Buffalo Bulletin
February 18-22
It shouldn't matter how slowly a child learns, as long as we are encouraging them not to stop.
-Robert John Meehan
Reminders & News
- Make sure to read The Exchange for district news and information
- Blackshear Dashboard
- Here is the link for the morning announcements, which begin daily at 8:00 a.m.
- Make sure to nominate kids for the P2P Learner Award (2 per teacher per 9 week period).
- Morning Announcements Guest Stars - check here for your schedule and/or to sign up!
- Please remember the March deadline for Evidence of Reading Difficulty to be proven and paperwork turned in to Ashley for all STAAR tests, even May administrations. If you need assistance with this, see an administrator or specialist.
- There are new books in the guided reading library (Levels A-E)!
- You recently received 504 accommodations from Lori. Please check over them and make any suggestions for additions or deletions and return by 2/22.
- FYI - when you have a jeans pass, it can be worn with any shirt (not just a spirit shirt)!
Personalized Learning Brief PD
Blackshear Writes This Week
Library This Week
Teachers, please assist students with self-checking as they rotate through their Makerspace stations!
P2P Swap is Coming Up!
Please review Lemm's visit schedule HERE so that you can prepare to host visitors at these specific times. This may require coming in from recess a few minutes earlier on that day, modifying your restroom breaks, etc. Please ensure that high quality instruction is happening at your observations times.
Upcoming Events
PLC This week (Week of 2/18 - 2/22)
ELL TOT Presentation
Team-generated needs and topics
PLC Next Week (Week of 2/25 - 3/1)
Personalized Campus Integration (20 min)
Team-generated topics and planning
This Week's Schedule of Events
TELPAS sample collection 3-4 (ELA and math)
Monday 2/18
- Visible Learning Campus PD (8-4 with lunch from 11:30-12:30)
- Wear jeans to be comfortable!
- TELPAS Samples 1-2 due by end of day (ELA past event, science)
Tuesday 2/19 - Team shirts (teams with perfect attendance last week may wear jeans)
- Visible Learning Leadership Team is at KMPC all day
- 1:45-3:15 - 4th Grade PLC
Wednesday 2/20 - College shirts and jeans
- 12:00-1:30 - Kindergarten PLC
- 1:45-3:15 - 3rd Grade PLC
- 4:00-5:00 - EL Task Force meeting
Thursday 2/21
- 1:45-3:15 - 5th Grade PLC
- 4:00-5:00 - Behavior Strategies with Stacy Hall (Required for all classroom teachers and leadership)
Friday 2/22 - Wear your rodeo gear!
- MAP window closes
- Go Texan Day - SCHEDULE (revised schedule and no PLC)
- 2:00 - House Points due on Google Form (Meagan will send link)
- 3:15 - House Dance Party
- 504 accommodation suggestions due to Lori
Looking Ahead
Looking ahead dates are subject to change
- 2/11-3/17 - Field Day shirts on sale
- 2/25-3/4 - P2P Swap with Lemm - SCHEDULE
- 2/28 - Science Night (6-7:30)
- 2/28 - Positive Office Referral Game Room
- 3/1 - German Fest (Klein Cain High School 5-8pm) - our choir is performing
- 3/5 - bilingual plc
- 3/5 - State Assessment Training - All Professional Staff
- 3/8 - deadline for STAAR accommodation changes
- 3/8 - Visible Learning leadership team off campus
- 3/11-3/15 - Spring Break!
- 3/18 - Goodie Table (5th and Library)
- 3/19 and 3/21 - 4th grade Wunderlich Farms field trip
- 3/20 - 5th grade panoramic picture
- 3/21 - Positive Office Referral Game Room
- 3/22 - PTO Teacher Appreciation Luncheon
- 3/18-3/25 - 4th quarter planning - SCHEDULE
- 3/25 - Grades pulled at 11:59 p.m.
- 3/25-3/29 - Progress Monitoring
- 3/25 - PTO Spirit Night at Chick Fil-A
- 3/26 - Nurtured Heart parent night
- 3/29 - Report cards go home