Charger News
Every child. Every day. Whatever it takes!
November 1, 2019
The Moreau Heights family is committed to providing a positive and safe learning environment to support responsible and productive citizens.
Character Trait for November - Politeness
Check the Moreau Heights Shared Drive for Morning Meeting Lessons - Week 11
There will be 4 lessons provided with Second Steps as your lesson on Tuesday.
Morning Meetings - What's Next?
Greeting, Sharing, Activity, Morning Message
Second Steps lessons will still be done on Tuesday morning, but you will now have extra time for extending lessons across other days of the week.
Feel free to pull in some discussion of and practice of respectful responses to peers and adults as part of your morning meeting to support the focus on addressing disrespectful behaviors.
You can also plan to do some teambuilding activities as a class! There are several ideas in the Morning Meeting booklet provided to each grade level that has come awesome ideas to continue to develop your classroom community.
PLC - Collaborative Norms
Presume Positive Intent
Assuming that others' intentions are positive promotes and facilitates meaningful dialogue and discussion, and prevents unintentional put-downs. Using positive intentions in speech is one manifestation of this norm.
Put Ideas on the Table
Ideas are the heart of meaningful dialogue and discussion. Label the intention of your comments. For example: "Here is one idea..." or "One thought I have is ..." or "Here is a possible approach..."" or "Another consideration might be ..."
There will be table tents for each team to have visible at meetings to support the practice of these norms to support collaboration.
Calendar of Events
Monday, Nov. 4
*AS RED mtg (Streicher, Mantle, Cowan, Haugen) 9:00
*Darla Noble assembly for 5th grade in library 1:30
*PT conferences 3-7 (PTO will provide dinner)
Tuesday, Nov. 5
*Data discussions 1, 3, 5
*PBS meeting 3:05
Wednesday, Nov. 6
*District admin 8-10:30 (Sue out)
Thursday, Nov. 7
*Data discussions k, 2, 4
*PT conferences 3-7 (PTO will provide dinner)
Friday, Nov. 8
*Intruder Drill 8:10
*Staff event: Pottery at Unique Creations 6-9
Monday, Nov. 11
*Veteran's Day Assembly 9:00-9:45
*AS RED (Streicher, Cowan, Mantle, Haugen) 9:00
*KW RED (Streicher, Connelly, Day, Steuber, Humphreys, Lock, Cremin, Hammann) 10
*Lunch with Principal
*Veteran's Day Assembly for families 6:30
Tuesday, Nov. 12
*JEPD 1, 3, 5
*Title I mtg 3:00
Wednesday, Nov. 13
*Marty at MH full day
*Fire Drill (Time TBA)
*Faculty mtg 3:05 in library
*PTO Pizza Pick-Up
Thursday, Nov. 14
*JEPD K, 2, 4
*New Crew 3:05 in library
Friday, Nov. 15
*Charger Cart
*MH Book Fair 3-8 pm
Our Data Updates
Behavior Goals and Data
October of 18/19 - 72
August -October 18/19 - 171
October of 19/20 - 64
August -October 19/20 - 98
Students will earn 350 positive office referrals by December 20, 2019.
347 Positive Office Referrals as of 10/31
Attendance Goals and Data
87.2% as of 10/31
Academic Goals and Data
*iReady scores from our fall assessment are below
50% of our students on level based on April iReady assessment data, increasing from 44% of our students on level in math in April 2019 .
*iReady scores from our fall assessment are below
5th grade students will perform at or above the state average on science MAP test in spring 2020.
Book Study Highlight
Kelly's Koaching Korner - Rally Robin in Math
How’s math going? How can I support you?
Do you love a jean day? If so, download a short video of your students using Rally Robin in mathematics. Don’t forget to use accountable math sentence starters and Gambits. If you download a video, share it with me in Drive or email it to me, you will receive a jean day pass.
Shout Outs for Staff
Thank you to K-2 teachers for braving the weather to head out to the bus, then back in to rush through the activities for Safety Dog.
Thank you for your work in morning meetings. Hearing the lesson on the Unthinkables
Thank you for all teachers for the work done to get grades completed on time. Well done!
Thank you to Danielle McGeorge for all the help to people with grade card questions and setting up a special session to work with new staff through any grade card challenges!
Thank you Shannon Gann for organizing our Red Ribbon Week activities! The daily themes were super fun and the door decorations look awesome!
Thank you to our judging crew for taking time to judge ALL the AMAZING door decs AND to our classrooms/offices that took time to participate! The doors look incredible!
Thank you to Meghan and Kelly for leading our Literacy meetings this week to help us focus on challenging our redaers
Dawn's Dish
What to do when a student is struggling with behaviors?
- Step 1 is giving a reminder. We've been doing a great job giving students reminders! Remember to give the reminder and walk away. Give them time to fix it, don't stand and lecture them.
- Step 2 is having a caring confrontation and reminding them of the zones. Where do you see them and how can they get back to green? Have this conversation and walk away. Given them time to fix it.
- Step 3 is the calm down area. Now is the time to request them to go to the calm down area. Note that the time is 3-10 minutes, but each student is different. They may need more or less time. If they say no, say, "I'll set a timer for 3 minutes and you'll need to be in the calm down spot." Then walk away and see if they can make it in those 3 minutes. We don't want them in the habit of refusing the calm down spot. If they do and go to buddy room, then they go to the calm spot when they come back.
- Step 4 is buddy room. Please note the conversation when they go to the buddy room. "Please go to the buddy room to get back into the green zone." The chill sheet must be filled out and used by everyone. If they won't take the chill sheet when they go, that's fine, send it over with another student. Please do not send more than one student at a time to a buddy room with the same teacher.
- Step 5 is a support call. If they won't go to the buddy room or are disruptive in the buddy room and you've set a timer to give them time, call the office for support.
Cafeteria Seating Charts
Seating charts are required, they are not optional.
Bringing your communication clipboard to lunch is also required, not optional. If you are a lunch monitor, issues with students is required to be added to the communication board.
Please help us by sticking to the expectations and holding students accountable for those as well, we have fewer behaviors and things run more smoothly when we hold students accountable.
If you do not have a seating chart in the cafeteria, please help us by placing your seating chart in the cafeteria.
Follow our school, district, and me on Twitter as well.
@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
October Attendance Bracket Update
Substitute Evaluations
Sub evaluation forms are located in the office next to the shred box. There is a file organizer attached to the wall and it's in the bottom slot.
Committee Updates
Charger Birthdays
October 1 - Jill Lemons
October 9 - Jana Salmons
October 11 - Joe Twehous
October 22 - Sabra Watts-Hayes