Crown Point Junior Music Academy

Monday Morning Memo

9/24-9/28

 As we focus on Tier I instructional best practices I am happy to see many highly effective strategies being used daily in your classrooms.  Also considered highly effective is your physical environment.  At this point, all classrooms should have focus wall posted as well as student work.  The physical environment will be part of our trainings and we will be doing a school-wide gallery walk of every teachers' physical environment soon.

Below is a picture of Number Talks in a Kinder classroom.

Below is a sample of a focus wall in a 1st grade classroom.

College Spirit Fridays-

We are hoping that staff can join in College Spirit Fridays by wearing your favorite college or university shirt.  More information to come from Mrs. Zittle. Once you get that information please share and encourage College Spirit Fridays with your students!

Welcome Back Red Packets (folders)

Please encourage your students to have everything turned in by September 24th.  If 100% of all the forms are turned in, I have been told by the office staff that I will be dying my hair a bright color and Mary Schlagle will be styling it as well.

Enrollment-

We are still low on enrollment.  We have approximately 313 students as of Wednesday, 9/12/18 (more students have dropped since last week).  We finished the school year with 355 last year and with overall enrollment across the district declining, they predicted 348 (I believed it was 344 last week and it is corrected now) putting us short currently by 35 students.  We will continue to review the enrollment and I will share with you any decision when it is made.

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 at 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 (See below)-

All times are 1:40 pm-2:00 and will be on Thursdays.  At 2:00, they will be sent back to class (we were having problems with the younger ones finding and being released to parents)

9/20/18

10/18/18

11/29/18

12/13/18

1/24/18

2/28/18

3/14/18

4/18/18

5/30/18

Recess Schedule-

Week D

Week of 9/24-9/28

M 9/24-

T 9/25- Leukemia Assembly TK-5^th 1:30-2:00 pm

W 9/26-Picture Day, PD/PLC 1:00-3:30, PBM Open House

Th 9/27-Fire Drill @ 1:30 pm

F 9/28- Social Committee Gathering @ 3:00 pm

Week of 10/1-10/5

M 10/1-

T 10/2-

W 10/3-

Th 10/4- Lockdown Drill @ 1:30

F 10/5-Child Safety ID Cards starting @ 8:30, ASB Speeches in auditorium grades 3rd-5^th from 12:45-1:30 pm