#TeamPenn WAG
October 21 - 25, 2019
- Monday, 10/21, District CORE Phonics #2, District Ren Learn #2 (STAR/Early Lit)
- 8:20 - 8:35 PIM
- 1:00 - 4:30 Maureen @ DO
- Tuesday, 10/22, Maureen OFF campus, FT: 3rd Luther Burbank Center
- 8:20 - 8:35 PIM
- 12:30 - 1:14 Happy Healthy Club in Room 11
- 1:00 - 3:00 GATE Coordinator Meeting @ DO
- 2:50 - 4:20pm Move Over Mozart Piano in Room 8
- Wednesday, 10/23, Red Ribbon Week through 10/31, FT: TK/K Santa Rosa Pumpkin Patch
- 8:20 - 8:45 Assembly
- 1 - 2pm Team Time
- 1:15 - 2pm Leadership Team Meeting
- 2:30 - 4pm Kelly's Baby Shower @ Jenna's House
- 2:30 - 3:30 Yesenia @ DO
- Thursday, 10/24
- 8:20 - 8:35 PIM
- 11:00am Picture make-up day by MugsyClicks
- 12:30 - 1:15 Learning Team (sign-ups)
- Friday, 10/25, FT: 4th Mission San Francisco Solano, Petaluma Adobe
- 8:20 - 8:35 PIM
- Saturday, 10/26, Harvest Festival @ Penn from 11:00am - 2:00pm
Thanks Maureen, for the yummy treats last week!
Happy Birthday, Gina Benedetti on 10/23!!
Congrats to Teri Boronkay!
Reminders from Mrs. Rudder
Core phonics and Ren Learn assessment window is open through 11/1. Please ensure that each student is assessed. If absences affect getting this done, let Maureen know.
Some parents are having issues logging the children into Lexia at home now that Clever has been installed on iPads. It sounds like parents should be encouraged to have their students first log in through Clever to get to other apps.
Maureen will be at the D.O. Monday afternoon for the K-6 Principal meeting and Friday morning to work on completing the Local Indicator narratives for charter schools which must be done by 11/1/19.
Here is the link to the Health and Safety online classes that are required annually for PCS Staff members. When you go to the site On the right side, you will see “First Time here?” click and self-register. Type in E-mail, First Name, Last Name; choose from the pull-down for your school/building (SoCC), and job description. Click “Save Registration”. You will then be on the main menu with the training courses. Maureen is forwarding the email to all staff members regarding which classes need to be taken based on your assignment. Please contact Maureen or our school nurse, Dana, with any questions.
Leadership Team Meeting Wednesday, 10/23, 1:15PM
Thanks to all of the Penngrove Staff for welcoming me back and for keeping me on my toes!!
Ruminations from an Old(er) Principal
One week down! Well, we hit the ground running on Tuesday and it has been so fun and rewarding to witness all the great work being done at Penngrove! For me (and I hope most of you) the transition has been easy because we’ve worked together before and therefore don’t have the challenges of trying to figure out how to communicate and do things.
Getting back into the swing of things, I’ve been reminded many times this week as to the power of our words and the strength of our connections. For the Penngrove students 2nd grade and up, I’m a known quantity. When I’ve had to talk to them about something (and yes, I’ve been busy with some student issues) I’m not a stranger. I was talking to a 3rd grade student this week who wanted to know how students that are not in the same grade level knew him. He really didn’t understand that when you are part of a community for a period of time, many people know you. When they know you, they share their perception of you with others in the greater community. This can be a positive or negative perception based on the interaction.
Connections- There are students at Penngrove who are the grandchildren of my friends, there are parents at Penngrove who are friends/peers/colleagues of my own children. There are teachers at Penngrove who were my grade level or site colleagues previously. There is even a teacher, it turns out, whose boyfriend I taught when he was in 4th grade! So many connections.
Words- Now that my eldest three grandkids are in school, I’m looking at the system in a different way than I did previously as a parent, teacher or administrator. I see these children as so young (even the big 6th graders) with so much of life ahead of them. I know that their parents are SOOO busy, trying to get through each day, paying the bills, driving them to school, practices, games, keeping them safe and loving them.
When I pick up my grandkids from school, I’m the person hoping that it was a good day so I can share that with their parents when they get home from work. I see how excited kids (and parents) get for the cheesy positive rewards given by teachers and schools. I get text messages or phone calls when a grandchild has received another construction paper “Eagle Feather” (La Tercera) and all the grandparents send congratulations.
As teachers, in the thick of things, we often forget the power of our words and how important it is to try to maintain the 5 (positive) to 1 (negative) ratio. When a student or parent has to hear a negative, it’s not as overwhelming if that person also hears the positives on a regular basis. The person can then actually hear it and not shut down. We want those with whom we connect daily to remember the positive in us and from us.
Back to that 4th grade student of mine… what is his perception of me? What I do know is that he remembers (because it was shared with me this week) a discipline issue. GUESS WHAT??? I had totally forgotten about it. I sure hope he remembers lots of positive and fun days in my class, I hope he thinks that I was a fair teacher.
Have a great week!
Lexia issues at home
Aspiring Administrator Workshop
Baby Sanders Celebration and a Note from Sunshine
We hope you all had a great Fall Break! Now that we are back, it is time to celebrate BABY SANDERS! Please check out the invitation for October 23rd HERE!
Also, If you still need to pay your dues for the year, now is a great time.
Thanks,
Sunshine
Staff Halloween Costume!
Bee kind- this can be aligned to our school wide initiative to work on Kindness!! In addition, we can use these year round to remind students of how being kind is a lifelong journey… much like a bee going on a journey :)
Pants - black pants / skirts
Shirts
2019-20 Penn Staff Fun Facts
Field trip funds- parent donations
Caltrans work in Penngrove
Amazon Business and Staples accounts
Requesting quotes from Barnes and Noble
Tech update on iPads
#TeamPenn All day Every Day
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Website: www.penngrovepanthers.org
Location: 365 Adobe Road, Penngrove, CA, USA
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