The Yuletide Villager
Staff News catching up and the week of 1/22/2018
At McAdenville Elementary School, we strive to educate the whole child; mentally, physically, emotionally, and socially.
M.E.-H.O.P.E.
McAdenville Elementary - Having Only Positive Expectations
DUTY WEEK B
Looking Ahead
This week's DUTY TEAM: B Week
mCLASS MOY testing CONT.
Jan 22 - End of Second 9 weeks
Jan 22 - School is in session Not a Teacher Workday anymore!
Jan 23 - Grades completed in Gradebook Pro by 2:30 pm with printed reports to Mrs. Smith NO EXCEPTIONS
Jan 25 - Report Cards Home
FRIDAY FEB. 2nd - mClass MOY testing ends
i-Ready report card (school developed) and mCLASS reports will be sent home following mClass testing.
Looking Forward to February!
Coming up...
February
- We HEART Books -Book Drive
- The "REAL" AdvancED visit to GCS second week in Feb.
Need a little inspiration? February is:
- Dental Health Month
- Black History Month
- Take Your Family to School Week
- Valentine’s Day
- American Heart Month
Confronting Negativity
Published by darrinpeppard on January 11, 2018
Why all the negativity? We live in a world where being negative, slamming the ideas of others, or being divisive for our own gain is sadly quite common. Negativity may show itself in organizations in many different ways. Complaining, that endless droning on from Debbie Downer can suck the energy out of a room in under two seconds. Jon Gordon refers to these people as ‘Energy Vampires’. Dismissing ideas or immediately stating why something won’t work is another timeless classic. My personal favorite, passive-aggressive behavior, the eye-roll, or even agreeing to some effort or initiative and then doing the opposite when no longer around the group.
Great leaders know that negativity must not be allowed to persist in their organizations. It’s one thing to make the statement, another to actually do something about it.
Stay positive even through the change
Staff, I will be the first to say that yes Darrin Peppard is speaking about me! I have days that I wake up feeling Negativity...I pray it away and make the most of my day in many cases. Then there are days that it gets the best of me and you get to call me an Energy Vampire. Nonetheless; I am sure I have company in this. I dare not think I'm alone in an eye roll here or there.
I am asking you to do your best to accept the things that must change and create a little learning curve in your life. Yes, I am asking you to help kill the VAMPIRES that roam the halls of MES. We can overpower them if we band together and work smarter not harder.
Please if you are still waiting on me to cancel my request to get lessons in PLANBOOK.COM stop waiting and join the other 90% of the staff as I will not waiver. It is better for many reasons. Why...did you just say why? Beware that is Debbie Downer or Negative Nancy coming through your conscious. You are better than both of those ladies hands down. But here are a few whys...
- Access plans anywhere that has internet!
- Common Core Standards already loaded. We can even have other standards loaded for our school.
- Create and send substitute plans easily - add a lesson plan tab called "Sub Notes" where you can type in all of the little things that a sub needs to know (how to turn on the morning news show, when students leave the room for support services, etc.). These things are now ready to go anytime you need a sub, and you don't have to re-type them over and over or copy and paste. Simply log in to Planbook "fluff out" your normal plans so they will make sense to the sub, and send the link to one of your teammates, Ms. DeForest or myself.
- Share plans with teammates
- Bump or Extend a lesson with 1 click. Planbook bumps all of your lessons forward or backward automatically when you do this. There's even an option to lock a lesson so that it doesn't get affected by a bump (for an assembly, SNOW DAY, etc.)
- Templates save precious planning time.
- View & copy last year's plans.
- Color code classes any way you want. Just because you skip the paper planner doesn't mean your plans can't be cute!
- Attach files and web links for easy access. This is especially helpful to have things right at your fingertips.
So back to the Negativity. I personally feel like it is wasted energy. Let's vow to be supportive and positive of what is best for our students.
CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED
I'm Lt. Col. Matt DeVivo, State Public Affairs Officer for the NC National
Guard, based in Raleigh.
The NC Guard has many unit of Soldiers and Airmen overseas right now serving
their country.
We started a "pen pal" letter writing project with a local school in the
Triangle area recently. The students write a short introduction letter To:
A North Carolina National Guard Soldier and it seems to be working well.
We now have an engineer unit (505th Combat Engineer Battalion) from Gaston
County deployed and thought we can do the same letter writing project with
your school.
My Response:
We are thrilled to begin this project. We are 100% in!
Lucretia Rice
So Teachers in grades 3, 4, and 5, I will send you a number of students and permission slip for you to obtain permission from the parents of a child or two, take a picture of and have them write letters to our local soldiers that have been deployed. I would like to pair up some of the students that may write well together. I hope this will not be a burden but once the request was made I felt honored to have our students to make sure our soldiers are supported! Teachers in Grades K-2 you will be asked to do this as a class project and write one letter per class. No student or teacher is required to participate this project came as a request from our local National Guard Unit. Just let me know if you do not want to be included.
I will be creating a "Flat Wesley" to travel with the first batch of letters and to be used for the picture taking of our students and soldiers.
Thanks for your help!
Other information:
Intro letter is very basic; allowing student to practice proper letter
writing formats and in one or two paragraphs introduce themselves to the
Soldier i.e. their name, town they live in, hobbies and ask one or two
questions they may have about being a soldier in the National Guard and
other types of questions. They could also draw a picture of anything they
want to express themselves or show patriotism.
There are 30 Guard Soldiers in the 505th wanting to participate.
Where do your students stack up with AR?
YES!
Yes, we will!
Teachers, your AR results are looking better. Trust me as you have more and more students reach our AR Goals you will have more and more students show progress in ELA. Reading is fundamental and I am not the first person to make that statement.
Congrats!
100% participation and 88% average score.
PLC Meetings and Schedules
- 3rd - 10:15am-11:15a
- K / K-1 / 1st @ 8:30 - 9:3:0am
- 2nd - 10am -11am
- 4th / 5th -12:40pm - 1:40pm
Please be on time to all classes and arrive for pick-up as scheduled.
LRR
AIG Schedule
8:15-9:00 5th grade
9:15-10:00 4th grade
10:15-11:00 3rd grade
AIG and Composers meet together.
Renewing Your License in 2018?
If you are renewing your license in 2018, you will want to bookmark Educator Effectiveness’ Online Professional Development website. On the site, North Carolina educators have access to nearly 70 learning modules categorized by credit amount, professional standards, and credit type (including the 2019 required Digital Learning credit). These self-paced courses are free and accessible 24 hours a day.
MES Social Worker - Whitney Hill
MES School Counselor - Eric Otis
Know your Purpose (EVERYDAY)
My purpose is to use my leadership to inspire a culture of learning and excellence that guides my school and community to educational success while having happy, healthy and safe stakeholders.
McAdenville Elementary School
Email: lrrice@gaston.k12.nc.us
Website: https://www.gaston.k12.nc.us/mcadenville
Location: 275 Wesleyan Drive, McAdenville, NC, United States
Phone: (704)836-9117
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/McAdenvilleElementary/
Twitter: @msprincipalboss