August 27, 2010

NO STAFF MEETING THIS FRIDAY (August 27) - We will have a meeting next Friday morning (Sept 3) that will include information about voluntary benefits through Colonial.  This is the message from Lora Appenzeller-Miller regarding this meeting:   The products are voluntary life, short term disability, cancer and hospital policy. This is similar to AFLAC- if you are familiar with the duck commercials. The meetings will last about 15 minutes- a presentation, and then a packet of handouts will be distributed. A sign up sheet will be sent around for those who wish to sign up to talk to a representative the next day- so they will need a place to "hang out" in your lounge for that day. Employee's don't have to sign up in order to talk to the rep. Let me know if there are questions - Lora.

PBIS Assemblies were planned by the team and will take place on Friday (8-27).  Kindergarten through 2nd grade need to be in the gym and ready to go by 2:00 pm.  Third through fifth grade will need to be in the gym and ready to go by 2:45 pm.  I appreciate the PBIS team putting this assembly together!


Parent Email Addresses - Please have a parent email group set up by next Monday, August 30th.  I would like to push out the building newsletter by September 3rd and will send the newsletter to classroom teachers to forward on to parents.  I wish we could push mass-emails to parents from Power School but that is not an option at this point so I will rely on every classroom teacher to set up your parent email list!!

Tornado and Fire Signs - If your classroom does not have your tornado or fire map, please email me.  I will print the color maps and place them in your box to be posted.

Teacher Schedules - Please EMAIL your schedules to Paula and I when you have them set.  I do not need a hard copy.

Attendance - This needs to become habit by today.  :)  With no attendance secretary in the office, the job of tracking down missing students will fall upon Paula and Kara.  We need accurate attendance to ensure all students are safe!  Thanks for helping with this process.

Color Printer - Starting Monday, if you need to print something in color, you will need to email the file Carrie Dirksen and she will print it for you.  This is also a good time to remind everyone to pick up what you print and please, please, please do not print classroom sets to our printers.  A great way to save money in our budget is printing what we need and making copies at the AEA or Central Print.  Thank you in advance for helping us with this concern.

School Pictures - The forms were brought down to classrooms on Thursday.  Please get those out this week as school pictures are next week already - Friday, September 3rd!

First Couple Days - I appreciate everyone who has stepped up to help cover duties, answer questions and work with new parents and students!  Your teamwork has made the first couple days go very smoothly - of course, there are always things to iron out and tweak so I appreciate the ongoing positive communication to make that happen.  If concerns are out there or tweaks need to be made, please talk to your BLT member or stop in to visit with Lyndsay and I.

If all difficulties were known at the onset of a long journey,

most of us would never start out at all.

- Dan Rather

Dates to Note (Always look at the calendar below for the full weekly/monthly schedule)
Monday
- BLT & SPED Mtgs (8:00-8:30 am)
- Bus evacuation drills (look for your scheduled time)
Tuesday
- K-2 PLC (8am)
Wednesday
- 3-5 PLC (8am)
- Early Dismissal/PD
Friday
- MGE Staff Mtg (8am in library)
- Lifetouch Pictures!