Cowboy Courier
May 14, 2020
Can't believe we are wrapping up this year! I really miss that excited (maybe exhausted) energy that always carries us through the countdown to the final day of school each year. I know you are doing a great job of trying to keep that spirit alive with students, but I miss being together!! I hope you are all well and looking forward to a bit of a mental break during the summer, even if we are at home.
Safe Schools training is due by May 26th. Please email the certificates to Sandra. She needs the Epilepsy and FEMA certificates. The FEMA one must be the one after you take the quiz, not the completion of the information certificate.
Room Clean-Out
I know students have items in your classrooms. Please keep personal items of value such as backpacks, coats, etc. I recommend placing them in the lost and found box in the front foyer and we will go through it some time this summer and sort through items that need to be returned. I will let you decide what instructional items are worth boxing up, such as journals. There is no way I want to try and inventory everything in every classroom. I also don't have a really systematic plan right now for getting things back to kids next year. I am thinking the moment will have passed by then, but I am nervous to make that blanket statement in case there is something really special to students that I am not aware of. Please just use your best judgement about what to keep and what can be thrown out.
Reminder: By 3:00 pm on May 15, each student should have a C in the grade book for Quarter 4.
Appreciate all you are doing!
Amber
CMS Virtual Read in Day!
Our virtual Read-In Day is this coming Monday, May 18th!
I have been working on getting everything all ready, and will continue to add resources and videos over the next few days. I know, however, most of you plan ahead and Friday is your day to get everything ready for the next week, so I’m giving you the link to our Virtual Read-In Day now.
This link will take you to the main page for all of the resources. Students will click on the yellow “Click HERE to blast off!” button to access everything.
Feel free to add this to your Canvas courses and resources for next week. Virtual Read-In Day will remain available and active for students through the end of the school year.
Also, I’m still accepting book recommendation/favorite book videos. Feel free to share those with me through Google.
From Lauren
I’ve spend the past few days creating a new, more user-friendly version of our library website. I have moved it off of Weebly, so here is the new web address:
I also added all the eLearning resources, more Canvas info, etc.
What About 8th Graders?
Next Project: See info from Spinnato...Due by Friday May 15th
Hopefully, you had a chance to watch at least part of this video from MHS - https://vimeo.com/408711508.
This is the concept we’re going for. I plan to do all the editing, just NEED some help from you!
We need a video from you, especially 8th grade teachers & coaches! Here is what we are looking for in your video:
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This video can have a goodbye, good luck, advice, or just a hello we miss you.
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The message is to our 8th graders leaving.
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Videos uploaded into this google drive folder.
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If you need help getting it there email or text me 972-658-1366 or ask Stanley, Maki, Jonker, Worrel, Fox, Stanley, Cotton. (Thank you to these ladies for their help)
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Ideally the videos would be taken horizontally, but vertical will be accepted.
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Length 10 to 30 seconds
Summer PD
Packing Up Classrooms
You may sign up for a day to pack up your classroom. I am limiting the number of people in the building to 15 each day, so only sign up in a highlighted cell. *Please limit the number of people in any hallway (6th, 7th 8th, Electives) to no more than 5 at a time. If we get started and need/want to adjust that we will. Let's just see how the schedule goes. Please label all of your items with your current room number and last name.
We are still working on building teams and assigning rooms so I can't give you directions for moving rooms just yet.
Room Clean Out Schedule/Sign Up
Please complete this revised EOY checklist as you work.
Please complete this EOY Technology Checklist as you work.
You may place completed checklists in Amber's box.
Campus Celebrations!
I still encourage you to use this link! While we are all isolated I know everyone would love some good news in their inbox.
If you sent a shout-out and I haven't share it, please let me know. I am still perfecting my system of keeping up with these.
Kudos!
Hi Miss Fox thank you so much for the gift I really really love you and I’m going to miss you so much and I hope to see you again one of these days of my summer or high school year I am truly blessed that I join this program so I can get out my comfort zone and actually meet new people that are like me and you teach me so many things that I didn’t even know for myself and even life lessons so I am really grateful for that and I love you so much I’m never going to forget you as my theater teacher and just can continue what you’re doing because it’s really great and you truly have a gift.
-Sweet Student
Mrs. Maki, Thank you for all you've done this year! It must have been a bit tiresome with this lockdown/quarantine and throughout this whole school year. It was a bit of fun being able to play a small game of trying to find small mistakes throughout the slides that you made (with animations). Thank you for being my geometry teacher this year, and I hope you keep teaching with the love of math that you have.-Sweet Student