Wednesday, September 23
Today is day 2 on the specials calendar.
Fourth grade planning day
WS Little symphony for fourth and fifth grade at 10:15
Any donations for Mr. Funderburk should be given to Mrs. Sawyer. If you would like to donate sick leave, see her as well.
Mrs. Scott has started a blog at http://kscott-curriculumcorner.blogspot.com for the latest curriculum updates.
To better streamline the field trip process, I am asking all future field trips be submitted online directly to me for approval instead of either Mrs. Snipes or Mr. Johnson. Once your field trip is approved, I will forward it to the proper administrator to secure buses. You do not need to resubmit any field trip info given to them. Just from this point forward.
PBS corner-
The PBS committee met to discuss questions, provide clarification and make any direction needed at this time. Things are going well for the most part. Here are a few things we would ask staff to address:
The Cafeteria is an area that needs renewed focus. Students understand but are not consistently following the posted expectations. Teacher behavior is the biggest factor to impact student behavior. For the next two weeks, we want to highlight and focus on cafeteria behavior. We will make sure the cafeteria portion of the PBS video is shown despite the problems we are having with the broadcast camera. We will announce what channel to turn to after the morning announcements on Wednesday to re-broadcast that part of the video. We are asking teachers to review and reteach cafeteria rules using the PBS handbook. We will make sure the cafeteria monitor correctly applies PBS philosophy and monitors student behavior. Teachers if you are eating in the cafeteria and not having duty free lunch, I expect you to monitor and help students self-monitor voice volume. Remember this rule of thumb: If you are standing (in line for any reason), voice volume 0, if you are sitting (at table), voice volume 1.
Teachers with classes that continue to have difficulty adjusting their behavior may be asked to provide more direct supervision during lunch.
Tables for Voice Volume 0 (silent lunch), guests, and overflow will be labeled soon so that no one will be confused about where to go.
Tomorrow's blog will contain clarification for using the classroom discipline form to contact parents.