K8 Weekly Memo

Today starts our school-wide campaign on Finding the Joy in Reading. Every day for the next month, all classrooms will set aside 15 minutes for both students and their teachers to "drop everything and read." DEAR Reading will help our students make reading a priority and a healthy routine. 

A Community Newsletter will be going out early this week to highlight this campaign. Please join in this activity with your class. 

Good Read

Some of our students sometimes demonstrate behaviors that disrupt and interfere with learning.  Our responses to disruptive behavior will either escalate or de-escalate behavior.  Here are two good reads that provide great insight, strategies, and ideas for de-escalating students.

De-escalation is the process of calming down a situation before it escalates further. It is helping to slowly bring the temperature down before it reaches a boiling point. This is critically important skill for all educators…Read More

This practice brief provides practical, research-based strategies educators can use to de-escalate challenging student behavior in the classroom. Despite the development of supportive, safe, and predictable school environments, students may, at times, become agitated, and their behavior may escalate to unsafe levels Read More

Points of Interest

Tuesday PLC Rotation  (7:15 - 8:00 AM)

This week is our Committee Work time.  Please be sure to check with your team.

1st  – Committee Work for 2023-24

2nd – PLCs at Work

3rd – Staff Meeting

4th – PLCs at Work

5th – PLCs at Work 

LID - PLC at Work

Field Trip Request Process

Please help improve your field trip planning and communication by following the steps below:

1. Online Field Trip Request Form - Two Week

2. Submit Requisition - Two Week 

3. Update Student List - One Week Out

4. School-Wide Title Field Trip Report

Classroom Library Purchases

Please submit your $300 classroom library requisition by Monday, February 12th.  These funds are part of the school improvement budget and are intended to support classroom reading.  

Virtual Book Fair

Please consider hosting a Virtual Book Fair with Scholastic's Book Club during this Joy of Reading Month. 

Character Strong

In the staff room, there are a few printed-out Playground games and activities printed to use these coming weeks with our K-5 grade students. These games all talk about the importance of honesty, so try and continue these conversations and discussions with one another! These games also highlight our previous traits our kids can connect with!

Middle school: Character Strong Lessons 22-25 in February 

Elementary: Reviewing Character Strong Lessons on Monday morning

 

Calendar

Monday - 02.05

• Stand-up Meeting, 9 AM

• Student Support Team Meeting, 10 AM

• Office Meeting, 1 PM

• MS Boys Basketball @ Valley, 3:45 PM

• Arts in Schools Program Meeting, 5:30 PM

Tuesday - 02.06

• PLC, Committee Work 7:15 AM

• Coach Patsy on Campus 

• 4th-grade helmet safety class

• MS Boys Basketball @ Home, 4 PM

Wednesday - 02.07

• MTSS Round-Table, 7:45 AM

• District Leadership Team Meeting, 8:30 AM

Thursday - 02.08

• MS Vaping Prevention Assembly, 8:10 AM 

• MDT Meeting, 9:30 AM

• MS ABC Field Trip-Copper Bowl

• MS Boys Basketball @ Home, 4 PM

Friday - 02.09

• Student Access Day

• WASA Cohort 2 District Leadership Workshop, 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM

UP and Coming Events:

• Classroom Library Requisition Due, Feb. 12th

• Next Week Attendance Meetings

• BLT, Feb 12

• Presidents' Day, Feb 19

• Normal Friday, Feb 23

• Regular Scheduled School Day, March 22nd