Dos Rios Elementary
Weekly Rocket News * April 23, 2018
Principal's PLC-Connection
Dear Dos Staff,
With our Earth Day/Art Expo coming up, last week and this week, there was a rotation schedule change for specials so that Art & Music could have a chance to see all students through out the week. After the program takes place, we will resume weekly rotations.
I have also communicated with Mr. Welsh in adjusting Thursday & Friday traveling teachers to accommodate for Dos' Earth Day Program.
Thank you for all you do. The newsletter will reflect "as if" it's business as usual. I do however understand the situation you are in, and for those of you who heard Mrs. Neville, we do understand the crisis we are in and only ask that you continue to have open communication with administration so we can ultimately plan to serve our students by whatever means we can.
Mrs. Annamarie Dowling-Garrott
Breakfast Monitoring Requirements - from Food Service
Due to a recent Food Service Dept. review by AZ Dept of Education, errors were found in how teachers are counting the number of breakfasts being claimed in the classroom. For 30 school days, April 9th to Monday May 21st Food Service will need paper documentation of how many students take breakfast in each classroom.
Starting Monday, April 9th in the breakfast bag will be a file folder with each classroom teachers roster of student. They will be marking this roster for the 5 day week. The marked rosters will be turned into ADE at the end of the 30 days for audit documentation. So, please don't scribble notes on the class roster and don't draw a line down the entire list making us guess that every student in the class was present and ate breakfast.
If a student takes a reimbursable breakfast, the teacher will place a checkmark, X or something by the students name. Inside the folder will be a note of what equals a reimbursable meal for that day. At the end of breakfast, place the folder back in the breakfast bag. At the beginning of each of the 6 weeks, will be a clean 5-day roster that will be marked.
See downloaded page at bottom - hope it answers all the questions sheet.
Kendell K. Paty
Food Service Director
Union School District
623-478-5010
Weekly Launch Codes
Week-at-a-Glance
Monday 4/23:
- Middle School PLC
- "Weekly DOS of PBIS” 3:15-3:30
Tuesday 4/24:
- PLC’s
- 6th Grade Art Museum informational introduction
- PTA Meeting 5:00
Wednesday 4/25:
- ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONAL DAY - Don't forget to thank our phenomenal office staff!
- Principal PLC (Dowling-G OUT) 9:00-11:00
- 2nd Grade PLC
Thursday 4/26:
- Earth Day Program / Art Expo 1:00-2:30
- Spring Carnival 4:00-7:00
Friday 4/27:
- Dollar Dress Down
- 6th Grade Art Museum Field Trip
- 2nd Grade PLC
- PBIS Committee Meeting 3:20
Classroom Observations Scheduling
Please make sure you have signed up for your Formal Observation. If you are applying to return, interviews will only be scheduled and conducted after your 2nd Formal Observation is completed.
ALL OBSERVATIONS MUST BE COMPLETED BY MAY 1st.
Earth Art
The beauty of Earth Art is you can do it almost anywhere... your yard, park, beach (desert), etc. It's a simple, fun and free nature craft for kids and adults of any age!
Materials:
Use any materials you can find:
- Rocks - leaves - sticks
- Pine cones - nuts - shells
- Sand - grass - flowers, etc...
Instructions:
- You can create earth art anywhere outside using the earth as a canvas. It can be grass, dirt, leaves, mud, clay, pavement, sand, etc..
- Walk around outside and start selecting your materials.
- Once you've gathered some of your materials, start creating. You can continue to gather more materials as needed.
Earth Design Ideas:
- Faces, People
- Snakes, Worms, Caterpillars
- Letters, Words
- Flowers
- Animals
- Mandalas
- Shapes