVITY.  If you ask a room parent to help, please turn in a visitor form.  Remember: parents should not be in the classrooms and there should be no disruption to learning.

1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd place prizes will be awarded:
1^st place - $150 for your classroom
2^nd place - $100 for your classroom
3^rd place - $50 for your classroom!

Judges will score the displays on the afternoon of Friday, March 3rd. 

ACAP Testing

Please look for a separate post dedicated to ACAP test prep.

Leadership Trussville Visit - March 9th

Please make sure you have student work hanging in the halls and things rooms tidy by th end of the week so we are ready for our visitors on 3/9.  

Collaboration Calendar-March

STREAM Studio

Nicole Jenkins' math students are participating in the "You're the Teacher" STREAM experience as a math review before testing.  They cannot wait to go back to work on their projects.

Students in Andrea Barker & Elizabeth Moffett's classes worked on bar graphs, pictographs, and line plots in the STREAM Studio.  Students loved it!

Upcoming Dates

Mon, 2/27 - Read Across America Week Begins

Tues, 2/28 - 5th Graders invited to HTMS @ 7:00 pm

Wed, 3/1 - PM Bus Evacuation Drills

All buses will load as normal.

From bus 20-04(Mr. McElroy) forward and the daycare buses leave as normal.

From 09-10(Mr. Latham) back will stay and do the drill.

Thurs, 3/2 - PM Bus Evacuation Drills

All buses will load as normal.

Have the daycare buses pull off first, followed by 09-10(Mr. Latham) to the rear of the line.

From 20-04(Mr. McElroy) forward will complete the drill.

3/6-3/9 - ACAP Alternate Testing

Thurs, 3/9 - Leadership Trussville Visits PES

Thur, 3/23 - ACAP Writing Assessment

3/27-3/31 - Spring Break

4/4 & 4/5 - ACAP Reading & Science (4th)

Wed, 4/12 - ACAP Math

Fri, 5/5 - Blanche's 3rd Birthday (Plans to be announced)

Fri, 5/12 - 5th Grade Extravaganza

Paine Precepts - Self Control

• If you lose self-control everything will fall.- John  Wooden
• Self-control, stop, think, what could happen? Is that what you want? - Anonymous
• Control yourself or someone else will control you. - Anonymous
• You are always responsible for how you act, no matter how your feel. Remember that. -  Anonymous
• I cannot trust a man to control others if he cannot control himself. - Robert E. Lee

Family News

Congratulations to Kathi and Josh Wilks on the birth of their baby girl, Chapel Marie.  She was born today at 1:40 pm; 6 lbs 13 oz.  She is beautiful!!!

Please welcome Ashley Wilks, Kathi's long-term sub.  The picture below is from their Meet the Teacher this past Sunday.  Ashley will start with us on Monday and we are so excited!  

Our Wilks Trio (Sara will become a Wilks this summer).

Weekly Update

A Week - February 21-24

North PE will be outside this week (weather permitting)

PACE Character Trait for February - KINDNESS

Paine Practice ... Best Practice

The artwork in the boulevards is simply beautiful!  Thank you to Angela Santiago and Kelsi Andrews
 for the amazing job you do developing the artist in each student.

Leigh Riley teaching her Kindergarten students the correct way to write using the lines on their paper. 

Heather Cates keeping kids engaged in small group with a purposeful game.

Barrett Trowbridge's students are SO engaged in her read-aloud because of her animation and energy.

Important School Safety Plan Reminders

This is VERY IMPORTANT reminder:  If anyone orders food to be delivered to the school, it MUST be delivered to the front office.  Under NO circumstances are we to instruct a delivery person to go to a side or back door. 

Please use this time to remind your students that they are NOT to open a door for any adult.  EVERY visitor must go through the front office.

Thank you for helping to ensure our school is safe!

Chromebooks

Our 3rd and 4th graders will be getting new Chromebooks this year (before testing).  Third and fourth grade teachers, please make sure you have every student's Chromebook and charger in your room before February 28th.  Please avoid sending them home during this time so we have the full inventory here at school.  Our Technology Department will begin trading them out on February 28th.

Black History Month

This week we will honor Black History Month during our morning announcements.  Daily precepts will be quotes from Famous Black Americans who have made an impact on our world.  Please consider using time in your morning meetings to discuss how these quotes can drive us to make an impact.  We are excited to see the student work from your classroom Black History Month lessons.  Some classes have already implemented these Social Studies lessons, and other classes are implementing this week.

Read Across America

Please communicate our Read Across America Dress-Up Days in your parent communication.

Read Across America Decoration Contest

Decorate your door or hallway with a book, author, or reading theme!

Creativity counts! 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd place prizes will be awarded:
1^st place - $150 for your classroom
2^nd place - $100 for your classroom
3^rd place - $50 for your classroom!

Judges will score the displays on the afternoon of Friday, March 3rd. 

Leadership Trussville Visit - March 9th

Community Leaders from Leadership Trussville will be visiting our building on March 9th.  Please take a little time before then to tidy up your classrooms.  Also, please make sure you have student work hanging outside of your classrooms.

Reminder:  Please make sure students collect all their belongings when you are lining up to leave the courtyard and playgrounds.  This will help us keep the outside of our building clean.

Collaboration Calendar-Remainder of February

PD Opportunity - Feb 28th

Share Your Content Knowledge and Design Interactive Lessons / Resources
Using Your Interactive Whiteboard and Lumio software!

Join Rachel Brockman

Tuesday, February 28^th

from 3:30 – 4:30

in the 2^nd floor BOE Training Room or via Zoom 

Receive 1 hour of PD Credit in PowerSchool Professional Learning

Registration Link:

https://alsde.truenorthlogic.com/ia/empari/tab/Home?_ct=Home  Course # 466556

 

Together we will explore sharing your content knowledge with students using Lumio and our interactive whiteboards to:

1. Create interactive lessons, games, and activities for your interactive whiteboard
2. Curate and adapt premade templates and lessons around your content standards
3. Engage EVERY student using interactive lessons using Lumio through Schoology

Leave with a interactive whiteboard-ready lesson!

STREAM Studio

Alyssa Vickers' math students exploring three-dimensional shapes in our STREAM Studio.

Upcoming Dates

Tues, 2/21 - Spring Book Fair Begins

Fri, 2/24 - Grade Level Assemblies

Mon, 2/27 - Read Across America Week Begins

Tues, 2/28 - 5th Graders invited to HTMS @ 7:00 pm

3/6-3/9 - ACAP Alternate Testing

Thurs, 3/9 - Leadership Trussville Visits PES

Thur, 3/23 - ACAP Writing Assessment

3/27-3/31 - Spring Break

4/4 & 4/5 - ACAP Reading & Science (4th)

Wed, 4/12 - ACAP Math\

Fri, 5/5 - Blanche's 3rd Birthday (Plans to be announced)

Fri, 5/12 - 5th Grade Extravaganza

Paine Precepts - Black History Month

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world” – Harriet Tubman

Born a slave, Harriet Tubman dreamed of freedom. Through strength, patience, and passion, she eventually escaped to become an abolitionist and a “conductor” of the Underground Railroad leading other enslaved people to freedom. She influenced and changed countless lives through her many roles as a nurse, Union spy, and women’s suffrage supporter – and her words and story still inspire us today.

“Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.” – Dr. Mae Jemison

Dr. Mae Jemison has always imagined a boundless future for herself. Not only is she the first African American woman to be admitted to NASA’s astronaut training program in 1987, but Dr. Jemison is also the first African American female astronaut! On September 12, 1992, she flew into space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor. She is also a medical trained doctor, served in the Peace Corps, and currently runs a medical technology company.

“Practice creates confidence. Confidence empowers you.” – Simone Biles

Simone Biles started practicing gymnastics at the young age of six, teaching herself to flip off mailboxes. Over the years, she did countless more flips to refine technique and skills – and to build the necessary confidence to become the success that she is today. Simone is now known as one of the sports’ greatest athletes with a combined total of 32 Olympic and World Championship medals.

“We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.” – Barack Obama

With hard work and dedication to service, Barack Obama was persistent and insistent on shaping the future. He made his mark on history as the 44th president of the United States and the first African American to serve in the office. 

Family News

 Congratulations to Caroline Kidd and her precious family!  

They are expecting a baby girl in August 2023.

Weekly Update

                   C Week - February 13-17

South PE will be outside this week (weather permitting)

PACE Character Trait for February - KINDNESS

Please talk about this throughout the month in your morning meetings.

Paine Practice ... Best Practice

We had our grade level mid-year data meetings on Wednesday! We have so much to celebrate with the great teaching and learning going on at PES...and it is evident in our data.  Our amazing teachers are still focused on continuous improvement and closing learning gaps even further!  

Our 2nd Grade Famous Americans Music Program on Tuesday was incredible! Thank you to Taylor Knuppel and Lesley Rogers...and to Angela Santiago and Kelsi Andrews for the decorations!

Krissy Boyda, Hannah Foust, Kristi Brooks, and Holly Moore traveled to Magnolia on Monday to observe and debrief on writing lessons. It was a great learning experience they will bring back to our colleagues at PES. Thank you to Kelly McGough and Jenni Peters for making this happen.  A special thank you to Dr. Foust, Mrs. Hook & Mrs. Holt for allowing us to learn from you!

Our 4th Grade Teachers collaborated to design learning experiences in all content areas with a Super Bowl Theme. Students were so engaged in these learning experiences on Friday!

STREAM Studio

Penny Moore, Tiara Carlson, & Hannah McCauley collaborated to provide their 1st Grade Students with a math experience in the STREAM Studio.  The students LOVED it and deepened their understanding of math place value concepts.

To Book STREAM Studio Collaboration (with Hannah McCauley):

·        Sign up for times here and email me about what lesson you'd like to do. Please make sure to also book the space using the PES Room Scheduler (also on the Paine Peeps blog).

Book Fair Information

Book Fair Flyers for students were placed in your boxes on Wednesday. Please make sure these go home with students!

• Please take a moment to review the information on this document and sign up for a time to bring your class to shop. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QXjLvo94PQbhT0Z5tVZ_CPGezk1dBv-vY8Ha8MSiDHI/edit?usp=sharing
• We are using Crane Book Fairs instead of Scholastic, so a few things will be different from the Fall. Everything is outlined in the doc linked above! (It’s also linked on the Library for Teachers Schoology page and on the class library sign up doc for this month.

Collaboration Calendar for February (Updated)

Family News

Congratulations to Emily and Alex Capoccia on the birth of their beautiful daughter.  Sophia Josephine Capoccia was born Feb 9 weighing 6 lb 10 oz, 18.5 inches long and full of joy!

Upcoming Dates

Tues, 2/14 - Valentine's Day Parties (Classes not having a year-end party)

Wed, 2/15 - District PD during Collaboration

Mon, 2/20 - President's Day - No School

Tues, 2/21 - Spring Book Fair Begins

Fri, 2/24 - Grade Level Assemblies

Mon, 2/27 - Read Across America Week Begins

3/6-3/9 - ACAP Alternate Testing

Thur, 3/23 - ACAP Writing Assessment

3/27-3/31 - Spring Break

4/4 & 4/5 - ACAP Reading & Science (4th)

Wed, 4/12 - ACAP Math\

Fri, 5/5 - Blanche's 3rd Birthday (Plans to be announced)

Fri, 5/12 - 5th Grade Extravaganza

Paine Precepts - Kindness 

“If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.” - Dolly Parton

 

“It’s cool to be kind.”

 

“If you can’t think of anything nice to say, you’re not thinking hard enough.” - Kid President

 

“If you think someone could use a friend, be one.”

 

“It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.” - John Templeton