Crown Point Junior Music Academy

Monday Morning Memo

3/12/18-3/16/18

 I wanted to take time to appreciate the students who played in Classics 4 Kids.  They did a great job representing our school with style.  I would also like to thank Mr. Luchs for teaching and preparing our students to play the beautiful music that they showcase every day.  

Instructional Focus-

As always, I will refer to your weekly calendar and the Critical to guide my observations.  This will always guide my observations.

As we learn more about our focus students, I will begin to observe the support you offer your at-risk students in various sub-groups.  Please refer to the updated 17-18 Consolidated Data Spreadsheet (I sent it out Friday night) for your grade level. This will serve as a tool to guide your support to students in need.  I have sent all teachers the current data to help fill in the blanks last week. Here is the link for TK-3.  Here is the link for 4th-5th.

Unpacking the Critical Concepts-

Please see the bottom of the MMM for updates on the confirmed release for each grade level.  You will have a full day to start the process.  I recommend staying as focused as you can on the Critical Concepts and to hold off on lesson planning and finding resources until the unpacking is complete.  This will help keep you focused on the bigger picture and to understand the Critical Concepts.  Once you unpack the standards, you will be able to map out your trimester with a better understanding of the "what" and the "why" of the Critical Concepts.

Spring Break Attendance Challenge-

Please be on the lookout for information from the office about our upcoming attendance challenge.  We will focus on the week before and after Spring Break.

Caught Being Good/Chilling with the Principal/Line Awards-

This information will hopefully clarify any questions about our new student recognition processes.

Caught Being Good Slips (blue)-

please continue handing these out to individual students for exhibiting our positive character traits or demonstrating any school-wide expectation.  This can be done at any location especially during transitions, recesses or assemblies.

Chilling with the Principal slips (purple)-

These will need to be distributed to students before the dates below.  You will choose 2 students with the most caught being good slips in your class for that period of time and pull 2 names as a raffle from the caught being good slips of that time frame as well.  Four total students will attend to the scheduled Chilling with the Principal event.  Please make sure that they have the purple ticket with them when they arrive to the lunch area at 1:40 promptly that day.  They will stay in the lunch area having their treat until 2:00 and they will go back to their classes.

Dates for Chilling with the Principal are below.  All times are 1:40 pm-2:00.  At 2:00, they will be sent back to class (we were having problems with the younger ones finding and being release to parents)

• Friday, April 6th (due to a short month)
• Friday, April 20th
• Friday, May 25th
• June date TBD

Line awards (yellow)- 

You can hand these out to entire classes for being straight and quiet at any location of the school.  Please remember that they not only need to be straight in line on the blacktop but they need to continue to transition straight and quiet in order to keep the line award.  When your class collects 20 line awards, please bundle them with your name on them and put them into the PTO box.  They will coordinate with you when your class have a popsicle party.

As a reminder when you have duty or we go to an assembly, please bring the caught being good slips and line awards to help reinforce the positive behaviors of our school.

Newbreak Staff Appreciation-

Newbreak wanted to show some appreciation to staff and has offered to bring lunch.  Below is the schedule for you to review and plan your lunches around.

Here are the dates and the places we’ll be ordering from:

Wednesday, March 7 - Panda Express

Wednesday, March 14 - Jersey Mike’s

Wednesday, March 21 - Carmen’s Delicious Taco Cart

The food will be at the school between 11:45/12pm and set up in the teacher’s lounge - except for the taco cart.  She’ll set up in the parking lot near the basketball court like last time. 

Recess Duty-

Group B

Important Dates-

SPECIAL NOTE*****Report Cards/DRA-Believe it or not, Spring Break is right around the corner. Please be aware of the timelines for report cards, DRA administration, and Illuminate data input.

Week of 3/12-3/16

Report Cards are printed by Tra-Viecia throughout the week

M 3/12- 2^nd/3^rd grade Unpacking Release full day-Please ensure you have requested your own subs

T 3/13- 4^th/5^th grade Unpacking Release full day-Please ensure you have requested your own subs

T 3/13-Spring picture day

T 3/13- SSC Meeting @ 2:30 in room 9

W 3/14- Attendance assemblies in the auditorium- K-2 @ 8:00, 3rd-5th @ 8:45

W 3/14-Certificated Prep

Th 3/15- 1^st grade Unpacking Release full day-Please ensure you have requested your own subs

Week of 3/19-3/23

Parent Conferences all week

Minimum days all week

W 3/21- Certificated Prep

TH 3/22 Coffee with the Principal @ 7:40 in the auditorium

Th 3/22 Lunch with a Loved One 11:30-12:30

Th 3/22- End of Trimester/Character Counts Awards-Kinder-2nd  (8:00-8:45), 3rd-5th (8:45-9:30)

Week of 3/26-3/30

Spring Break