The Yuletide Villager
Week of September 10, 2018
McAdenville Elementary
H.O.P.E.
Have Only Positive Expectations
The vision of GCS is to inspire success and a lifetime of learning.
Open House
Kindergarten - KEA Meeting beginning @ 6 PM
3rd Grade - RTA Parent Meeting beginning @ 5:45 PM
Thanks, Admin Intern Mrs. Crosby for putting together our MVP family challenge.
Teachers are required to attend this family event. Title I Sign-in sheets have been prepared for each of your classrooms.
School Events Agenda
- DAY 10 of 10-Day Attendance
- Please make sure this is correct.
- I guess everyone understands that GCS was serious about getting the count right. It is important to our classrooms to get a correct headcount for each student in our district and each child in our build is important in this process.
- All Electives were in session last week. Please let me know if there were any issues with the schedule or concerns otherwise.
- MCLASS Testing Schoolwide daily now through - Sept. 21st
- Teachers if you did not turn your BOY MCLASS testing schedule(calendar of students/plan) in during PLC do so on Monday. Please do not have me contact you for this.
- Monday - 1:45 - Girls to Gym for girl scouts (wait for the announcement)
- Tuesday - 1:45 - K-2 to Cafe and 3-5 to Gym for boy scouts (wait for the announcements)
- Tuesday - 3 PM SIT meeting
- Tuesday - 5:45 PM 3rd Grade RTA Parent Meeting
- Tuesday - 6 PM Kindergarten KEA Parent Meeting
- Tuesday - 6 - 7 PM Drop-In MVP Open House for all others
- Wednesday - 8:30 AM 3rd Grade BOG Testing - No Movement or Noise in the testing areas Please
- Thursday - ALL CLASSROOM TEACHERS have PLC during your specials times today. Report to the PLC room as soon as you take your children.
- Friday - All classroom teachers have planning during specials due to Thursday's schedule change.
LOOKING AHEAD
Instructional Practices Teachers Meet Afterschool
- September 19
Interim Reports
- September 27th
Instructional Focus
Instructional Focus/Concentration:
Building The Foundation Professional Development. The sessions will be offered throughout the school year.
Instructional Focus/Concentration:
Engagement and Worksheets
How often are you using worksheets for instruction and homework each day? How can we reduce the number of worksheets used during the school day?
Teacher - Student relationships
How can we change the tone of how we address students? It’s not what you say sometimes it’s how you say it. Model what they expect. The modeling sessions may have to be repeated a number of times, but model the expectations (Behavior and Instruction) with grace and respect for the student.
Agenda and I Can Statements - Daily Expectations
Each classroom should have an agenda listing what will be taught each day.
Each classroom should have I Can statements posted each day and tied to a standard.
- Standards Mastery
- Conferring
- Building Assessments from Standards-Based Instruction
- Small Group Instruction
- Student Proficiency
Reflections
- This week please notice that I will begin to conduct walkthroughs for instructional look-fors with documentation. I am hoping to leave lots of positive reflections with you as I exit your teaching and learning environments.
- Please stay with your students on the playground.
- Students proximity is too far away from the teacher while at recess. This is creating unsafe play situations for students.
- This may mean that you give your students a set area of play. Example if your class is on the upper area two or three cannot be allowed to wall the track as they end up too far away for moments of time.
- Duty begins at 7:30 AM in the morning if you are an AM duty person be on time as your absence interferes with the cafe staffs ability to prepare and serve breakfast.
- Be respectful of the others you are working with
- Afternoon Duty staff - Please watch your students
- If you are walking students out for car riders please LEAD (they should follow you)the students and make sure they are in the cars before your turn to go back to the building.
- We now have umbrellas for all of our duty staff. Please do not remove from the school for any other purpose
- Front bus and vans Students need to be reminded to WALK even if you have to take them back to the building to get it right.
- Cafeteria seating is still being worked out but if you have suggestions I am listening.
- Please let me know if you see a solution to making things flow
- Student noise levels must remain low
- Students appear to be really happy
- Great teachers are the key to happy students (I see you building relationships)
- Thank you for doing what you do to make our students and families proud of our school
- Wildcat Pride!
New SCOOP from DPI
MES Social Worker - Whitney Hill
Please use this referral form for student Social Work Request.
MES School Counselor - Eric Otis
Please use this referral form for student School Counselor Request