The Roar
Staff Newsletter for Lynnhaven Elementary
December 10-15, 2018
Put Students First • Seek Growth • Be Open to Change
Do Great Work Together • Value Differences
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A Week at a Glance
SCA Canned Food Drive Dec.3-20
SPCA Drive Dec. 3-21
Hanukkah Dec. 3-11
December 10, 2018
Gr 2 Swim Lessons - 9:30-11:30
Gr 4 Music program Rehearsal - 3:00 - 4:30 (speaking parts)
December 11, 2018
Gr 2 Swim Lessons - 9:30-11:30
Language Arts Collab
Hospitality Goodie Day - provided by 4th & 5th gr
Literacy Leader out of the building all day for professional development
CCLC - 2:40-4:35
STEM Robotics - 2:40-4:35
December 12, 2018
PTA Holiday Shop - MPR
Gr 2 Swim Lessons - 9:30-11:30
Faculty Meeting - 3:00
PTA Gingerbread House Building Night - 6:00 - 7:30
December 13, 2018
PTA Holiday Shop - MPR
Gr 2 Swim Lessons - 9:30-11:30
Language Arts Collab
Gifted Teacher out of the building in the afternoon for professional development
CCLC - 2:40-4:35
December 14, 2018
Progress Reports Issued
PTA Holiday Shop - MPR
Gr 2 Swim Lessons - 9:30-11:30
School Counselor out of the building in the afternoon for professional development
Hospitality Happy Hour - Applebee's 3:30 (by central library)
December 15, 2018 (Saturday)
CCLC Outreach Brickheadz
Language Arts Collaboration Week - December 10 - 14
Tuesday
- 8:20-9:55 - 2nd Grade
- 10:30-11:30 - Kindergarten
- 12:05-1:40 - 5th Grade
Thursday
- 8:20-9:55 - 1st Grade
- 10:00-11:35 - 3rd Grade
- 12:55-2:30 - 4th Grade
Happy Birthday!
Chelsea Cope - 8
Jessica Epps - 9
Nelia Maurizi - 9
Terry Green - 15
Shout Outs!
- Thank you to Fernandez and Benton for opening their classroom to a student who needs extra social/emotional support.
- Thank you to Gunning for offering to spend your personal and planning time to support a kindergarten student.
- Thank you to Epps for allowing a fourth grade student to be a mentor and role model for a kindergarten student.
- Thank you to Hoff for always offering to help out!
- Kudos to L Jones for leading her K class while Heath is on maternity leave. You are doing a wonderful job supporting your students!
- Kudos to the following people for their help these past few weeks, as we know it takes a village sometimes when it comes to working with kids: Corillo, Hoff, Cofield, The team of PreK teachers and teachers assistants, and of course our administration and office staff.
- Congratulations to Marie Aronson for earning her National Board Certification in the area of English as a new language!
Remembering Mrs. Trotman
21st CCLC BrickheadZ Family STEAM Team
The Lynnhaven Elementary 21st CCLC Program will host a BrickheadZ Family STEAM Team event on Saturday, December 15, 2018 exclusively for participants and their families. After a brief orientation, families will collaborate to complete a team project, focusing on the 5 Cs. Participants will have an opportunity to experience how these activities are designed to stimulate thinking about STEAM (Science, Technology, Research, Engineering, Art and Mathematics), followed by completing a series of problem-based tasks. Classroom teachers, please remind your CCLC students to attend this event.
Bathroom Assistance
Classroom Holiday Celebrations
Over the next two weeks, if you would like to have a celebration for your students, please complete the Google doc here - https://goo.gl/ySdzdE. If your celebration will take place during lunch, please make sure you let Mrs. Banks know, so she can plan appropriately when ordering and preparing food. Just a reminder about lunch...all students must be offered a lunch in the cafeteria, even if you opt to have food in the classroom.
The nurse will be sending a letter home to all classes with any student allergies explaining that any items that contain allergen will be sent home.
Reminder from the handbook:
When having celebrations and parties in the classroom, please communicate with the administration, office associates, and security, so everyone knows when to expect parents (if invited). (The Google Doc above will serve as your communication.)
Any celebration involving food must be store bought. It is up to the teacher to know any allergies in the classroom and check ingredients. For celebrations and parties, the nurse cannot be in charge of checking all food. This must be a joint effort with the teacher but certainly reach out to the nurse if there are any questions. The safe recommendation is that if one student has an allergy, there should be no food in the room with that ingredient. Keeping the student away may not prove to be enough.
Security Reminders
Parents should not be invited to the classrooms during the instructional day without teachers speaking with administration first. Some teachers are calling parents in the middle of the day and inviting them to the classroom. We are trying to protect your instructional time, so we end up unintentionally sending mixed messages when we don't know in the office that a parent has been invited down to the classroom. To conference with a parent, we will do our best to get you coverage if you need to speak with the parent instead of sending them down to your room.
If you are meeting with a parent during the school day (during your planning time) please let security and office know.
When security calls to your classroom for an student early dismissal, please do not ask to conference with the parent on the phone. This takes your attention away from your other students.
Thank you to Lynnhaven's SCA for decorating our "Giving Tree"!
Winter Student Art Show
The Winter Student Art Show starts today at Pembroke Mall until February 7th. We have 5 students with artwork in the show representing our school.
What Do Our Students Deserve Every Day?
Hour Of Code PD opportunity:
Teachers Can Code Too!
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wb-uzIdWnf5NkU5n4eQXB9qo4uzvew5jyh04KK9sSEw/edit?usp=sharing
Complete this flipped PD session for 1 hour PD by Dec 21st
Book Study
Hospitality News
Dec. 11...Goodie Day provided by 4th and 5th grade
Dec. 14...Happy Hour at the Applebee's (come on out and celebrate Mr. Clark's graduation from ODU and finishing his Master's degree in Sports Management)
Dec. 15 ... Holiday Party at Kim Morse's house at 7:00. (Be sure to RSVP on the sign up sheet in the mailroom)
Dec 3-20... Secret Santa