Friday Focus
Moreau Heights Elementary
April 6
Moreau Heights is a collaborative community focused on student growth with a commitment to excellence.
PBS lesson
The PBS lesson for the next two weeks will focus on Keeping Your Cool! This is the same slideshow as last week, since it provided lessons for both weeks in one.
Our Second Steps lessons this week will focus on the following:
Kindergarten will work on handling name calling.
1st grade will begin bullying lessons provided.
Grade 2 will begin bullying lessons provided.
Grade 3 will begin bullying lessons provided.
Grade 4 will review Second Steps lessons
Grade 5 will focus on dealing with peer pressure
Are you using Charger Cash to reinforce PBS expectations and Second Step skills?
- We want to use positive reinforcement to draw attention to what we want to see more of from our students.
- How do you make sure you are putting the focus where you want it?
- Are you remembering to use all your tools? Specific feedback? Charger Cash?
"You are a giant, yellow highlighter. Highlight behavior you want more of, and help children become aware of the many kind and helpful things they do each day."
Conscious Discipline Connection - Handling conflict between students
We have students ACROSS the board who lack the language skills to say what they need. When we teach them these skills we help them use appropriate words to problem solve INSTEAD of their actions or inappropriate/unkind words.
These are lifelong skills our students will need and WE need to help them learn them, just like we teach students to read and write.
Duties for the Week
Wanting Some Behavioral Support Ideas?
Calendar of Events
Monday, April 9
*AM Staffing (Farmer, James, Humphreys, Henderson, McKim) 8:30
*DB staffing (James, Treat, Hoffmeyer, Haugen, Mantle) 9:15
*Lunch with the Principal
*Dr. Rose mtg 1:00 (Haugen, Jungmeyer, James)
*Functional Classroom mtg 3:45 (Haugen, Frank, Connelly, Farmer, Sexton)
Tuesday, April 10
*New Crew 7:00 a.m.
*Evacuation/Fire Drill 10:00
*Conscious Discipline parent mtg 11:00 in library
*CB IEP mtg 1:15 (Haugen, Humphreys, Cremin, Lock, Whitworth, Hammann, Connelly)
*DF IEP mtg (Gragg, Kaiser, Haugen) 2:00
*Sped team mtg (Connelly, Sexton, Farmer, Treat, Humphreys) 3:45
*PTO mtg 6:00 in library
Wednesday, April 11
*5th grade Science MAP testing begins at 8:30
*KC Staffing and IEP (James, Treat, Spear, Haugen, McKim, Henderson) 11:00
*RZ IEP mtg (Haugen, Kaiser, James, Spear, Treat) 1:00
Thursday, April 12
*Bus evacuation practice (as buses arrive)
*5th grade Science MAP testing begins at 8:30
*Elementary Principal mtg (Sue at BOE ) 8 - 12
Friday, April 13
*Progress reports go home
*SST for AM (Fleming, Holliday, Haugen, James) 11:00
Monday, April 16
*Librarian Appreciation Day
*Interagency mtg for LW (Hammann, James, Spear, Gentry) 8:30
*KH Staffing (James, Spear, Murray, Haugen, Treat, Reece) 2:15
*Tier 2 mtg 3:45
Tuesday, April 17
*2nd grade field trip
*Kindergarten field trip
*ELA MAP testing for grade 3, 4, 5
Wednesday, April 18
*ELA MAP testing for grade 3, 4, 5
*Author visit for specific grades 12:30 - 2:30
*DM IEP (Connelly, Dunn, Haugen, Lueckenhoff, Rackers, Lock) 1:15
*IM IEP (Treat, Haugen, McKim, Creamin, Reece) 2:00
Thursday, April 19
*ELA MAP testing grade 4
*TS IEP mtg (Gragg, Haugen, Fleming) 11:00
*Kindergarten Open House 5:30 - 7:00
Friday, April 20
*PBS Assemblies
- 8:30 grades 3-5
- 9:40 grades k-2
*Spring Sing/Art Show/Ice Cream Social 5:30 - 8:00
Reminders
2. Please be sure that when you have any special events going on in your grade level, information about times and such are shared with our secretaries. They take many calls with questions that can be answered easily if we have the information.
3. Our next PBS Assembly is Friday, April 20th. We will have one more chance to recognize students with our 3 awards in May, as well as presenting any special grade level awards for growth, effort, etc.
MAP Time
Dunn Henderson
Hammann Skinner
Steinman Day
Kindergarten split Watts-Hayes
Kaiser Britton
Reece Mantle
Russler Albers
Basinger Gaines
McGeorge Fleming
Schell Boeckman
Above you will find a list of the testing buddies.
Grade 3 has 4 days of testing, beginning the 17th (April 17, 18, 24, 25)
Grade 4 has 5 days of testing, beginning the 17th. (April 17, 18, 19, 24, 25)
Grade 5 has 6 days of testing, beginning the 11th. (April 11, 12, 17, 18, 24, 25)
If you are a k-2 teacher during your partner grade levels testing days you will need to supply the class with some encouraging notes, goodies, etc. Below you will find a list of ideas, feel free to be creative! 3-5 teachers it would be helpful to let your partner teacher know how many students you have, and if you prefer or want us to avoid certain things!
Record an encouraging video to wish them luck on the test
Have your class write notes to “Do your best on the test”
Make an encouraging poster to hang in their classroom
Decorate their classroom door
Write a nice note on post-it notes for the teacher to leave in their testing areas
The candy for the following ideas has been provided, if you would like to do these for your partner class you will need get them from the office.
Smarties candies with a note saying “Be a smartie for your test”
Tootsie roll candies with a note saying “You’re on a roll”
Mints with a note saying “You are mint to pass the test”