Administrivia
Week of 10-1-18
Welcome to October!
THANK YOU for another successful Open House last Thursday. Everyone pitched in to help get Morgan looking ready to host the final UCS Open House of the new school year. Thanks to Mike and Karen for helping with the bulletin boards in the main hallways--the kids are loving the comments they can leave for each other! Thank you to Valerie in SACC for helping with chair set up. Thank you to Bob for helping with tables from the portable. Thank you to Stephanie for organizing a LC fundraiser. Thank you to Melissa and Sharon for all the prep work and helping parents with PowerSchool that evening. If I forgot anyone, I apologize! I know it was a team effort!We are now officially past all of the back-to-school events and heading full steam into the year.
BILLY IS BACK!! As he will explain, when you are the new man on the job, you can quickly get bumped from your day hours and pushed into the midnight shift. That pushed Billy right back here to Morgan! Great to see him back here working as hard as he does!
Our other custodians are Bruna, who has been working the day shift. Our evening couple is now cleaning the entire building together while they are here. If you have any concerns, please let me know so they can be addressed.
It's time to start setting up goal meetings to review and finalize goals prior to the end of October 31. Check your calendars and I will check mine to find open opportunities to meet. If you need any help with goals, please let me know as we work through the new requirements from the state of Michigan.
Have a wonderful week!
Sue
Math Expressions Coaching Day
Thursday, October 18
The district in partnership with the Houghton Mifflin will be providing Math Expressions coaching for Kindergarten – Fifth grade teachers this school year.
Per curriculum department, the morning sessions should be scheduled for grades 3-5 and the afternoon sessions should be scheduled for grades K-2.
Paperwork for 3 rotating subs has been submitted for this day.
Morgan's Schedule will be:
8:30 - 9:20 Grade 4
9:30-10:20 Grade 3
10:30-11:20 Grade 5
11:30 -12:10 Lunch
12:20-1:10 Grade 1
1:20-2:10 Kindergarten
2:20 -3:10 Grade 2
All attempts were made to avoid specials and allow teachers to be available for IEP meetings on that day.
Faces T-Shirts
There is a link to pick grade level shirt colors below. Let me know your grade's preferred shirt color by FRIDAY, please so I can complete the order forms.
We have also had a request for Morgan Wear sales. As we move into the Color Run, we could wrap in the faces t-shirts and the Morgan Wear into our sales for additional fundraising toward our goal!.
ConnectEd Student Username and Passwords
The district has set all username and passwords for students within the ConnectEd platform as follows.
Kindergarten- Sixth grade username: utica-district assigned username
Kindergarten password: abc123
First – Sixth password: Its…
First through sixth graders each have an unique “Its..” password. Media Center teachers can provide classroom teachers with the username and password information.
Due to upgrades within the ConnectEd platform, teachers are not able to see permanent passwords for students. Teachers should not print the temporary passwords or use the temporary passwords that are visible within the teacher dashboard. All students must use the passwords provided by the district.
Houghton Mifflin Personal Math Trainer
Attached are directions (#15A) to assist teachers in initiating the Personal Math Trainer for the 2018-2019 school year within the Houghton Mifflin ThinkCentral site. Please share this information with appropriate staff.
Conference Dates
The votes are in!
Thursday, November 15 in the PM and in the evening.
Wednesday, November 14 in the evening.
Math and Literacy Schedules
Thank you to those who have already done this!
Example:
Mrs. Teacher, Grade K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Math M-F 10:15 - 11:15 AM
ELA M-F 1:20-2:50 PM
Calendar Dates
Monday, Oct. 1: Severe Weather Awareness Drill #1 @ 2:30 PM
Thursday, Oct. 4: Fire Truck visit for 2nd grades @ 1:30 PM
Friday, Oct. 5: PTO Fall Festival @ Morgan
Tuesday, Oct. 9 Fire Drill #3 @ 11:00 AM
3:30 - 4:30 PM Staff Meeting--Epi Pen Training
Wednesday, Oct. 10: Walk to School Day
Thursday, Oct. 18 Math Expressions Coaching Day--see schedule above
Monday, Oct. 22 PTO Meeting @ Hamlin Pub starting at 6:30 PM
Tuesday, Oct. 23 3:30-4:40 Staff Meeting
Wednesday, Oct. 31 1/2 Day of school--student dismissal @ 11:29 AM
Teacher Phase I Goals/Meeting due