Weekly Update

 

Week - February 26 - March 1, 2024

A Week

PE:  South PE will be outside this week (weather permitting)

Character Trait Focus: Kindness

 Paine Power Word: Formulate

Lesson Plan Checks - Monday Morning 

Elementary Art Exhibit - Saturday

Read Across America

ACCESS Testing for Paine EL Students

Message from Mrs. Killmeyer:

I wanted to give you a heads up that I will be ACCESS testing our Paine EL students Monday 2/26 thru Tuesday 3/5. There will be two testing sessions on these days. If you have students that will be testing, be on the lookout for calendar invites with the approximate testing times, the names of any students you may have that are testing, and any other important information for your students. Please note that testing times are approximate. This test is not timed and a testing session could go longer than anticipated or finish very quickly. If it does finish very quickly, I may try pick up students a bit earlier to finish testing earlier that day- if it’s ok. Please also know that testing days for students could possibly change. Thank-you all in advance! 

Wednesday - District PD

We will have district PD with Dr. Berry in the North Training Room. Please bring all your resources to work on proficiency scales.

Thursday Afternoon - Early Release Time

We will have our MTSS Turnaround Training.

Leadership Trussville to visit PES on 3/14

Leadership Trussville will be visiting our school on Thursday, March 14th.  More information to follow soon.  Please go ahead and update the student work outside of your classrooms. Let's show all of the incredible learning happening at Paine!

ACAP Testing Schedule for PES

Please note: Our testing schedule has moved up a week from the original date communicated. We will now be testing the first week of April.

Family News

Please join us in congratulating Matt and Abby Margavio on the birth of their beautiful baby girl, Olivia (Livi) Rose Margavio.

Paine Precepts (Read Across America)

“I wouldn’t be a songwriter if it wasn’t for books that I loved as a kid. I think that when you can escape into a book it trains your imagination to think big and to think that more can exist than what you see.” – Taylor Swift

“He that loves reading has everything within his reach.” – William Godwin

“The only way to do all the things you’d like to do is to read.” – Tom Clancy

“I had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.” – Bill Gates

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

IMPORTANT: DUO Notification Installation Requirement

 DUO Notification Installation Requirement

Friday, February 23, 2024

ALL faculty and staff, certified and classified, are required to have DUO Notification installed on devices. The technology department will be at Paine Elementary on Friday, 2/23/24 for this installation.  All staff need to bring their laptops and cell phone to the South Conference Room (on 4th grade hall) during your planning on Friday. If a staff member does not have a laptop (ex. para, CNP, custodian, etc.) they should bring their cell phone.  

Weekly Update

On National SRO Appreciation Day (and everyday), we would like to thank our SRO, Officer Bowen for helping to keep our school safe. 

 

We would like to welcome a new staff member to our team.  Kate Floyd will join our front office staff on Tuesday.  Please welcome her to PES!

Week - February 20-23, 2024

PE:  North PE will be outside this week (weather permitting)

Character Trait Focus: Kindness

 Paine Power Word: Evaluate

Lesson Plan Checks - Tuesday Morning 

Importance of Handwashing

There are so many different illnesses going around.  

Please make SURE your students are using hand sanitizer 1) Before eating lunch each day and 2) following recess. This is a school expectation.  

Please remind students to wash their hands with soap when they go to the restroom.

Read Across America

Read Across America is the week of February 26 - March 1st.  Please communicate our plan to your parent distribution list asap.

Wednesday - Data Meetings 

We will have data meetings this week during collaboration to analyze our AIMS Web & ACAP Practice Data.  Please come ready to dive into our data.  Bring your laptops, a highlighter, and pen/pencil.

Thursday Afternoon - Early Release Time

We will have our MTSS Turnaround Training and/or finish up data meetings.  We will see how far we get on Wednesday with our data.

March 8th

March 8th is an E-Learning day for students, but a required workday for faculty and staff.  We will utilize March 8^th similar to how we did October 10^th ... as a day for you all to host parent conferences and participate in school PD/meetings.  This day will be great timing as report cards will go out the following week and will give you a chance to talk with parents in advance of that. We will be on a 7:45 - 3:15 schedule. Please schedule as many of your conferences as possible in the first portion of the day. We will plan to have PD and meetings in the 1:30-3:00 window.  Please go ahead and schedule your parent conferences.

Leadership Trussville to visit PES on 3/14

Leadership Trussville will be visiting our school on Thursday, March 14th.  More information to follow soon.  Please go ahead and update the student work outside of your classrooms. Let's show all of the incredible learning happening at Paine!

Family News

We would like to welcome a new staff member to our team this week. Kate Floyd will be joining our front office staff. Please welcome her to PES.

Congratulations to Lauren Weller and her beautiful family. 

They are expecting baby #3.

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 over 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

Please keep Elizabeth Moffett and her family in your thoughts and prayers. Her grandfather passed away this week.

Weekly Update

We would like to thank our school counselors for the amazing job they do supporting our school. Last week was national school counselor week.  We are so thankful for our counselors: Christy Naylor, Sara Taylor, and Kelly Bowles.

Week - February 12-16, 2024

PE:  South PE will be outside this week (weather permitting)

Character Trait Focus: Kindness

 Paine Power Word: Unify

Lesson Plan Checks - Monday Morning 

Paine Practice - BEST Practice

Rachelle Taylor using some amazing tools to discuss fraction concepts with her 3rd grade students.

Alana Dickie doing a read aloud in the Library with our PreK students.

HTMS teachers met with our 5th graders to discuss opportunities they will have next year to engage in the arts at HTMS. Our students made us proud!

National Board Teachers - Monday at 4:30

There will be a reception Monday, February 12th, 4:30 pm, at the central office (upstairs) to honor TCS National Board Certified Teachers.  We hope to see all PES NBCT teachers there. You are in for a treat!

ACAP Practice Testing

The ACAP practice testing for Grades 2-5 begins Monday am, February 12th. Please make sure you take your students to the restroom right after announcements so we will be ready to begin our testing promptly at 8:30.  Grades 2-5 will all test Monday-Wednesday; 4th grade will take science on Thursday. We will me on a modified schedule Monday-Wednesday due to testing.

Please remind your parents of our testing schedule and the importance of our students being on time, getting enough rest and eating a good breakfast.  Please encourage students to do their very best!  

Important Testing Reminders

• There should be no activity/traveling through the building beginning at 8:10 until you receive word that morning group testing is complete.
• We will begin the PE schedule as soon as whole group testing is complete. We will get the word out, but will not make an intercom announcement due to continued small  group testing.
• Travel in hallways should be limited and students should remain supervised and quiet.
• Please avoid hallways that have "testing" signs.
• K & 1, Please make sure your classes are completely quiet if you have to travel to a locaiton. Please avoid any testing hallways.

Mon-Wed (Testing Day) PE Schedule

We will be on a modified schedule Monday - Wednesday due to ACAP practice testing.  There will be no specials. We plan to begin PE at 11:00 (but please wait on word that testing is complete before proceeding to PE).  We will try to have outside PE if weather permits.  If we are able to do this, we will be using the north field and south playground.  Monday-Wednesday PE times are listed below.

11:00-11:30  - 2nd Grade

11:30-12:00  - 4th Grade

12:00-12:30   -  3rd Grade

1:00-1:30 - 1st Grade     

1:30-2:00  - Kindergarten    

2:00-2:30  - 5th Grade

If you have to change your recess time or location due to testing on Monday-Wednesday,  please notify the office so we know when and where you will be.

Wednesday 

There will be NO collaboration on Wednesday because of the modified schedule due to the ACAP practice test.

ACAP Practice Test

Teachers in grades 2-5: Please include in your parent communication that we will do our practice ACAP testing on February 12-15. We will simulate the real test, so we are asking that check-ins and check-outs be avoided in the morning if possible. I will provide a modified PE schedule for that week later on this week.  There will be no specials on the 12-14 so specialist teachers can test some of our small groups.

Thursday Afternoon - Early Release Time

We will have data meetings for all certified teachers to discuss AIMS Web mid-year data.  We will start out in the North Training Room (whole group) and then have breakout sessions by grade level (in your grade level chair's classroom).

March 8th

March 8th is an E-Learning day for students, but a required workday for faculty and staff.  We will utilize March 8^th similar to how we did October 10^th ... as a day for you all to host parent conferences and participate in school PD/meetings.  This day will be great timing as report cards will go out the following week and will give you a chance to talk with parents in advance of that. We will be on a 7:45 - 3:15 schedule. Please schedule as many of your conferences as possible in the first portion of the day. We will plan to have PD and meetings in the 1:30-3:00 window.  Please be sure to schedule your parent conferences in the next couple of weeks.

Leadership Trussville to visit PES on 3/14

Leadership Trussville will be visiting our school on Thursday, March 14th.  More information to follow soon.  Please go ahead and update the student work outside of your classrooms. Let's show all of the incredible learning happening at Paine!

Paine Precepts

• Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. - William Makepeace Thackeray (English novelist)
• Great things are done be a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van Gogh (Artist)
• The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author, poet, lecturer)
• Kindness is a gift everyone can afford to give. - Unknown
• Never be so busy as to not think of others. - Mother Theresa (Founder Missionaries Charity)

Weekly Update

Thank you to our incredible PTO for the great treats! 

Murphy, Daisy, Stella & Lexie felt the love!  

We hope our Paine family did, too!

Week - February 5-9, 2024

PE:  North PE will be outside this week (weather permitting)

Character Trait Focus: Kindness

 Paine Power Word: Transfer

Lesson Plan Checks - Monday Morning 

Paine Practice - BEST Practice

Kinder students in Mrs. Findley's class play "Hide the Number" where they figure out the number hidden under post-its.

Christy Naylor, Sara Taylor, Kelly Bowles & Kelly McGough did a great job with our ACAP training!

Mrs. Felts supports a student while he presents his math strategy.

Willie Wonka Kids was outstanding!!!

Mrs. Lutz is an active participant in recess with her 3rd graders!

Wednesday Collaboration

We will meet in the North Training Room. If you are still working on ACAP prep, please bring your binders.

ACAP Practice Test

Teachers in grades 2-5: Please include in your parent communication that we will do our practice ACAP testing on February 12-15. We will simulate the real test, so we are asking that check-ins and check-outs be avoided in the morning if possible. I will provide a modified PE schedule for that week later on this week.  There will be no specials on the 12-14 so specialist teachers can test some of our small groups.

Thursday Afternoon - Early Release Time

We would like to welcome Dr. Martin to Paine Elementary on Thursday afternoon.  

He will meet with our faculty and staff in the North Training Room beginning at 2:15. 

We look forward to hearing about some important updates.

Leadership Trussville to visit PES on 3/14

Leadership Trussville will be visiting our school on Thursday, March 14th.  More information to follow soon.  Please go ahead and update the student work outside of your classrooms. Let's show all of the incredible learning happening at Paine!

Paine Precepts (Kindness)

• Be somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody.” - Kid President
• People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But, people will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou
• Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud. - Maya Angelou
•  If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours. - Dolly Parton
• If you can’t think of anything nice to say, you’re not thinking hard enough. - Kid President

Family News

Please keep Hunter Birdyshaw's family in your thoughts and prayers. His stepdad had a small stroke yesterday and is in the hospital.

We may have missed some news in the blog.  We wanted to formally announce Jennifer Hunt and family are expecting a baby. Congratulations!!!