GBE Weekly Scoop
February 23, 2018
GBE Vision Statement:
Attitude
Action
Academics
#JustALittleExtra
A strategy to share for student engagement..."One Quick Thing" from Edutopia
CLT for Monday, February 26th
3rd Continuing with Writing Collaboration
4th Continuing with Writing Collaboration
5th Data Teaming over Topic 7 Math
Free Website Share out from Mrs. Messer-
Parent Night was a Success!
We had approximately 21 total in attendance. Dave and I have collected the surveys and read through these forms.
Parents loved the games they learned and the takeaways. Several also mentioned liking the ability to have some sites that they are aware of for the students to use at home. Having the chromebooks out for them to use was another theme of positive that parents gave feedback on.
As we move forward to look at next year, there are some suggestions that parents gave. We plan on sharing these with our Literacy and Math teams. Moving forward these teams will be given the opportunity to work together make more of these nights possible.
While our numbers at times are small, the overall atmosphere it creates for our students is tenfold!
Thank you again for your dedication!
Angie and Dave
Making Math Fun!
Parents interacting with their students using new skills
Fun, Family Atmosphere!
Staff Recognition
Honoring our Amazing Staff this Week:
Please Remember:
Park in your special spot of honor!! The Parking spots have been moved to the front North side parking area to avoid dismissal traffic. :)
Shout outs to Brooke Klein, who has joined us and quickly become part of our GBE Family. She has given so much to our efforts and work already with our families and students. It is exciting to see the work that we can accomplish with her knowledge and our staff's dedication! Thank you Brooke for your abounding helpfulness, and meeting it with a positive smile each time!
Want to give a shout out to our dedicated team member Dana Ross. She has served as our PD rep for many years, and on our BLT/Vision Teams. Dana does a lot of the behind the scenes work and effort that helps make GBE the great place it is, and continues to grow to be each year! Thank you for your heart for staff and students!
Special Days to Recognize and who is assigned to organize it:
National Paraprofessional Day-April 4th--SPED
(Amber, Abby, Kristen, Nora, Carrie, Shelby,Becky)
Administrative Professional Day- April 25th--All Staff
Teacher’s Appreciation Week May 8th-12--Support Staff
National School Nurse’s Day- May 9th--Title
Missouri School Principal’s Day--All Staff- TBD
Character Trait Focus for February is Honesty
Thank you Everyone for Completing the SAS survey today for PBS. If you were not in attendance this morning to take the survey, please be sure to complete the survey as soon as possible. Beth shared this out to everyone in an email version. If you have trouble accessing the link, copy and paste it into a new web browser.
February PBS Lessons:
Thank you for promoting PBS in your
classroom and teaching these social lessons:
February 27: Spartan Skill # 32
Testing Information: MAP
1. Testing Accommodations were due today- I will be reviewing these over the weekend.
2. Mr. Bailey will be sharing out soon the training slides that test proctors must review prior to the testing date. I will also be giving out the testing manuals at that time for you to review and familiarize yourself with prior to testing.
3.The new schedule and testing times was shared out to everyone. I have not received any further feedback. We will move forward with this testing calendar. Thank you for feedback given early on.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jJaH_rpb3Int9KhAhBITR424hEufOFdUUY47rS_k0uY/edit
5. Our Primary students will be sending over notes of encouragement to pump up our test takers again this year. I will get those to teams when they arrive the first week of testing.
Reading Counts Incentives and Reminders from the Library:
Students Needing to Come to the Library for February Incentives:
Kadence Blair (Enslen)Caydan Garner (Childs)
Riley Smyser (Mefford)
Christian Lucas (Mefford)
Tai Mickle (Ross)
Keaton Rubison (Ross)
Denton Ridgway (Childs)
Lily Barker (Enslen)
The following students have not been marked off for receiving their incentive for previous months. This will be the last reminder. There is a possibility that some of these students received their incentive and were not marked off. Please ask them and let me know, so they can be marked off as receiving their incentive. Thanks a bunch!
Natsumi Gladbach (Easley) - Book
Ayla Kerns (Brooks) - Book
Fedora Fletcher (Everett) - Book
Cade Bohm (Stilwell) - T-Shirt
Ozzie Richardson (Oestriech)- Spartan Gear
Ashton Christy (Foreman) - Book
Billy Hohnholt (Foreman) - Book
Nyla Black (Power) - Book
Ethan Bugg (McDowell)-T-Shirt
Kloiee Wagner (Mefford) - 2 charms
Upcoming Events Please be sure to check the Google Calendar for Committee and Team mtg dates; District and Building Deadlines
February
26th GBE PTO meeting in Library @ 5:30
27th Intruder Drill
28th Early Out for Teacher Professional Development
MARCH
1st 8:45 a.m. Major Saver Kick Off Assembly in the Gym- all students go to the gym in the a.m. instead of classrooms; take lunch count the day before
2nd Read Across America Day
5th Spartan Tutoring Make Up Day
7th 3rd Grade Vision Screening
9th End of 3rd Quarter
11th Daylight Savings Time Begins
13th Parent Teacher Conferences 4:30 to 7:00 pm; BOE mtg at Central Office 5:30 pm
15th Early Release Day Dismiss @ 1:00; Parent Teacher Conferences 2:00 to 8:00 pm
16th No School
26th to April 2nd Spring Break No School
APRIL
MAP testing begins at GBE
1st Easter Sunday
3rd Spring Pictures
3rd Return from Spring Break; MAP testing window opens - specific testing dates will be sent prior to this month
10th BOE mtg at Central Office 5:30 pm
11th Mid Quarter
11th - 12th Open Enrollment for United Health Care appts at GBE
14th Renick Spelling Bee
20th No School; Literature Festival at Truman
26th 3B Field Trip
27th 3A Field Trip
30th Spring Scholastic BOGO (Buy One Get One Free) Book Fair begins; 4th Grade Fine Arts Program 6:00 to 7:00 pm
MAY items may be added to this month as we progress/double check calendar
4th Skype at GBE with Author Chris Grabenstein- link to his website http://www.chrisgrabenstein.com/
4th 5th Grade DARE Graduation; School Carnival at MACC
8th BOE mtg at Central Office 5:30
15th 2nd Grade Transition Day at GBE
16th 4B Field Trip
17th 4A Field Trip
20th High School Commencement
21st GBE Field Day; 5th Grade Recognition 5:30 to 7:00 pm
22nd Rain Date for Field Day
23rd End of 4th Quarter; Last Day of School - Early Out Dismiss at 1:00