March 1 - 5

Blog for March 1st - 5th  

Celebrations! Glendia for hosting Staff Trivia and creating the K-1 Family Trivia. Chris for creating the 2-3 and 4-5 Trivia. Chris, Jess, Glendia and Travis for hosting Family Black History Trivia Night!  From a 2nd grade parent:  “So, our amazing kiddo studied for trivia night tonight and he knew 15/17 questions on his own.  Even more impressive was that he cheered for his friends on the leaderboard!  Thanks for creating a culture that kids cheer for one another!!” Hello Ms. Frasier, Thank you so much for your Dancing through the Decades elective. Kaite LOVED it! She was so excited to demonstrate each dance and teach us her new moves.  This week was especially fun to do it in person. - Thank you for your effort and enthusiasm to keep  Ashley for organizing all elective materials for parents to pick-up or delivering to their classrooms.  Lauren’s students showcased in Marbles!  More information to come! The vaccine is available to teachers and we have many that have received it already!!!  Yay! Our Covid Subs have helped support students and teachers during the day!  Lynn Pearce, Kahina Smali and Taylor Goodson….we appreciate you! Cindy for calling many subs to ensure we have coverage.   Specialists for integrating 3rd grade Space objectives into their lessons! Courtney Apple has connected with many families to ensure attendance or needs are met.  Shannon, Jen P, Jessica and Sheree completed testing on the asynchronous day! Jennifer W and Lauren collaborated on an art project to celebrate Women's History! Elizabeth has made book collections personalized to elective content. Be sure to contact her if you are interested! Have a colleague to celebrate?  Share it here

Wishing Well Rachel Ward  Cheryl Wright

Important Upcoming Dates March 1st - New electives start  March 3rd - Asynchronous day (PLTs) March 3rd - PTA Board Meeting at 8:30pm - https://meet.google.com/aci-rquy-okx  March 3rd- PLT’s done independently- please put times on the staff calendar March 3rd- 1:00 SIP/Leadership Semester Data Review  March 12th - Teacher Workday  March 24th - Asynchronous day (PLTs) March 29 - April 2nd - Spring Break  April 5th - Calendar out day  April 6th - Teacher Workday  *Be sure you have this WCPSS 2020-2021 calendar  and updated with Groupings to reference for the year.

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Day to Day Items:

Attendance - take daily for your students -- if you are absent or planning to be absent be sure to put in Aesop so that it can be picked up by a sub. We have a full time daily floater and another floater here four days a week. These floaters are intended to be used for planned daily support.  Email Cindy and Alexandria if you have questions or need support  Face Coverings-  The county has updated the face coverings document.  Things that have changed are updated in maroon.  Please let us know if you have any questions.   FYI: COVID-19 Vaccination Effort Update-  The district continues to randomly select employees to participate in vaccination clinics from those who have completed the vaccine interest form. Those selected will be contacted directly by WCPSS to schedule their appointment. You are also able to sign up for vaccinations with our hospital systems, Wake County Public Health, and your county of residence. Please sign up wherever you can in addition to filling out the WCPSS interest form.   As a reminder if you do get an appointment, please fill out this form for Underwood,  Info on WakeConnect shares that employees with a vaccine appointment do not need to take their own leave or make up the time.  If you will be away more than 2 hours, please do the following: Enter the absence in AESOP as “sub not needed” Submit a leave from using the reason “Other” with “Vaccine” on the explanation line Timesheet employees will record hours worked and enter “E” in the leave code field

Week to Week Items:

Do you need instructional materials or something for your classroom? Be sure to use your  PTA Stipend The new round of electives begin on March 1st and end on May 14th. The following electives will “move” to their location: dance (no devices), drama (bring devices and headphones), music (no devices), band (no devices), PE.  Please write the names of these students down for the person covering your class.  It would also be helpful to have students Wake ID and passwords written down if someone is covering your class for electives. Materials for 4th Quarter:  Material pick up will take place on March 24th.  At this time there are only math packets to distribute as all EL materials have already been distributed.  If you have classroom specific materials for your students you will need to create bags for your students and ensure that all the materials you want to distribute are ready by the end of the day on Monday, March 22nd.   Unicorns Unite:  we will have the following staff connection activities: Yoga with Heather Burton Humble Pig Food Truck:  March 12th from 11:30am-1:00pm Barone Meatball Food Truck:  April 14th  from 11:30am-1:30pm Ideas for parent communication for students with ongoing absences  Women’s History Month slides Media and Technology Updates