Sunday, October 14, 2018

October 15th

Wish Well
  • Those that have been affected by Hurricane Michael.
  • The students, families and teachers in North Carolina that are not able to go to school on the East Coast because the schools are heavily damaged (Onslow County, Pender County)
  • Shannon Mckenna’s father 

Celebrations 

  • Travis, Alexandria and Mallory for helping out at the Grounds Day!
  • Shannon McKenna, Alexandria Judge-Lenkeit and  Maggie Lohr completed the Magnet Snapshot walkthrough to provide information on ways to improve our efforts within our Magnet display, marketing and communication!
  • Stacey Branson on the birth of her second child!

Critical Thinking

Weather Days - Reminder that Thursday and Friday were banked days for students. Staff members will need to work the hours or take leave for the days as these serve as either workdays or student times. Make up hour sheet.

Mentees (Mentor Program) - Do you have a student that could use a mentor to connect with outside of the classroom? Would you like to mentor a student? Student service team is collaborating to support our students through the mentoring program. Fill out this form - Mentee/mentor form. See Amy is you have questions or concerns about the mentoring program.

Feedback form -- Please consider providing us with feedback and suggestion as the school year goea along - here is the link 

Readvolution-  You all are rocking it!!  We are one of the top contenders in the county for minutes read (we are a small school too!!!!)

To my dismay, I cannot break down the data the way I anticipated.  I can get overall minutes read for the whole school, but that is it.  So, I am asking a favor... Shellie suggested this as an idea (Thanks Shellie!!!)-   If you select the Readvolution under Rapid Identity, you will see a list of your students.  If you have a student add the total number of minutes read and then submit it on this form it will be really helpful.  I will be more than willing to help anyone if this is not possible.  I will send out a link every couple of weeks.

Please remind parents to have their children read.  

Science Professional Development-  If interested, check out this link.

Creativity


Afterschool Clubs-TEK Clubs begin this week!  That now makes 3 clubs occuring weekly (Fitness-Monday’s, TEK-Wednesday’s and LEGO-Thursday’s).  See roster document here as needed.  Front office staff will make an all call and also update transportation change document with club rosters each afternoon.

Writing Continuum Training- The county is seeking teams of teachers who are interested in focusing on writing across the content areas within their school and growing students as writers.  If you are interested, please see the following information in this link.
Hall Displays -  as a follow up to Jodee Gupton's presentation Just a reminder that high quality hall displays should:  connect to our Gifted & Talented theme, include a title and standards addressed, and include visual appeal.

Collaboration

 

Magnet Fair is Saturday, November 3rd from 9-12pm. If you can attend, sign up in the workroom (working in shifts). Prospective parents love to hear from staff!

 

Central Area Digital Learning Coordinators- Greetings from your Central Area Digital Learning Coordinators, Kurt Hurelbrink & Juliette Kuhn. We have created a website to introduce ourselves, as well as to provide a very brief monthly newsletter that will include tips, resources and information about Wake County digital initiatives. The website can be found at http://bit.ly/CentralDLC and the October Newsletter is at http://bit.ly/DLCNewsOct. If you have any questions or needs, please email us or direct message us on Twitter!

 

Communication:

ELA Standards- Please be sure you are embedding the following standards into your lessons.  We know our limited schedule is challenging, but wanted to make you aware that this is still an expectation.  

Handwriting
RF.K.2 Print upper- and lowercase letters.
RF.1.2 Print all upper- and lowercase letters legibly.
RF.2.2 Print all upper- and lowercase letters legibly and proportionally.
RF.3.2 Create readable documents with legible handwriting (manuscript and cursive).
RF.4.2 Create readable documents through legible handwriting (cursive).
RF.5.2 Create readable documents through legible handwriting (cursive).

Unicorn Trot-  UPDATED/CHANGED!!!!

Pep Rally on Friday October 19th 2:30 for k-2 3:00 - for 3-5

Spirit Week
Monday Oct 22nd - Crazy Socks and Hair
Tuesday - Oct 23rd - Favorite Sports Team
Wednesday - Oct 24th - Hat Day
Thursday - October 25th - Pajama Day
Friday - October 26th-  Race Day - Underwood School Family will receive their Race Shirts
*** Unicorn Trot times will be available soon, we are working around a field trip, learning experience and lunch/specials

CogAT Testing-
Due to the weather CogAT testing has been rescheduled to Monday (Oct. 15) and Tuesday (Oct. 16) of this week.  

Important Dates Document-  Please double check this against the school calendar.

October 15th - 7:45 MTAC (Media Technology Advisory Committee in the Media Center

October 15th and 16th - Cogat (3rd grade -- 11:30 - 12:15)

October 17th - 7:45 Benefits meeting for all staff

October 17th-  RTA Test

October 18th- CDAT Meeting at 7:45am

October 19th  - lunch provided by PTA

October 19th - Unicorn Pep Rally -- k-2 - 2:30 - 2:50 and 3-5 3:00 - 3:20

October 26th - Unicorn Trot (& staff lunch provided by PTA)

October 31st - Make up day (elective schedule; staff breakfast provided by admin)

November 6th - Business Meeting - Agenda

November 12th - No School (Veterans day)

November 13th - Leadership Meeting

November 13th - Foundation Pre-Giving Tuesday Celebration at Lynnwood Concern from 4-8 pm

November 20th - Early Release

November 21-23 - Vacation and holidays

November 27th - School Improvement Meeting

November 27th - Foundation Giving Tuesday

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