The Cornelius Chronicle

January 29, 2016

TalentEd Mid-Year Review

Teachers - when you have your results from your mid-year assessments, please fill out your Mid-Year Review of your SLGGs on TalentEd.  We won’t be meeting in person, unless you wish to meet.  We will have a virtual meeting on TalentEd, which means you submit your form to me and I will approve it.  Mid-Year Reviews need to be submitted on TalentEd by Feb. 16th.  Let me know if you have any questions.

Sharing Devices

Chelsea will be sending out the device sharing schedule to you, so that all students will have experience using both iPads and Chromebooks.  SBAC and ELPA tests (and practice tests) will be using Chromebooks, so all of our students need practice using Chromebooks.  All ELD teachers - remember to do the ELPA practice test with your students.  All teachers should have the AIR secure browser for ELPA & SBAC now on your computers (please restart your computer, if you haven’t and it should magically appear).  We start ELPA testing with kinder on Feb. 10th.

Cornelius Rainy Day Recess Plan

Lunch Recess on M, W, Th (No PE)

Kinder - use gym (no equipment) - send kinders out for last 5 minutes

1st grade goes outside

2nd/3rd grade - some outside and some inside  (balls & games in gym)

4th grade - go outside

Lunch Recess on T & F (PE days)

Kinder - one IA from outside can go in the one kinder class and one from cafeteria can go in one kinder class

1st grade - go outside (if freezing cold, can go to classroom)

2nd/3rd - some can stay in cafeteria & color and some can go outside *IAs will choose who stays

4th - go outside

2:00 pm Afternoon K-1 Recess on M, W, Th (No PE)

K-1 - use the gym and go outside *IAs will decide who goes where (only wall balls or soccer ball if fields are dry)

2:00 pm Afternoon K-1 Recess on T & F (PE days)

K-1 - recess in classrooms (teachers stay in classroom and IAs help give bathroom breaks for teachers)

If teachers assign missing a recess as a consequence, then the teacher needs to supervise those students, rather than sending them out to recess to stand on the wall.

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	3:15-4:00 pm Planning time with Shannon - Linda
2:15-3:00 pm Dora Godinez - Kinder
3:15-4:00 pm  Optional Planning time with Laura

Selfie with Gomez Bros.

Gomez & Gomez Training

We will review our take-aways from our G&G training this Wed during CIT time!  Please make note of take-aways to share out with the group!

Cornelius Elementary Early Learning Hour - flyer going home on Mon!

Children ages 3-5 years old and their parents or caregivers are invited to join us for stories, music, crafts and fun.  Hosted by Emma Ochoa.

Where: Cornelius Elementary School Library

When: 1st Wednesday of each month

Starting: February 3, 2016

Time: 10:15 – 11:15 am

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 and SLD 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

Equity Happy Hour - Friday 2/5 at 4 pm

Thank you for sharing about the significance of your name and your race during our equity dialog on Wednesday!  We look forward to getting to know everyone better at our first Equity Happy Hour this Friday at 4 pm at Prime Time restaurant in the upstairs private room!  Please join us for our monthly Equity Staff Happy Hours at Prime Time - the first Friday of each month!

Reminders:

• National School Counseling Week is this week!  Celebrate all week with Alondra!  On Monday from 8-9 am, she will be hosting treats and conversation in the staff room.  She will be doing a fill-your-bucket activity in the staff room.  And Friday is National Wear your College Gear day!  Please wear any college tee shirt or sweatshirt that you have!
• No ELD or intervention groups on Tuesday, 2/9 nor Friday, 2/12, as we have Anita Archer training on 2/9 for 3-4 and 2/12 for K-2.
• 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

Bus Duty: 1st & 3rd grade teachers, and the “regulars”!

Calendar:

2/1-2/5 National School Counseling Week!

2/1 TAG Screening for all of 4th grade

2/1 11 am - 12 pm 3rd & 4th grade Make-up IAP testing (library)

2/2 Shannon McCaw at Cornelius

2/2 8-8:45 am Math PD with Shannon McCaw & Laura Nelson

2/2 8-8:45 am Referral Team

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 Acción Parent Night

2/3 8-9 am CIT - G&G Review & Take-aways!

2/3 10:15-11:15 Early Learning Story Hour for our neighborhood 3 to 5-year-olds (library)

2/4 Winter 100% Meeting

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

2/5 4:00 pm Equity Staff Happy Hour (Prime Time upstairs room)

Looking ahead:

2/9 3-4 Anita Archer Training

2/10 8-9 am CIT: Data Team - Collaboration *3rd & 4th grade collaboration & ELD exits

2/10 ELPA begins for kinder

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

2/12 K-2 Anita Archer Training

2/12 Pennies for Patients campaign ends

2/15 President’s Day Holiday

2/16 Mid-Year Review on TalentEd deadline

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