Hoot Hoot Herald
January 4-8, 2016
Reminders
In our "own your own learning" exercise at the last faculty meeting, you expressed that you wanted time to plan with your team and time to work in your room. We heard you! Check out the agenda below for the Staff Development Day on Monday, January 4th.
Please have your students check out the lost and found before leaving for the break. We will take everything to Goodwill on Friday afternoon.
Staff Development on Monday, January 4th
AGENDA FOR JANUARY 4, 2016
8:00-8:30 Breakfast in the library
8:30-9:00 Team Building/SEL activity
9:00-9:30 Second Semester Planning
9:30-10:30 Team Planning
10:30-11:30 Work in your rooms
11:30-12:30 Lunch
12:30-3:30 Work in your rooms
Food and Furry Friends
Those little furry creatures have ways, oh, they have ways. We would all rather not have them visit while we are gone and have them waiting for more when we come back. Please take all of your food, candy and other items home with you this weekend.
Counselor's Notes
LUNCH BUNCH GROUPS - To begin in January!!
It's not too late!! If you have students in mind who could benefit from the Lunch Bunch groups listed below, please look for the form in your teacher mailbox.
- Changing Families (Divorce/Break-Up)
- Friendship Club (Social Skills)
- My Fabulous Family (Students being raised by Gay or Lesbian Parents)
- The Calming Club (Anxiety)
5th Grade Transition:
Counselors will be meeting with 5th graders to discuss College/Career Planning in January to prepare them for filling out choice sheets for Middle School.
Nurse's Notes
Hope everyone is doing well on the maintain no gain program. Here is another strategy to help us stay on track:
Keep healthy snacks at the office in your desk so you're not tempted by the treats piling up.
Try to keep communal office goodies out of view. In one study, people ate 26% more Hershey's Kisses when the candies were in clear dishes versus white ones. When the chocolates were placed six feet away, the average person ate only four a day, as opposed to nine a day when they were within arm's reach.
Before you allow yourself a splurge, do something healty, like eating a piece of fruit, walking around the office for five minutes, or climbing a few flights of stairs.
Manage portion size so you don't end up eating too much.
Use smaller plates and serving utensils. The size of the serving utensil and plate/bowl matters. In a sudy conducted at Cornell University, even nutrition experts served themselves 31% more ice cream when using oversize bowls compared with smaller bowls. Subjects served themselves 57% more when they used a three-ounce scoop versus a smaller scoop.
Pour drinks into tall, skinny glasses, not the fat wide kind.
Hope these are helpful. Remember, if you mess up, try, try again. Don't give up!
Music Schedule
1st grade- 9-9:30am
Kindergarten- 9:30-10am
2nd grade - 10-10:30am
(Note from Christina Tannert- 1st grade teachers will drop their kids off at the cafeteria then pick them up at specials, Kinder teachers will go with their classes, and 2nd grade teachers will drop their kids off at specials, and pick them up in the cafeteria.)
January 20th- Murchison Orchestra (fifth grade only), during specials- all students to go to the cafeteria.
You’re Invited to the Reflections Student Exhibit & Awards
Here are the results for our 27 entries at the district-level Reflections Program “Let Your Imagination Fly”?
We have two OUTSTANDING entries that are advancing to State:
1. Lucky Cantu in Zhou/Bones for her short story Literature entry.
2. Annie Small in Hawkins for her Visual Arts drawing of an Owl.
Receiving the “Award of Excellence” are:
Gwen Kjallbring (Lauck),
Brammer Knisely (Means),
Jaynie Lee (Aguilar),
Aima Feng (Sweeny/Wiley),
Zach Dykstra (Sweeny/Wiley),
Oliver Harrington (Cardwell)
Awards of “Special Merit” go to:
Aydin A., Taylor R., Colton K., Nathan D., Luca C., Klein R., Celia C., Annelisa C., Emmy W., Zander R., Isaac Y., Kayla K., Gracen R.
Awards of “Honorable Mention” go to:
Laney T., Lily P., Katelyn D., Julia C., Claire C., Zach D.
All staff are invited by Austin Council PTA to the Student Exhibit & Award Ceremony:
Sunday,January 10, 2016
12:30, Exhibit opens
Austin ISD Performing Arts Center
1500 Barbara Jordan Blvd
If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to Kay Wagner at acpta.reflections@gmail.com .
Let’s congratulate all of these creative Doss Owls!
Library Schedule
AISD Dome – special schedule
Tuesday, January 5
8:30 Cormack
9:05-9:40- Daly Block A
9:45-10:20-Hawkins Block A
10:25-11:00- Keys Block A
11:05 Hodges
12:10-12:45- Daly Block B
12:50-1:25-Keys Block B
1:45 Barrick
Wednesday, January 6
8:30 Francis
9:00 Gall
10:00 Sheridan
10:30 Hyvl
11:00 Johnson
11:45 Sprague (1)
12:15 G
1:00 Hayes/Baehr
1:45 Stover
Thursday, January 7
8:10 Folts/Raup
9:50 Singerman/Mowry
10:30 Stone/Hall
11:30 Carroll
noon Crawford
12:30 Wiley
1:00 Lauck/Eddleton
1:30 Hello
Friday, January 8
8:15 Sprague/Plaisance
8:45 Elbrecht/Evans
9:15 Means/Smith
10:00 Collins/Vrba
10:30 Warner
11:30 Haurwitz
noon Truesdale
12:30 Jones
1:15 Bones
Calendar
Monday, January 4
Staff Development Day
Tuesday, January 5
First day back to school for students
Wednesday, January 6
Walking Wednesday
Thursday, January 7
Harp Education for K through 2nd grade- See note above for specific grade schedule
Friday, January 8
Parent/Principal Coffee
Monday, January 11
Staff Meeting, 3:15, Library
Tuesday, January 12
Wednesday, January 13
Staff Happy Hour, 4-6, at Lupe Tortilla
Thursday, January 14
PTA General Meeting- 8am, Library
Doss Mandarin Immersion Program- Parent Information Session and Class Tour for prospective kinder parents-10am, Cafeteria
CAC Meeting, 3:15-4:30, Mrs. Hughes Room #309
Friday, January 15
Monday, January 18
Student and Staff Holiday
Computer Lab Schedule
Tuesday, January 5
8:15 Barrick
9:00 Eddleton
9:45 Stover
10:30 Plaisance
12:00 Che
12:45 Taylor
1:30 Hyvl
2:15 Francis
Wednesday, January 6
8:15 Gall
9:00 Smith
9:45 Keys
10:30 Collins
12:00 Hall
12:45 Cardwell
1:30Carroll
2:15 Johnson
Thursday, January 7
8:15 Sprague (K)
9:00 Means
9:45 Daly
10:30 Vrba
11:15 Raup
12:00 Singerman
12:45 Hughes
1:30 Baehr
2:15 Bones
Friday, January 8
9:45 Folts
10:30 Elbrecht
11:15 Stone
12:00 Truesdale
12:45 Lauck
1:30 Hayes
2:15 Hawkins