Sunday Shakedown
Weekly Memo for Washington Elementary
Principal Post
Thank yous, appreciations, and celebrations:
- Thanks to all for your endless hours of work this week preparing your classrooms and materials for our students.
- Thanks to our custodians for setting up and taking down furniture and tables for all of our trainings this week
- Thanks to Donna and her SACC team for flexibility this week
- Thanks to Lauren for the front bulletin board, it is looking great.
- Welcome to Rhonda Marsh, new IA in our SLE for behavior (starts Monday)
- Welcome to Denine Mixon, who will be a new custodian, start date undetermined
- Prayers that we can quickly find an IA for LCF and LCG (preschool). Angela Yeager has decided to go to nursing school.
Week of August 6-10
First day of school 1-5th
Parent orientation for K in auditorium 9:00
Remember PS and paper attendance by 9:00
Library Week
Tuesday:
First day of staggered enrollment in K 8:15-12:00
First Lego League informational meeting for interested coaches 5:00 @chamber.
Wednesday:
Ssecond day of staggered enrollment in K 8:15-12:00
Thursday:
Third day of staggered enrollment in K 8:15-12:00
Emily Helphinstine here to do a Phonics Deep Dive with K-2 during planning (K teachers to join LCA)
Friday:
All k kids present until 12
Coming soon:
Thursday, August 16-All interested boys to auditorium at 8:30 for Boy Scout meeting
Collaborative days will be Thursdays this year. Week 1: Literacy, Week 2 Math, Week 3 Literacy, Week four Science/PBL
Shasta's schedule will be Monday and Thursday at GWES, half day on Fridays
August 14 GWES night at the KMets-Join us for some fun and games
August 16 DRA optional literacy training at Jefferson @3:45
August 21 General/open PTA meeting to invite all families to get to know our PTA and recruit members
August 30 VIP Night
FYI and Reminders:
- Please remember to complete all of your online training
- So far we have 7 members for our Patriot softball team to support Mallori and Zoe's quest..Consider joining us-we need a few more-family members welcome
- We will be converting Li's chinese room into a Science resource room. We have ordered numerous science kits that align with our new standards. They will be barcoded and have a "card system" for check out. If you want to borrow the kit, simply take a card to Kim or Lauren in the library.
- We will rely on Google calendar this year as the primary reminder of dates and meetings. Please add "George Washington Calendar" to your calendars and it will populate into your personal calendar. You can also add an app on your phone. Faculty meetings upcoming are August 23 (joint with other schools for the purpose of sharing updates to evaluation rubrics) and then the second and fourth Mondays after that in August. A few months only have one meeting due to holidays or breaks. In addition, the professional learning calendar can be added that way as well, and toggled on and off for viewing.
- Professional learning log is in our team drive sent last week. Next week, on Thursday, during planning, we will discuss this. (August 16)
- Please remember that fundraising sites like "Go fund Me" ,"Donor's Choose" and "Fundly" are not allowed in KCS. No KCS employee raising money for KCS, your classroom, or school events can use these sights to raise funds. Secondly, if you are applying for any kind of grant you must follow KCS procedures. This means that you complete an Intent To Apply form. This form starts the process with the district to "register" your fundraiser and clarifies any district wide concerns with a particular grant or grant funding. You may not apply for a grant unless this form is completed accurately, returned to ASC, and gets Board approval. Amy Doran (378-2174 ) can answer any follow up questions.
- Please use the following Google form to submit your idea for a club you would like to sponsor. I believe the leadership team agreed that most teams preferred Friday as the club day, again at 8:30-9:10. Start day to be determined.
- You will recall from med training that we need to teach our students what to do in a medical emergency...find the nearest adult and report what you see. When you have completed this (by August 30) fill out the following form:
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Link to the WSIC, please be certain to watch each day: https://goo.gl/vjw2eP