Monday Mail
Mashburn Elementary
EOG GA Milestones Assessment
Parents of 3rd, 4th and 5th graders:
Since spring is quickly approaching so is the EOG GA Milestone Assessment. Third and fourth grade students will be taking the ELA and Math sections. 5th grade students will be taking the ELA, math, science and social studies sections. The dates listed below are the specific dates for each grade level. We ask that you help us by not scheduling appointments in the morning during these testing dates. Also, making sure your child is at school on time will help set them up for success. We had a very successful practice test on Wednesday March 6th. More specific details regarding the EOG GA Milestone Assessment can be found on its learning and our school website.
Dates:
3rd grade- April 15-18
4th grade- April 23-26
5th grade- April 15-22
In order to help support our 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students taking the EOG GA Milestone assessment we kindly ask that parent volunteers and lunch visitors refrain from coming during the days of testing April 15-26 due to alternate schedules and test security.
Thank you!
Action Item:
Please add this information to your parent emails.
Talk About It Tuesday Schedule
All meetings will take place in the conference room unless told otherwise.
March 19th
Math Common Formatives-Feedback
All homeroom teachers, SPED, EIP, and ESOL
March 26th
No Talk About It Tuesday
April 9th
Rediscovering Discovery Ed
All homeroom teachers, SPED, EIP, and ESOL
PBIS Update
PBIS Monthly Behavior Summary Comparative Data
We want to hear from you about how you effective Class Dojo is as our School-Wide Behavior Management System. Please complete the Dojo Feedback form by March 29th.
Action Item:
Complete DOJO feedback form by March 29th
EOY Celebrations
We are created an EOY party schedule. Unfortunately we have EOG retest on May 20, 21 and 22 in the mornings until around 11:30 so we can’t have any parties in the mornings. Thursday has a morning time slot and afternoon time slot and Friday has been blacked out for 5th grade. Pre-K graduation is Thursday morning as well. SC can add to any time slot. You can find the document to sign up in the Mashburn team drive, school schedules and duties folder, #18-19, EOY party schedule.
Action Item:
Leadership team members, please sign up for the grade level EOY party time slot.
Q3 Grading Window
Grades are due and signed off to Trudie by
Forget how to check grades in IC? See video below:
Checking Grades in Infinite Campus
Action Item:
Sign off to Trudie that all your grades have been checked and are complete by March 19th @12:00 pm.
Yearbook Photos
We are in desperate need of photos for the yearbook! Please add photos to the folders in team drive under yearbook. I have made folders for each grade level
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1ieWfjqO9cJGQ23m4R7dofBNBQl6rj_x8
Action Item:
Upload class pictures to Google Drive as soon as possible.
Fakebook: Assessment Strategy
This strategy is a great way for students to get to know a historical person in depth. By learning about a historical figure’s journey, students will expand their understanding of connected events and personal relationships that happened along the way and contributed to milestones or important moments in history.
Materials: digital resources about a person of interest, a Fakebook template (find via Google or make your own with construction paper and markers), 4 different colors of sticky notes.
1. Explain to students they will be creating a Fakebook page for a person of importance.
2. Using Discovery Education, have the students find resources that will provide ideas of what types of activities in which the individual was involved, where they may have been in the world during a certain time period, and other important people linked to them.
3. Using colored sticky notes, have students write information they discover on the corresponding color
• blue sticky = status updates
• yellow sticky = friend requests
• green sticky = photo uploads with captions
• pink sticky = comments or replies from connections on the newsfeed.
4. Have students post their completed Fakebook pages and complete a gallery walk.
5. Students can take their sticky notes and post to other Fakebook profiles. As the students read new posts, comments and friend requests, this will lead to further inquiry because there may be new connections and interactions they did not think of before and may want to explore
Readers Needed in Kindergarten
Have 10 minutes? Need a break from a stressful day?
Readers are needed in Kindergarten 😊
We are calling on you all to help our Kindergarten readers make-up their Reading Steps. Have 10 minutes? Need a break from a stressful day? Come on down to the kindergarten hallway! Each teacher has Catch-up bottles on their doors. Simply pull one or two names, ask for the students and read them a book. There is a book basket with books to read, or you can bring your own. Once you finish, place a check or a smiley face on a space on the student’s card, and send them back to class.