Monday Morning Memo

Week of 4/30-5/4

I appreciate all the hard work in revisiting Balanced Literacy and Guided Reading.  Your reflections and actions you take based on the structures and teaching practices in Balanced Literacy and Guided Reading will truly support all students you teach every day.  Thank you.

Our Kinders showed off their acting and singing skills on Thursday.  Thank you Mrs. Hradsky and the Kinder team for a great performance!!

 I forgot to share with you this photo from our Military Kid's Day Assembly.  This was a great event and emotional for some.  I look forward to having this event at our school again next year.  Thank you to Cathy for leading the charge!!!

Instructional Focus-

Guided Reading/Balanced Literacy Post-training

• I will be asking you for when you implement guided reading in your daily schedule. Please make your updates accordingly in your schedule. 
• As I give feedback on shared reading/interactive read aloud/guided reading/conferring, I will refer to your reflection sheet and your teaching points during your lessons to give feedback as well.
• I will be asking for you to show me how you implement this on an everyday basis starting with conferring and guided reading.  Please have your data readily available to discuss when I come into your classrooms.

PLC- 

• Please make sure you have your agendas filled out and are prepared to meet on Wednesday.
• For PLC this week please follow the cycle of utilizing formative data from your assessments to determine next steps in teaching.  
• Please ensure that you complete your minutes and that they are continued to be shared with me after every PLC
• You will start with your grade level in your respective classrooms then we will meet together in room 9 at 2:30 pm.  
• When we meet at 2:30 please be prepared to share with our school a hard copy of the formative assessment, a hard copy of the data from the assessment, and the next steps based on the data from the assessment.

HVAC Installation-

The more intense work of demo on the room will begin as of Monday.  You may notice a bit more settling of dust in the room that is unavoidable.  They are working hard to clean up as they leave, but the settling of dust eventually continues after they leave through the morning.

Recess Duty-

Group D

Important Dates-

Week of 4/30-5/4

M 4/30-Pennies for Pasta Assembly all grades in the auditorium from 12:45-1:15

T 5/1-

W 5/2-PLC in respective classrooms by grade level then meet in room 9 @ 2:30

Th 5/3-Cluster Meeting

F 5/4-Cinco De Mayo Celebration at CPJMA 5-9pm

Week of 5/7-5/11-SBAC TESTING BEGINS ALL WEEK-SHHHHHHH!!!!!!, District Teacher Appreciation Week

M 5/7-Staff meeting room 9 2:30 pm

T 5/8-National Day of the Teacher

T 5/8- VAPA meeting at CPJMA

T 5/8 SSC Meeting in room 9 @ 2:30

W 5/9-National Nurse Day

W 5/9-Attendance Awards –(K-2 8:00-8:45) (3rd-5th 8:45-9:30)

W 5/9-Staff Appreciation fish taco bbq 12:30-????

W 5/9-Certificated Prep

W 5/9- Family Science Night

Th 5/10- 5^th grade Gator by the Bay education day at Spanish Landing

F 5/11-Muffins with Moms-Sanchez and Tran in the auditorium

Week of 5/14-5/18-SBAC TESTING ALL WEEK-SHHHHHHH!!!!!!

M 5/14- Author Assembly (CW Trisef, Oracle Series) grades 3^rd-5^th @ 11:00

T 5/15- Musical Rehearsal-room 16 in the auditorium @ 12:30

W 5/16-PLC in respective grade level classrooms meeting in room 9 @ 2:30

Th 5/17-

F 5/18- SART meetings all day

F 5/18- Yokohama Sister Society Multicultural Series after school starting at 2:30 in the auditorium

Crown Point Junior Music Academy

Monday Morning Memo

Week of 4/23-4/27

I wanted to say thank you to everybody for being fully engaged in our recent Guided Reading and Balanced Literacy professional development.  Whether this is a refresher or you have never officially received training, I look forward to you teaching lessons with a renewed focus.  

Congratulations to Vanessa Abreu for winning the Carson Scholarship.  She is a tremendous quality representative from our school!!!

Congratulations to Kirian Bhowmik for receiving the honor of being the student of the month.  It is a well-deserved award for a wonderful student.

Instructional Focus-

As always, I will refer to your weekly calendar and the Critical Concepts 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 containing trimester 2 DRA data 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.

PD-
Please remember to request your own subs

1st/3rd Release- Monday, 4/23/18 full-day in room 9

4th/5th Release- Thursday, 4/26/18 full-day in room 9

Administrative Professional’s Week-

Don't forget that we are celebrating Tra-Viecia and Cathy Monday morning in the lounge. We appreciate you supporting our potluck that day as well.

PLC- this week…..formative data, agenda, minutes all shared with me in your PLC folder

HVAC Installation-
The district is continuing to install our HVAC system.  Please know that they are putting their supplies on the basketball court next to the fence that is next to the field.

Guided Reading Book order-
I just signed off on the order and the process has started.

Recess Duty-

Group C

Important Dates-

Week of 4/23-4/27-Administrative Professional’s Week

M 4/23-Administrative Professional’s breakfast potluck

M 4/23-1st/3rd Release full-day Guided Reading and Balanced Literacy

M 4/23 Earth Day 5th Grade Walking Field Trip

T 4/24-5th grade promotion pictures

T 4/24- Coffee with the principal

W 4/25-Administrative Professional Day

W 4/25 PLC

Th 4/26- 4^th/5^th Guided Reading and Balance Literacy PD full day in room 9

Th 4/26-Kinder Musical Performance

Th 4/26- Take your son/daughter to work day.

F 4/27-

Week of 4/30-5/4-Pennies for Pasta Fundraiser begins

M 4/30-

T 5/1-

W 5/2-Certificated Prep

Th 5/3-Cluster Meeting

F 5/4-Cinco De Mayo Celebration at CPJMA 5-9pm

Week of 5/7-5/11-SBAC TESTING BEGINS ALL WEEK-SHHHHHHH!!!!!!, District Teacher Appreciation Week

M 5/7-Staff meeting room 9 2:30 pm

T 5/8-National Day of the Teacher

T 5/8- VAPA meeting at CPJMA

W 5/9-National Nurse Day

W 5/9-Attendance Awards –(K-2 8:00-8:45) (3^rd-5^th 8:45-9:30)

W 5/9-Staff Appreciation fish taco bbq 12:30-????

W 5/9-Certificated Prep

W 5/9- ActWrite Performance-1:30 pm

W 5/9- Family Science Night

Th 5/10-

F 5/11-Muffins with Moms-Sanchez and Tran in the auditorium