The Treasure Map
December 10 - December 14
The Week in Preview
Denise Pagoota's birthday was November 30! It was inadvertently left off last week.
- 2:45 Third Grade PLC meeting
- 2:45 Fourth Grade PLC meeting with David Norton
- 2:45 First Grade PLC meeting
- F & P window open
- 5:30 Board Meeting to discuss iRock initiative
- Let Ms. Kelsey know before leaving today who will serve from your grade level on the acceptable evidence team at the district level. (See The Pirate Way)
- Tacky Christmas Sweater Day
- F & P window open
- CogAT scores go home with 2nd graders (these will be delivered Monday)
- Rhonda off campus this morning at Mt. Gallant
- 3:00 Catawba Nuclear Meeting in the Media Center
- Red, White and Green Day
- GT Open House 1:45-2:15
- 2:45 Second Grade PLC meeting
- 2:45 Fifth Grade PLC meeting
- F & P window open
- 6:00 PTA Board Meeting
- Jingle bell necklaces, earrings and candy cane adornment day
- Holiday Lunch for K (11:00), 4th (12:00), 3rd (1:00)
- Grades 1, 2, and 5 will eat bag lunches in their rooms
- Becky Martin's Birthday!
- F & P window open
- 4:00 District Calendar Meeting
- Crazy Christmas Sock, Slipper or Stockings Day
- Holiday Lunch for 1st (11:00), 2nd (12:00), 5th (1:00)
- GT Open House 12:30-1:00
- F & P window
- Updated class schedules should be sent to Ms. Guyton and Ms. Kelsey before leaving today.
- Christmas kerchief, hair adornment day
Pay it Forward Professor Santucci!
Congratulations to Ms. Santucci. She has recently been asked to serve as an adjunct professor at Winthrop next semester. She expressed her excitement about this by stating that she just can't believe that she is going to be working along side people of the art world that she looks up to so much! Well, Ms. Santucci, we feel this way about you! We are so blessed to work with someone like you and are so proud of you for paying it forward!
Ms. Godfrey-HILL
Students here are shown testing mass' effect on speed and distance. Sir Cyril Herman Hinshelwood, a 1956 Nobel prize winner, once said, "Science is an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery." Thank you Ms. Godfrey-Hill for your commitment to allow the adventure seeking minds of your boys to seek the truth through inquiry based, hands on learning!
Ms. Pagoota's Doing Whatever It Takes!
Accommodations are the name of the game in Ms. Pagoota's class. During a recent observation she was giving a test. It was amazing to see all of the accommodations she gives students during this time. These accommodations are given so subtly that most students don't even know they are happening, but they mean the world to those they are effecting! Thank you, Ms. Pagoota, for doing whatever it takes!
The Pirate Way.
- Dec. 13 Kindergarten 11:00, Fourth grade 12:00, Third grade 1:00 (all others will eat bag lunches in the classrooms)
- Dec. 14 First grade 11:00, Second grade 12:00, Fifth grade 1:00 (all others will eat bag lunches in the classrooms)
- As we enter into the holiday season remember to notify the office when you are having special events, especially when parents will be entering the building.
- We have had several students leaving IHES this week for other schools. Remember that when this occurs teachers must print their most current grades from PowerSchool to send to their new school. Glenda sent directions for doing this via email earlier today.
- Please make sure when you are doing attendance that you are correctly marking students. Some are not being marked absent that should be.
- Please send an updated class schedule by email to Ms. Guyton and Ms. Kelsey before leaving Friday.
On January 16 (K-2) and January 17 (3-5), there will be a work session at the District Office from 3 – 5pm to determine/create/discuss acceptable evidence for standards/report card ratings as it relates to common core. I would like at least one person from each grade level to represent IHES, but all are welcome. The session will not be a sit and get, but a time for you to work with other teachers from your grade level across the district. You will start with third nine weeks standards so this will be practical in that you will be able to actually use the things you create. There will also be an incentive offered for the person from your grade level who commits to being part of this effort-we are working out the logistics. More information will be coming out after the holidays to those grade level representatives. Please let Ms. Guyton and Ms. Kelsey know who your grade level representative will be prior to leaving on Monday.
This nine weeks third through fifth grade report cards will look different in that only standards will appear on what is printed to go home. This will shorten the report card, all grades should be marked as usual in PowerSchool, including marking indicators. No changes are being made to how grades are reported in PowerSchool, only changes are being made to what the physical report card looks like when printed.
- The F and P window will close December 19th. Please complete the F and P excel spreadsheet electronically and send to Ms. Kelsey before leaving January 11th. This will be sent in email also.
pirate points of contact
Website: ih.rock-hill.k12.sc.us/
Location: 2068 Yukon Drive, Rock Hill, SC
Phone: 803-985-1600