It's  "B" Week

Walker Pass Colors

Mon: Blue

Tues: Yellow

Wed: Pink

Thurs: Green

Fri: White

Duty This Week

AM

Kindergarten: Summers

First Grade: Patterson

Cafeteria: Garrett

Car Line: Harrington and Young

Zone 1: Johnson

Zone 2: Mann

Zone 3: Wilkerson

PM

Radio: Prickett

End of Car Line: Osburn

Monitor Car Line Students: Mann and Dickerson

Intersection of the Front Hall: Fulmer

Front Lawn (buses only): Ellis

On the Calendar this week.....

myOn Christmas Challenge starts Monday! 

Tuesday: PACESetter Breakfast 

Wednesday: Last day to submit a MUSH grant

Thursday: AIMSWeb Math window Opens - Staff Christmas Party-  Tinsel Trail decorating begins today - Fire Drill

Friday: Prize Patrol

SUNDAY: Cahaba Tinsel Trail and Merry Market 

and Next Week

myOn Challenge ends Friday - Complete Math AIMSWeb -Spirit Night at Rodney Scott - Friday Freeze -School Spelling B (5th) - SHINE Christmas Concert - GaTE Field Trip - 

Star Students

Mon: Patterson

Tues: McDonald

Wed: Harrison

Thurs: Latham

Fri: Bridges

Pennington will have next Monday

All Sorts of Reminders!

- Send Nancy the date and time of your 

Christmas Parties

- Make sure your students are responding to 

Rhithm a minimum of 3 days a week

- Attendance calls are going out through PS at 

8:45 each day! Make sure your 

attendance is marked!

- Behavior issues demand conversations!  

Please call and/or set up a conference. 

Emailing is not enough!

Intervention Changes

Beginning this Monday our Interventionist will extend their daily hours on Mon, Tues, Wed, and Friday.  They will NOT be here on Thursdays so don't send students to Interventions on Thursdays.

Please nominate a 3rd, 4th or 5th grade teacher for Team Member of the Month!  Last year we honored Vincent, Windham and Collins from this group!

The GUEST FORM has been updated. You can find the revised copy in the Teacher Resources Drive in a folder named, FORMS.

Best wishes to Monica Bramlett on her new job as a Regional Math Coordinator with the State Department and Welcome to Donna Franklin who will be substituting in Fifth grade for the next three weeks.

A few more things...............

AEA will be in our back workroom all day Wednesday, 11/16.  They are also providing lunch! 

 

Christmas Parties will be December 14 and December 15

*Parties should only last 60-70 minutes

*Your room mom and 2 additional helpers may be invited (total 3 parents)  Party helpers should be parents or legal guardians. No pre-school children/siblings may attend.

*Parties may start as early as 8:45. They must end no later than 2:30 on Wednesday and 1:30 on Thursday

*You cannot replace lunch!

*Please send your times to Nancy.  She'll communicate w/Tony

*Room Moms may collect up to $8 from students who choose to contribute. 

I think that's it!

The December Calendar is almost full! 

 

 It's "A" Week

Star Students 

Mon: Johnson

Tues: Odom

Wed: Lipford

Thurs: Marshall

Fri: Dickerson

Patterson Monday after Thanksgiving

Walker Pass Colors

Mon: Pink

Tues: Yellow

Wed: Green

Thurs: White

Fri: Blue

Duty this Week

AM

Kindergarten: Shorter

First Grade: McDonald

Cafeteria: Harrington

Car Line: Garrett and Fortenberry

Zone 1: Odom

Zone 2: Collins

Zone 3: Moore

PM

Radio: Jackson

End of Car Line: Ellis

Monitor Car line students: Pennington and Mills

Intersection of Front Hall: Searcy

Front Lawn (buses): Osburn

On the Calendar this Week

Food Drive For Team - Count your items!

Mon: World Diabetes Day - Wear Blue - Fire Drill

Tue: Collaboration during Specials w/ Dr. Berry

Wed: Trimester Celebration (ALL STAFF)

Thurs: Staff Meeting

Friday: Nov PaceSetters Announced - Friday Freeze - Prize Patrol- Spirit Day at 3 Eared Rabbit

Next Week.....

Two Virtual Days w/ Office Hours, Thanksgiving Holidays!, 

The Teacher of the Year Selection Committee will meet Tuesday afternoon.  Please send me nominations or put them in my box anonymously.  I only have 4 nominations right now!

I'll be reading directly from the Google Doc during the Trimester Celebration!  Please make sure you've filled in the parts assigned to you!   First Trimester Celebration

MUSH Grants!

You are among the most creative teachers I have ever worked with!  Don't miss out on this year's MUSH grants. If you have an idea and need a little extra time to work on the application, PLEASE let me know.  The DEADLINE is NOVEMBER 30.

 

Trussville City Schools Foundation is excited to announce this year’s MUSH grant application is open. For the 2nd year, Grants will be awarded to up to $1500 per classroom, because of community support through our fundraising campaign, Join the Pack as well as successful fundraising events in 2022 and registration donations. 

 

The MUSH Grant program was developed to jump start INNOVATIVE teaching ideas throughout Trussville City School System.

 

As mentioned, Grants may be awarded up to $1,500 each. Submission is open to any teacher throughout the Trussville City School System. Grants will not be awarded to athletic programs. Physical Education and Health requests will be accepted.

 

Application Deadline: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 by midnight

 

Selection Criterion

Each application will be judged based on the following criteria:

• Project directly supports student learning.
• Project needs to be INNOVATIVE, thinking “outside the box”.
• Application clearly describes specific student outcomes and how success of the project will be measured.
• Can be project support, equipment or software.
• Everyday teaching materials such as copy paper, pencils, etc. will not be funded.
• If you received a grant last year, you must wait until next year to apply again.
• Estimated budget completed.
• Continuous funding for a previously-funded project can only occur if the proposal requesting additional funding contains a clear, innovative educationally-sound extension of the work that was previously funded.
• A final project report is required by the project leader if a project is funded.
• One site visit may occur for funded projects by members of the Foundation.

 

All applications must be unique.

 

The application will be sent to your Principal, Superintendent, Technology Coordinator, and Curriculum and Instruction for approval which will be obtain by the Trussville City Schools Foundation.

 

Grants will be awarded in December.

 

To apply, visit tcsf.org and click APPLY NOW. 

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