Eastside: The Greatest School
"No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else."
Week of December 17th
Eastside Mission & Vision
Working in partnership with the community, Eastside Elementary will provide all students:
A collaborative team of professionals who are committed to improve their practices, so that all students learn at high levels
A safe, positive, and inviting learning environment
An engaging and challenging curriculum focused on essential academics and life skills
Individualized and timely support that provides students with what they need to succeed
This Math Team worked so hard for all of you! They have lots of information to bring back to EES to take us to the next level!
4 Days Left
Please pay attention to all the details of this week. I am trying to use all our people, maximize our time, and get as many things accomplished prior to break, so we can see great gains in kids in January.
At the Math PLC conference, we heard from Tim Kanold a couple of different times. He is the author of the HEART book. See his quote below about happiness and success.
Twas a Crafty Christmas Literacy Night
Teachers Showing Up for Kids over the Weekend
Mrs. Franklin was invited and went to Miraya's Birthday party!
Mrs. Fletcher saw some 2nd grade basketball!
Mrs. Fletcher saw some 2nd grade basketball!
Details for the Week
Monday -
- See special schedule that I sent last week https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c80T-6XMIlskXMYve3yowsyFk2vsfLbIr0KvwVNQpUQ/edit?usp=sharing
- Mrs. Parish will be here with Mrs. Lane and Mrs. Gentry for Grade Level Reading
- Lovin from the Oven is today from PTO
- We will board the buses at 12:30 to head over to GHS Fine Arts building for the play. The play begins at 1:00 PM and should last about an hour. Nurse Leah will be attending to handle any medical needs. Staff members, please have your cell phone with you in case Mrs. Patty needs to let you know of a parent coming over to check out their child. Certain staff members will stay on campus to finish watching their Phonics First videos. I will let you know by email if you are staying on campus and which staff member will be watching your class at the play.
Tuesday -
3rd Grade Science Carnival (Mrs. Franklin has sent out the schedule for this. The kids have worked so hard.)
Dr Howse will be here with the math team!
Team Meeting for K-2 (We will work on MAP reflections.) Support staff will not meet in team meetings this week.
Staff Christmas Party at 5:30 at Conway Downtown tree for pics, Senor Tequila for meal, and 7-9 pm Branch Out paint party (31 signed up for dinner and 17 for painting!!!!) It's going to be so much fun!
Wednesday
- Awards Assembly K-2 @ 8:45 and 3-5 at 9:30 ( You will wear professional dress for the awards assembly, but you may change afterwards.)
- Christmas Parties at 2:00 PM
Thursday
- Polar Express Day and PJs for $1
- We will send out a Polar Express viewing schedule. Students will come down to the cafeteria to view the movie.
- Team Meeting for 3-5 (We will meet as grade level teams and work on MAP reflections.)
Important News:
PROWL this week will not occur. We will use this time to get PROWL ready for second semester. I will send out a schedule of how this will work for Tuesday - Thursday. Monday, we will not have PROWL since block time will begin at that time with 5th and Kinder.
Jean Week with Festive Christmas or Panther shirts. Thank you Mrs. O'Reilly for this great news! Make sure your jeans are free of holes or rips.
12 days of Christmas continues this week!
Sending home some reading materials over break - We have purchased a book for each kid to take home over Christmas break and read with their family. These will be passed out on Thursday. We will be including a reading activity with each book. Along with this resource, please send home a reading activity you would like your students to work on. This could include red words, fluency phrases, A-Z decodables, etc. Have your interventionists make copies of these things for you instead of providing interventions this week. No SIT commenting this week. Interventionists, ask your grade level how you can help them. This could include making copies of decodable readers for the upcoming semester along with creating reading materials to send home with kids over break. We do not want kids to go home over break and lose their progress we have made with them. Let' s be very intentional about this. Mrs. Manning and I will go live on Facebook on Thursday to explain that these materials are coming home.
I have heard several of you discuss how you will be changing certain procedures and practices in your room starting in January. Take some time this week to front load kids with this information. We want to maximize our use of instruction time starting in January. This might include setting up binders, notebooks, reviewing data and setting goals, etc. Be sure to revisit Student Data Notebooks with your kids prior to Christmas break. Have them graph their MAP and DRA data and help set goals for the second semester!
If you are a support staff member and you have a sub, please place on your sub plans about going down to the classrooms during intervention time to support the teachers. However, subs will NOT do interventions. The subs will not leave the classroom they are assisting. (For example, if I am a sub for Mrs. Satterwhite. I will see on Mrs. Satterwhite's plans to go help kinder and 5th grade at certain times. When I get to those classrooms, I will help in those rooms, but the classroom teacher will not send kids with me outside the classroom.)
Who will have The Greatest Attendance in December? - As we discussed, you will calculate percentage of students present each day and record it on the chart. We will collect these percentages up to Dec 18. On Dec 19, you will let students know which class out of their grade had the highest percentage and they will receive their 30 minute celebration (which you as the classroom teachers are choosing). Mrs. Manning and I will calculate grade level percentages and the winning grade will receive a 30 minute "AttenDANCE party" in the PE building on December 20th!
- We will not ask parents for money for any craft items or party items. Also, make sure that all food brought for parties are purchased from stores and not homemade.
- Just a reminder that DRA and 2nd nine weeks writing assessments need to be completd and updated on the EES Literacy Assessments Google sheet prior to break.
Progress Monitoring and Documentation:We will wait on Dibels PM and MAP PM until after the break. We will start the mid year Dibel process in January.
Curriculum Day is on Jan 7th at 8:00am. More details to come in future email.
Computer Science Word of the Month: CODE
Character Word of the Month: Dependable
Important Dates (Refer to our EES 2018- 2019 Year at a Glance Calendar in Google Drive)
Dec. 21-Jan 4 Christmas Break
Jan. 7- Curriculum Day
Jan. 8-1st day students back
Jan 21 - Report Cards go home for 2nd nine weeks
Eastside
Email: dunlapm@greenbrierschools.org
Website: https://eastside.greenbrierschools.org/
Location: 61 Glenn Lane, Greenbrier, AR, USA
Phone: 501-679-2111
Twitter: @EASTSIDE_gbrAR