The Cornelius Chronicle
October 30, 2015
Monday - Don’t forget to wear your uniform.
Writing Work Samples - due Oct. 30th
Teachers - remember your fall writing work sample should be scored and entered by Oct. 30th! Thank you to our second grade team for already having theirs done! Since most teachers haven’t entered their fall writing samples, please have this done by Monday! I need to use this data to set our SIP goal for writing with our BSC on Tuesday. Thank you!
Below you will find a link to our district work sample guideline page. Click on the link below and click on your grade level. Below, you will also find directions for entering work samples into Synergy.
Directions for how to enter work samples into Synergy
- Log into your Synergy account, and select your class.
- Then click on Home, click on Work Samples at the bottom of the list.
- Your list of already entered Work Samples will show if you have any, otherwise click Add.
- Type in the title of the work sample, choose the grade level, the subject and the strand. All except the title are pre-listed.
- Save it, and the class will pop up with boxes to put the scores into. Save again after entering the scores.
Climate Surveys - Nov. 2 - 13
We will be sending out Climate Surveys to all parents, staff, and our students (3rd and 4th graders) on Monday. Please send home the Parent Surveys on Monday (they are scantron forms). The survey opens up on Monday, November 2nd and closes on Friday, November 13th.
All staff should complete this survey - starting on Monday!
Below are the two web links for the Classified and Certified Staff.
3rd & 4th grade teachers - please block out time for your students to take the survey online during class time by Nov. 13 - might take 20 minutes.
The student links (3rd and 4th grades) are on our website - click on:
- Staff
- Student Climate Surveys
- Choose appropriate grade level survey
Community Dinner - Nov. 21st
Sponsored by: Centro Cultural and the City of Cornelius
Hosted at: Cornelius Elementary
For: All families in the city of Cornelius who need a hot meal
When: Nov. 21st (the Saturday before Thanksgiving)
Time: 4-8 pm
Menu: Turkey, turkey & mole, side dishes, pie
Advertisement: flyer to be sent home on Nov. 9th to all of our students, reader board, principal blog, classroom teachers - talk it up in your classrooms!
Scholastic Book Fair - Nov 30 - Dec 4
We haven’t had a Scholastic Book Fair at Cornelius since 2010, so it’s time to have one! Giving our students access to books at very good prices (in both English & Spanish) is essential! Our school also earns 40% of the profits of the book fair, which we'll put back into the library! I chose this week to host it because I thought it would be perfect timing for holiday gifts! I personally love buying all of the children in my family books for Christmas! I’m going to be asking the Parent Club parents and others to be volunteers to help with the book fair! Please let me know if you have any particular parents or your own family members who would be good volunteers! It takes a village to put on a book fair! I need help setting up and tearing down the book fair, as well as holding it open all day on Tuesday for the student preview and before school/after school/lunch Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday.
Schedule for Book Fair:
Monday 11/30 - set up book fair; teacher preview
Tuesday 12/1 - student preview during regular library time (students can make a “wish list” to take home with them
Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday - the book fair will be open before school, at lunch, and after school for purchases
Thursday 12/3 - book fair will be open from 3:15 pm - 6:00 pm for parents to purchase books before the Cornelius Sing-along at 6:30 pm
Friday 12/4 - book fair open for a couple of hours in the morning - then tear down
Community Sing-along and Meet Santa
The City of Cornelius is hosting a community Sing-along and Tree Lighting on Dec. 3rd at 6:30 pm. It will start at the Veteran’s Memorial Park (which is just a couple of blocks away on the main drag). Then we will walk parade-style to the City Hall where there will be an opportunity to meet Santa and eat cookies! Please promote this in your classrooms and encourage your students to attend! Bring your own families, if you wish! I will be bringing Gloria, for sure!
School-wide Holiday Art
Speaking of holidays, we will be hosting a Holiday Art Project time here on the last day before winter break, December 18 from 2-3 pm. We will play holiday music over the intercom. Each classroom can do whatever art project they would like to do! It doesn’t even have to be tied to CCSS! :) Make holiday cards or holiday gifts or just decorate paper! Up to you!
Catalog Sales
Thank you for promoting and perhaps purchasing from our catalog sale! We made $2300 in profit from the $5700 total sales! Yay! That will go into our ASB account that we can use to pay for field trips and other miscellaneous items that we need and don’t have the funds for--hopefully that isn’t copy paper in the spring!
Copy Paper
Speaking of copy paper - we have already gone through our fall order of copy paper. We are going to order more, but if teachers have extra copy paper - it seemed like reams and reams of it came in with school supplies, please bring some down to the staff workroom to share with all. That will save us some money now and we won't run out and have to hoard paper in the spring!
Copy Paper
Speaking of copy paper - we have already gone through our fall order of copy paper. We are going to order more, but if teachers have extra copy paper - it seemed like reams and reams of it came in with school supplies, please bring some down to the staff workroom to share with all. That will save us some money now and we won't run out and have to hoard paper in the spring!
After School Program to Begin...Nov. 2nd
Thank you to the following staff who will be serving in our After School Reading and Math Club: Manuel Ramos & Merry Hansen in 2nd grade; Kathy Murillo & Daisy Heredia in 3rd grade; Jacob Bustamante & Chelsea Aillon in 4th grade, Cesar Loeza in Imagine Learning & ST Math; and supporting teachers: Elizabeth Aguilar, Sue Jansen, & Ana Hudson. We are inviting 70 2nd, 3rd, & 4th graders to participate in our after school program, who are all at risk in reading. Students will receive two days of reading instruction and two days of math instruction. Snacks and transportation will be provided! The program runs M-Th from 3:30 - 4:30 pm from Nov. 2 - Mar. 31.
2nd, 3rd, & 4th grade classroom teachers - please remind the invited students in your class that they are attending the After School Program starting on Monday! I will share with you the list electronically again; it is sorted by homeroom teacher.
Have your students who are participating meet in the cafeteria right after school and sit down at a table - then they will be given snacks by Manuel and Elizabeth and picked up by their after school teacher by 3:30 pm. A bus will take them home at 4:30 pm.
Math Adoption Committee
We will be starting a math adoption process for new math curriculum very soon! Thanks to Daisy Heredia and Jacob Bustamante for serving as reps from Cornelius. There are 22 teachers on the committee from across the district, representing all grade levels K-12. The Math Adoption Steering Committee (of which I am a member) will be attending the Math Caravan on Monday to preview the state-approved materials. We hope to have approval from the school board to purchase a new math adoption by spring break. We will update you when we have more information!
Sunshine News!
We will be having a “Souper Potluck” on “Terrific Tuesday” this week at lunch time - please sign up in the staff room! See the Sunshine Newsletter for more details! Don’t forget to submit your Sunshine dues - today is Pay Day!
Pride Tickets
Thank you to our PBIS Team and to our 3rd and 4th grade Student Leaders for organizing our Pride Tickets! Special thanks to Cheryl Rice and Alondra for setting up Fun Friday today! In September and October, we gave out a total of 1,832 pride tickets school-wide!!! That is the equivalent of more than 5 pride tickets per student! Please remind your students to write their first & last names on their tickets, if possible. We have a lot of same names at our school!
Total - 1,832 tickets
1st grade - 520 tickets
3rd grade - 488 tickets
4th grade - 461 tickets
2nd grade - 262 tickets
Kinder - 101 tickets (they were in school one week less than everyone else!)
Donations from Reser’s
If you would like to ask for a classroom donation, like Daisy did, email the Reser's company: givinginbeaverton@resers.com
Explain in your email the following:
- Your position at the school
- The students you serve demographics
- What you need and how it will help your classroom
- The amount of money you need and the link of the specific item.
- Your contact information
Reminders:
- Shannon McCaw visit on Tuesday!
- Promote ice cream Friday in your classroom!
- Promote Movie Night!
- Switching CIT calendar topics for 11/4 with 11/18 - 11/4 will be Report Card Rubric review & 11/18 will be post-assessment data teams.
Bus Duty: 1st & 3rd grade teachers, and the “regulars”!
Calendar:
11/2 3:30 pm After School Reading & Math Club begins!
11/2 Math Caravan (Angella)
11/3 8:00 am Referral Team Meeting
11/3 Lunch “Souper Potluck”
11/3 Shannon McCaw Visit (observations in AM & debrief in PM)
11/3 3:20 - 4 pm Optional Math Collaboration time with Shannon & Laura (TRC)
11/3 5:00 pm Padres en Acción Board Meeting (for officers)
11/3 5:30 pm BSC Meeting (Rosa, Manuel, Cheryl H., Janelly, & Angella)
11/3 6:30 pm Padres en Acción meeting
11/4 Kathy’s Birthday!
11/4 8:00 am CIT - Review Report Cards/Rubrics (TRC)
11/4 9:00 am Kinder Meeting
11/4 1-3 pm Elementary Principals Meeting
11/4 3-5 pm Math Adoption Steering Committee Meeting (Angella)
11/5 7:30-3:30 LAST ELD training (Merry, Daisy, Maroha, Kathy, Chelsea, Melissa)
11/6 6:00 pm Movie Night: Outside In! Bring your blankets, chairs, sleeping bags - wear your PJs, and settle in for a great movie night! Doors open at 5:30 pm. Movie should be over by 7:30 pm. Concessions will be sold, but feel free to bring your own dinner/snacks! This night is totally optional for staff - please promote it with your students!!!
Looking ahead:
11/11 Veteran’s Day Holiday - No School
11/16-11/20 Angella gone at G & G training
11/21 4-8 pm Community Dinner @ Cornelius for our families
11/23-11/27 Thanksgiving Break
11/30-12/4 Scholastic Book Fair
12/3 6:30 pm City of Cornelius Holiday Singalong and Meet Santa
12/4 End of 1st Trimester/Report Card Day - No School
12/18 2-3 pm Cornelius Holiday Art
12/8 4 pm Winter Break Begins!
