The Yuletide Villager
Week of October 1, 2018
McAdenville Elementary
H.O.P.E.
Have Only Positive Expectations
The vision of GCS is to inspire success and a lifetime of learning.
Gaston County Schools Energy Conservation Guidelines
How does McAdenville Stack up? Please READ!!!
- You can WRITE to tell me why you have an exception.
- You may correct the issue and let me know in WRITING how you corrected.
- You can send me a WRITTEN request, doctor note or other forms of data to support your request for an energy exception.
- You can do nothing and get a letter in your file for failing to follow district guidelines. Depending on if this is your first or adding to a collection of violations to determine how the letter will affect your employment status.
School Events Agenda
Evaluations have begun
Walkthroughs on Interactive Read Aloud
Instructional Practices (reading only) Teacher Meeting @ 3 pm
- October 4th
PTO Board Meeting @ 6:30pm
- October 4th
*Grade 3 - Math 1-Understanding Equal Groups (Multiplication and Division) Standards Mastery: NC.3.OA.1
- October 5th
Annual Health Fair at the Gastonia Conference Center
- October 6, 2018 Annual Health Fair Information
Parent Advisory Meeting @ Ashbrook
- October 9th
*Grade 5 - Math 2- Prisms and Solids (Volume)
Standards Mastery: NC.5.MD.5
- October 11th
Parent Teacher Meetings @ 12-7pm
- October 11th
- 1/2 day of school dismissal 11:30
Optional Workday - No Students
- October 12th
*4th Grade ELA 1-Interpreting Character
Standards Mastery: RL.4.1
*5th Grade ELA 2- Interpretation Book Clubs
Standards Mastery: RL.5.1
- October 15th
*Grade 4 - Math 1-Arrays, Factors, and Multiplicative Comparison, 3-Multiple Towers and Cluster Problems, (Multiplication and Division)
Standards Mastery: NC.4.OA.1, NC.4.OA.4
- October 19th
End of 1st Nine Weeks
- October 26, 2018
- November 1, 2018
GASTON COUNTY SCHOOLS INSTRUCTIONAL EXPECTATIONS
ELA
MATH
Instructional Focus
Instructional Focus/Concentration:
Elementary Report Card K-2 Standards Sheet (Tabbed Grade Levels at Bottom)
October Focus
Math and ELA Instructional Practices
ELA Instructional Practices 1-3 & Interactive Read Aloud
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them - Math Instructional Practice # 1
Reason abstractly and quantitatively - Math Instructional Practice # 2
Building The Foundation Professional Development. The sessions will be offered throughout the school year.
Instructional Focus/Concentration:
Engagement and Worksheets
How often are you using worksheets for instruction and homework each day? How can we reduce the number of worksheets used during the school day?
Teacher - Student relationships
How can we change the tone of how we address students? It’s not what you say sometimes it’s how you say it. Model what they expect. The modeling sessions may have to be repeated a number of times, but model the expectations (Behavior and Instruction) with grace and respect for the student.
Agenda and I Can Statements - Daily Expectations
Each classroom should have an agenda listing what will be taught each day.
Each classroom should have I Can statements posted each day and tied to a standard.
- Standards Mastery
- Conferring
- Building Assessments from Standards-Based Instruction
- Small Group Instruction
- Student Proficiency
McAdenville Elementary School
Elite Education Society of Wildcats
MES Social Worker - Whitney Hill
Please use this referral form for student Social Work Request.
MES School Counselor - Eric Otis
Please use this referral form for student School Counselor Request
2018-2019 School Improvement Team Members
Congratulations to our newest team members and thank you to all others for continuing to serve as members of this great group.
Committee Positions ` Name ` Email Address ` Date Elected
Principal Lucretia Rice lrrice@gaston.k12.nc.us 7/1/2017
School Improvement Team Chairperson Bobbi Neely blneely@gaston.k12.nc.us 9/12/2018
Teacher Representative (Process Manager)Beth Crosby edcrosby@gaston.k12.nc.us 6/1/2014
Teacher Representative Kelly Shore kdshore@gaston.k12.nc.us 8/1/2017
Teacher Representative Kirsten Marett kcmarett@gaston.k12.nc.us 8/1/2017
Teacher Representative Bonita Truesdale bgtruesdale@gaston.k12.nc.us9/12/2018
Instructional Support Representative Charlotte Griffth chgriffith@gaston.k12.nc.us 9/12/2018
District Representative TBD TBD@gaston.k12.nc.us --/--/--
Parent Representative Erika Sutphin mollysmama2008@gmail.com 6/1/2014
School Improvement Team Chairperson
Bobbi Neely