Monday Memo
October 28, 2019~~~ A Newsletter for Teachers and Staff
Have an amazing week Panthers!
THIS WEEK'S HAPPENINGS
Monday, October 28-
- Food for Families
- Book Fair
Tuesday, October 29-
- Food for Families
- Book Fair
- Nerd Day for Reaching first school-wide AR Goal
- Family Read Night 5-6
- Food for Families
- Book Fair
- PLCs
- Fall Pictures
Thursday, October 31-
- Food for Families
- Book Fair
- Student of the Week Luncheon
- Grade Chair Meeting-3:15
Friday, November 1-
- Food for Families
- Book Fair
- $1 Hat Day
- Principal's Honor Roll Fieldtrip to Golden Corral Straight A's 3-5)
- Spirit Day- Wear a School shirt or "Panther" (Cheetah) Print!
SPECIAL THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO MADE THIS YEAR"S FALL FESTIVAL A HUGE SUCCESS!
Looks like a record earning year with so many volunteers. We will share the final report on how well we did and what booths were the biggest fundraisers. Again, thank you for coming out to make this event such a big success!
Have you liked our Facebook Page?
Action Items and Reminders
Please sign in daily.
If you have a time sheet it is very important to come up and sign in. We should not have to find you at payroll time to sign or correct errors. Please put your leave in Skyward as soon as you know you will be out. If you have questions please ask. We are happy to help you.
PLCs on Wednesday during plan
- Grade Chair Meeting on Thursday...3:15.
Ms. Heather Johnson is our District Science & Math Coach! You can email her and request that she come do a lesson in Science and/or Math and she will come model a lesson for you. Send her the standard and she will set up a time with you to come in and teach the lesson. Book her now teachers! What a treat and an awesome opportunity for professional learning.
Don't forget to upload your plans in our shared drive. Outstanding job to everyone on getting your plans submitted and on time!
- Do not send ALL USER emails without permission from administration.
- Thank you for signing in and greeting your students at the door!
- Attendance notes must be checked for daily and turned in daily.
- Wear your I.D. Badges at all times! Please send anyone who doesn't have a badge or sticker to the office and notify the office.
- Lesson Plans should be in by Sunday night to the Team Drive.
- #GOPANTHERS
Happy Birthday!
October Birthdays!
10/1-Delores Torres
10/2-Lori Barlow
10/13-Nancy Aaron
Let me know if I missed someone!
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
November 15th-YMHFA Session 2@ CES-12:15-3:15(Kayda, Cromer, Donnell, Rodriguez, Loschiavo, A.Eldred, D. Eldred, Spearow, Wooten)
Self Paced- WIDA e-Learning https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ScARqrkVBi8p8mE59xG1etr_8Rl9E9F12hOXzCQcRxY
Mrs. Andrea Canaday (Andee) is our Professional Learning Coordinator at the District Office. Her emails often contain professional development opportunities for you that are approved by the district.
The county's Inservice Form is at the link below.
KEY Inservice Opportunities
WIDA e-Learning Opportunity
If you work with ELL students WIDA is offering several self-paced e-Learning Courses on numerous topics. What a great opportunity for professional learning and you earn inservice points. The inservice form was attached in the email I sent to you and can be found at this link:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ScARqrkVBi8p8mE59xG1etr_8Rl9E9F12hOXzCQcRxY
Forms should be sent to Andrea (Andi) Canaday once completed.
1st 9 Week Minimum Point Goals w/ 85% or higher Average
Grade K 5 Points
Grade 1 9 Points
Grade 2 11 Points
Grade 3 13 Points
Grade 4 15 Points
Grade 5 17 Points
Good healthy competitions between your grade level classrooms can be a fun way to compete!
Time to ramp it up for the 2nd 9 Weeks!
AR Goals! We want our kids READING! Yes!
1st Goal is 20,000 Books!
9 Weeks Goal= 2,500 Points! -Leadership Team will Dress like Nerds! Teachers/Students can participate and be nerds as well on Oct. 29th.
APPRECIATIONS
Join me in welcoming Briana Resendiz (para) and Maria Rodriguez (custodian)to Central Elementary. We are so happy to have you with us as the newest #panthers on staff!
Thank you to Coach Eldred, Coach Spearow, Coach Bautista, Mrs. Laflam, Mr. Eldred, Officer Skip, Angie Aguirre and the Breakfast Staff who greet our kids each morning with a smile and hello. They are building strong relationships with our students and it shows in the work they do each day. Thank you!
Thank you to all our volunteers and sponsors at the Fall Festival, especially some of our regulars like Mrs. Vanbeek, Mrs. Watt, and Mrs. Coker! They are pretty special ladies!
Thank you to Mrs. Norman, Mrs. Skinner, Mrs. Whiteside, and Mrs. Davis for their leadership and efforts this past few weeks and last Friday on the Festival. You are invaluable to our staff here at CES.
Please know these are just a few of the appreciations captured this week.
ELA, CENTERS and DEAR
ATTENDANCE TRACKER (Coming Soon)
For the week of August 12th, we had the following totals:
Student Absences: ____
Student Tardies: ____
Student Checkouts :_____
Central's Vision, Mission and Beliefs
Under construction...
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Focus for 2019-2020
In order to help every child their personal best, Central teachers and staff will:
- More to come...