Monday Mail
Mashburn Elementary
Important Lunch Account Reminder
As we prepare for the end of another school year Forsyth County Food Services will no longer allow negative charges to student accounts effective after meal service on Monday May 1st 2018.
To ensure your child can continue to enjoy school meals or to clear your student’s account of any negative balances, please send a payment, (cash or check) to the school, or visit WWW.MyPaymentsPlus.com, to make a payment online. This website is a convenient way to make payments and monitor your child's account balance.
If you have any questions please contact Lisa Hasse, Cafeteria Manager.
Action Item:
Please forward this message to your parents.
End of the Year Math Assessment
We are not giving the GLOSS as the end of the year math assessment this year. We will be giving the Big 20 instead. More details to come…
Field Day T-Shirts for Teachers
Please use this google form if you would like to purchase a Field Day t-shirt!
THIS IS FOR STAFF ONLY!!!
Once you fill it out send $10 up to Jennie Hartzler (cash or check)
https://goo.gl/forms/JDdWeYuI58oOahJi2
Action Item:
Complete form and bring $10 to Hartzler
Leadership Certification Opportunity
o Leadership Certification
Are you interested in getting your Leadership Certification, if so Please see this flyer.
Congratulations!
Summer Professional Learning
In an effort to streamline communication and ease of access, we have compiled all of the Teaching and Learning summer sessions in one location. Click here to view the webpage. Sessions with a register button are open to all teachers. Sessions without the register option are intended for specific teachers and are invitation only. If you have questions about a specific session, please contact the T &L staff member listed under the session title.
Action Item:
View the link above to see if you are interested in attending any PL opportunities over the summer.
Attention Classified Staff
To assist office staff and paraprofessionals in their use of Google and Microsoft products, the instructional technology department will be offering both Google and Microsoft Training this summer. The trainings will be two day sessions for two hours each day.
§ The Google training will offer beginning level skills within Google Drive, Docs, Sheets and Forms. Skills will include the basics such as how to share and access files, organizational tips, collaboration with peers, how to survey others and analyze data collected.
§ The Microsoft training will offer beginning level skills for Outlook, Word, and Excel. Skills will include organizing your Outlook folders, finding sent emails, creating contacts, creating appointments, formatting a document, using shortcuts, saving in different formats, creating tables, and much more.
Action Item:
Register for Microsoft and/or Google training during the summer.
Parent Training
Please share with your parents that the Dyslexia Network of Forsyth County is sponsoring a parent training on Tuesday, April 17 from 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. at the Board of Education.
Action Item:
Share blurb with parents
HIgh Contrast Mode
Are your students accidentally changing the setting of the Chromebooks to High Contrast Mode making the screen really dark? If so, instead of going through settings, you can use the shortcut Control+Search+H key to fix it!
Pebble Go Next
Pebble Go Next is available now in Classlink and is geared towards 3rd-6th grade students. PebbleGo Next is the next step in research for students grades 3-6. It is carefully aligned to grades 3-6 curriculum objectives. The website is simple to navigate and offer key reading supports such as read-along audio and word-by-word highlighting along with a variety of downloadable, including prompts to inspire critical thinking. Check it out!
Important: Doorstops
Action Item:
Return doorstop to Jennie Hartlzer as soon as you can.
International Day
Action Item:
Let us know if you know of any parent or community leaders available to help with international day.
A Note from Nurse Jamie
I just gave Lisa some clinic referral slips to keep in the cafeteria. She said she was going to put them in the desk by the water fountain. I get lots of visits at lunch time, and most are without slips. Sometimes, kids don’t tell an adult where they are, and this is the best way for me to know if they are accounted for. Also- a bit of housekeeping. Sometimes I have quite a few kids in here at once, and sometimes by the time I get to help a child, I have no idea what time they arrived because they either don’t have a slip or it is not filled out. The time left is probably the most helpful piece of info you can write, since I can always get the rest from the child. Thank you so much, 2 months in- I can’t say how happy I am to be here, I love how everyone works together. Have an awesome spring break!
I am going to start taking a short break 11:15-11:30 (this time can be flexible, this just seems to be a less busy time with no existing appts) during which the clinic will be closed. I will still be here/have my walkie/will probably be in the clinic in case of emergencies, and I still want you to let me know right away if a student truly needs me (uncontrolled bleeding, asthma attacks, seizures, severe injuries, low blood sugar, etc). If it is something that can wait a few minutes, though- I would really appreciate it if you could ask them to wait until 11:30. It doesn’t set a good example for the kids if I don’t take care of myself.
Action Items
-Please fill out clinic slips at lunch.
-Make sure the clinic slip is completely filled out, especially the time.
-Please do not send students to the clinic from 11:15-11:30 unless it is an emergency.