Friday Focus
Moreau Heights Elementary
August 25
Moreau Heights is a collaborative community focused on student growth with a commitment to excellence.
PBS lesson
Our PBS lesson for the week will focus on being responsible. This is a great time to reinforce our pledge with students, talking through the verbage we commit to each morning as a school.
Thank you for looking for all our friends doing a great job, using our positive specific feedback to reinforce, and using appropriate tone and words to redirect those students who need additional support.
Conscious Discipline Video - Button Pushing
Remember, ALL staff members (paras as well) as expected to attend our staff meetings so we are all working as a unified front for our students and each other.
Character Trait for August is Self-Discipline
Duties for the Week
Calendar of Events
August 28 - September 15 - iReady Testing (SLO) window
Monday, August 28
*Tier 2 mtg 3:30
Tuesday, August 29
*Elementary Principal's meeting 1 - 3:30 at BOE
Wednesday, August 30
*Orchestra demo for 5th grade in gym at 8:30
*Staff meeting for ALL STAFF 3:30 in library
Thursday, August 31
*Fire Drill talk thru in classrooms
*First day of collaborative plan schedule
Friday, September 1
*Fire Drill walk thru 9:30
Tuesday, September 5
* New Crew 7:00 a.m. in library
Wednesday, September 6
*Words Their Way training for grades k-2 3:45 - 5:45
Thursday, September 7
*District admin mtg 9:00 - 11:30 (Sue at Dix Rd)
*Back to School Night for grades k-2 (6:00 - 7:30)
Friday, September 8
*MH Family Time at 9:30
Beginning of the School Year Assessment Requirements
*Given that we have the 2:1 chromebooks in most classrooms, we will not create a schedule for all testing. I will let you as a team work on how you will flex your classroom chromebooks to accommodate testing - pulling chromebooks from 2 classrooms together to test, signing up for a chromebook cart to allow for testing, etc. Your team can be creative in designing a schedule to works for YOU!
Kindergarten - Letter ID (upper and lower), Concepts About Print, iReady (ELA/Math)
First Grade - DRA, iReady (ELA/Math)
Second Grade - DRA, iReady (ELA/Math)
Third - Fifth Grade - iReady (ELA/Math)
Letter ID, CAP, and DRA must be completed by end of September and must be entered in Infinite Campus by the first week of October. Holly and Leighann will provide a training at a later date for K-2 teachers.
Guided reading groups should be set up and begin within the first 3 weeks of school (after the launching section in the pacing guide.)
Reminders!
2. Daily Schedules from each grade level classroom and ID classroom teacher are needed!
3. Online training videos must be viewed by Sept 15
- An email was sent to you on August 7 from Michael Grissom at MSBA. These are your links, usernames and passwords for the required training videos for all staff. Explorer or Firefox are recommended browsers for these videos. They are to be completed by September 15. You will also need to log into Records and review and acknowledge the policies by September 15 as well. See email from Ashley Woods dated August 4 for more information.
4. Review and acknowledgement of district policies in TalentEd Records by Sept. 15
5. Be sure you can view Moreau Heights master calendar on Google Calendar
6. Grades/scores are entered into Infinite Campus grade book by Tuesday of each week.
Staff meeting on August 30th
Shout Outs!
*Shout outs to all our staff who worked with volunteers to make the eclipse event a special day for our students! Truly magical!
*Shout out from parent:
"We felt the need to pull our daughter out at the end of her 2nd grade year, because of some behavioral issues within the school that weren't being addressed adequately by administration. She returned to Moreau Heights last year for 5th grade and had a wonderful year! In our opinion, the school has fully recovered and I'm grateful that our daughter had a chance to finish her elementary years there!"
*Shout out to all our staff who have pitched in to help with needs across our building and supported colleagues! The support is SO appreciated and has helped our days run more smoothly!