The Cornelius Chronicle

January 22, 2016

Glasses Club - Rewards distributed on Monday!

For our glasses club, any students who have worn their glasses most of the week for each week in January (they get one freebie day) will be rewarded with a prize from our Glasses Club prize box!  Cesar and I will be going from classroom to classroom from 2:30 - 3:00 pm on Monday to distribute prizes for the first 3 weeks of January.  We will pull the members of the Glasses Club out in the hall to avoid making everyone else jealous and start wanting to wear placebo glasses.  Starting in February, students must wear their glasses every day to be eligible for a prize from the prize box!  Any student so far who has worn their glasses every day in the month of January will win a big poster from the book fair!

Preschool Promise

I’ve applied for a Preschool Promise grant from ODE to have 2 preschool classrooms at Cornelius next year!  Both would be full-day preschool programs with a certified teacher and 1 or 2 IAs in each room.  ES is also applying to increase their pre-K program to be full day.  We are asking for almost $100K. Imagine how successful our students would be if we started them off with full-day preschool, taught by a certified teacher, with 18 students in the room and a ratio of 1:6 adults to students.  Wow!!!!  

Fire Drill/Lockout Drill - Tuesday at 9:30 am

This is in the middle of ELD.  I want us to be prepared for emergencies even when we are not with our homeroom students.  

We will start with a lockout drill (remember this is the drill where the emergency/danger is OUTSIDE of our building, not inside!).  I will come on the loudspeaker and say "Lockout drill.  Secure the perimeter." twice.  You continue teaching as usual.  You don't need to lock nor shut your door, but if you have a door to the outside open, you need to shut it.  I will announce that the drill is over.

Then I will pull the fire alarm and we will exit outside for a regular fire drill.

I'm trying to combine two drills into one whenever possible. :)  If the fields are still a swamp, we will only do the lockout drill.

Equity Dialogue - 1/27 at 8:30 am

We will be having our equity dialog on Wednesday at 8:30 am in the TRC, following our TAG training for teachers.  Classified staff - please modify your schedule if you don’t normally start at 8:30 am to attend by coming in late on another late start day.  I will also be sharing our Climate Survey data from the fall with you all.

Equity Happy Hour - Friday 2/5 at 4 pm

Please join us for our monthly Equity Staff Happy Hours at Primetime - the first Friday of each month, starting Feb. 5th at 4 pm!  It’s a great opportunity to get to know each other better as people, not just coworkers!  We have reserved the private upstairs room!

Gomez & Gomez Training

Our G&G training on 1/28 & 1/29 for teachers will be meeting from 8 am - 4 pm in the Grove Room.  ES’s Parent Club will be providing lunch on Thursday and our Padres en Accion Parent Club will be providing lunch on Friday for teachers!  Please talk up our Parent Night on 1/28 at 5:30 pm at ES for Gomez and Gomez info - a flyer will go out next week!

January Assessments

Be sure to have the following assessments completed by the end of January to facilitate an effective 100% meeting on Feb. 4th.  Caution - Easy CBM will be inaccessible after 1/28, so be sure to be done by then!

• Easy CBM testing for English reading (K-4),
• IDEL testing for K-3 Spanish reading,
• EDL testing for 4th grade Spanish reading (just progress monitoring)
• IAP Math testing for 3-4 math!  
• Please use IA support to complete these assessments.  Let me know if you need any support from me!

Shannon McCaw Schedule - Feb. 2nd

Laura Nelson K-2	Shannon McCaw 3-4
8:00-8:45 am K-2 Math Review of PD missed on 1/29 All K-2 Math Teachers Dora’s room	8:00-8:45 am 3-4 Math Review of PD missed on 1/29 All 3-4 Math Teachers Linda’s room
10:00-10:30 am Lourdes Medina - 1st Grade	10:00-10:45 am Kathy Murillo - 3rd grade
10:30-11:00 am Daisy Heredia - Kinder	11:30 am - 12:25 pm Jacob Bustamante/Chelsea Aillon - 4th grade
11:00 - 11:30 am Rosa Rincon - 1st grade	12:25 - 12:45 pm Lunch for Shannon
11:30 am - 12:00 pm Merry Hansen - 2nd grade	12:45 - 1:45 pm Kathy Murillo - 3rd grade
12:00 - 1:15 pm Lunch for Laura	1:45-2:45 pm Linda Wolf - 4th grade
1:15 - 2:15 pm Merry Hansen - 2nd grade
2:15-3:00 pm Dora Godinez - Kinder

100% Meeting - Feb. 4!

We will have our 100% meeting on Thursday, Feb. 4.  We will have 2 roving subs to cover each grade level team’s classrooms Classroom teachers just need to write sub plans for the 1 ½ hours the sub is covering their class--please get your sub plans to Irene by Wednesday.  We are canceling ELD for grades 1st - 4th and intervention groups on this day to avoid having to have subs for specialists.  Manuel will still run his 1st grade reading group and Maroha will still run her kinder reading group.

100% Meeting Schedule: Feb. 4th

8:00 - 9:30	4th Grade Team (Start with English, so Linda can leave at 9 am to teach)
9:30-11:00	Kinder Team
11:00-12:30	1st Grade Team (working lunch - lunch provided)
12:30-1:00	Lunch for subs
1:00 - 2:30	3rd Grade Team
2:30-4:00	2nd Grade Team

Vision Screening Schedule

for all K-2 students & 3rd & 4th grade teacher referrals

1-25-16 M

12:30-3:15pm: Any kids missed and 3rd and 4th grades identified as needing screening

Monday February 1st TAG Screening

10-11AM Wolf

11AM -noon Bustamante

2-3PM Aillon

Reminders:

• Last call is Wed. to check out the new math materials in the library TRC and give me any feedback (teacher feedback cards in TRC)!  Thanks!  
• ELPA testing to start on Feb. 10th for kinders….we will be done with ELPA testing by spring break
• SBAC testing starts the week after spring break for 3rd grade and in May for 4th grade
• Classroom teachers - please let me know what support you need in math on the Shannon McCaw schedule that I shared with you via google doc.

Bus Duty: 2nd & 4th grade teachers, and the “regulars”!

Calendar:

1/24 Brenda (cafeteria)’s Birthday!

1/25 My daughter Gloria’s Birthday! :)

1/25 Pennies for Patients campaign begins (through Feb. 12th)

1/25 8:00 am PBIS Team Meeting (library)

1/25 12:30-3:15 Vision Screening for teacher referrals for grades 3-4

1/25 2:30-3 pm Glasses Club Prizes distributed to each classroom

1/26 9:30 am Fire Drill and Lockout Drill

1/27 8 am CIT: TAG screening & referrals

1/27 8:30 am Whole Staff Meeting - Equity Dialog

1/27 9:15 am Classified Staff Meeting

1/27 2:30 - 3:00 Ballet Performance - whole school assembly

1/28-1/29 Gomez & Gomez training @Grove Room

1/28 5:30 - 8 pm G & G Parent Night (at Echo Shaw)

Looking ahead:

2/1 TAG Screening for all of 4th grade

2/2 Shannon McCaw at Cornelius

2/2 Lunch Staff Potluck - Comfort Food!

2/2 4-6 pm Math Adoption Committee Meeting (Daisy, Jacob, Angella)

2/2 5:30 pm BSC Meeting (Dora, Manuel, Cheryl H., Janelly, Angella)

2/2 6:30 pm Padres en Accion Parent Night

2/4 Winter 100% Meeting

2/5 8:00 am 4th Grade Cougar Team

2/9 3-4 Anita Archer Training

2/11 1:30-2:30 pm Game Truck Reward (fall fundraiser winners)

2/12 K-2 Anita Archer Training

2/15 President’s Day Holiday

2/18 5:30-7:00 pm Tamales & Technology Night (Family Math & Lit Night - focus on tech)