The Cornelius Chronicle

May 20, 2016

Anita Archer Gems

• Encourage students to use sentence starters to teach them to use complete sentences and to help them get ideas.

BIG NEWS!!!!!!

We are getting a Pre-K program next year as we were awarded Pre-K Promise Grant from the state!  Yay!!!!!  Maroha has accepted the job as our Pre-K teacher at Cornelius next year!  She will be moving into Manuel’s room and Manuel will be moving into Linda’s room.  We will have a maximum of 20 students in the Pre-K class with a full-time teacher and IA.  It is a full-day class for our Pre-K’s.  

Cornelius Elementary - Scholastic Book Fair -

Buy One, Get One FREE

5/16-5/20

Wow!!!  What a successful event!  Our kids are hungry for books!  In 5 days, we exceeded our goal of $2,200 by $700!  We sold a total of $2,892.21!  We don’t earn a ton from the BOGO book fair because the rewards go to the families with the great deals, but we do earn 5% total off of both of our fairs!  So, we should be earning about $365 in Scholastic dollars to spend on books for this sale.  A big thank you to our book fair super star, Cesar Loeza!!!  Thank you to Diego for helping set up and tear down the book fair!  Thank you to Pam, Cheryl R., Chelsea, and others for stepping in when they saw us struggling with a line around the school!  Thanks to parents, Ashley Handy and Brenda Onofre, for helping us out during the book fair!  Whew!  I’m happy to take my book fair chair hat off and be a principal again.  There is a reason I didn’t go into retail!  :)  I am very excited to share that we have enough donations in books throughout the year to be able to send a brand-new book home with every single student in grades K-4 for summer reading and to keep in their collection!  

SBAC Testing Schedule

April 4-8 3rd Grade Reading CAT Done!✅

April 11-15 3rd Grade Reading PT Done!✅

April 18-22 3rd Grade Math CAT Done!✅

April 25-28 3rd Grade Math PT Done!✅

May 2-6 4th Grade Reading CAT Done!✅

May 9-13 4th Grade Reading PT  Done!✅

May 16-20 4th Grade Math CAT Done!✅

May 23-27 4th Grade Math PT

CIT on Wednesday
Certified staff will be participating in a “year in review” activity - reflecting back on our year.  What worked?  What didn’t work?  What do we want to do differently next year?  What do we want to continue doing next year?  

At 8:45 am, we will start our whole staff meeting and continuing talking about what worked this year and get everyone’s perspective.  We will also take a staff picture!  

At 9:15 am, there will be an optional meeting with American Fidelity staff to address any questions regarding the upcoming dependent verification exercise that we have to participate in on June 1st.  If you didn’t receive a letter or an email about this, you don’t need to worry about it!

Field Day Plan - 5/27

Free-flowing, inside/outside, teachers helping manage students, IAs + specialists + volunteers are manning stations!  I will be asking you all to sign up to man a station.  See the list below!  First come, first served--get your request to me ASAP if you want your first choice!  You can see below that the planning committee got first dibs!  If you have volunteers that could help out with a station and setting up stations before school, I would love that!  Please let me know!

9:15 am Opening assembly - National Anthem & explain the procedures

9:30 -10:30

Inside: 3rd & 4th

Outside: K-2

10:30-11:30

Inside: K-2

Outside: 3rd & 4th

Inside Stations:

1 Cafeteria:  Book Walk

2. Hallway by cafeteria: Sunflower Seeds Spitting Contest

3. Library:  Card Making station - staff appreciation (Alondra)

4. Paddle Balloon Toss

5. Hallway: Bowling

6&7. Gym: Scooter relays & Angry Birds knocking over pyramids

Outside Stations:

1. Tug-a-War

2. Bubble blowers, bouncing balls

3. Potato Sack Race

4. Softball throw

5. Hula Hoop Toss

6. Sponge Relay (Melissa)

7. Jump Rope

8. Basketball Station

9. Water stations

Staggered Lunch Schedule Plan - Whole School BBQ 5/27

I will be putting together a modified IA duty schedule for Friday to match the schedule below.  

Whole School BBQ Lunch - staggered lunches:

Kinder 11:30 (recess 11:55 -12:15)

1st 11:45 (recess 12:05 -12:25)

2nd 12:05 (recess 12:25 -12:45)

3rd 12:25 (recess 12:45 -1:05)

4th 12:40 (recess 1:05 -1:25)

Last Day of School

We will be dismissing students at 12:15 pm on June 10th.  We will start the day with a whole school assembly (more to come on that!) and, afterward, each class will have time for a class celebration in your classrooms.  We will be serving the students lunch on the last day of school before we leave.  By June 1st, you will need to mark on a class list (with student ID numbers) who wants a sack lunch from the cafeteria on that last day of school.  How that will look on June 10th:  We will bring down the sack lunches to each classroom around 11:00-11:15 am.  Students will eat lunch in their classrooms - all trash needs to be thrown away in the classrooms. We will not be doing an official lunch recess.  Then we will start lining up for buses at 12:10 pm.  After we dismiss all 341 students, we will have a staff luncheon catered by Maggie’s Buns! :)  June 10th is a full work day for all staff.  After the luncheon, you will have time to start packing up and doing end-of-the-year, closing-up-shop chores!   

Reminders:

• Ballet Folklorico Performance Finale 5/27 7-9 pm - $6 tickets for adults!
• 6/1 - we will have 2 representatives from American Fidelity here to meet with each staff member individually re: dependent verification.  The week before on May 25 at 9:15 am, they will be here to address the staff member who want to attend a brief 15 minute info session on what to expect and bring, as well as answer questions.  We will have a certified sub in the building on June 1st to relieve any staff member who needs to meet with the representatives during student-contact time.

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

Calendar:

5/23 8:00 am PBiS Team Meeting (library)

5/23-5/26 4th Grade SBAC Math PT - last week of state testing!

5/24 Library closed for inventory!

5/24 3rd Grade Field Trip to Oregon Trail Interpretive Center

5/24 8:00 am Referral Team Meeting

5/25 8:00 am Certified Staff - Year in Review

5/25 8:45 am Whole Staff Meeting and Staff Picture!

5/25 9:15 am Optional Info and Q&A with staff from American Fidelity re: dependent verification

5/26 8-12 Admin Team Meeting (Angella)

5/26 6-8 pm Adelante Chicas End of Year Celebration at NAMS cafeteria

5/27 8:00 am 2nd Grade Cougar Team Meeting

5/27 9-11:30 Field Day

5/27 11:30-1:30 Whole School BBQ - staggered lunch schedule!

5/27 7-9 pm Ballet Folklorico Performance - Finale at FGHS - $6 for adults

Looking ahead:

5/30 Memorial Day Holiday!  No School!

5/30 Daisy’s Birthday!

6/1 Last day for ELD, SPED interventions, Lit Interventions (K-1 Lit Groups continue until 6/9)

6/2 8 am - 4 pm Spring 100% Meetings

6/3 1st Grade Field Trip

6/3 10-11 am Cornelius Alumni who are graduating seniors visit!

6/7 5:30 pm Last BSC Meeting of the year

6/7 6:30 pm Last Padres en Accion Meeting of the year

6/8 1:45-3:15 pm Volunteer Appreciation

6/9 1:15-2:15 pm Kinder Celebration

6/10 Last day of school!  (Half day for students!) Last day for IAs!

6/13-6/14 Teacher Work Days

6/13 Indistar Retreat (Melissa, Merry, Chelsea, Cheryl R., Angella)

6/14 Indistar/Master Schedule Committee (above & Daisy, Lourdes M., Leah)