Johnson Memo: Friday Focus

Great Things I Noticed This Week:

3rd graders reading their stories aloud to the class that had incredible voice and word choice from a picture that they chose to write about.
4th graders were excitedly perusing carts of biography books in the hallway. They looked as excited as if it were a buffet of candy available to them!
Students writing weekly behavior goals and reflecting on them at the end of the week.
Many students bringing books/magazines from the hallway baskets to lunch each day. The magazines are especially popular and provide discussion ideas at tables. I LOVE seeing how excited our students are about reading from all of the modeling you do in your classrooms! (If you have magazines to get rid of, please consider adding them to the baskets...I have "lunch book" labels to put on them).

Events Next Week:
March Madness Week--please be ready to wear your college apparel and promote college paths all week! See more info below in "Nuts & Bolts"
Monday - Elementary Staff Meeting that may be an hour long. We will be hearing from Dodge County Sheriff's department regarding lockdown procedures. If you are unable to attend, you can go to the MS/HS meeting for the same information on Tuesday (and we may have some MS/HS staff joining us on Monday as well).
Tuesday - Support Staff Meeting 7:15-7:30
Art Show 5:00-7:00 pm. Please remind your students to bring their parents to look at all of the great art work on display in the hallways and they can then order items with their art work. Some of our 5th graders will be performing songs throughout the evening as well.
Friday - 4/5th grade presentation in the MS gym 2:10-2:40 (more info to be emailed to 4/5th grade teachers)

"Nuts & Bolts" Notes:

We had great discussions in grade level meetings looking at the common core resource book, leveled books in K-3 and the article on note-taking in 4/5. The notes (although not too much) can be found here: Meeting Notes Please plan for the next day of Grade Level Meetings to bring your common core book again to share 1 piece you have tried from the book. We will also look at the next the reading level book in K-3 again.

I gave Mrs. Porter a list of books on the page recommended for "Winning Words" activity and she is ordering books that we do not currently have for that list.

March Madness Week: Please plan to..

Advertise your education (a flyer will be in your mailbox from Mrs. Figarsky)
Add your college info to the map in the commons (Red circles for Bachelor's degrees and Yellow stars for graduate degrees).
Get your students involved in writing down their future dreams (a flyer will be in your mailbox). Please turn these in to the office and we will be displaying them somewhere (TBD).
If you find any great youtube clips appropriate for elementary students, please share with the rest of us!

For upcoming end of quarter report cards: If you have a student missing science/social studies due to reading intervention you will need to do a grade override of P for passing. We can no longer leave this blank or with a *. Any questions, just ask Mr. Wallesverd.
Our discipline referral has been updated to have the codes that Sarah has to put into PowerSchool for state reporting. While updating it she also spaced it out to be front/back since there was usually not enough room. Throw out any old ones you have and pick up new ones in the office (hopefully you don't need them!) The new one looks like this: New Discipline Referral PDF