Callahan's Comments
February 24, 2019
Spring Break Approaches
No IDEA LAB this week!
Non-Testing Calendar Items this week....
Feb 26: 4th grade to Insect Expo
Feb 26: Kinder USA Play 5:30pm
Feb 27: ARD for JW (3rd grade--I think this is still on???)
Mar 1: Happy Birthday, Mandy LindeRman!!
Mar 1: 504 Initial KL 2:00pm (5th grade)
Mar 4: Leadership Team 3:15pm
Mar 5: Dinosaurs LIVE, 5:30 - 7:30pm
Mar 6: Marbach Returns!!
Mar 7: CIC Data Meeting, 3:15pm, Library
Mar 8: Big Kahuna Earned through Fundraiser, 1:30pm
Mar 11 - 15: SPRING BREAK (in case you forgot!)
Read Across America and Dr. Seuss Day, March 1st
DINOSAURS LIVE March 5th
TELPAS
You should be actively collecting your writing samples!!! Make sure you are giving students MANY opportunities to record themselves speaking into a headset so they learn to enunciate clearly!
The YUCKY STUFF....
For those of you with daily assigned duties, I realize that your duty times are NOT your favorite thing! In fact, I know most of you hate these assignments! However, they are critical in making sure students stay safe at all times in all areas of our campus. We do not assign you duty just for the fun of it or to make you miserable. Timeliness to morning duty was awesome this past week!! Thank you for being there at your assigned times!!! We have noticed recently though in several duty areas there are groups of staff members "congregating" instead of performing their assigned duties. Please remember that your primary concern during those times is keeping kids safe, and that you would not be assigned there if it wasn't an important time for you to be there monitoring. Please help the school by doing your very best in this assignment as you do in your main assignment!!
Specials Pick Up
Specials teachers cannot take your kids back to class for you. Please be on time to pick them up. We had a grade level miss almost 10 minutes of their conference time waiting on the teacher to return from dropping off another grade level one day this week. I know that time goes by really fast, but they don't have breaks between most of their groups and need to be there to receive the next class.
THANKS FOR HELPING OUR CAMPUS WITH BOTH OF THESE ITEMS!!!
READ ALL REMAINING ENTRIES CAREFULLY!!
NOTE: Ashley and Heather will be helping with testing and may not always be available for their regularly scheduled activities.
February 26th Testing Info
February 27th Testing Info
This will be a "shut down" day for 4th grade, intervention and SPED teachers. 4th grade will trade specials time with 5th grade, and they will trade lunch times with 2nd grade.
See lunch and specials times below.
Monday, March 4th, Testing Info
This will be a "shut down" day for 3rd and 4th grade, intervention and SPED teachers.
4th grade will trade specials time with 5th grade and lunch time with 2nd grade. 3rd grade will trade lunch time with 1st grade and will only go to specials if finished with testing. We will evaluate that day!
1st and 2nd Grade Math Test
You will test in your homeroom classes beginning first thing in the morning and test until completed. 1st grade will hopefully finish before specials and 2nd grade will begin after specials. Please take note of the above lunch time trades for the testers taking a STAAR released test.
See lunch and specials times below.
Tuesday, March 5th, Testing Info
This will be a "shut down" day for 3rd and 4th grade, intervention and SPED teachers.
4th grade will trade specials time with 5th grade and lunch time with 2nd grade. 3rd grade will trade lunch time with 1st grade and will only go to specials if finished with testing. We will evaluate that day!
See lunch and specials times below.
Wednesday, March 6th, Testing Info
This will be a "shut down" day for 5th grade, intervention and SPED teachers. 5th grade will trade lunch times with 2nd grade.
1st and 2nd Grade Reading Test
You will test in your homeroom classes beginning first thing in the morning and test until completed. 1st grade will hopefully finish before specials and 2nd grade will begin after specials.
See lunch and specials times below.
Thursday, March 7th, Testing Info
This will be a "shut down" day for 5th grade, intervention and SPED teachers. 5th grade will trade lunch times with 2nd grade.
See lunch and specials times below.
LOTS of LUNCH TIME CHANGES over the next 2 weeks!
Wow...the end!
Please email or text me any corrections as soon as you see them!