May 2: 8th Grade Field Trip

             Orchestra Field Trip

May 4: Mo's Food Truck

May 11: 6th Grade Welcome Night (6:00 - 7:30 pm)

May 12: 8th Grade Dance (6:00 - 8:00 pm)

May 17: Data Day

May 22: PBIS Field Day (7th & 8th Hours)

May 23: Butcher Block Food Truck

May 24: 6th Grade Field Trip

May 25: 8th Grade Awards (6th - 8th Hours)

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If you are planning field trips for your class please be aware that Unit 5 Food Service can provide sack lunches for all students.  Sack lunches must be offered to ALL students participating in the field trip.  Those who qualify for free or reduced-price meals must not be singled out or identified in any way.

A sack lunch includes the following items:

• PBJ Uncrustable (EZ Jammer may be substituted for peanut allergy)

• Sunflower Kernels

• Whole Grain Crackers (e.g. Goldfish, Cheez-its, or Animal Crackers)

• Baby Carrots*  

• Celery Sticks* 

• Apple Slices

• Apple Juice 

• Choice of Milk (students’ choice)

* If sack lunches are ordered on short notice, cold vegetables on hand may be substituted.

To request sack lunches, please notify Lisa Branch two weeks prior to the date needed (to allow time for ordering needed supplies) and include the following information.

• Date and time needed

• Estimated number of lunches

• Is pick up time more than 2 hours before students will eat?  If so, a cooler with ice will be needed to keep milk cartons cold.

Student lunch accounts will be charged for the meal.  Sack lunches may be picked up using one of the following options:

1. Each student comes to the lunchroom to get a meal, chooses milk, and presents their student ID to be scanned.

2. Lunches and milk are packaged and prepared for pick up.  The food service provided class roster can be used to provide a list of students requesting lunches.  The list will include the following information:

• Student first and last name

• Student food service account PIN number

• Class code

• Milk choice (chocolate or white) – can provide a total of each flavor per class 

Lisa must verify that students are present before distributing lunches.

The Child Protection Network is having its annual CASAnova Competition for the Crown fundraiser and Elisa is one of the "CASAnovas" this year. Here's how the competition works: 

• The CASAnovas will work to solicit votes from the community.  The CASAnova who receives the most votes will be crowned "King/Queen of the CASA."

• Each $1.00 online donation = 1 vote.

• All CASAnovas will try to accumulate as many votes as possible with each having an individual goal of a minimum of 1,200 votes ($1,200). 

                   How did we come up with this amount?  $1,200 is the cost per child for CASA Advocacy.

• On Friday, May 19th at DUEL (the dueling pianos fundraising event), they will tally up the votes, and the CASAnova with the highest number of votes will win the title of "King/Queen of CASA."  The winner will be announced at the event that evening.

If you would be interested in supporting this outstanding organization (and helping Elisa meet her fundraising goal), please consider visiting Elisa's CASAnova page and voting by donation. Thanks so much! 

Unit 5 is hosting a session of Freedom School this summer. Freedom School is for middle school students interested in African American history and literature. All students entering 6th grade through completion of 8th grade are eligible and transportation and meals will be provided. A student recommendation form should be completed by staff and a registration form completed by the student's family/guardian. 

The KJHS May Countdown Calendar has been published! 

The April KJ Family Connection was sent out to our KJ families on Wednesday, April 5th. 

PTO is hosting a Gobena Coffee Fundraiser and a Barrel House Fundraiser (April 18th). Please check out the fliers for more information. 

Support the Unit 5 Educational Foundation by participating in the 2nd Annual Unit 5k presented by Commerce Bank. Choose to participate in the 5k or one mile walk/run. Sign up today and show your pride for Unit 5 schools!

Event Details:
Sunday, April 30 at Maxwell Park
One mile race begins at 2 pm
5k race begins at 2:30 pm

Race fees:
$10/participant
$20/participant with race t-shirt

T-shirt sizes are guaranteed to participants registered by April 13.

Sign up today! https://runsignup.com/Race/IL/Normal/Unit5k

Our Spring Benchmark Assessment deadline is April 4/28. By this date, you will have administered, scored, and documented in EduClimber your scores. Please communicate with your LBS1s any names of students who scored red in the chart on Google Classroom that you recommend need a diagnostic. All resources can be found in Google Classroom (hv3buze) and on the Shared Drive. I'm happy to help score, discuss next steps with this data, or anything else you may find helpful to you and your writers. 

Sincerely,

Janel  

We are in uncharted paper waters where not only do we have more colored paper on hand than white paper, colored paper is also less expensive than white paper. As such, we are asking that you pleae use colored paper whenever possible for the next few weeks. Thanks in advance for helping us stretch our remaining resources!

Take a look at the  April Instuctional Technology Update. In addition, don't forget that you have access to Go Guardian for the remainder of the semester as well as Book Creator.  Amber sent out an email today outlining multiple resources regarding Book Creator. 

Here's a review for Go Guardian from our very own Jenny Starkey:

If you haven't tried Go Guardian, please give it a try. It's a really great platform that allows teachers to see student screens, shows a timeline of every minute of student use, allows you to get data on inactivity, gives a variety of reports that can be sent to parents, allows for screenshots, gives teachers the ability to chat directly with students, close tabs, send a website to a student, lock student screens and even create a list of websites that only lets students be on the sites that you choose. A new feature is the 'Check In' button that allows the students to click on an emoji so that you can take a quick pulse of your class without having to interrupt the class. 

Beginning on April 11, office-issued lunch detentions will be served on the stage of the cafeteria. There will be a lunchroom supervisor there to sign students in and monitor behavior. Students will not be allowed to go to the RESET room during lunch. 

Following spring break, we will no longer be assigning in-school suspensions to be served on Wednesdays so Mr. Thompson can fulfill his Tier 2 mentoring responsibilities. If a situation arises where a student has to be taken out of circulation and cannot be sent home, an administrator will monitor them in the RESET room. 

Hello, we are team 8-2 and we have decided that we want to run a coffee shop on our Monday advisory mornings. We are doing this because we would like to potentially raise enough money for a team celebration.

We will complete various tasks like delivery,  being a financial advisor, advertising, communications, and the practice of being a barista. All of these jobs will benefit and allow us to learn basic life skills like, balancing a budget, communication, team work, problem solving, and leadership.

 All jobs differ from each other, a financial advisory helps them manage money to be able to buy things with an appropriate budget. If you're in advertising you will make different flyers to help promote the coffee shop and get more customers. Communication helps remind and tell people to buy coffee so that we can raise money for our team celebration. Barista’s will be the ones to make the coffee and serve customers different flavors of Dunkin coffee like caramel, cinnamon roll, vanilla, oat milk, and sugar. Delivery people will deliver the coffee to different customers throughout the building.

 To decide what job we wanted to do, we completed a survey to figure out how we would like to participate in this event. From the results of the quiz,we were put with the job that best fits us while taking in account which one we were most interested in.

 This coffee shop will launch on March 13th, and run until May 15th. Coffee will only be available to the teachers in the building, selling for $3. 

Team 8-2 communications, 

Caroline and Ella.

Please do not forget that your mandated trainings need to be completed by May 1, 2023. 

When writing referrals, please be sure that time on the referral is the time the incident happened and not the default time of when you wrote the referral. Accuracy in time of incident is important as it helps us track when students are having issues during the school day. This then allows us to implement interventions that have a better chance of supporting these students. 

Hearing things about ChatGPT? Here is an excellent resource created for educators by educators explaining this Open AI resource.