Weekly Update

We had a great first week back to school!

B Week - Jan 8-12

North PE will be outside this week (weather permitting)

Character Trait Focus: Responsibility

Math Challenge

We are so excited about the Alabma OMI (Office of Mathematics Improvment) Math Madness Challenge! We have a shared vision of students connecting math to the world around them.  As this happens, students will approach tasks with confidence and excitement. This positive connection will lead to positive classroom interactions.  

Please encourage your students to participate in the Math Challenge.  We will send you an email with information to forward to your parent distribution list.  Please send this out on Monday.  

When your students return their activity pages with parent signatures (due Jan 19), we will enter their information in the state Google form for a chance to win Alabama-Auburn basketball tickets.  Please send the returned activity pages to the front office.

Priority Kids

Beginning January 11th, Priority Kids will be hosting a Wednesday morning meeting for PES students who have signed up.  This will be held in the STREAM Studio each Wednesday morning before school.  Students who have signed up must be dropped off between 7:20-7:25. They must check in at the door of the STREAM Studio by 7:30.  No student will be allowed in if they are not on the list AND no student will be allowed in after 7:30.  If any parents have questions, the contacts are Hannah Holland and Lauren Tuggle.  

Collaboration on Wednesday

We will meet in the North Training Room to work on the following:

Kindergarten & 1st Grade - Math Planning & Open Court Plans

2nd Grade - 5th Grade - Work on ACAP prep planning (please bring your ACAP Binders)

Thursday EnRICh

This will be the last week for EnRICh classes until after spring testing.  The ony exception is students in Musical Theatre and Set Design. They will continue to meet until our performances at the end of the month.

Thursday Afternoon (2:15 - 3:15)

We will have a faculty/staff meeting in the North Training Room at 2:15.  Our nurses will provide training and we will go over other important information.

MUSH Grants

One of our MUSH grant recipients was left off of the previous blog post.  Congratulations to Kimberly McGinnis (1st grade)!  We are so excited about these grants and thankful to the TCS Foundation!

Paine Precepts (Responsibility)

• “In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.” – Michael Korda
• “The price of greatness is responsibility.” – Winston Churchill
• “Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.” – Chuck Palahniuk
• “Every person who has changed the world has taken responsibility for something that mattered not just to them, but to mankind.” – Mike Stutman
• “With great power comes great responsibility.” – Voltaire