Monday, November 30, 2009
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Today is day 2 on the specials calendar.
Revised ESL schedule starts today. There may be some initial "glitches" (some lunch overlapping) I will speak to teachers involved to iron them out. Just keep in mind the overall purpose of balancing student needs based on available data and serving the identified needs is driving force behind the switch.
Other schedule changes involve rehearsal for the holiday musical starring our own fifth graders. Mrs. Ayers has worked to have a block of afternoon rehearsal time and , as a result, has contacted certain grade levels responsible for switching music special time. No other specials should be affected and the change is no more than one day (scheduled music day). If she has not contacted you, your class will attend music as normal. A more complete schedule of rehearsal times will be given out at the next staff meeting.
Speaking of which, our next staff meeting is Tuesday afternoon at 3:15 or as soon as buses leave in the media center. We should have a brief presentation, a report by hospitality and a special sharing opportunity.
PLC's will meet as scheduled. Assistants covering, please be where you need to be on time. Remember, your responsibility will be to meet the class at the end of their special and monitor the students for about 20 more minutes. Teachers are expected to have very easy tasks for you to monitor with students. You are not expected to teach.
Please keep Mr. Funderburk in your thoughts and prayers. While he did return for a brief time, he had a relapse of sorts. He will be out until January. We are working with Mr. Leak to help fill in when possible.
Other activities:
Skate night
K-2 Science carnival this week.
A full schedule of December's activities will be included in the weekly update to be sent later today.
PBS corner is back-
With the holiday season upon us, The guidance dept and the PBS team have worked hard to get some very special items in the school store. These items will be excellent gifts children can give to parents. If I am not mistaken, adult staff members have been invited to preview the items for purchase. The point is, The PBS team would ask staff to "blitz" students with den dollars like we did the beginning of the year to allow students to have several dollars to spend in the store.
As always, we focus on giving den dollars for following PRIDE in and out of the classroom and take a second to state why the dollar was given-"You followed hallway rules or you showed respect by---".
If the DVD equipment is operating, we will also show the PRIDE dvd this week.