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Every child. Every day. Whatever it takes!
May 5, 2020
The Moreau Heights family is committed to providing a positive and safe learning environment to support responsible and productive citizens.
Our Vision
Moreau Heights is a school where students are eager to learn and where staff are excited to teach. Students are successful at Moreau Heights in growing and meeting personal and academic goals. Teachers are innovative and a collaborative team. We are a family of learners and a community of great achievers!
Let's Chat! Weekly Zoom Schedule
9:00 - paras
10:00 - grades 3-5
11:00 - grades k-2
12:00 - specials, BXI, reading
1:30 - special services
Newest Updates
Communication! Communication! Communication!
Keep up the connections with families and connections with students! Love seeing the google meets, the way students respond to each other and how teachers connect purposefully with kids. Thank you also for working to support students who are struggling with iReady or classwork.
Summer School
- student registration information has been shared with parents 3 different times
- We will want all classroom teachers to talk to families about summer school interest and registration in the next 2 weeks.
- Registration for students open until May 22.
- we will provide tech to students who were NOT sent home with tech (kinder and 1st)
Class lists - ALL DONE! WOOHOO!
PGPs must be completed and submitted to me by May 15th.
Progress Reports for special education services must be printed and placed in student learning packets, by the to be taped closed at 9:00 on May 19th.
Distribution of student owned materials and collection of school owned items - We will create a schedule for the week of May 18 for curbside exchange.
Class orders due May 28.
Google form student portfolios due by May 28.
Classroom inventory with Kelly due May 28 (grade level teachers).
Kelly's Koaching Korner
I just wanted to shout out to the amazing, dedicated staff we have. It’s a blessing to work with each of you. I adore all your unique talents and qualities. I wish we were able to celebrate YOU in person this week.
Housekeeping
I mentioned in our zoom meeting this week two things that I wanted to clarify as you begin the process of cleaning/organizing your classrooms.
1. Be thinking about organizing your district purchased resources for a quick inventory of all mentor text and teacher manuals for School-wide, your math teaching materials, and science teaching materials.
- Email Kelly when your resources are ready to be inventoried. She will complete the inventory.
- Inventory of district purchased resources must be done before May 28.
2. Also, as you collect and organize bookroom books please, collect all books from student book boxes and desks. It is a good idea to do a quick run through of your classroom library to ensure book room books didn’t get misplaced. Remember to keep the book collection the district purchased, separate from your personal books. We will need to inventory these district purchased classroom library books as well. This summer we will be working in the bookroom. Therefore, please help us out by returning all books in the correct location. Even if you have a single, please find it’s home.
If you have any questions as you are working to ensure we have district materials for next year, please contact me.
Tech Tid-bits
https://sites.google.com/jcschools.us/jcschoolstechandlittidbits/home
Work Schedule
Please remember that we are expecting you are available Monday-Friday from 9-2 for phone calls, emails, Google Meets, check-ins, etc. These are the "work from home" house that are required. We may be contacting you or a student or parent may contact you for assistance during this time. You all have done an amazing job being available and we appreciate that!
The following items are included in your weekly schedule:
Connect with students multiple times across the week (google meet and phone calls)
Check iReady multiple times across the week, support students as needed based on performance through a Google Meet or phone call
Checking and responding to email, multiple times a day, from district or parents
Working on work for the next week (unless you have finished submitting for the year)
Update your classroom website weekly with the template of assignments to be completed
Building Use Schedule
When beginning to pack up your room, please use your scheduled time. Again, if you are needing more time, please contact us so we can know who and how many are in the building.
Monday:
AM - 5th Grade, Gorman, Cowan
PM - Connelly
After 5pm - Farmer
Tuesday:
AM - Cremin
After 5pm - Farmer
Wednesday:
AM - 1st Grade
PM - Holliday, Schoeneberg
After 5pm - Farmer
Thursday:
AM - 2nd Grade
After 5pm - Farmer
Friday:
AM - Humphreys, Ewing, Gragg
PM - Vignola
After 5pm - Farmer
Saturday:
PM - Kindergarten
After 5pm - Farmer
Sunday:
AM - 4th Grade
PM - 3rd Grade
After 5pm - Farmer
Google Classroom
It's important that you are monitoring what students are doing in Google. You can periodically check in on the chat features and your class to see what students are doing. If you have concerns with what the students are doing, please contact parents. If there are additional concerns, let Sue or Dawn know so we can address it.
We want Google Classroom, Chat, and Meet to be a safe and valuable space for students during this time. We don't want it causing additional stress because some are not using it correctly.
It is best to make your link for Google Meet hidden or create a nickname for your meet. Below is a video for making your link hidden.
Here is a link that explains how to ensure you're kids are not able to meet on Google Meet without you!
A helpful video about the newest update that merges Google Classroom and Google Meet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP5W9HpzxOg
District Google Meet resource
Google Meets
Here is the schedule for when teachers will be holding their Google Meets each week:
Hammann - Thursday 1:00
Yates - Friday 6:30
Steinman - TBD
Ogden - TBD
Reece - TBD
Bateman - TBD
Schell - Monday 1:00
McGeorge - Monday 1:00
Kliethermes - Tuesday and Thursday 1:00
Trusty - Tuesday and Thursday 1:00
Gaines - Monday and Friday 12:45
Boeckman - Monday 3:00
Albers - Wednesday 6:00
Mantle - Tuesday 2:00
Williams - Wednesday 2:30
Johnson - Wednesday 12:30
Kerr - Wednesday 1:00
Watts-Hayes - Thursday 1:30
Food
Please remind them that they can pick up food at ANY of the locations. It does NOT have to be the school they attend.
Follow our school, district, Dawn, and Sue on Twitter.
@Dr_D_Day (Me)
@suehaugenteach (Sue)
@JCMH_tweets (Moreau Heights)
@JCSchools_ (District)
You can also follow our school hashtag at #MHmissionpossible
You can follow our district hashtag at #JCStrongerTogether