Feb 15 7:30 Safety meeting (Tammy Lee) and ELA/Math Cadre / 2nd grade planning day (Jennifer off campus)
Feb 16 Jennifer at CATE conference Feb 16 Starlight Family Dance 6-8 PM
Feb 17 No School Feb 20 No School Feb 22 PIP Day / Kinder planning Day Feb 23 5th grade planning day Feb 24 1st grade planning day Feb 28 4th grade planning day Mar 1 Star Teachers- writing assessment / rubric work Mar 13th Staff Development Day-- all NCS conference style in the morning, Breakout EDU in the afternoon! March 22/23/24 Angel Island Lucky/Assante Apr 10th- 17th Spring Break May 11 Touch of Understanding- 4th grade assembly rotations 8:40-11:35 (lunch schedule will change to 11:35-- a swap with 3rd grade) May 11 Angel Island
This month we have been working on rolling out more formally our PBIS (Positive Behavior Interventions & Support) along with reviewing our refined BEST expectations for students. At Wednesday's staff meeting, Amy and I shared the positivity challenge for the month of February-- a time to pump up the positive communication for students, especially students who need additional support and practice with doing their best. For February, we invite you to take part in the challenge -- by not communicating home for minor issues, and by celebrating what we want to perpetuate. We hope your students and you have a happy month! If you'd like, we have a Twitter challenge to go along with it! This is for all staff--we hope you have fun!
Do you find inspiring things to share on social media? Here's something I saw this morning on Facebook that made me smile. Sara is an A3WP teacher at Arcade Middle School in San Juan.
Dates & Details
Feb 6 Minimum Day/ Teacher PD 1:00-3:30 in library (campus supervisors & teachers) PBIS PD Feb 8 Grade Level Meeting Agenda BEST Expectations Feb 15 7:30 Safety meeting (Tammy Lee) and ELA/Math Cadre / 2nd grade planning day (Jennifer off campus) Feb 16 Jennifer at CATE conference Feb 16 Starlight Family Dance 6-8 PM
Feb 17 No School Feb 20 No School Feb 22 PIP Day / Kinder planning Day Feb 23 5th grade planning day Feb 28 4th grade planning day Mar 1 Star Teachers- writing assessment / rubric work Mar 13th Staff Development Day-- all NCS conference style in the morning, Breakout EDU in the afternoon! March 22/23/24 Angel Island Lucky/Assante Apr 10th- 17th Spring Break May 11 Touch of Understanding- 4th grade assembly rotations 8:40-11:35 (lunch schedule will change to 11:35-- a swap with 3rd grade) May 11 Angel Island
February 4, 2015, was the first annual Global School Play Day for students in schools around the world. In year one, over 65,000 students participated! Year two of Global School Play Day took place on February 3rd, 2016. In year two, over 175,000 students participated from around the world! We are so excited to be participating for the second year in a row! We will have play rotations for your grade level at your normal walking time, but feel free to play MORE! This is designed to be a day for unstructured play for students. In the past, teachers have planned tech free play in the classroom. Here are some ideas from the #GSPD2017 website at globalschoolplayday.com
CALL FOR TOYS!
Tell your class to bring anything they wish to play with to school on Wednesday, February 1st. The only restrictions: they must bring toys and these toys may NOT require batteries or electricity. No devices. Give them some ideas, since today's kids rarely play and often own very few toys: board games, dolls, Legos, blocks, trucks, cars, racetracks, playing cards, empty cardboard boxes, markers, jigsaw puzzles, blankets (for forts), social games (charades, Pictionary, etc.) The only exception on the electronics rule would be a board game that has an electronic timer, an electronics play kit, or similar. How about taking your students out in the dirt or snow to dig, explore and get messy? You may want to show your students photos of GSPD15 to open their eyes to unfamiliar types of unstructured play.
TWEET! SHARE AND REFLECT :)
After the event, be sure to share your pictures, ideas, and reactions on social media (with parent consent) and hashtag them #GSPD2017. Perhaps you could add a post to your blog sharing about the experience. Ask your students to reflect on GSPD as well! Be sure to talk to your students and if possible, their parents, about the necessity of daily unstructured play. Your students will most surely ask if they can have play days more often. A great answer is, "Of course! Every day can be play day with your friends in your neighborhood after school. Keep playing like you did at school today, but just do it after school."
Dates & Details:
Feb 1 Global School Play Day
Feb 6 Minimum Day/ Teacher PD afternoon (Positive Behavior Support and Intervention)
Feb 17 No School
Feb 20 No School
Mar 13th Staff Development Day-- all NCS conference style in the morning, Breakout EDU in the afternoon!
Apr 10th- 17th Spring Break
February planning days:
In the month of February, please find a date for your grade level to take a full day for planning. On this day, you will have time to finish your year long curriculum maps as a team, and also to develop an informational writing rubric and work on developing math assessments. We will provide more info and structure prior to your day, but in the meantime please select a day as a team and let us know. Only one grade level should be out on a particular day to maximize subs. Please add your preferred date to the Google Doc linked here.
Jan 23 No Students- All NCS PD- Schedule here. We will be at Star all day
Jan 24-27 Great Kindness Challenge- Info here Jan 24-27 GLAD demo in Erica's class
Jan 27 Report Cards go home
Feb 1 Global School Play Day Feb 6 Minimum Day/ Teacher PD afternoon Feb 17 No School Feb 20 No School Mar 13th Staff Development Day Apr 10th- 17th Spring Break
Welcome back! I hope you are rested and refreshed after your winter break! One of the things that I love about the new year is the sense of a fresh start, the change to get organized and simplify. I was inspired to do this at home over the break and I am surprised at how much a neater space contributes to a sense of calm. With this in mind, I'm excited to share that the C and D hubs have beautiful new rolling cabinets that will hopefully help those spaces feel and look more organized and beautiful for you and your students. (B hub has some awesome storage already) There are 5 cabinets for C and 5 fir D, so not one for every grade level or teacher but 500% more storage than is there already :) Vinni and Francisco will be unpacking them today, and they will be ready for your items in the next day or so. Please work with your hub-mates to decide how to organize the items and share the storage space. If there are items you no longer want or need, please place near the large hub door and they will take the items away. I hope the new space is helpful to you! Have a great week! Jan 4 Staff Meeting Agenda
Jan 13 Winter Festival 5-8 PM Please add your theme to the Class Basket doc
Jan 16 No School- Martin Luther King Day
Jan 20 End of First Semester
Jan 23 No Students- All NCS PD
Jan 24-27 Great Kindness Challenge Jan 24-27 GLAD demo in Erica's class
Jan 27 Report Cards go home
Feb 1 Global School Play Day Feb 6 Minimum Day Feb 17 No School Feb 20 No School
Reading Is Our Superpower!
WIN Update -- yay for round one!
WIN Groups:
Week of January 4- wrap up last group if needed, assess for your measurable goal (some groups may have already done this-- and you may take that week off if you have finished your unit/goal for the first round.) Please coordinate with your grade level and let me and Jan know)
January 11 grade level meeting- record results of measurable goals for round one , regroup and establish new groups and measurable goals (record in grade level doc)
Next round begins January 15th with new groups- the second week of January (week of January 8) there will be no groups so that you can plan, and Jan and Olga can help assess if you need help (the last week of round two will be the week of March 2)
Jan 13 Winter Festival 6-8 PM Please add your theme to the Class Basket doc
Jan 16 No School- Martin Luther King Day
Jan 20 End of First Semester
Jan 23 No Students- All staff PD
Jan 23-27 Great Kindness Challenge Jan 24-27 GLAD demo in Erica's class
Jan 27 Report Cards go home
Feb 1 Global School Play Day Reading Is Our Superpower! WIN Update -- yay for round one!
WIN Groups:
Week of January 4- wrap up last group if needed, assess for your measurable goal (some groups may have already done this-- and you may take that week off if you have finished your unit/goal for the first round.) Please coordinate with your grade level and let me and Jan know)
January 11 grade level meeting- record results of measurable goals for round one , regroup and establish new groups and measurable goals (record in grade level doc)
Next round begins January 15th with new groups- the second week of January (week of January 8) there will be no groups so that you can plan, and Jan and Olga can help assess if you need help (the last week of round two will be the week of March 2)
We hope you will enjoy a fun filled week and a half celebrating you and counting down to the first day of Winter. Below you will find the themes for the next five days! Be on the lookout for an awesomely ugly sweater to wear with your favorite pair of jeans on Thursday!
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Dec 14 Grade level meeting- no agenda, just notes in the grade level doc
Dec 21 Pajama Day students- Annual staff bling it on day! No meeting-- the NCS holiday breakfast is at Star this year starting at 8:00 :)
Dec 21 First day of Winter
Dec 22 through January 2 Winter break
Jan 3 Back to School
Jan 13 Winter Festival 6-8 PM Please add your theme to the Class Basket doc
