The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. -Nelson Mandela

           November Drills

Evacuate (relocate to St. Philip church) 11/17/23

Lockdown 11/21/23

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

• 2023 District Safety Slides  Slides 30 and 51 have videos of these drills for you to share with your students

• 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

• On Tuesday 10/31 we will have our Tracey Storybook Character Parade

• At 2:30 Ms. Esposito and Ms. Duque will start the parade at room 110, we will continue down the Kindergarten hallways with each class lining up behind each other.  We then will walk down the first grade hallway, up staircase 1 down the 2nd/3rd grade hallway.  We will finish down the 4th and 5th grade hallways.  As the parade passes your room, have your students line up behind the last class that walks by.

• The whole school will walk down staircase 3 and out the recess doors

• The whole school parade will walk one lap around the field. (out recess doors, pass the playscape, pass the swings around the perimeter of the field, pass the pink containers and back to the playscape.  Once room 110 makes it around the field once and back in front of the playscape... we will stop so families can take pictures (chairs will be set up in the middle of the field for families)

• At the end of picture taking, parents can sign students out 

• Each classroom teacher needs to print this sheet and take it with them to the parade and return to the main office after dismissal  Sign Out Sheet 10/31/23

• All remaining students will head inside and all staff will support regular dismissal as usual with remaining students.

• DIBELS Reports for Families: 

• Please print out the Running Man Reports.  At this time, we are not able to distribute these reports via Parent Square.  

• On the Amplify platform , select mClass.  On the next screen, select English Classroom Reporting and then Home Connect.  

• Send the student reports home in an envelope, via backpack, by November 2. (You can get envelopes from the office) 

• You may use the Copy Center to print them in color.  

Just an FYI from the district on the components of a lesson plan:

Here are the lesson plan components that were agreed upon two years ago.  The below communication was sent out on October 28, 2021.

• Ct. State Standard;

• Standards-based Lesson Objective;

• Lesson Development,

• Differentiation/Scaffolding; 

• Assessment

Parent Teacher Conferences 

ES Parent-Teacher Conferences are scheduled from November 8 through November 30.  They are not scheduled for Mondays during this period so Faculty Meetings can take place. 

11/9 is a 90-minute early dismissal for students.  Staff stays until the normal dismissal time 

11/16 is a 90-minute early dismissal for students.  Staff may leave 15 minutes after students dismiss.  Staff return 6-8 pm

Parent-Teacher Conferences 

Parent-Teacher Sign-up - English 

Parent-Teacher Sign-up -Spanish

• Interpreters for Elementary Parent Conferences

• Please see the link below for the Memo regarding updates to scheduling interpreters for Elementary Parent Conferences for the 2023-24 school year:

• Memorandum: Interpreters for Parent Conferences

• K-5 Literacy Progress Reports can be accessed through this link: K-5ProgressReportsTrimester1-23/24

• Math Progress Reports can be accessed through this link: IMProgressReports 23-24 

• Science Progress Reports can be accessed through this link: ScienceProgressReports23-2

Helpful Links:

2023-24 OTUS Handbook ELA and Math assessments are required to be completed on OTUS for grades 2-5. The district has provided us with a OTUS Handbook to guide us in assigning assessments, accomodations available and grading process. We will be presenting some of these features at an upcoming Staff Meeting.

ELA

WIN Cycle Dates 

Cycle 1: 9/6-10/17

Cycle 2: 10/18- 12/10 Cycle 2 

Cycle 3: 12/11-2/9

Cycle 4: 2/12- 5/10

Cycle 5: 5/13- End of the Year

WIN Letters

All students for cycle 2 will receive WIN letters.  This can be communicated via email (ParentSquare) or printed.  Here is the letter for all students to receive. 

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

Important Dates:

Next Data Meeting: December 4th

Suggested Timeline for Bi-Weekly Measures

Progress Monitoring Point 1- 11/3

Progress Monitoring Point 2- 11/17

Progress Monitoring Point 3- 12/1

CORE Phonics Survey- one time before December 4th