January 8, 2016

Welcome back and Happy New Year!!

We hope that you all had a wonderful break and are ready to tackle the rest of the school year in a positive way and

Happy New Year and welcome to 2016!! Our students will be taking several required assessments as we are in the Spring semester including the Writing Assessment, Benchmark 2 in Math and ELA, and SBAC. Math and English Departments are preparing them already!  

Master schedule discussions are taking place starting now and, when you meet in your department meetings on the 26th, we would love to get your feedback and suggestions. We will be distributing course selections next month to 6th grade classes and 7th grade Science classes. Course request sheets will be coming out at the beginning of February!

It was AWESOME to see almost 100% of teachers reviewing the procedures and process of our school and their classrooms! All students have been away for 17 days, so they definitely needed a reminder!

Have you checked out the PD OPPORTUNITIES for School City training to administer the benchmarks online? Be sure to register as ALL benchmarks in February will be administered using ALL Chrome Books on campus! We are going to need to borrow them from History and Science so a schedule will be coming soon!

Please don't forget and plan for the Writing Assessment block schedule and Rally for next week...It was sent it the email Tuesday 1/5/16 for 7th and 8th grades as 6th is following one a bit different.

PLEASE take a moment to complete your student of the month for January. The trait is FAIRNESS and HERE is the link as it's super easy! We are still struggling to get this done and it should be very easy...We don't want any of our kids to miss out!

Have you checked out our Fish Moments?

BE THERE: Let's keep on monitoring those passing periods! Thanks to those outside their rooms to do so!!

PLAY: Oh man. I bet black socks are coming back since people just got more for Christmas...:)

MAKE THEIR DAY: CONGRATS to Sue Kinder, our ROCKIN' TEACHER OF THE YEAR!!

CHOOSE YOUR ATTITUDE: LET'S STAY POSITIVE PEEPS! KEEP ON SMILING! 

Please join me in welcoming Olivia to this world! Christine and John had their baby girl on Wednesday morning and we can't wait to meet her! Christine has already text to say she misses us!