Crown Point Junior Music Academy

Monday Morning Memo

10/23-10/27

As I continue to visit classrooms, I appreciate the posting of anchor charts to support student learning.  Anchor charts are critical to learning and should be posted in all classrooms and current to the instruction you have recently been planning for.  Please take some time to visit your colleague's classrooms to view the anchor charts they have posted.  There are many great ideas out there.

Instructional Focus-

• I will continue to give observational feedback throughout the week as I visit classrooms.  Please be prepared to have discussions about the formative assessments you use in the classroom and the data you analyzed to make decisions about the differentiation of your instruction.  

Visitation- We will be having principals doing observations within the next two weeks at Crown Point.  I look forward to showing them all the good work that you are doing in your classrooms.

Heat/Minimum Days- We have communicated that we will be having a minimum day tomorrow due to the heat index.  We will most likely be having a minimum day Tuesday as well ( I am waiting for the district to confirm).  As always please make sure that you give students ample opportunities for drinks and encourage them to rest/eat/drink in the lunch area during recess.  Just like any minimum day, please be out to the lunch area promptly at your designated time for lunchtime supervision. 

Upcoming Dates in relation to PLC and Report Period

Date	Reporting Period Notes	PLC or Prep
10/9-10/13		PLC
10/16-10/20		PLC
10/23-10/27	DRA due by Friday, 10/27	PREP
10/30-11/3	All data for report cards due Friday, 11/3	PREP
11/6-11/10	Tra-Viecia prints report cards this week	PLC
11/13-11/17	Conferences all week	PREP

Recess Duty- Week A-PLEASE BE 2-3 MINUTES EARLY TO YOUR RECESS DUTY!!!!!

Recess Bonus- First teacher to email me paying a compliment about another staff member will have their recess duty covered by me.

Field Trips-  In the past, PTO was able to fund two field trips busses per teacher.  Due to financial challenges, PTO can only offer one field trip bus per teacher.  Please see Mrs. Cathy for more information.

Health-  As a reminder, please administer basic first aid within your classroom before sending up students to the office. 

Paper-  I would like everybody to know that the copy paper use has been astronomical.  We have gone through 15 cases of copy paper since August.  At the rate we are going, we will run out of paper by January.  Please be mindful of your paper consumption.  If this continues I may need to implement a plan to limit excessive paper usage. 

PE Schedules- This is the week that I will need you to update your weekly schedules reflecting your PE minutes based on the 200 minutes every 2 weeks.  I will communicate with you and send you the link to upload your schedule once I get it.

Library- The schedule has been updated and in effect as of last week.  Here is the library schedule link for you to view.