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Scarborough's Summary
Hello All! Happy Friday! Just a note that I am monitoring teacher attendance closely (especially Friday absences).
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Teacher Workday
United Way Campaign will need 15 min. to kick off our United Way Event! We will meet as a staff at 8:30 am in the cafeteria. After that, teachers are on their own to plan all day!
Inspiration for Your Week
Kudos Korner from the Admin Team
Amanda Clark
Megan Davis
Brittany King
Brittany Norris
Thank you 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th grade teachers for your flexibility and hard work during online testing. You guys rock and it's clear that you are using eCLASS with your students!
Thank you Vikki for working hard to ensure that teachers have all the materials they need. Gre appreciates your initiative and hard work!
Media Center News
Great News! The retail store, dd's, sponsored a fundraiser for our school library and raised over 1500 dollars. The books have been ordered, so expect to see lots of new fiction and nonfiction with STEM, social studies and literature connections and some new additions to our Spanish collection. Here are a few of the titles you may want to look for in the the coming weeks to support your teaching:
- Juan Bobo Goes to Work: A Puerto Rican Folk Tale
- Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
- The Elephant's Friend and Other Tales from Ancient India
- Electricity (DK Eyewitness Books Series)
- Jasper's Story: Saving Moon Bears
- How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?
- Just a Minute!: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book
- All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel
- I, Too, Am America
- My Name is Truth: The Life of Sojourner Truth
- Pop!: The Invention of Bubble Gum
- Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, Alabama
- Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx / La juez que crecio en el Bronx (Bilingual, English/Spanish)
- Papa's Mechanical Fish
- Water Is Water: A Book About the Water Cycle
- Wow! I Didn't Know That: Surprising Facts About the Human Body
- Rosie Revere, Engineer
- Arctic Adventures: Tales from the Lives of Inuit Artists
- Tiny Creatures: The World of Microbes
- Lemonade in Winter: A Book About Two Kids Counting Money
This is just a sample of what we are getting. The order include 97 titles and over 313 books!
Counselors' Corner
Great Days of Service is a county-wide food and toiletry drive supporting seven Gwinnett food banks. We will be collecting toilet paper, shampoo, toothpaste, toothbrushes and canned goods.
October 19-2I
I've discovered a problem in our recent Critical Attendance Report. Please check your roster to make sure you have everyone accounted for. If you have anyone on your roster and they haven't stepped foot in you classroom, please let me know. Several children have been marked as absent when actually they've been in school. I will be sending an email of students with questionable absences. Please get back with me asap. Thanks
Custodian Closet
After your students pour liquids into your classroom sink, please have them rinse and let the water run for a while to prevent a clog in your pipes.
Remember to have your students stack their chair daily, it help my staff do the vacuuming and carpet cleaning.
If you notice any snags in your classroom carpet. please trim the yarn fiber as close as you can to the floor to prevent it from unraveling any further.
Technology Tips
I would also like to commend Terilyn Smith, Jennifer Cailor, Katie Ruhl, Katherine Crownover, Megan Davis, Tonia Johnson, Stephanie Smith, Christine Hallick, Sabrena Hawkins, Christina Encarnacion, Charli Sanders, Andrena Hicks, and Tameika Hairston for attending the Ya'll come Session on Wednesday. They were enthusiastic learners and left with tools to get their kids clicking.
Charli Sanders, 1st grade
Kim Friedel, 3rd grade
We're on the way....eCLASS numbers for the week
Coaches' corner
Teachers,
Please remember to use CURRENT AKS standards on your lesson plans, pacing guides and deconstruction templates. Gwinnett County uses Academic Knowledge and Skills standards only. This information can be found in your Analyzing the Standards book, Literacy Online Communication Center (LOCC), and AKS 2015-2016 icon (found on the portal home page).
We really enjoyed seeing the Architecture of a Mini-Lesson modeled by our FABULOUS teachers from the District Learning Cohort!
A million THANKS and KUDOS to:
Jennifer Cailor and Katie Ruhl- K
Simone Simmons- 1st
Gena Cornelius- 2nd
Akila Young- 3rd
Nichole Berry- 4th
Donnica Martin- 5th
Parent Connection
Please support and join the Rockbridge PTA!
Membership is $5.00! You can hand your membership forms and payments into the Parent Center
Thank you for your hard work collecting Title I documents.
Please continue to collect these documents and hand all signature pages and yellow folders into the Parent Center if you have not done so already.
Thank you! Thank you!
Calendar of Events
10/12 8:30 am meet for United Way quick kick off- cafe
10/12 1pm New Teacher Network grade finalization Lab A
10/12 Grades Finalized by noon
10/12- Teacher Planning Day
10/14- AP county meeting
10/16- ITBS Testing meeting
10/16 Report Card go home
10/19- ITBS Testing begins
10/21- Mr. Hunter visits
10/21- Parent Teacher Teams Night
10/22- Parent Teacher Teams Night
10/23- New Teachers! Imagine Learning Training (during planning) All teachers welcome!
10/26- Rockbridge Learning Cohort Session #2
10/29- Lady Mustangs Skate Night