Weekly Update

 

We had a great first full week at Paine!  A special thank you to our TCS Maintenance Crew for taking care of us on Thursday!

B Week - August 21-25

North PE will be outside this week 

(weather permitting)

August 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.  

Library Hours

 

AFT Visit

AFT will visit Paine on Tuesday, 8/22.  They will be in the conference room on the 4th grade hall.  

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. Please make sure you bring your teacher guides and laptops.

Thursday Afternoon

We will have a faculty/staff meeting from 2:15-3:15 in the North Training Room.  We will go over general school safety information & the teacher handbook.  Please bring your copy of the teacher handbook.

Parent Chat Night Dates

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

M:  “Treat people exactly as you would like to be treated by them.” – Golden Rule

T:  “I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.” – Julius Erving

W: “It’s not so much the journey that’s important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way.” – Jeremy Aldana

T: “Respect is a two-way street, if you want to get it, you’ve got to give it.” – R.G. Risch

F: “One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.” – Bryan H. McGill