Meetings - We have staff meeting for classroom teachers and SPED/ESL/RL teachers tomorrow (Friday) at 8:00 am. We will follow up with some additional assessment information for the teams during your first PLC meetings scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday.
Recess Notes - During lunch recess, ALL TEACHERS should come out to pick up your students from recess and be present at least 2 minutes early to help with the learning process. We have recess/lunch associates who need to go straight from recess to lunch duty and cannot wait for teachers. As noted in the staff handbook, during good weather, teachers should pick up students outside. Thanks for starting this today.
Dates to Remember - Click here to access our year-long "Dates to Remember." You have all been given rights to update this document so please add any field trips, events, etc. We will use this document when communicating our upcoming events to our parents through our newsletter.
Curriculum Night is set for Tuesday, August 23. Each grade level should have a consistent presentation, approximately 20 minutes in length and hosted in each classroom. Times are as follows:
- 6:00-6:30 (K-1)
- 6:30-7:00 (Related Arts in Library)
- 7:00-7:30 (2-3)
- 7:30-8:00 (4-5)
Student/Parent Handbooks - You should pick up your handbooks Tuesday so you can hand them out during Curriculum Night. These will be given to the oldest and only children. A list should be able to teachers soon.
Newsletter - We will have a building newsletter ready to go at the end of the day. Hard copies will go out next week. TODAY, please email Paula how many families need a hard copy so we can provide those to you each newsletter week.
Twitter - If you were not able to attend out Tweet-Up this summer and want to learn more about how we can/will use Twitter to share resources and learn from our colleagues (both here and outside MGE), let me know. We will set up a Twitter "breakfast" or "lunch" sometime over the next few weeks. For those of you already Twittering, please begin to use the following hashtags to share resources/learning/celebrations with your colleagues. Share these hashtags with teachers in our Waukee buildings who use Twitter or your PLN-friends anywhere!
#mgewaukee - share celebrations, upcoming events or resources with all of us at MGE!
#mgepbl - Project Based Learning ideas, resources, celebrations and learning
#mgerti - Interventions ideas, resources, celebrations and learning
#mgecoteach - Collaborative teaching ideas, resources, celebrations and learning
#mgetech - Technology integration ideas, resources, celebrations and learning
Others of interest...
#daily5
#elemchat
From the Nurse's Office - Just wanted to send out a reminder to all staff about students with life threatening peanut allergies at lunch. We request that they sit at a hot lunch table no matter what so they are not exposed to what other students bring in their lunch. This will help to keep them safe since our nutrition department does not contain peanuts/nuts. It would be best to seat them in the first row of hot lunch tables so they are surrounded by other hot lunch tables and are not right near a cold lunch table. Teachers, we will have to work together with others so we know who our peanut allergy kids are and make sure they are seated at the hot lunch table. Thanks for everyone's cooperation.
Birthday Treats - I cringed when I sent the message about students not being able to delivering treats around the building and to the office, but considering the number of our allergies this year and their severity, this will be our new policy. I'd be more than happy to visit a classroom during a birthday celebration. Thank you in advance for communicating this message in a positive way with our students.
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