Mt. Bethel Messenger
MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU! MAY 4, 2018
Staff Updates
- Stephanie Carey will join the 5th grade team next year. She is moving to East Cobb from Virginia and recently got engaged. Her fiance is a former Buccaneer! If you would like to welcome Stephanie and make her feel like she made a good choice with some positive words about MBES, please send her an email. stephanie.m.carey@gmail.com .
- Katie Giordano will join the 5th grade team next year. Her family is relocating from Decatur to Roswell. Katie is gifted certified, has a two-year-old son, and has spent over a decade teaching in Clayton County Schools. If you would like to welcome Katie and make her feel like she made a good choice with some positive words about MBES, please send her an email. kmmcquiston@gmail.com
- Maria Ochoa Batista will join our special education paraprofessionals. She lives in the Walton district and served as a 1:1 parapro last year at Argyle Elementary for a student with medical needs. She will work alongside Brittany Fagan in the MOID Classroom. If you would like ot reach out with some positive words about MBES, please send her an email. Maria.OchoaBatista@cobbk12.org
BUCCANEER BRAVOS
- BRAVO, KINDERGARTEN TEAM FOR AN INCREDIBLE K ORIENTATION! Thank you to everyone who made K Orientation possible....our K teachers and paras (along with students), the office staff, Tim, and PTA/Foundation volunteers. We had a pretty packed house with students who appear ready to be Buccaneers!
- A HUGE THANK YOU to 5th GRADE SPECIAL EDUCATION TRANSITION TEAMS! Jaime, 5th grade special education and 5th grade general education teachers have been holding transition meetings to ensure that our students who require special education have all services in place when they leave Mt. Bethel!
- HATS OFF to all 4th & 5th GRADE TEACHERS for meeting regarding AC next year! We appreciate your willingness to meet and your open mind to implementing AC ELA in 2018-19.
- BRAVO, SPECIALISTS! Friday's Snack Attack was delicious!
RTI-2 & RTI-3 Year End Procedures
All RTI-2 and RTI-3 data must be entered into CSIS. If you have been collecting data toward goals and have not yet entered the data, do so before 11:59pm on May 4th. This is CRITICAL for our end of RTI Wrap-Up.
ON THURSDAY, MAY 10TH:
Mandatory meeting for all homeroom teachers during planning to complete End of Year RTI wrap-up. We need to complete EOY summaries, close/continue goals, distribute continuation letters to parents, and more. We will take care of this at planning on 5/10. Bring your charged laptops to the conference room on 5/10. *Process should go quickly as long as you have your data entered.
Kindergarten Target Testing
Get Excited! Here's What's On the Horizon:
- Pack/purge days. May 7, 8, 9.
- May 10th - RTI Day at planning - completing all EOY RTI necessities. Meet @ Planning in Conf. Rm. Bring charged laptop.
- May 11th - GKIDS Deadline!
- May 11th - Gifted Assessment Window 3 closes.
PACK AND PURGE DAYS
We provide 3 hours & 15 minutes of substitute coverage for all teachers to pack/purge/prep for the end of the year. On your day, you may wear jeans/sneakers/non-skanky workout clothes to get the job done. Please make sub plans for the time you are packing/purging.
Acceptable activities:
- Pack curriculum items
- Purge non-used items
- Organize storage
- Work on permanent records
Morning sub = 7:30 am - 10:45 am. You can, of course start earlier. if your sub arrives earlier.
Afternoon sub = 11: 15 - 2:30. You can, of course, stay later.
*If a sub arrives earlier or stays later, you may take advantage of that. We wanted to ensure a lunch break and travel time for them.
When is my pack/purge day?
May 7th: 5th in am & K in pm
May 8th: 4th in am & and 1st in pm
May 9th: 3rd in am & and 2nd in pm
Make sure you sign green Reports of Absence Forms & place in Cherie's box. If you are out for some reason on your Pack & Purge Day, we have your sub help out in another area of the building.
2018-19 Calendar Input - DUE May 7th
The working copy of our calendar for 2018-19 can be found AT THIS LINK. It is an Excel file with each month housed on a different tab at the bottom.
Please work with your teams to draft any dates/times for events you would like to plan for the coming year. We will have an end of year BLT Calendar Meeting (some time TBA).
Team Leaders, please be prepared to share your team's desired dates by May 7th. You can record right on the calendar if you wish (it's in O365) - just be sure you put your team's name on it. (example: 1st Scarecrow Day; 4th HTHT; etc.)
2018-19 CALENDAR DRAFT - FOR PLANNING PURPOSES- editable in O365.
Mark Your Calendars!
STAFF USE CALENDAR FOR 2018-19 - CLICK TO VIEW!
MBES PLANNING CALENDAR - WORK WITH TEAMS TO SLATE PROPOSED DATES
Saturday, May 5th & Sunday, May 6th
- Weekend hours. Building available both days from 9am - 3pm. Please take out your own trash, make sure you pull the door tight behind you when you enter the building, and LEAVE NO FOOD BEHIND!
Monday, May 7
- Kindergarten Target Testing
- Pack & Purge - 5th & Kindergarten
- TKES/LKES deadline
- 9am - Presidents & Principals Meeting
- 3rd Grade Salad Day
- Team Calendar Input Due
Tuesday, May 8
- Pack & Purge - 4th & 1st
- 3rd Grade Salad Day
Wednesday, May 9
- Happy Birthday, Chris Jones!
- Pack & Purge 3rd & 2nd
- 1st Grade High Touch High Tech
- K Poetry Parade Practice
Thursday, May 10
- RTI End of Year Wrap-Up. Homeroom teachers meet in Conference Room at planning. Bring your laptop.
- 1st Grade High Touch High Tech
- K Poetry Parade Practice
Friday, May 11
- GKids Deadline
- Gifted Assessment Window 3 closes
- 8:30 am - K Poetry Parade
- 1st Grade High Touch High Tech
- 12:00 pm - 5th Grade Picnic
Saturday, May 12th & Sunday, May 13th
- Weekend hours. Building available both days from 9am - 3pm. Please take out your own trash, make sure you pull the door tight behind you when you enter the building, and LEAVE NO FOOD BEHIND!
END OF YEAR CLASS PARTIES
Thursday, May 17
- 8:30-9:30 1st Grade
- 10:00-11:00 Kinder (Barnes, St. Jean, Lindsay, Loescher)
- 12:00-1:00 3rd Grade (get sign out sheets from office if parents want to take kids home after parties)
Monday, May 21
- 8:30-9:30 2nd Grade
- 10:00-11:00 Kinder (Wells, Menear, Allred, Vanderhave)
- 12:00-1:00 4th Grade (get sign out sheets from office if parents want to take kids home after parties)
Duty Schedule
AM BUS CLIPBOARD: Rinaldi
AM BUS LANE MONITORING: Sigmund
AM CARPOOL: McGraw, Denman, C. Griffin
PM CARPOOL: Bain, Ferguson, Mullins/Goldt
SECOND LOAD STANDBY: Greenwald