Celebrations
Early Release: Underwood PTA will be providing lunch from Viva Chicken.
Lunch will be available in the media center starting at 11:00. Here is the
Agenda for our meeting- see you all at 2:00 in the cafeteria.
Agenda for our meeting- see you all at 2:00 in the cafeteria.
Underwood is working with Leith Volkswagen of Raleigh to provide shoes
for 16 students that are in need of new shoes via their Sneaker Drive
Meet Tracey Hall - Instructional Assistant in first
grade - My name is Tracey Hall and I am “newbie”
to the field of elementary education. I frequently
substituted at Underwood last year and realized
how much I enjoyed teaching, learning and growing
with young and old alike. I am a native North
Carolinian (born in Durham and raised in Tarboro)
and have lived in Raleigh for over 30 years. I
graduated from UNC at Chapel Hill but was raised
as a DOOKIE! Go figure. I did explore life outside
North Carolina after college while working for an
advertising agency in Washington, DC. Prior to
joining Underwood, I spent the majority of my
career in the home building industry as a sales and
marketing manager.
I am married to my sweet husband Mike and have two dogs, Lucy and Molly.
Mike had a kidney/pancreas transplant this past January (less than a year ago).
I share this because the transplant was a huge success and we are so blessed!
He is doing very well. I have four nieces and two nephews ranging in age from
18 to 31. They have been a joy and keep me young!
Next to being with family and friends, I love sports, movies, reading, yoga,
spending time outdoors and singing in my church choir.
Everyone is so kind and helpful at Underwood and I love being part of the
Underwood family.
Wish Well
- Sharon Hansen
- Powell Elementary School Family-had a staff member unexpectedly pass away last week
Communication:
Giving Tree - Underwood's Holiday Giving Tree is up! If you would like to assist a family
with their holiday gift needs, please come by Ms. Schnitzer's office and take a tag from the
tree. We are asking parents and staff to purchase gifts of a maximum of $30 per tag. Please
wrap each gift and put the tag on the gift you are giving, so we can keep track of your
purchases. Please sign up to give gifts on a sign-up sheet in the counselor's office.
Gifts are due by Monday, December 10th. All gifts can be brought to Ms. Schnitzer's office.
Thank you everyone in advance for your participation and for helping Underwood families!
Toy Drive - Underwood is collaborating with Two Men and a Mom morning show on WRAL
FM, MIX 101.5 with their annual Toy Drive for the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Triangle. For the
week of November 26th - November 30th, you can help us by bring an unwrapped toy to our
school and add it to the collection bin in the front office. On Friday the bins will be collected
and the toys will go to students that are a part of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Triangle. If you
have questions please reach out to Ms. Schnitzer or Mr. Shillings at 919 856-7663.
Book Fair
Nov 19 Teacher Wish List Breakfast 8:00am
Nov 27th – Moonlight Reading
Nov 29th – Early Risers Breakfast
Reminders:
- Send returned paperwork items to the Book Fair Mailbox in the Mail room. Allmoney needs to be processed by the PTA. Please do not bring in a donation slipto use to buy at the book fair.
- Attend Teacher Wishlist breakfast to fill out yourteacher wish list forms.
- Check the Teacher Gift Certificate board throughout the fair to see if you have anygift certificates to spend. The board will be kept behind the checkout desk.
- Consider signing up for a reading time slot for Moonlight Reading - Sign up in thework room if you'd like to be a guest reader.
the all call. (The bus program on the tv will NO LONGER be used)
Check the shared Underwood google team drive, folder-Daily absences and info for the
Minor referrals should be communicated to parents about incidents that occur that you
write up. Building a relationship and opening communication with families is powerful.
Major referral communication to parents will be done by administration. Specialists will
print the minor referral, along with the updated cover letter with their contact
information, and pass it along to the homeroom teacher. This will allow the
homeroom teacher to be aware of the incident and ensure the referral gets home in
a folder/bookbag.
Communication Challenge (2nd Quarter)- Link to the form. The categories for communication are:
phone call; emails,texts,notes, memberhub/newsletter, conferences. 1 point for a
Memberhub newsletter - 2 points for an individual family email - 3 points for face to face
conference or phone call.
Eschools- Eschools is back up and running. Please be sure you login to the system. It will ask you
have you reset your password. If you need help or have any questions, please see Alexandria.
Together we are better! Feel free to share feedback/celebrations anytime here
Creativity
Let’s learn more about YOU!! In the celebrations section of this blog, we have been
featuring our new staff members in an effort to learn more about them. Now it’s your turn!
We would like to showcase all staff members throughout the course of the year. (These
will also be archived in the Team Drive). If you are willing, send Ashley 2-3 paragraphs as
well as emailing me a picture of you!Things you might want to mention:
Family
Hobbies
Role at Underwood
What you love about being an educator
Past experiences
Critical Thinking
Behavior Support Session: November 29th at 8:00am will be a behavior support session
open to any staff member! Bring your behavior challenges and members of the CDAT team
can listen and help problem solve new strategies to help support you!
There are also two info sessions along with fellow Unicorns that have been a part of the
program or considered it at one time.
Readvolution- Is over! I will update the chart outside of the cafeteria this week and take it down next week!
You all did a great job at encouraging your students to read! Way to go!!!
You all did a great job at encouraging your students to read! Way to go!!!
Collaboration
United Way! - Please be on the lookout for your United Way link. The campaign is underway!
Any little bit helps! If you contribute please let me know. Your name will be entered for one of 3
Target gift cards. Thank you so much for all that you do to support the community we serve.
Media Center- Keep in mind that we have the following resources/spaces that are open for
you to utilize for your classes and electives:
- Media Center: When you sign up your elective/class for the Media Center space,you have access to 24 Chromebooks and 10 iPads during your scheduled time. Contact
- 12 Magnet Laptops: These are for use with electives only, with priority given to Robotics.
- *See Andrea if you do not have access or need assistance with this.
There are a number of after school clubs going on: Fitness Club on Monday’s, TEK
K-2 Foundational Training If you have been notified by Christine about participating in the K-2
modules. You do not have attend the same cohort each time (but you will need to do all 7 modules).
Conscious Discipline Corner
Quote of the week:
Resource of the week: Podcast: Implementing Conscious Discipline with older
children (great for 3-5!) found here
Important Dates Document- Please double check this against the school calendar.
November 20th - Early Release
November 21-23 - Vacation and holidays
November 27th - School Improvement Meeting
November 27th-Moonlight Reading 5:30-8:00pm
November 27th - Foundation Giving Tuesday campaign begins
November 29th-Behavior Support Session; 8:00am
December 3rd - 7th - IOWA Tests (3rd grade)
December 4th - Business meeting
December 5th - Zoe’s Family Kitchen spirit night
December 7th-TA meeting at 7:45am
December 11th - SIP / Leadership meeting
December 18th - Elective Share
December 21st - Early Release
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