Happy Holidays, enjoy the time.  See you in 2024!

JANUARY DRILL: SECURE ON 1/25/24

• Practice these drills with your students and have them become familiar with the language

• 2023 District Safety Slides  Slides 34-36 have videos and information about this drill

• All specialist teachers, MLL, SPED, Improvement teachers, SEL, WIN groups... practice drills with your groups of students so that in the event of a real emergency or drill during your time-students will know what to do

• Classroom teachers have your NWEA Accommodations inputted into NWEA by Monday 1/8/24

• "Improvement teachers will be helping out in classrooms during NWEA, so they might be off-schedule. Thank you for your understanding." Thank you! 

• LAS LINKS TESTING: Begins January 3rd

• NWEA Testing: 1/9-1/24

• DIBELS Testing: 1/8-1/24  (Note Change)

• MOY Testing Calendar: MOY Testing Schedule

• Support Staff will be pushing into classrooms to support grades 2-5 please schedule Support for Testing

• Welcome back!  Goes without saying! Review those classwide, schoolwide and PRINT expectstions, the PRINT Matrix Is a great place to have this review!  Talking about PRINT In action and what this looks and sounds like!

January PRINT Theme:

Problem Solving/Perseverance

Character Strong Lesson:

Perseverance

Character Education Theme:

Class and student goal setting

Community Meetings:

1/11 STORM Visits from the Islanders - he will be back to show us PRINT In action again!  perhaps PRINTY will visit, too!

1/25 OPEN - Please volunteer and see me for some support/planning!

CUB CONNECTION 1/29

Hot spots - transitions back from lunch, special and recess.  Take 2-3 minutes each day for some mindfulness.  If you are already doing this, here are some new Ideas.  We know these times cause lots of big emotions!

Character Strong as a super EASY way to do this:

LOG INTO CHARACTER STRONG 

(Shout out to Cait Lauro for giving this a try and Kate Morin for the mindful countdown! I am SURE this Is happening In other rooms - I just happened to pop In and see these take shape! ) <3  Share your tricks! PLEASE!!! <3 

• Click Entry Task on the left

• Click 3-5

• Then pick one each day!

• I like the “create” slide deck – where they can draw an image from the shape on the slide.  Students draw the shape on the slide and then they create a picture around the shape.  There are two other options (Create and Check In)

Take a look, It might help create a routine and settle some of those after recess, lunch, special feelings.  You can use stickies, writing or SEL journals.  See me If you would like a class set of SEL journals. 

ELA

Unit 2 Timeline from November 20th-January 19th

I'm looking for examples of Quality Student Work from our Summative Writing Task. If you have any please upload them here. 

 Quality Student Work  

WIN Cycle Dates 

Cycle 1: 9/6-10/17

Cycle 2: 10/18- 12/10 

Cycle 3: 12/18-3/1  Cycle 3 

Cycle 4: 3/4- 5/24

Cycle 5: 5/27- End of the Year

WIN Plan B

Please remember that students should have a Plan B from their assigned WIN teacher to complete if WIN groups are going to be canceled. 

Progress Monitoring

You will find a copy of the data meeting decision report with the students who need progress monitoring in your mailbox based on our Continuum meeting. We need 3 data points completed for the measures that need to be progress monitored bi-weekly. Remember, the CORE phonics survey only needs to be done once before our next meeting. Below, you will find the next data meeting and a suggested timeline of when to progress monitor. Progress monitoring scores go into this spreadsheet. Progress Monitoring 2023-2024

Please use this link for materials for progress monitoring for grades 4-5 https://dibels.uoregon.edu/materials/dibels

Progress Monitoring Data Points Schedule

Point 1- 12/15

Point 2- 1/5

Point 3- 2/2

Next Meeting 2/5

• "Improvement teachers will be helping out in classrooms during NWEA, so they might be off-schedule. Thank you for your understanding." Thank you!