Friday Focus - August 29, 2014

I can’t thank you enough for your work during all of the days leading up to Open House.  It was great to see your classrooms set up for our students and families and I cannot tell you how many smiling faces I saw as they left our school.  I received many positive comments on their way out pf the building as well as a couple of emails Thursday morning about how welcome they felt. That is all thanks to your welcoming classrooms, excitement for the start of school, and your conversations with parents/students to start building relationships.  My completely inaccurate and unscientific count put us near 95% attendance!  Let’s keep that positive family engagement going and make this the best school year ever!

Events Next Week:

Recess Orientation Schedule:

Tuesday Wednesday: 9:30-9:45 4th grade 8:45-9:00 5K 11:15-11:30 5th grade 9:30-9:45 3rd grade 12:30-12:45 1st grade 12:30-12:45 2nd grade

Wednesday - Elementary staff meeting 3:05

Friday - Elementary assembly at 2:30 (have students packed up and ready to dance in the hallways at dismissal time!)

Further down the road: Tuesday, September 16th, 2:15 Elementary 5K-5th grade assembly for Fundraiser kick-off. 

"Nuts & Bolts" Notes:

*Student iPads should be ready for you by Tuesday. Mr. Modaff is working hard to have all grade levels ready for you.

*Please be on the lookout for student F&P Benchmark forms in your student folders...I think we had a mix-up as we passed them on to the next grade level. If you have any that are not your students, just put them in my mailbox. 

*Blackboard (our automated message system) will not be ready for staff communication by next week, so should there be a weather or other notice that needs to be shared we will have to rely on Remind and the old fashioned calling tree for those not signed up.  For those of you that were excited about the possibility of Blackboard being for classroom notices, I learned we can not use it for that purpose so please continue to use your email or Remind (it used to be called Remind101) for notices to parents. 

*We will keep reams of white paper for the print center by the art room, but the colored paper will stay in the work room.  If you bring colored paper to the hallway machine, please bring the leftovers back to the work room.

Just for Fun:
This School (parody of Footloose)...