Tardy Policy Change - (as emailed this week) To help our office be more consistent with the other elementary buildings, we will send students on to class who arrive in the building by 8:50. We sometimes have a number of students walking in the building at that time and we will send them to your classroom. If students are in your classroom or putting items away in their lockers by 8:55 am, please do not count them tardy. Take attendance after 8:55 am. If you have individual students who are having habitual issues, please let Lyndsay or I know.
Student Teachers - Within the next week, we will be saying goodbye and thank you to our three students teachers we have had over the past eight weeks! Best of luck to Holly Fairholm (Van Meter), Kara Beckstrom (Bode) and Lindsay Gardner (Grimm) as they continue their educational journeys!
Fine Arts Date - On December 7th, our 1st Grade will have the first Fine Arts music program for Maple Grove. The afternoon of their program, the students will have a practice in our gym with Mrs. Schoene. Please know that related arts classes missed during practice time will be rescheduled only if the related arts teacher reschedules the time with the classroom teacher.
Holiday Parties will be on Wednesday, December 22nd. Parent volunteers should be organized through your home-room parent or coordinator. As we did with the fall Harvest parties, we will not limit parent volunteers but do want them to contact the home-room parent. Information will be included in The Branch which will be available at the end of Friday.
Holiday Reminder - Personal orders need to be shipped to your home address and not the school address or central receiving. Also note you should not be making personal orders through the Maple Grove Elementary or Waukee "name" even if you are paying for it yourself.
Dates to note...
Tuesday
- K-2 PLC (8am)
- 5th Gr Technology Integration (TI) Mtg @ 8am
- 1st Gr Music Program (7pm @ MGE Gym)
Wednesday
- 3-5 PLC (8am)
- 1st Gr TI Mtg @ 8am
- New to Waukee Mtg & Observations
Thursday
- Character Council (8am)
- District Admin Mtg (Barry - AM)
Friday
- Problem Solving Core Mtg (8am)
- Elementary Admin Mtg (Barry - PM)
Monday, Dec 13
- PBIS Core Mtg (8am)
- 5th Gr Human Growth & Development begins
- Meteor Shower!
Tuesday, Dec 14
- K-2 PLC (8am)
- 4th Gr TI Mtg @ 8am
- District Math Curriculum Mtg
Wednesday, Dec 15
- 3-5 PLC (8am)
- KG TI Mtg @ 8am
- Early dismissal (Building PD)
Thursday, Dec 16
- Character Council (w/ students @ 8am)
- Barry @ Instructional Rounds (@ Waukee Elem)
Friday, Dec 17
- Staff Celebration @ 8am
- Music Assembly (PM)
Final Thoughts for the Week
...where I keep talking/typing and you
don't necessarily have to continue listening/reading.
Choose Joy - I have a friend from college, Sara, who has taught me as more from how she lives her life than anything I've learned in school or from nearly everyone else combined. Life has provided her with a lot of obstacles and illnesses, yes she has made the conscience effort to..
...choose joy. <--(click here) This post entry may be more for me, but just like laughter is needed in education, joy is needed by every single child who walks into the building, your classroom, the gym, onto the playground. You hold the key - you have the power - to create a classroom full of joy, full of laughter and full of learning. No one else has this power. I've seen time and time again one person in the building 'choose joy' and the contagiousness of this choice is evident throughout the day and building.
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