PTO Student Helpers - please identify students in your classroom (1-2 in 4th & 2-4 in 5th) who are responsible enough to work a 30 minute shift during the PTO carnival and/or help clean up following the carnival. Give me the student names today as I will meet with the students on Monday. I want to treat it as an honor or award for being so responsible! This will help the games committee staff the games as they do not have enough parent, community and teacher volunteers as of yet.
Curriculum PLC - I am about 1/2 way through the team minutes and it appears there was a lot of good discussion and productive work. If you have questions or concern from your meeting this week please see me. I will be posting the minutes on our website so all teams have access to each other's information. The K-5 math team has the adoption process narrowed down to 2 series. Please talk to Michelle or Mark if you have questions or feedback. This team will meet again next Wednesday after school.
Message from Betty Brummett - I want to share some preliminary information about Summer Literacy Institute which will be held August 10 & 11. The focus will be on speaking, listening, and viewing (the other literacy components found in Iowa Core Curriculum). Dr. W. Christine Rauscher will be the main presenter for the two days. LEA participants will receive $75/day, notebook with materials, and a professional book. This is on Go Sign Me Up now -- there is a limit of 75 participants. Please share this information with your staff. There will be a flier on the web site with more information in the near future.
New 2nd Assessment - A reminder that we will not be doing ICAMs this spring as we will be moving to a new 2nd assessment, Measures of Academic Progress (MAP). The 5th grade will be piloting this new computer based assessment the first full week of May. On April 27th, Sue and Jessica will be involved in a full day training to learn more about the assessment.
Congratulations go out to Jan & Lowell for being new grandparents (again)! I know Jan will have fun hanging out with her new "little" grandson next week. Also, a belated congratulations should be extended to a former Washington family member, Nate and Sarah Perrien, as they welcomed their 2nd child earlier this month!
Thank you to Mark and Sandra for attending the PTO planning meeting this week. The next PTO planning meeting is at 4:30 pm on Monday, April 27. A few items all teachers should note from this week's meeting:
- Teresa Euken is in need of ribbon (any size & type) for the baskets. Contact her.
- Staff helping before the carnival will be asked to help put the baskets together sometime after school next week and the following week.
Dates to Note
April 17 - 2nd Annual Reading on the Square
April 20 - 2:55 Assembly (Fehring students present?); PLC Time
April 23 - 5th Grade Music preview for 4th grade (9:20 am)
April 24 - 4th Grade Iowa Day (8:30 am - 12:45 pm @ History Center)
*April 24 - Individual Professional Development (Grades due)
April 27 - PTO Planning Mtg (4:30 pm @ IPS)
*April 27 - 5th Grade Music Program (7 pm @ MS)
April 29 - Curriculum & Instruction PLC
May 1 - Oregon Trail Day (all day)
May 6 - Building PLC
Students & adults can now play the Oregon Trail game online!
The old version: http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html
Marge, don't discourage the boy. Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals!... except the weasels.
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