May 28

Shout-Outs & Celebrations

(Consider sharing your shout-out!)

• Great community effort to keep the kickball spirit alive! 
• Spec Ed team ... wow ... the meetings keep coming but your collaborative spirits have helped us survive!  

General Updates

~ Volunteer Breakfast - Please use this link to sign up for your contribution to the annual volunteer breakfast that we’re hosting for our incredible Wiley volunteers. The breakfast is Monday, June 5th.

EOG Updates (Please read carefully!)

• EOG PRESENTATION LINK - In this link you can find everything you need.  (The daily schedule of administrators and proctors and the daily elective and lunch schedule. Please check it every evening and morning to make sure no changes have been made.) https://docs.google.com/a/wcpss.net/presentation/d/1FMBFxE57p1jyRjfJp81yKQDbDANMADZHntMARQN6SQM/edit?usp=sharing

• COPIER in the LOUNGE: Please remember that the lounge will be used for testing all throughout next week. This means that for security purposes, while testing materials are out, the copy machine will be turned off. Please plan ahead and make your copies for the week before hand. You can make copies early before school or at the end of the day. If you have a copying emergency, you can use the duplicator in the first grade workroom or the copier in the office (limited amounts.) Thank you for your flexibility!!

• NOISE in Hallway and Playground: Please remember the EOG’s will be taking place on every floor in every building.  Please be mindful of hallway noise and remember no use of the K-2 playground during testing.  An announcement will be made so you know that testing is complete.  Thank you!

• HALLWAY and CLASSROOM DISPLAYS: If the display contains content being measured on an EOG (math, ELA, science) or has Tips for Taking Tests or is helpful in any way (word lists, word walls, definitions, writing formulas, multiplication tables, number lines, formulas, etc.) then it MUST be covered or removed. Not removing them will result in a misadministration so if it doubt cover it up or take it down.

• Morning Duty:  If you do not have a morning duty or finish your morning duty early, please take some time to check in on Breakfast Duty and Carpool Duty to see if they need any help, since both Kristin and Eman will be getting testing materials ready.  THANK YOU!

• GENERAL EOG REMINDERS:
• Make sure to allow students to use the restroom as they arrive to school before testing.
• Make sure you have enough seating in the room you are testing in and that you have access to a clock in your testing room.
• Make sure all cell phones are turned off and put away.
• If you take your admin guides to read and highlight at home this weekend it is important that you bring them back on Testing day to use during the testing session.

IRT/Literacy Updates

• Materials for Shredding: Please bring all Case21, Read to Achieve Instructional Passages (3rd grade) and old PEP/IEPs down to my office to be shredded.

• Benchmark Windows Closing:
• NKT (Kindergarten & 1st grade) closes on June 2nd.
• mClass closes on June 5th.

• Read to Achieve Camp Invitations:
• 1st and 2nd grade: Please put any slips that are returned in my mailbox DAILY. Please do not wait until the end of the week to hand your slips in. Thank you!
• 3rd Grade: Once the ELA EOGs are scored you will receive invites to send home with your students who are eligible for camp. Please keep an eye out.

• (REPEAT) Student Information Cards (reminder): Please have these completed by Tuesday, June 6th. On Tuesday, teams will meet in the Media Center during your planning to create class lists using these cards. Please see below for a few clarifying points and additions:

• In the Special Education section, Related Services: please specify OT or PT if applicable.
• For AIG: please circle AIG ELA and/or AIG Math if applicable.
• In the Easi Data section: please indicate what type of Tier II/Tier III Intervention Plan the student has by marking L, M and or B (Literacy, Math, Behavior)
• In the Comments section: Use this if you know a student will be moving. Please be intentional with your comments and stay away from evaluative statements and include only data, facts and student needs.

Magnet Updates

• Hallway Display’s - Please make sure hallway display’s that are reading, writing, math or science related are covered or removed for the EOG’s. Otherwise please remove all other hallway display’s by the end of the school year.  Thank you!

Media & Technology

• All student books are now due! - First class in each grade level to return all their books wins a popsicle party!  For an update, check the media center doors. Inventory is complete so there are no student books on the shelves.
• Please start returning teacher books - Teachers may continue checking out books until the end of the year.  However, please return any books you are no longer using.
• Library Cards - Please return all library cards/shelf markers to Lynn.  We will reuse them next year
• Equipment Issues (repeat) - If you have any issues with any technology items please let Lynn know ASAP.
• Printing - Please be aware of what you are sending to the media center printers.  Use the color printer for color only.  Please don’t print class sets to the printer.

PBIS UPDATES

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Important Dates

Happy Birthday: Crystal Blum (5/30), Kathy Bennett (6/4)

This Week

Monday, 5/29: Holiday

Tuesday, 5/30: EOGs begin

Wednesday, 5/31: EOGs

Thursday, 6/1: EOGs; Staff Mtg. in Julie Thompson’s classroom @ 7:45am

Friday, 6/2:  EOGs; BT mtg @  8am;  PTA family night @ Pullen Park

     

Upcoming Events

Class Lists for 2017-2018 during grade level planning - Tuesday, June 6

UN Council Meetings - June 8 @ 3:00pm

Full Staff Work Session - Cum Folders in media center - M, June 12

End of Year Activities

Date	Time	Grade Level	Event / Location
June 2	2 - 3:30	2nd	Poetry Tea - classrooms & playground
June 5	12:30 - 1:30	K	Picnic & Kona Ice - in classrooms & patio area
June 5	During day	all	Field Day - school grounds
June 6		5th	Wax Museum in Media Center
June 6		5th	speakers
June 7	12:30	2nd & 3rd grade Spanish	Great Kapok Tree presentation in Media Center
June 7	9:30-10:30	4th	Grade level auction
June 7	12:30 - 1:30	4th	Pizza party w/ parents
June 7	10:30  - 12:30	1st	Blum & Fogelman 10:30 Abel & Wierman 11:00 All classes go outside at 11:30 for popsicles
June 8	10:30	3rd grade enrichment students	First Lego League Junior Showcase - Media Center
June 8	11:15 - 12:25	3rd	Picnic - courtyard & front lawn
June 8	9:30 -2	5th	Ceremony practice & trip to Pullen Park
June 8	3:00	all	UN Council Mtgs
June 9	9:30	5th	Promotion ceremony

May 19

Shout-Outs & Celebrations

(Consider sharing your shout-out!)

• I just wanted to give a shout out to our awesome mentors: Molly, Eman, Kathy, Crystal, and Catherine!  Thank you for all of the guidance and support you have offered our beginning teachers this year!  (Whitney)
• Shout out to all of our Specialists, Language Teachers and Support staff who helped make our mClass Blitz a HUGE success! (Kristin and Kathy F.)
• Shout out to Leigh Ann for always using the official form to reserve the media center!  (Lynn)
• Judy & co ... Thank you for a wonderful Wiley pals event!!

General Updates

~  SSA MATH STUDENTS - This point of the year is when classes are finishing up teaching new math material and have started reviewing for the End of Grade/Year Tests.  Please allow for the SSA math students in your classes to go back to their homerooms to review for the end of year testing with their classes.

~ Volunteer Breakfast - Please use this link to sign up for your contribution to the annual volunteer breakfast that we’re hosting for our incredible Wiley volunteers. The breakfast is Monday, June 5th.

IRT/Literacy Updates

• Tier II plan review (5/24): Teams, on Wednesday your case manager will guide you through closing out your Tier II plans for your students. You will also need to complete this SPREADSHEET for each student that has a current Tier II or Tier III plan. If you have any questions, please ask your case manager.

• **Wiley Cohort Sessions in eSchools ACTION REQUIRED: Please note that this may be a little different than the procedure from last year. In order to receive your credits, ALL teachers who participated in a learning cohort this year at Wiley are expected to register for their cohort in eSchools. Cohort participants will receive 1.5 credits. Please see below for the SRN numbers for your cohort. I will be closing out the sessions at the end of the month so please register ASAP! If you have already signed up you will receive an email indicating that you have been marked attended. To receive the credit, please log into eschools and complete the evaluation.   **If eSchools will not let you register due to a conflicting training on your schedule, email me and I will override the system and register you for the cohort.
• Reader’s Workshop, Vocabulary, Readers Gone Wild: Register for SRN#177534002
• Math Magicians and Mathletes: Register for SRN#171162302
• FLES (World Language Team): Register for SRN#17650502
• Creativity Cohort, Equity and Communication and National Boards: Register for SRN#173506302

• Student Information Cards (reminder): You will be receiving your end of the year Student Information Cards in your mailboxes. Please have these completed by Tuesday, June 6th. On Tuesday, teams will meet in the Media Center during your planning to create class lists using these cards. Please see below for a few clarifying points and additions:

• In the Special Education section, Related Services: please specify OT or PT if applicable.
• For AIG: please circle AIG ELA and/or AIG Math if applicable.
• In the Easi Data section: please indicate what type of Tier II/Tier III Intervention Plan the student has by marking L, M and or B (Literacy, Math, Behavior)
• In the Comments section: Use this if you know a student will be moving. Please be intentional with your comments and stay away from evaluative statements and include only data, facts and student needs.

• (repeat) End of the Year Work Samples for Cumulative Folders:

EOY work sample requirements are the same as last year:

• ELA:  K – 5:
• last written comprehension response from instructional TRC for grades K-3,
• and writing samples from each type of writing (narrative, informational, and opinion) labeled with the grade level and year
• Math:  K-5:
• Two to three open-ended work samples

Magnet Updates

• RED NOSE DAY - May 25
• Don’t forget to pick up your red nose at Walgreens for $1 and share with your students more about this day.  They might want to join in and get a red nose as well!
• To learn more check out the website https://rednoseday.org/  
• Language Selection Form- Please make sure the Language Selection Forms go home in Monday folders.  
• They have student names on them so make sure the correct one goes to the correct student.  
• Also, please do your best to collect them all and mark on the roster that I give you who brought theirs back.
• Turn in your marked roster and forms to my mailbox by Friday.  

Media & Technology

• Returning Books - The due date for students to return their books is May 26.  First class in each grade level to return all their books wins a popsicle party!
• Teacher Books - Teachers may continue checking out books until the end of the year.  However, please return any books you are no longer using.
• Library Cards - Please gather up all library cards on May 22.  You can place them in my box, have them delivered to me, or I can pick them up.
• Equipment Issues - If you have any issues with any technology items please let Lynn know ASAP.
• Printing - Please be aware of what you are sending to the media center printers.  Use the color printer for color only.  Please don’t print class sets to the printer.

PBIS UPDATES

Monday morning meeting activity: Musical Papers

This is a great way for people to use their communication/teamwork skills as well as have some laughs.

Supplies needed: Paper for each student, Music

Set up: Place the papers on the floor around the room.

Here is the challenge: To successfully get ALL participants balanced on the papers.

□ Students are told that when the music starts, they are to mingle around, dance if they wish. The goal of this activity is about working as a team to ensure everyone gets on a paper! It is not like Survivor! □

When the music stops, each person has to have both feet on a paper. Tell them you will countdown 3-2-1 after the music stops and they must have everyone on a paper when you get to “1”

□ When the music starts again, 1 or 2 papers are removed.

□ Participants walk around again to the music and repeat the process. (Just like musical chairs.) Watch what happens: As papers are removed, you will see people work harder to get everyone on. There usually is some clever person in each group that says, “hey can we rip the paper to make it easier? Or rip it in small pieces so that each person can stand on a piece?” Respond by saying, “We never said you couldn’t.” Sometimes the group has 1 paper left and is struggling to figure out a solution. If needed, you can give them a hint such as asking: ”Is there any way you can think of to increase the space of the paper?” or “Can you think of any way to spread out the people but still have everyone touching the paper?”

Reflection Questions:

□ What was easy, what was hard about this challenge?

□ How did people help or encourage each other?

□ How did you work as a team?

□ Did someone take on a leadership role or was there shared leadership

PBIS reminders:

Please be on time for transition hallway duties.

Hold students accountable for behavior. The expectation in the hall is single file, walking and quiet. This is not happening during transitions. Stop them and make them repeat the correct way.

This time of year the less time between classroom celebration the better. Kids stay excited and motivated if they have a celebration to look forward to. Please hold students to the lunchroom expectations. Students should be using hand signals to get up in the lunch room. Please do not leave your table washers in the lunchroom unattended to clean up. Students must be supervised in the lunchroom and on the ramps. We all need to be consistent with our behavior expectations.  Hold the kids and each other accountable.

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Important Dates

Happy Birthday: no staff birthdays this week

This Week

Monday, 5/22 - NKT assessment window opens for K/1

Tuesday, 5/23 -

Wednesday, 5/24 - Student Plan Review and Spreadsheet in PLT (See Case Managers)

Thursday, 5/25 - EOG Test Administrator training @ 8am; TAs & Support Staff - proctor training @ 10am

Friday, 5/26 - no electives or specials; 5th Grade v. Staff kickball game @ St. Marys field at 2:00 - more information coming soon

     

Upcoming Events

EOG Dates - May 30 - June 2

Class Lists for 2017-2018 during grade level planning - Tuesday, June 6
Staff Social @ TBA - June 6

PTA Family Fun Night @ Pullen Park - Friday, June 2 from 5-8pm

UN Council Meetings - May 11 @ 9:20am, June 8 @ 3:00pm

End of Year Activities

Date	Time	Grade Level	Event / Location
May 23 & 24		4th	Student led conferences in classrooms
May 26	9 - 9:30am	K	‘Pastries for Parents’ in classrooms
May 26	2ish	all	Staff v. 5th Grade Kickball - @ St Mary's field
June 2	2 - 3:30	2nd	Poetry Tea - classrooms & playground
June 5	12:30 - 1:30	K	Picnic & Kona Ice - in classrooms & patio area
June 5		all	Field Day - school grounds & Volunteer Breakfast
June 6		5th	Wax Museum in Media Center
June 6		5th	speakers
June 7	12:30	2nd & 3rd grade Spanish	Great Kapok Tree presentation in Media Center
June 7	9:30-10:30	4th	Grade level auction
June 7 June 7	12:30 - 1:30	4th 1st	Pizza party w/ parents EOY celebration: Blum & Fogelman 10:30 Abel & Wierman 11:00 All classes go outside at 11:30 for popsicles
June 8	10:30	3rd grade enrichment students	First Lego League Junior Showcase - Media Center
June 8	11:15 - 12:25	3rd	Picnic - courtyard & front lawn
June 8	9:30 -2	5th	Ceremony practice & trip to Pullen Park
June 8	3:00	all	UN Council Mtgs
June 9	9:30	5th	Promotion ceremony