A Week - January 21-24, 2025
South PE - Outside (Weather permitting)
Reminder: Each teacher should sign up to observe at least one other teacher each 9 weeks and complete the post observation reflection form.
Important Events this Week
We will have an unplanned lockdown drill sometime this month.
Mon,1/20 - No school
Wed, 1/22 - PST Meetings
Thu, 1/23 - Collaborative Planning/Early Release
Thu, 1/23 - Math PST at CO
KNOW YOUR IMPACT
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| Mrs. Seeley is modeling a Text Dependent Writing for her students. |
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| Mrs. Dillard is modeling sequencing and writing sentences for her Kinder students. |
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| Our MTSS Team providing our turnaround training. |
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| Ms. Cribb leading her students in daily sentence corrections as a part of our school writing plan. |
Assemblies
We will have our quarterly grade level assemblies on Tuesday and Friday in the SOUTH Gym.
Tuesday: K-8:30, 1st-9:30 2nd 10:30
Friday: 3rd-8:30 4th-9:30 5th-10:30
Library Survey
One of our library goals is to diversity the library collection. Please complete the Teacher Survey below to provide Mr. McAbee with information to help with this.
Homeroom Teachers in grades 3-5, please have your students complete the survey below sometime before January 31.
PES TDW Plan
Everyone did a great job this week on our TDW plans during collaboration. Thank you to Jenni Peters for leading us in these efforts. I am so excited about our plans!!! The revised overall plan is shown below.
Winter AIMS Web Testing
Our Winter Testing Window is open for Aims. Beginning 1/15, our TCS testing team will begin testing all 1st Grade, Kindergarten, and 2nd/3rd ORF only. Teachers may begin administering the assessment for 4th & 5th and the computerized portion for 2nd & 3rd as soon as students return on 1/7. Our goal is to have all testing complete by 1/24 so we can have our data meetings the following week.
ACAP Practice Test
The ACAP Practice Tests will be administered to all students in grades 2-5 the week of 1/27 - 1/31. We will adhere to the testing protocols following in the spring.
Please include in your parent communication the following information:
- Send in wired headphones for their child.
- No lunch visitors the week of the practice test.
Wednesday - PST
Please come ready for PST during your planning time on Wednesday.
Thursday Early Release Time
We will use this time for collaboration and planning. Selected math teachers will have training at the CO (Weyerman's monthly group).
Paine Precepts (Resilience)
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Nelson Mandela
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