Hoot Hoot Herald
February 15-19, 2016
Reminders
A few reminders:
Please remind your students of the expectations for cafeteria behavior. We have a lot of kids in there and it's been a little rowdy lately! Your support is greatly appreciated!!
Please see Ms. Hill for the TELPAS quiz which is required prior to callibration!
LOVE AND HUGS!
New Grading Procedures to take effect on March 2nd
There is a new grading procedure that starts March 2nd.
1. The “Post All to Report Card” button will be available.
2. Elementary teachers will no longer be required to finalize their gradebooks.
With these changes, you can now Post All of your grades with ONE click.
You can still use the “Post” button from within each course/section to post or re-post a single section if needed.
It is strongly recommended that you review the Report Card tab in your gradebook for each section. This allows you to ensure you have proofed the grades that will be printed on the report card for your students.
Important notes:
➢ Any student without a grade will have an ‘NG’ (no grade) posted on the Report Card tab. (Homeroom and CITZ sections should show an ‘NG’ as they’re not graded courses.)
➢ The system stores your User Id, date, and time that you posted your grades regardless of method used (Post All or Post).
Please see Cycle 3 Elementary Grading Procedures for more information.
G/T Information
GT TIMELINE:
Feb. 15 - March 7 - For Teachers:
- Window to complete Observation Survey and Observation Inventory
- Assign and collect student portfolio work sample
Feb. 23, 24, 25, Feb. 29 and March 4 -
- GT On-line CogAT testing in Computer Lab- more info on schedule coming soon!!
Doss Blooms With Kindness Week!
Happy Kindness Week!
Here are some things to get your team started on having an awesome RAK (Random Acts of Kindness) Week! Your SEL chairs will receive a copy of all of these in a folder (in color). You will also receive via email a file with all of them (all in one file) in case you want to print in color. Please feel free to come up with your own ideas!
Hearts--Your class will receive 25 hearts. Once a student has completed a "Random Act of Kindness," they may bring it to our Love Tree at the atrium. DO NOT WRITE NAMES--just the kind deed. Let Doss Bloom with Kindness this week!!
Posters for Far West Kindness Fest: If your classroom wants to show a little love to our NW Hills neighbors, we will have posters available for your class to go show a few minutes of love to the passersby. Please let us know when you would like to use them!
Kindness quotes: In case you'd like to tackle "Kindness" in writing assignments, here are our "Thoughts for the day" for the month.
Great Kindness Challenge: More ideas for kind deeds in "checklist" form!
Pay It Forward Bingo: Game for RAK Week!
Secret Agent Scavenger Hunt: Game for RAK Week!
Bookmarks: Leftovers from last year...
Kindness Lesson Plans: Here are some lesson plans by grade level (K-8) that are focused on "Kindness." Fun and easy to use!
Pay it Forward Cards: Leave a little "happy" around the world and encourage others to do the same!
Happy Stamps: Have your students color a motivational doodle, and "stamp" kindness around the halls of Doss!!
End of the Day Jar: Conversation cards to have a community-building closure to your day.
Friendship Cards: Enjoy some conversation starters to help your students look at "friendship" in a new way.
TELPAS Calibration Sessions
TELPAS calibration sessions will be held after school in the computer lab on the following days. The sessions will begin with a mandatory campus administration procedures training starting at 3:30 followed by the online calibration to be completed independently. You may sign-up as a team or come on your own. We have space for approximately 22 people per session.
Just a reminder that you will be paid for your time after school. All new raters must complete the online basic training course before you calibrate. Please bring a set of headphones to the lab on your calibration day.
Wednesday, Feb. 17 3:30
Thursday, Feb 18th 3:30
Wednesday, Feb. 24 3:30-4th grade
Thursday, Feb 25 3:30
Bluebonnet Breakfast is Friday, February 19th
Next set of Benchmarks
Tues. 3/8
3rd Math
Wed. 3/9
3rd Reading
4th Reading
Thurs. 3/10
4th Math
Make-up
Wed. 4/6
5th Science
Thurs. 4/7
Make up
Nurse's Notes
Thank you for doing a great job in sending students with a note or the health referral form to the health office. Having the full name of the student helps us expedite care in contacting parents.
Please let us know if your first aid bags are running low on bandaids so we can refill them for you.
Computer Lab News
No new news on the new student devices (tablets & Chrome books).
If you looked at Google docs last week then you are ready to make your own document.
- On the Google Docs home page look at the top and you will see a big black horizontal bar that says “start a new document”.
- Decide if you want to start with a blank sheet or if you want to use one of their templates. Just click on the one you want and it will open up.
- You now have a new document in Google docs! The best part is you don’t have to remember to save because Google constantly saves it as you go. Lose power, no problem! Make changes, get interrupted by a student, forget where you were, and close the program. No problem! Whatever you did is there automatically when you open Google Docs again.
- The top left hand corner of the page it says “untitled document”. Click on it and you can type in the name you want.
Right now you are the only one that can see your new document. Next time I’ll tell you about sharing. Call me if you have problems -James
Library Schedule
Monday, February 15
Conference day
Tuesday, February 16
8:15 Sprague (K)
8:30 Plaisance
9:00 Gall
10:00 Hyvl
10:30 Evans & Elbrecht
11:00 Johnson
11:45 Sprague (1)
1:45 Barrick
Wednesday, February 17
8:30 Cormack
9:00 Means
10:00 Singerman
10:15 Mowry
11:00 Warner
11:30 Crawford
1:00 Hayes
1:30 Baehr
Thursday, February 18
8:10 Folts
8:25 Raup
9:00 Smith
10:00 Stone & Hall
10:45 Dr. Buckman- 1st grade
11:30 Haurwitz
12:30 Jones
1:00 Eddleton
1:30 Lauck
Friday, February 19
10:00 Collins
10:15 Vrba
1:00 Hello
Calendar
Monday, February 15
Conference Day, No school for students
Tuesday, February 16
Wednesday, February 17
CIZE workout with Vangie Gardner, 3:30, her music room
Thursday, February 18
1st grade visit with Dr. Buckman, 10am-11:30am, Library
Friday, February 19
Bluebonnet breakfast, Library
Monday, February 22
Staff Meeting, 3:15, Library
Wedding Shower for Nina Gustafson - right after staff meeting.
Tuesday, February 23
Read Across Doss Author visit- Lincoln Peirce, for 2nd and 3rd grade.
TA Brown Elementary 3rd grade will also be coming.
Wednesday, February 24
Doss Preschool Club will meet in the cafeteria-8:15-9
CIZE workout with Vangie Gardner, 3:30, her music room
Thursday, February 25
All Kinder applications due for Mandarin Immersion Program
Friday, February 26
Computer Lab Schedule
February 15-19
Monday
Student Holiday
Tuesday, February 16
8:15 Barrick
9:00 Eddleton
9:45 Stover
10:30 Plaisance
12:00 Che
12:45 Taylor
1:30 Hyvl
2:15 Francis
Wednesday, February 17
8:15 Gall
9:00 Smith
9:45 Keys
10:30 Collins
12:00 Hall
12:45 Cardwell
1:30 Carroll
2:15 Johnson
Thursday, February 18
8:15 Sprague (K)
9:00 Means
9:45 Daly
10:30 Vrba
11:15 Raup
12:00 Singerman
12:45 Hughes
1:30 Baehr
2:15 Bones
Friday, February 19
8:15 Gustafson
9:45 Folts
10:30 Elbrecht
11:15 Stone
12:00 Truesdale
12:45 Lauck
1:30 Hayes
2:15 Hawkins