Wildcat Weekly

Look at us! We are rapidly racing to the finish line of the school year! I can see how hard you have worked and are still working! Keep up the fantastic work. 👏

Milestones begin next week, and our mandatory testing meeting is on Thursday (4.23). Please make plans to attend. The "mock Milestones" will be on Monday (4.27), and testing for 5th-grade will begin on Thursday (4.30). This is a team effort, and these students are all of ours! We are cheering them on and wishing them the best as they work through each testing day! 

Beth and I are working on Awards Day information that will come out soon. Just basic reminders of which awards each grade level will give, the order of ceremonies, and any other pertinent info. Don't forget that we started the Wildcat Award last year. This is for one girl and one boy from each grade level. It is a student who exemplifies the PAWS of Lanier. Please make sure you and your team are thinking about these students, and write a description of why the student was nominated; it will be read at the ceremony.  🎖️

Again, thank you for all you do on the daily! Please reach out if you have any questions. 

Wow! We are in the thick of all the EOY assessments, and the grand finale (MILESTONES) is rapidly approaching. There is A LOT of information below. Take a few minutes to read it and write down the information on your calendar. 

First off, please welcome April Chandler to Lanier as our Lunchroom Manager!  She will be here for the remainder of the school year and is already off to a fantastic start. She is your point person for all things about lunch. She has received all the dates for our upcoming trips. Her email address is april.chandler@hallco.org.  Be sure to say hi to her and introduce yourself 🙂

As Alli mentioned above, we will have our annual Testing Meeting on Thursday, April 23rd, and we will discuss procedures, protocols, test security, and ethics. The meeting will be in the Learning Commons at 2:35. 

PLEASE MAKE NOTE OF THE FOLLOWING CHANGES!!!

We will have our Mock Milestones Test day on Monday, April 27th. That means we will start the day just like it is a real testing day.  Here is GMAS Connection Schedule we will run on Monday, April 27th, and May 4th-8th. We will follow the normal connection schedule on Thursday, April 30th, with only the 4th and 5th grade swapping times (4th Grade 8:55 and 5th Grade 9:50). 

 TO DO - ALL GRADE LEVELS: EOY Fact Fluency scores are due in Analytic Vue by May 13 - Directions for Analytic Vue

TO DO - ALL K-3rd Grades: All K-3rd students are to take the EOY Reading Fluency Assessment on Amira. After students complete the EOY assessment, teachers are to complete Columns P and Q (highlighted pink) on the Amira Tracking Sheet by Thursday, April 30th. All students who are red on the Benchmark Report and/or Yellow or Red on the Reading Risk report are considered At-Risk. You have to look at BOTH reports.

We will meet during your planning in the PL Room on Friday, May 1st, to generate letters and print parent reports. 

•  PAWSITIVE Office Referrals - Take a moment to celebrate a student who has shown positive behavior

📚Benchmark grading with a curve for the 2nd semester 📚

0-50    score 60 (gaps)

51-64  score 70 (approaching)

65-79 score 80 (proficient)

81-100 (mastery, give that grade!)

🍧Bruster's Ice Dates🍧

May 8