April 6, 2012

Good luck to Katelyn Jamison as she leaves Mrs. Cramer's (aka Ms. Coulter) room for a position at Valley HS. Please welcome Theresa Wiehoff as her replacement. Theresa may be familiar to a few of you as she has subbed in several classrooms over the past few weeks.


Thank you to our math curriculum team for their hard work on the documents presented to the staff yesterday and the collaboration it took to get you the information during our PD. I believe all of our curriculum teams work very diligently and are focused on making sure Waukee stays at the forefront of learning, instruction and assessment!!


Spring MAP for 3rd-5th grade begins next Monday. Please follow the schedule Carrie provided. Data should be entered on the SPRING TAB of your grade level Google doc when you have the data. This will help with class list meetings coming up in a few weeks.


Annual Conference forms (ITPDPs) should be emailed to your evaluator by April 13th.


Dessert Reception for our Volunteers will be on Monday, April 16, 6:45-7:15p, in our library. THANK YOU for all those who have signed up to help already! This staff rocks when it comes to showing others we care!! Opportunities still exist to help so please check out the online form!


Speaking of helping out...there are still opportunities to help at our PTO spring carnival on April 14th (click here to sign up). The kids LOVE having their teacher at events outside of school. Come on your own, bring your spouse and/or family and enjoy the fun! Thanks to those who have signed up already!


Our April 20th PTO Assembly was mentioned in the March 16 FWR, included on our Dates to Remember document, talked about at each of our last 3-4 PTO meetings and has been on my calendar for a couple months. The Magic Storyteller, Chris O'Brien, will provide an engaging assembly for our K-2 students at 1:30pm and our 3-5 students beginning at about 2:30pm. Both presentations will be about an hour long. Annual conference schedules for both Lyndsay and I for that afternoon have been blocked out as we will be in attendance. We have no other assemblies planned until the end of the year.


Paper Orders (from Office Depot & School Speciality) - Refer to Paula's email regarding the process and one requisition from each team is due to Paula by May 7th. Questions? ...see Paula. :-) 


Last day for personal days is Wednesday, May 9th. Those requests need to be to Lyndsay two days in advance (in writing or email) of your requested leave day.


Teachers who will move rooms this summer have had a conversation with me already. BLT will see the new room assignments tomorrow and the 2012-13 room assignment map will be out prior to check-out. 


April dates to stick in your own calendar...
* Apr 6 - Barry in Iowa City (recruiting fair)
* Apr 9 - MAP begins!
* Apr 13 - Annual conference forms due via email
* Apr 14 - PTO Carnival @ YMCA; 6:30-8:30p
* Apr 18 - Early out (MGE PLCs: math 'digestion'; MGE RA PLC)
* Apr 20 - 4th/5th AM HS music event;
* Apr 20 - PBIS Assemblies: Magic Storyteller in the PM (EO schedule)

Some of you are cheering, others may be shedding a tear as we enter...

Our last week of At-Bat Songs

The last month includes:

Lorri Lynde, Mark Joye, Toni Rand, Shelley Wagaman

Tasha Turner, Abby Masters, Shanlyn Doll and Thresa Stone.

I Hope You Dance - Lee Ann Womack

Send in the Clowns - Frank Sinatra