The Cornelius Chronicle
December 4, 2015
Book Fair - Nov. 30 - Dec. 4
Book Fair - Nov. 30 - Dec. 4
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| "Black Friday" Line for Book Fair |
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| 17 empty book boxes after book fair |
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| Kinder reading at the Student Preview |
Thank you all for supporting the book fair! Such an exciting week for our students! We realized that NONE of our students had ever experienced a book fair at their school, not even our 4th graders because 2009-2010 was the last time there was a book fair at Cornelius!
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| Kinders watching author promo video |
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| Kinder Entrance to Book Fair |
We met our Book Fair goal, which was $2,200 so, we get 55% profit!.....Our grand total was: $4,034.02 in sales, which earns us $2,218.71 in Scholastic dollars to spend on books for our library!!!!! That means we get to do a crazy holiday dress-up on Dec. 18th (both students and staff)! We had $560 in donations which allowed us to purchase a book for the holidays for each kindergartener and each 1st grader at Cornelius!
Gomez & Gomez Training
We will have a two-day G & G training by Dr. Joy Izquierdo for all classroom teachers and literacy specialists on Jan. 28-29. We will get subs on Jan. 28th for classroom teachers but not specialists. We will cancel intervention groups, kinder/1st grade lit groups, and ALD that day, as we will have 10 subs in the building. Jan 29th is a PD day. Both days will be held in the Grove Room. I’m excited that everyone will get the full training!
Changes to the schedule starting on Monday!
Literacy for kinder and 1st grade will be from 12:30-2:00 pm daily, instead of ending at 2:30 pm, to allow more time for social studies and science and to follow the G&G model better. The K-1 recess will be from 2:00-2:15 pm. There will be some changes to some IA schedules too and I will communicate those changes once I am done tweaking the schedule.
Wednesday’s CIT Time
Teachers - please come prepared to share what is working and what’s not working in the following areas:
Teachers - please come prepared to share what is working and what’s not working in the following areas:
- SPED
- Interventions
- Literacy
- ELD/GLAD
- Gomez & Gomez
We will do a rotation for each grade level team at a different table meeting with a facilitator who will take notes and then we will do a whole group share out on common themes. Then we will fix anything that seems to be broken!
Holidays!
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| City of Cornelius Holiday Activities |
Also, don’t forget our staff holiday gathering on Dec. 16th during CIT time (Data Team Collaboration time will be held at another time for each team, in order to celebrate together as a staff). See you at 8 am! Bring something yummy to share (sign up in the staff room) and an ornament or other holiday decoration to exchange (wrapped). Hot tip: not “white elephant” quality gifts - $10 limit.
Ideas for MOU CIT Times and Strategies CIT Times
We have some MOU CIT dates and other CIT dates earmarked “Strategies” for the wide variety of PD needs that we might have. Our literacy specialists brainstormed a list of ideas today and if you have any ideas to add to this list, please let me know:
- ELD/SLD collaboration
- High Leverage Math strategies
- Objectives and Success Criteria
- Mr. PSU (AKA Kenneth Peterson - our August staff retreat comedian)
- Progress Monitoring 101
- Gomez & Gomez strategies/implementation
- Other?
Winter Break Pizza Party Contest
Who wants a pizza party for their class?
Currently, we are leading the district (all schools average) in both MyOn minutes and ST Math syllabus completion! Let’s be the top winner for the district!!!
John O'Neill will be providing a pizza party for the class with the most minutes read on MyOn over Winter Break for the top K-4 class in the district! Encourage your kids to read on MyOn! Cheryl Plews will be keeping track of minutes for us.
These prizes will include pepperoni pizza and soft drinks for the entire class upon their return from break. Cheryl will calculate the time read and report out to all principals the winning classroom when students return from break.
Furthermore, for all K-4 schools, we will also have an ST Math Pizza Party Contest for the largest increase in syllabus progress over the break for the top classroom in the district! Encourage your kids to log onto ST Math over Winter Break too! Cheryl will track this for us too.
Only Title 1 schools have ST Math and MyOn, so there are 4 schools in the running - Cornelius, Echo Shaw, Fern Hill, and Joe Gale. May the odds be ever in your favor!
Reminders:
- Deadline for teacher SLGGs is 12/1 - please sign your SLGGs on TalentEd!
Bus Duty 12/7-12/11: 1st & 3rd grade teachers, and the “regulars”!
Calendar:
12/5 Maroha’s Birthday!
12/7 8:00 am PBiS Team meeting (library)
12/8 10 am - 1 pm “Shop with a Cop” for Cheryl and 10 lucky kids!
12/9 8:00 am CIT: Staff Sharing - what’s working/what’s not?
12/9 8:45 am Staff Meeting (whole staff) in TRC
12/10 Linda’s Birthday!
12/10 8 am - 12 pm Admin Meeting (Angella)
12/10 2:20 pm Fire Drill
12/11 8 am 4th Grade Cougar Team Meeting (TRC)
12/11 All Day Math Steering Committee Meeting (Angella)
12/12 5:00 pm Staff Holiday Party at Angella’s house
Looking ahead:
12/16 8:00 am Staff Holiday Gathering (TRC)
12/18 2-3 pm Cornelius Holiday Art
12/18 all day Crazy Holiday Dress Up Day!!!!!!!! (Reward from Book Fair)
12/18 4 pm Winter Break Begins!
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