March Drill-Lockdown 3/27 at 10:45

This will be during K-2 WIN group so practice with your groups!

• Remember for this drill, all doors are locked, lights are shut, and everyone is silent, no one is to be in the hallways or bathrooms

• If your classroom is near a bathroom, check the bathroom and pull any students into your room before you shut and lock your door

• Please check to ensure your space has a lock, alert Mrs. Duque if your space does not lock ASAP

• 2023 District Safety Slides Lockdown-Slides 45-51. The video for students is on Slide 51

• 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

Parent-teacher conferences in elementary schools will begin on Wednesday, March 13, 2024, and continue through Thursday, March 28, 2024. The evening conference for all schools will be held on Thursday, March 21, from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. On March 21, teachers can leave 15 minutes after the students because all staff must return for conferences from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. 

Parents will have the flexibility to schedule either virtual or in-person conferences. 

• The Panorama Survey opens on March 11 and closes on March 28

• All students in Grades 3-5 need to complete the survey which will take about 20 minutes- 

• Grade 3-5 Classroom teachers please set aside a 30-minute slot for your students to complete

• All teachers and staff also need to take the survey between March 11-28th

•  Certified Staff will take the survey during our staff meeting on Monday, March 18th 

• Please see this link with directions for the survey for staff and students: Panorama Survey Directions

• Please share this link with your families, it has directions on how families can complete the survey: Panorama Survey Parent Directions

• At conferences please remind parents of the importance of school attendance.  

• Here is the script the office uses when calling families (feel free to use with parents at conferences):  

"Research shows that once a child’s attendance in school falls below 90%, it is correlated with learning loss and is considered to be “chronically absent.” Even “excused absences” fall into the calculation of this percentage.

Only certain students get this line too (Your child receives SRBI/SPED services when they are not present in school, they are unable to receive these academic services to support their learning).

Please let us know if you need assistance to support your child’s attendance."

3/21 Cub Connection Activity

Read to your Cub Connection (if appropriate), and then have students write a wish for the future on wind flags. Be creative with these wishes.  They can be wishes for themselves, our community, wishes of hope or perseverance to William. Sky is the limit.  Kits and directions will be provided to you!

The Idea of Wish Flags came from Prayer Flags that are often hung up across mountain peaks.  They are NOT religious In nature, but rather promote messages and representations of peace, compassion, strength, and wisdom.  Feel free to share this Idea and pictures of prayer flags. 

Next OSOB Activity!  Engineering Weeks!!

Week of the 18th and 25th - Materials will be delivered by mid week

Inventor and Engineering WEeks

Grade 3- 5 

https://gystc.org/harnessing-the-wind-stem-challenge-2/

• ​​Harnessing the Wind SC Lesson Plan w vocab

• Harnessing the Wind Student Sheet

• Windmills Help Power the World Close Read ES

• Video Link

Grade K-2 

K-2 Resources to support Build

ELA

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 4: 3/4- 5/24 Cycle 4 

Cycle 5: 5/27- End of the Year

WIN Plan B

Please make sure you have your plan B ready for when you are not available for WIN

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

PM Dates:

PM 1: 3/1

PM 2: 3/15

PM 3: 4/5

DIBELS Testing window 4/24-5/3

Updated CORE: 4/12

Next Data Meeting: 5/6

OBOS STEM Challenges K-2 and 3-5