Monday, June 3, 2019

June 3rd


CELEBRATIONS!
  • Cindy for helping organizing all the subs each and every day!  
  • Intro to Stage’s “Singin in the Rain” was fantastic!!  Way to go Mrs. Spiggle and Mrs. Kellie!!!! Your classes were amazing!
  • Mallory organized the Volunteer Tea!  Thanks to everyone who helped! Those who helped set up, provide food, decorate and clean up SUPER THANK YOU!  A special thank you also goes out to Elizabeth for all of her vision and help!
  • First three days of EOGs are complete! Way to go Jen and Mallory. Thank you to all of the people that have helped out the first few days.

Wish Well
Sherry and family
Allison and family

eSchools
If you have not heard, we are transitioning away from eschools in June!  At your earliest convenience, please do the following:
-  complete ANY AND ALL evaluations within eschools
-  after all evaluations are complete, please PRINT your transcript!  

Eschools will not be accessible after June 30th! I am sure they are hoping everything will transfer over, but having your transcript will be back-up if something happens.    

The new platform will not be available to register on until July 15th.  If you have a specific course you need to take, please see me.

Please let me know if you need any help or have any questions.

SIP Chair Members-  Please work with your team and nominate who your team would like to represent at the SIP team.  This does not have to be a rotation of who is up. We are looking for a team member that is passionate about school improvement, would be a great voice to represent your team and someone that can bring the information back to the team members.  Please submit your person by Friday!

We will meet as a SIP team on Tuesday, June 11th at 7:45.

Science Replacement stuff
Please be sure you review your needs for your science curriculum.  I am organizing a list of things now. Once you get your list, please check to be sure the materials are not already in the upstairs workroom.  

EOY Picnic
Saturday, June 8th- End of Year Picnic at Park 12:30-2:30pm. Location-Greystone Indoor Park. This is a drop in style event where kids/significant others are of course welcome! There is a link below to sign up for food. We are thinking heavy appetizer type lunch food items, desserts, and any paper products you are willing to donate. It is BYOD (obviously your drinks have to be non-alcoholic). We are looking forward to this fun event! Picnic Sign up

EOG Dates Reminders
  • We have arrived to testing week!  Starting Wednesday our Unicorns will be rocking the EOGs and EXTEND 1 testing!  We totally got this! Check the testing information here
  • Monday June  3rd- 5th grade ELA
  • Tuesday June 4th- 5th grade Math
  • Wednesday June 5th- 5th grade make ups
Administrators may pick up their buckets starting at 8:15am each morning.  Please Remember NO TECHNOLOGY is allowed in the testing rooms (teachers and students SMART watches included).   

LETS GO UNICORNS!  Thank you everyone for your help during this time.  :)

Updates from media center
Feel free to schedule Media Center Stations with Barbara. Stations are a fun way to engage students in higher level thinking skills during these last hectic weeks.

Cumulative Folders
Please remember to be collecting your work samples to go in the cumulative folders.  If you have any questions, please reach out to Alexandria. Additionally, please remember you need to do the following to put in the cumulative folders:
Photocopy Elective Report Cards
Photocopy Report Card

Professional Development Opportunities
Summer Writing Institute:  Due to popular demand, we are offering for the 3rd year in a row the Teacher Summer Writing Institute from June 17-21st at Carroll Middle School.  Please share this opportunity and Teacher Summer Writing Institute with classroom teachers at your school.  We have 50 spots available. First come first served!

Forest to Classroom PD
Forest to Classroom PD will providing a PD focused on STEM Education July 22-25, 2019 at Haw River State Park.  For additional information or to register, click here.

Skype a Scientist
Want to give your students the opportunity to get to know a real scientist without leaving your classroom?  SKYPE A SCIENTIST is a program that allows students to chat with scientists about concepts they are learning about in class.  Click here for more information.  

Assessment Literacy Canvas Course
Are you wanting to enhance your science assessment skills?  Check out the Assessment Literacy course found on Learning Central.  You can enroll in the self paced course designed for educators looking to explore various assessment topics- from common types of assessment to a framework for creating and designing assessments.  You can even earn CEU’s.

Save the Date for SciREN
Are you interested in meeting and talking to local scientists about how to adapt their research to use as material in your classroom?  Then please save the date for the 6th Annual Scientific Research and Education Network (SciREN) Triangle Networking Fair and Educator Open House at the The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh on 9/26/19.  SciREN brings K-12 STEM teachers, informal educators, and other interested parties together with STEM researchers from various universities and institutions around North Carolina. Click here for more information.  

Curriculum Information-  
Spotlight on 2019-2020 Lesson Revisions:
Throughout this month, be on the lookout for the 2019-2020 curriculum links to be posted on Cmapp!
Although the order of math units at all grades will remain the same, all units have been updated based on teacher feedback collected this year.
Skype a Scientist
Want to give your students the opportunity to get to know a real scientist without leaving your classroom?  SKYPE A SCIENTIST is a program that allows students to chat with scientists about concepts they are learning about in class.  Click here for more information.

Mclass updates-  Please read the following mClass EOY Reminders.

End of year Checklist - see here  (you received a paper copy, however links are live on this document)

Together we are better!  Feel free to share feedback/celebrations anytime here

Calendar/Important Links:
June 5th: Staff breakfast celebration
June 7th:  Field Day
June 7th:  First Friday (CAM):  6-8pm
June 8th:  Staff Picnic; 12:30-2:30
June 11th:  School Family Assembly
June 11th: Fifth Grade Celebration -- Day’s events
June 11th:  Student’s last day
June 12th: Workday

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