The Cornelius Chronicle

May 27, 2016

Anita Archer Gems

• Stand and deliver: students rehearse with a partner first, after think time - children turn & listen - before any whole group share-outs

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  Done!✅ Only 1 student left to finish!

100% Meeting - June 2!

We will have our 100% meeting on Thursday.  We will have 2 roving subs cover each grade level team’s classrooms Classroom teachers 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.  There will be no ALD nor intervention groups today as they end on June 1st, and we won’t be getting subs for Melissa nor Lawson nor Maroha and Manuel. Make sure that all of your literacy assessments are done by Tuesday!

100% Meeting Schedule: June 2

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

Year in Review

Thank you all for participating in our “Year in Review” activity during CIT time.  It was good to reflect on what worked and didn’t work this year.  We will be doing a follow-up to that on June 8th when we have our last staff meeting of the year and celebration during CIT time!

Field Day

A big thanks to Tony for organizing all of the supplies for each station for field day! Thank you to Cheryl and Cesar for making signs and doing some behind-the-scenes preparation!  Thank you to all of our specialists, IAs, and volunteers for leading stations during field day!  It was a lot of fun!  Not even the rain could dampen our kids’ spirits!  One of our parents commented that our students were so well behaved and polite during field day!

CIT on Wednesday

This Wednesday is a MOU day and I would like to propose that you use this time from 8-9 am to reflect on your year-end goals and self-evaluation form on Talent Ed labeled: Student Growth & Professional Goal Setting Summative Conference form and Year-End Self Assessment form. If you aren’t ready to complete your year-end goals, you can use this time to complete other year-end tasks.

Classified staff - you need to do a year-end self-evaluation on Talent Ed and I’d like you to use your late-start time before students arrive on Wednesday to do your self-evaluation too.  Classified staff should have received an email from HR about how to log into Talent Ed and how to do the self-evaluation.  Please let me know if you need any assistance!

Class Lists

We will be meeting with each grade level (except 4th grade, of course) to make classroom placements for next year the last week of school.  I will share with you a form that we will use to make class lists.  We want balanced classrooms and we will put all of our heads together to do this!  Please don’t come to this meeting with your class lists pre-made, rather an idea of placement.  We want to balance classrooms around the following criteria: gender, academic levels, language levels, behavioral/social development, special programs, parent input, & available space, all of which we will discuss together.

School Supplies

Don’t forget to get your school supply lists into me and Irene for each grade level!  I think we should add ear buds to each grade level’s supply list!

Volunteer Appreciation: June 8th 1:45 - 3:15 pm

Preparation:

*Invitations to go out to teachers - teachers distribute to volunteers - ✅

*Potluck sign up for desserts, beverages - in staff room✅

*Each class decorates a table (decorations, flowers, etc.)  Merry is providing linen table cloths.

*Each class practices or prepares something to share with the volunteers (song, skit, chant, art work, something they have learned, etc)

1:45-2:00 Refreshments & Welcome – Ms. Graves

2:00 4th Grade - Mrs. Aillon

2:05 4th Grade - Mr. Bustamante

2:10 4th Grade - Mrs. Wolf

2:15 3rd Grade - Mrs. Henriksen

2:20 3rd Grade - Mrs. Murillo

2:25 2ND Grade - Ms. Hall

2:30 2ND Grade - Mrs. Hansen

2:35 1st Grade - Mrs. Medina

2:40 1st Grade - Mrs. Rincon

2:45 Kindergarten - Mrs. Godinez

2:50 Kindergarten - Mrs. Heredia

3:00-3:15 Conclusion, Gifts, & Refreshments

Summer Reading Distribution

I’m going to give a big box of brand new books to each grade level team and let you decide how you’d like to distribute them to them to your students.  Each student gets one book to add to their home library for summer reading!  Also, on 5/31, Maria from City of Cornelius Library will be here to visit each classroom to talk up the summer reading program at all of the WA CO libraries!

Please Protect Our Staff Room!

I’ve noticed that last year and this year the staff room in the spring becomes a dumping ground of stuff that MAYBE someone will want some day!  Chances are, if you don’t want it, no one else wants it!  I know that several folks are moving rooms (or buildings).  Please feel free to have your own “garage sale” in your classroom and let people know when they can peruse items, but don’t bring your unwanted items into the staff room.  I spent 3 days last summer cleaning up the staff room and taking piles to the trash and recycling because no one wanted any of that stuff!

Last Day of School

9:00 am - Start School

9:30-10:30 am - End of Year Assembly in gym

10:30 am - Return to classrooms for class parties

11:00 am - Sack lunches will be brought to each classroom for students who ordered them to eat in the classrooms

12:00 pm - Clean up classrooms

12:15 pm - Dismissal to buses

12:30 pm - Staff Luncheon catered by Maggie’s Buns!

1:30 pm - Time for end-of-the-year, closing-up-shop chores!

June 10th is a full work day for all staff.   

Calendar for Next Year

All IAs (no matter if SPED or Gen Ed) will be on the same calendar K-6 next year!  No late start Wednesdays to worry about!  All IAs will work Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of Preservice Week (Aug. 23-25).  

Reminders:

• 6/1 - we will have 2 representatives from American Fidelity here to meet with each staff member individually re: dependent verification.   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.
• Classroom teachers - don’t forget to use the Big Brainz math fluency log-ins that all of your students have access to until July 31st!  
• By 6/1, 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.

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

Calendar:

5/30 Memorial Day Holiday!  No School!

5/30 Daisy’s Birthday!

5/31 8:00 am Referral Team Meeting

5/31 10-12:30 Cornelius City Library - Summer Reading Presentations

5/31 12-4 pm K-1 Math/ELD Alignment (Daisy, Lourdes, Rosa, Maroha, Melissa, Angella)

5/31 Last day for ELD since there is no ELD on Wednesdays

6/1 Melissa’s Birthday!

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

6/1 8 am - 4 pm American Fidelity here to meet about dependents

6/1 8 am Pre-K Precertification Meeting (Maroha and Angella)

6/1 8 am CIT: MOU - Year-End Reflections on TalentEd and other tasks!

6/1 11-12 Limo Lunch with Catalog Winners (Students, Cheryl R, & Angella)

6/1 1-3 pm Elementary Principals Meeting (Angella)

6/1 4 pm District Retirement Reception - Grove Room

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

6/2 4-5:30 pm Tony’s Wedding Shower (King’s Head Pub)

6/3 8 am 3rd Grade Cougar Team Meeting

6/3 1st Grade Field Trip

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

6/3 Lunch Fun Friday!

6/3 2:15 pm June Fire Drill

6/3 4-6 pm Laurel Clifton & Lori Klaus’s Retirement Party (@Cornelius)

6/3 4-6 pm Cindy Greeley’s Retirement Party (@McMenamins)

6/4 Lawson’s Birthday!

Looking ahead:

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 10:15 am Early Learning Hour (3-4 year-olds in library with Emma)

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, Maroha, Alondra)