Friday, August 11, 2023

Weekly Update

Congratulations on a great start to our school year!  Our precious littles ones look so happy be here!  Thank you for all you are doing to create such a welcoming, happy, learning environment.  Our Meet the Teacher evenings were a huge success!  We had a great first three days with our students!  Our students are blessed with wonderful teachers and staff....and our teachers and staff are blessed with incredible students!  It is going to be the best year yet!!!


A Week - August 14-18

PE will be inside this week (due to heat)
August PACE Character Trait: Creativity

Announcement Helpers

Students With Birthdays that Day

Please send students who have birthdays each day to the office BY 7:55 to help with announcements.  (Please have an adult assist the little ones to the office and we will bring them back.)  Students with birthdays on Sunday should be sent with Monday birthdays and those with birthdays on Saturdays should be sent with Friday birthdays.  



Classroom Schedules

Once you have your classroom schedule finalized, please post a copy outside of your door and email a copy to our admin team.



AIMS Testing Schedule

AIMs Web Plus will be utilized in K-5 for both Math and Reading again this year.  Please see important information below.

Math Testing:
  • K & 1 Math - We will begin administering those assessments as early as August 16th. Please look for Cindy Cornwell or Amy Meredith to pull students and administer the assessment for K & 1.
  • Math testing for 2-5 will be on Chromebooks (administered by teachers during this testing window beginning August 16th).  
Reading Testing

  • A testing team will be utilized to administer all reading to Kindergarten and 1st grade.  A testing team will administer the ORF portion for 2nd & 3rd grade.  Please see the TCS Testing Team Schedule below.

  • Students in grades 2-5 will take the other portion on their Chromebooks in the classroom (this can be done beginning August 16th.)




Wednesday Collaboration 


We will meet in the north training room to plan.


Thursday Afternoon


Early dismissal begins on Thursday.  We need for all classified staff to cover carline duty each Thursday afternoon.  All certified staff will work with their grade level teams on Parent Chat Night Presentations and/or planning (from 2:15-3:15).



Parent Chat Night Dates

4th Grade - Tuesday, 8/15, 5:30-6:30
Kindergarten - Monday, 8/21, 5:30-6:30
3rd Grade - Tuesday, 8/22, 5:30-6:30
2nd Grade - Thursday, 8/24, 5:30-6:30
1st Grade - Monday, 8/28, 5:30-6:30
5th Grade - Tuesday, 8/29, 5:30-6:30




Paine Precepts this Week

BE READY
M: "A winning effort begins with preparation." - Joe Gibbs.
T:  “I will prepare and someday my chance will come.” ― Abraham Lincoln.
W: "If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can...you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears." - Eleanor Roosevelt
T:  Before anything else, preparation is the key to success." - Alexander Graham Bell
F:  "Behind every brilliant performance, there were countless hours of practice and preparation." - Eric Butterworth

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