Morning Announcements

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Week of 3/24/26

Early Out this week, UFLI conference recap.
Basketball team should be coming through this morning too.

Week of 3/16/26

Week of 3/9/26

This video rolls right into the two end videos, pushes it to 6 minutes. End before them if you are short on time.
Sydney Helmbrecht will be here this week. She is finishing her Principal courswork and will be getting her hours in across Cohasset, East and West this week.
Open Library Saturday
3/11 Early Out:

3/11

Curriculum & Instruction

Collaborative Planning

K-12 MathSession 3 Links, Resources and PLC Directions: MP2: Reason Quantitatively

Week of 3/2/26

Staff Meeting moved to Tuesday after school, some may be out Thursdsay, I may be out.
- Read Act Phase 2 FYI
- Wit and Wisdom training FYI
- Spring Slide.... time to tighten up time, the finish strong lecture :-)

Week of 2/23/26

May want to turn volume down to start this one. Then adjust.
Open Library is this weekend. Saturday, February 28th. 9am-11am. I will now be out of town. Before I reschedule it, is anyone interested in covering the date? Doors are all set, you just have to be available to checkout books to families. It's a quick training on the computer and I can walk through any issues remotely. Boys and I are heading to a MNUFC match, birthday present that came after these dates were set.

Week of 2/9/26

Friday is popcorn Friday and I believe a hat day is in the works. More info to follow.
Reminder on weekend library opening for families.

Week of 1/26/25 (late... again)

Week of 1/20/26 (late)

Week of 1/12/26

Lots of birthdays as it's 1/2 birthday season for those who have a summer birthday.

January Birthday lunches today with Fannin.

Week of 1/5/26

Welcome back!

Week of 12/15/25

A Bug and a Wish

Week of 12/8/25

A Bad Case of the Tattle Tongue

Week of 12/1/25

December Menu

A Little Thankful Spot

Week of 11/17/25

Busy week. Keep an eye on the staff calendar for specific items.

Making Friends is an Art

Week of 11/4/25

Volleyball coming on site and inside around 11:50am.

Bug and a Wish K-1

From Mrs. Fannin

Week of 10/27/25

Halloween

A Little Spot of Love

Week of 10/20/25

Video @ Left.

Week of 10/13/25

A Little Spot of Anxiety

Week of 10/6/25

Fire Prevention Week 2025: https://sparkyschoolhouse.org/fpw25/
Homecoming Week, image below.

Homecoming Week (this week)

Smoke Alarms

This was the theme last year. Still a good theme. Check them tonight! Replace every 10 years. 4-5 for Carbon Monoxide detectors.

A Spot of Happiness

A Little Spot of Sadness

9/29/25 Announcements

West Rapids Inclusive PBIS

Kindness

A Peaceful Spot

Week of 9/22/25

Safety Circus today.

Picture day tomorrow (Tuesday)!

Week of 9/15/25

I'll be out a bit Friday, with the Starlab @ East.
Thursdsay staff meeting, might have to cancel it or do a video one. We have a group in a training and I may have to leave eary that day.

Mrs. Fannin 9/15/25

This weeks social skills lesson! A little scribble spot!

Week of 9/8/25

Introduction of Mrs. Fannin

Introduction of Mrs. Fannin and a social skills book!

Week of 9/2/25

Week of 5/27/25

Wednesday: Whole Group Early Out
Thursday: Last Day
Friday: Last Staff Day

Week of 5/19/25

Wednesday, CAREIALL due.

We must be done with CAREIALL by Wednesday. We should have all the synchronous training done before we go to the last synchronous session this week!
Remember, we can go to the "grades" tab within the platform to easily see what we are missing!

Friday: Fun Day

From the 5/16 update: The map has adjusted slightly for the North activities and the rotation has adjusted slightly for the South activities **Water Balloon is moving to where Otter Pops were, Otter Pops are moving over by the East Playground **After Fill the Bucket, you will rotate to Drip Drip Drop. I have attached both an updated map and schedule.

2025 Fun Day - Master 3.pdf

May Elementary Menu.pdf

Week of 4/28/25

Early out, whole group in Makerspace/Art Room

iPad carts should start returning. One early this week, rest next week.

Week of 4/22/25

Week of 4/14/25

Early out: Class placements, starting, whole group meeting.
Four day week, four day weekend.
If you have book machine tokens, please use them, we can't hand them out again unless we get them back :-)

Week of 4/7/25

Mr. Martinson will be out Tuesday and Wednesday, Mr. Lindner will be here.
Early out Wednesday, continued ELA work.

Cafeteria @ West 3 PBIS

Week of 3/31/25

Bingo for books Tuesday and Thursday night.
Wednesday: ELA Work time.

Week of 3/17/25

Early out, w/ teams.
Friday, CAREIALL starts at 8am sharp.

Week of 3/10/25

Additional image and referenced slideshow below.

West PBIS Playground Slideshow

Week of 3/3/25

Just a heads up, I'll most likely be out Thursday and Friday, planned.

Sean

Week of 2/24/25

Video and Compassion and Respect slideshow included.

West PBIS Compassion & Respect

Week of 2/18/25

Week of 2/3/25

CAREIALL Wednesday during early out.
BLLT Thursday
Cafeteria/Servery, please walk children to table to sit down. For some of our kids, the mad dash to the table to start is the beginning of 30 minutes of dysregulation, aka they get nutty.

CafeteriaRulesRoutinesPositiveBehaviorManagement-1.pdf

Week of 1/27/25

Week of 1/21/25

Week of 1/13/25

Tuesday afternoon, I'm in Bigfork.
Thursday
- Clayton and I will be in Bigfork. We'll most likely cancel the Staff Meeting.
- Jen Sjodin will be here @ West.
Friday
- No Students
- CAREIALL in-person training @ 8:00am.