Team Bobcat News
MIS Weekly Update
Week of May 31st - June 3rd
Laughter is an instant vacation. - Milton Berle
Happy Birthday
Rhonya Lackey - June 3rd
Upcoming Important Dates
Mon. 5/30 - No School - Memorial Day
Wed. 6/1 - ELA EOG
Thurs. 6/2 - Math EOG
Mon. 6/6 - 4th Grade Field Day (Afternoon)
Mon. 6/6 - Rising 4th Grade Parent Night - 6:00 p.m.
Tues. 6/7 - 6th Grade Field Day and Cookout
Tues. 6/7 - 5th Grade Awards Ceremony (Morning) - 9:00 a.m.
Tues. 6/7 - 4th Grade Awards (Afternoon) - 1:00 p.m. / 5th Grade Field Day (Afternoon)
Tues. 6/7 - MIS Talent Show - 6:00 p.m.
Wed. 6/8 - 6th Grade Final Awards Ceremony - 9:00 a.m.
Wed. 6/8 - Last Day of School - Dismissal @11am
Important Reminders
Staff Breakfast on EOG days: We will be serving breakfast on EOG mornings to staff members as a token of appreciation for your hard work! Please come hungry!
Student Breakfast on EOG days will be as follows:
Wednesday:
Chicken Biscuit or sausage biscuits or Pancake sausage stick (because the food for this day was already ordered and shipped so I had to make due)
Chocolate Milk
Juice
Raisins
Thursday:
String Cheese
Gold fish
Chocolate Milk
Juice
Raisins
Breakfast carts will be setup according to hallways (# of students). For example, if 5th has 270 students that cart will have 270 milk, juice, raisins, and biscuits.
Each hallway will have its own cart staffed with a child nutrition employee and a laptop. The students will pick up their breakfast on their way to their room, enter their pin number and eat in the designated area the teacher assigns to them. When the bell rings at 8:30 2 of the 3 carts will return to the kitchen. The 3rd cart will stay in a centralized location (main hallway) to provide breakfast for anyone who has not eaten (the teachers can verify at that point if someone needs breakfast) or late arrivers. She will remain in the hallway until about 8:50 and any teachers can send the leftover food, milk, etc back on this cart to the kitchen to be disposed of.
Here is the link to our End of the Year Checklist. Changes were made from last year's checklist so make sure to take some time to look it over! Please let us know if you have any questions.
4th Quarter & Final grades are due to Ms. Lackey by Tuesday, May 31st at 8:00 AM.
Here are the directions for entering your final grades into PowerSchool!
Proctors Needed! We only have 14/50 for math and 10/50 for ELA. Please share the link below with parents in any emails or newsletters you send out!
Laptop Collection Day - Friday, June 3 - All students will turn in their laptop, charger and extension chord on Friday. Students will KEEP their book bags over the summer just as they did last year. Please make sure students have saved important documents that they wish to keep prior to the collection day on Friday.
Awards Day(s) Reminder: We will be recognizing your students for A Honor Roll, AB Honor Roll, and Perfect Attendance at the awards ceremony. Yearly awards, PBIS, and any special recognitions will also be done. As a reminder, see above for the days and times set for each grade level.
We're getting closer to the time when we need books, cameras, speakers, etc. returned to the Media Center. If you aren't sure what you have checked out, you can look this up on Destiny.
- Go to MGSD Resources page
- Click on Destiny
- Click on Mooresville Intermediate School
- Click on Login
- Use your AD login (firstnamelastname for most staff and your regular password)
- Click on the My Info tab and you will see what Destiny thinks you have.
Click here for a video that shows you how to get there.
By the way, students may continue checking out books through Friday, May 20. All student books are due Friday, May 27. Teacher materials are due June 3.
Pinky Swear Triathlon: Pinky Swear Foundation is a fundraiser for pediatric cancer patients and their families. Pinky Swear Kids Triathlon is a non-competitive race for kids that will be held June 4th at the Ingersoll Rand Campus, Davidson. Pinky Swear will give $10 per $35 entry to each school with a minimum team of 10 participants. The sign up process is online; the students can fundraise separately for their teams but it is not required.
The MIS team code for MIS students and families is: MISTEAM
(You received an email from Dr. Smith this week)
ALL CERTIFIED STAFF AND THOSE DIRECTED BY YOUR PRINCIPAL ARE REQUIRED TO SIGN UP FOR 2 SHIFTS. (if you get an email from mgsdshiftboard@mgsd.k12.nc.us you are required to sign up).
Here is a link to a Google Doc with information and directions about Laptop Deployment 2016. It will look almost identical to last year, just a new location (MIS instead of MHS Annex). We strongly suggest that you review the shifts you wish to sign up for prior to Tuesday. This is only the login info, shifts will not be open for signup until Tuesday afternoon (May 31) at 2:00 pm. With all the end of year activities and testing, this was the best time for the majority of people to be able to login and sign up.
Available shifts are on a first come first serve basis. You should receive a welcome email from mgsdshiftboard@mgsd.k12.nc.us by the end of today (Friday, May 27). If you do not receive an email, check your SPAM/Junk folder. If you still do not find it, email Kim Cline kcline@mgsd.k12.nc. Shift sign-up opens Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 2:00 pm. You will not be able to sign up prior to that time.
Instructional Highlight
Mooresville High School sent some high school student athletes to visit MIS last week to give some words of encouragement to our kiddos about finishing strong, taking their time on their EOGs, getting plenty of rest, and simply showing students that they've been in their shoes.
Our student-athletes from MHS were able to make it down most of 5th and all of the 6th grade hallways this morning to encourage our students. There are plans for the athletes to return tomorrow to visit the classrooms that they missed!
Girls on the Run - Sole Hope
The Girls on the Run participated in a community service project supporting "Sole Hope." They collected jeans that were cut to make shoes for children in Uganda. The children there are dealing with a parasite that is causing major health issues that could be avoided if they had shoes.
The Girls on the Run Team were able to get 25 pair of shoes cut and sponsored this past week! Thank you to all those who were involved!
For more information on the project, please see the video below.
Code Club Celebration
Students had their last Code Club meeting last week to celebrate the work they had done this year. They set up their computers around the Media Center and visitors were invited to walk around to see what they have created. Below is a link to a project a student created.
A special shoutout to Ms. Thoennes for heading this club up!
Tech Tool Spotlight
Quizlet Live to Review Vocabulary before the EOGs
Classes across the school have been utilizing Quizlet and its new Quizlet Live feature and the kids are loving it! You can create a set of vocabulary of your own or you can search Quizlet's bank of sets already created by other teachers. There are tons of EOG review vocabulary sets for all subject/grade levels already created for you to use with no prep!
Past Tech Spotlights:
Top 5 Tips to Differentiate with Tenmarks
Zeal - math tutoring, practice, and exit tickets
GoNoodle for Brain Breaks
ClassTools.net for fun activity and game templates
Quizlet Live for small group vocabulary practice
Sploder! an educational arcade game creator
Plickers an instant formative assessment program with "clicker" sheets
Seesaw App for student driven digital portfolios
Playposit (eduCannon) interactive video creator
Discovery Ed Techbooks (Math, Social Studies, & Science)
Discovery Ed SOS Strategies
Tech Tools by Instructional Strategy
Kagan Refresh
Using Kagan Structures to Close the Achievement Gap
"Heterogeneous Teams
In the Kagan classroom, we create teams of mixed ability and race. We put black and white students on the same team. We put high-achievement and low-achievement students on the same team. We don't relegate low achievers to a low group and give them remedial curriculum or instruction. When we homogeneously group students by ability, we increase the likelihood of perpetuating or even exaggerating the achievement gap. Instead, we give all students the same challenging curriculum and have high expectations for all students to succeed. Through peer tutoring, modeling, and support within their teams, students who have the most to learn gain the most. As the early research and recent graphs show, everyone learns more, but there is a veritable "catching up" effect for the traditionally disadvantaged students.
Active Engagement
In the Kagan classroom, we use structures that actively engage every student. We require everyone play a part in the learning. In many classrooms, students can choose not to participate. They simply don't raise their hands. One student in a whole class of students is easily overlooked. The voluntary participation model allows students to slip through the cracks. In the Kagan classroom, non-participation is not an option. We don't tell our students that we want everyone to be actively engaged. We structure for active engagement. Students are in small teams. Each has an important role in the team. For example, in a RoundRobin, every teammate has their turn. Students are counting on their teammates to participate. They aren't lost in a crowd. The more we can engage all of our students, the more all of our students will learn.
Close the achievement gap with Kagan and truly leave no child behind!"
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