WEEK  20

Dear team, 

Can you believe that we are reaching week 20 already? 

The school year is flying and your hard work is unwavering!

We acknowledge that this one of the most stressful times of the school year. Do know that your effort does not go unnoticed!

You've got this, we've got this!

Enjoy your weekend ✨.

No Staff Meeting nor Planning Meetings this week.

Use this time to finalize S1 madness!

You've got this 💪

We have the honor of being chosen to be the first ones to welcome our NAE regional team on Monday! For this reason, I kindly ask you to dedicate tomorrow's morning work to creating signs with positive and welcoming messages, such as “Welcome to Menor,” “At Menor we are kind,” etc. Please ONLY USE A4 paper, which can be either white or colored. Let your students be as creative as they want. (3rd grade will not be participating due to MAP Testing)

On Monday, during morning work time, please line up your students, and at 8:00 AM, make sure to be under the roof by the big playground (where we usually line up to greet the seniors on their last day). Encourage your students to wave, clap, cheer, and make the NAE team feel warmly welcomed #TheMenorWay

Dear Team, thank you for your support with the Readathon!

It is time to collect the money students raised and make the donation so students with learning needs from Escuela Alfonso Mora Bowen can receive diagnostic, therapy and training for parents and teachers. 

Please collect these and record the information in the following document: Readathon

Once you have everyone's information, (this can be next week) please turn it in at the office in a manila envelope with your class name written down. 

Thank you!!

Before MAP testing please ensure that: 

• You go over the MAP overview presentation 

• Create testing sessions with the time in advance and double check you are assigning the correct tests. 

• Double check MAP schedules. 

• Talk to students about taking MAP testing seriously to show how much they have grown as learners! Student Presentation

• After MAP, sign up students for make up if needed. 

Please read the following documents in detail: 

S1 Report Cards Procedural Document

Student-Led Conferences Procedural Document

Student Led Conferences Schedule 

DEADLINE:

All S1 exam grades, P2, conduct and comments are due on Wednesday January 29th. 

The error report will be run by 2:45pm 

COMMENTS: 

Please submit sample comments to Moni and Marga by Monday January 27th. 

You are to share a minimun of 3 comments (students who master expectations, meet or beggining)

Make a copy of this template and share via email.

❗ EXAM CATEGORY IN POWERSCHOOL ❗

All exams grades should be entered in Powerschool into the Exam 100% category.

POWERSCHOOL RECALCULATE: Please follow this video tutorial to recalculate grades, since we are changing to new Exam category (Exam 100%)

INVITING PARENTS: 

Please email all parents inviting them to their student led conferences. 

Use the Sign Up template

Our community's biggest celebration is here!  Let's get ready to make this day unforgetable. 

Elementary activities: 

• These are the activities Elementary will put together. 

• Please send an email to Clari by Monday Jan 20th afternoon with all materials required. 

• These are the shifts of the day. 

Important Guidelines: 

• Teachers working schedule 7:45 to 2pm. 

• Student arrival 7:45 to 8:10am. 

• Students wear their class T-shirt.

• 8:45 Elementary lines up to start the parade. See this presentation.

• 8:50 Parade starts! We parade after Early Childhood. 

• Students should be picked up from their classrooms after the parade.

Class Banner:

• On the week prior to Family Day, create a class banner with your students.

Parade Practice: 

• On Friday January 31st at 2pm*, we'll practice the Family Day parade. Please line up following the parade instructions on the presentation above. 

No Metacognition lesson this week. 

Please use the time for finishing any last touches to Student Portfolio and for students practicing Student-Led conferences. 

Launching on January!

Thank you to our teacher volunteers who will be facilitating Makerspace fun druing recess time! 

We will launch this play/creation area for some students in January on the following schedules: 

• • 3rd Grade: 

    • Emi: Tuesdays Recess 

  • 4th Grade:  

• Mary: Thursday Recess 

• Alex: Wednesday Recess 

• 5th Grade:  

• Jorge: Tuesdays Recess 

• Irene: Thursdays Recess 

SIGN UP SHEET 

Counselors and teachers please advise if there are specific students that might benefit from this, so that we can encourage their participation! 

Kitty has put together these excellent resources to help us all navigate the library and support our students: 

• Destiny Discover tutorial (how to find books in our library search engine)

• Identifying spine labels (where to locate books in our library's shelves)

• Library tour (how the different book locations are organized in our library)

Thank you!

THANK YOU CONSCIOUS DISCIPLINE COMMITTEE!

You may access the Conscious Discipline Book here. 

Chapters to read: Chapters 1 & 2

Book Club Meeting 1: Week of February 17th - 21 during Grade Level Meetings 

Estefy & Gra

Please be at the gate by 7:45 am welcoming students.