October 30

Discussions from Principal's Advisory.............

Any updates on building construction?  They took soil samples late last week.  The last information I heard predicted a start date of late January.

Who will be in the new classrooms?  It's really early for me to make any concrete decisions about those rooms, but I suspect it'll be second grade.  I would like to have the option to move Pennington to the back hall as well as get Philpot out of the multipurpose room.  We'll see!

Why are their bathrooms in the new rooms?  are they designed for kindergarten or pre-school? Alabama code requires that any new additions onto a school be accompanied with an addition or a new safe space.  It was more cost effective to just make sure the entire 4 classroom addition also met all the criteria for a safe space, including bathrooms.  Once again, it was more cost effective to put the bathrooms in the classroom instead of building an additional gang bathroom.

How will secret pals be revealed?  We'll reveal at our Christmas party Dec. 11, scheduled for 2:30.

Any thoughts on how we'll do Christmas parties this year?  We're going to try scheduling them by grade level December 12, 13 and 14.  If you have any thoughts about when your grade level would like to have your parties, you can go ahead and email me (Tyner).

Will all the parents be invited?  yes

Have you given any thought to rotating the specials schedule? Monday's have taken a hit with all the holidays.  I have! We'll rotate those each trimester.

Are we having an assembly at the end of the trimester to recognize students.  Yes!  Trimester Celebration is scheduled for November 14.  The theme is : Get In The Game

Our Third grade classes are loaded.  Could we request a co-teacher like fifth grade had last year? Advanced Ed standards allow us to have up to 25 in each classroom and we are within those expectations.  However,We do have a student teacher coming the 3rd grade after Christmas!  I know she will be an asset.

Could we put a microwave in the cafeteria for the teachers?  Yes!  great idea - Ellison has one she'll donate and I'll get a table.

I also shared with the PAT team, my PLP targets for this school year.  1) Google proficiency 2) Communication with staff  3) Increasing Rigor in Relevance in our instruction

Announcement Helpers this week:  Fifth Grade!

Duty~

AM

Front Porch: Windham

Car Line: Pennington

Breakfast: Young

Kindergarten: Shorter

First: Bonovitch

Back Hall: Wilson, Dickerson, Marshall

PM

Car Riders: Gudgen, Pennington, Osburn

Bus: Segers

At the top of the ramp: Shannon

Intersection Front Hall: Shorter

Monday PD -  District Wide Ed Camp at Cahaba

Collaboration Tuesday:  Look over Report Card Format - Update your teacher website

Make sure you are checking the Cahaba Calendar!

Red Ribbon Week was a big success -  

Thank you Rachel for all the great planning!

Cahaba will dress in Orange and Black on the 31st.  

November 1 we'll kick off our Food Drive for Team.  Rachel sent everyone a tabulation sheet so you can keep up with the number of items your students bring in.  We'll take this up November 22.  The winning class will take a field trip to TEAM.

Don't forget to register for the DreamBox Challenge.  We expect all our classrooms to compete.

Kindergarten will be giving the Early Literacy Test to ALL students between Nov. 1 - 9.

We welcome Jana Feild back, Wednesday, November 1.  A HUGE thank you to Christi Williamson!  We appreciate all your contributions to our students while Jana was out.

Wednesday, Posting for report cards will be turned on.

Friday, Nov. 3, marks the cut off for first semester AR

We are still missing a couple of schedules from the team drive.  Please make sure your has been uploaded.

The Rock-a-thon was just wonderful!  The weather was a mess, but our PTO had a Plan B and it worked beautifully.  We all appreciate all of you who stayed for hours or just came by.  The PTO ladies and I noticed everyone. THANK YOU!

DreamBox Fall Math Challenge

DreamBox is offering a Fall Math Challenge!  We would like for all of Cahaba Elementary to participate.  Please go ahead and register your class(es).  The instructions are listed below.  

The registration deadline is November 6th, but the challenge begins October 30th (so please go ahead and register so they start counting our lessons).

The DreamBox 2017 Fall Math Challenge Kicks off October 30th!

by Jennifer Lee

Mark your calendar. Registration opens this Friday!

Before you get all wrapped up in your Halloween plans, be sure to mark your calendar for the Fall Math Challenge. This year, we kick things off the day before Halloween, so that means many of your students (and you) may actually be competing in costume. The thought of 5,000+ kids diligently logging DreamBox time dressed as their favorite heroes, villains, monsters, and more brings serious joy to our hearts. When the time comes, we encourage you to make everybody’s day and share your pictures on social media with #DBLChallenge. In the meantime, let’s get you registered!

This fall, registration is easier than ever

Starting Friday October 13th, you can register your classroom(s) to participate in the Challenge right from your Insight Dashboard. Simply log in, click on the classroom you want to register, click on the Math Challenge tab, and click register. You can sign up multiple classrooms this way, just repeat the steps for each. Here’s what it looks like:

The deadline for registration is November 6th, so you’ve got plenty of time to sign up. But, you’ll want to register before then so your classroom can start playing on day one of the competition—October 30th.

New to the Math Challenge?

For those of you who are new to the DreamBox Math Challenge, it’s a biannual competition held every spring and fall that attracts thousands of classrooms from all 50 states and across Canada.

Students from everywhere eagerly compete to complete the most DreamBox lessons over the course of several weeks—starting this year on October 30th and ending at 11:59 pm (PT) on November 17th. As usual, there are some fun prizes up for grabs—including DreamBox backpacks, Chromebooks, and more—plus it’s also a great way to get your students excited about math. For complete details on prizes and who’s eligible to compete, read the terms and conditions here.

Be sure to check this blog and your inbox in the coming weeks for more details as we get closer to the kick-off date. We’ll be featuring tips for how to get the most out of your Math Challenge experience, and hosting a live webinar on the first day to set the ground rules and walk you through the basics.

Last spring, the Spartanburg County School District pulled off a hat trick. For the first time in Math Challenge history, teams from one district took three titles—including the Grand Prize in the Small Class Category. Altogether, Spartanburg classrooms completed 6,570 DreamBox lessons. Will they be back to defend their title? And, will your district give them a run for their money? Time will tell. Get registered, and get ready!

District EdCamp Hosted by CES

Cahaba Elementary will be hosting our District EdCamp on Monday, October 30th.

Session offerings include Conferring in Reading Workshop (for reading teachers) and Number Talks (for math teachers). Dr. Faust will be facilitating sessions on STEMscopes (for science teachers). Various sessions on integrating technology will be offered. GATE teachers will be facilitating sessions on enrichment. April will be leading sessions on printing reports in Performance Series.  Two sessions on Data Notebooks will be offered. Also, there will be a session for specialists on integrating literacy into specials. Dr. Kemp will be facilitating a session with inclusion teachers in the collaboration room. Counselors will meet in the conference room to collaborate.

Thank you to our facilitators and to CES teachers who are allowing us to use their classrooms.
We are looking forward to a great afternoon of learning with our colleagues!

Session 1 2:30 - 2:55	Session 2 3:05 - 3:30
Twitter Facilitator: J. Cardwell Room 1092 (Wright)	Twitter Facilitator: J. Cardwell Room 1092 (Wright)
Conferring in Reading Workshop (3-5) Facilitators: A. Aldrich & J. Moore Room: 1099 (Aldrich)	Number Talks (3-5) Facilitators: S. Wilkerson, N. Camara, L. Horn Room: 1095 (Wilkerson)
Number Talks (K-2) Facilitators: S. Johnson, C. Weyerman, C. Enoch Room 1080 (Johnson)	Conferring in Reading Workshop (K-2) Facilitators: C. Mauldin, S. Swann, T. Reed Room 1079 (Odom)
Enrichment Facilitators: S. Koch and L. Morrison GATE Room	Enrichment Facilitators: S. Koch and L. Morrison GATE Room
Printing Performance Series Reports Facilitator: A. Smith Room 1040 (Computer Lab)	Printing Performance Series Reports Facilitator: A. Smith Room 1040 (Computer Lab)
Counselor Collaboration Facilitators: All Counselors Conference Room (Front Office)
How can we integrate literacy in the specialist classes? Art Teachers, Music Teachers, Librarians, and PE. Room 1031 (Art Room)
Go Guardian - Chromebook Management Facilitator: S. Rosetta Library	Differentiation with Google Classroom Facilitator: A. Chamberlain Library
Data Notebooks (K-2) Facilitators: D. Childs, K. Latham, A. Pennington, J. Bamberg Room 1085 (Bamberg)	Data Notebooks (3-5) Facilitators: M. Bramlett & M. Wright Room 1091 (Bramlett)
Google Classroom Facilitators: L. Long, J. Benson Room 1096 (Wilson)	Dreambox Facilitators: S. Brandon Room 1083 (Rish)
Inclusion/Co-Teaching Session *Only Co-Teaching Cohort Participants Facilitator: Dr. Kemp Room 1028 (Collaboration Room)
STEMscopes Facilitator: P. Faust Room 1101 (Philpot)	STEMscopes Facilitator: P. Faust Room 1101 (Philpot)
Open Facilitator: Room 1086 (Smith)	Open Facilitator: Room 1086 (Smith)

PST Schedule

PST will meet Thursday, October 26th in the Collaboration Room.  Due to the modified schedule for the day, your time may be slightly different than last time.  Please come at the assigned time below. If there are any issues with your time, please email Lisa.  Please come on time (with your purple folders) because we will be on a tight schedule.

October 23

Veteran's Day Essay Contest
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Please give your students the following writing prompt ......  
I appreciate our Veterans because.....
All students in grades 2-5 should participate.  Participation in grades K-1 is voluntary. Teachers should turn in no more than 3 essays per class by November 1 to Mrs. Tyner.  A winner from k/1, 2/3 and 4/5 will be chosen to read their essay during the program on Nov. 9.  

Announcement Helpers for this week:  Kindergarten

Don't forget to pay your Grace Group Dues - $30 to Stephanie Young

PST will meet Thursday..  Please make sure you enter STAR data that is current into Camp Fire.  (No older than 10 days)  Everyone in Tier 2 or 3 Reading, students currently being monitored by the PST or new referrals will all need to be retested!



A BIG Thank you to the Trussville Rotary Club for the benches around the track!

Please upload you schedule to the "Team Drive" at
 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4kvLohBpf2gVEdBeFZ4S1FBUkk 
AND make certain your schedule is posted outside your door.

Teachers in grades 3-5, please send the questions your students constructed for the assembly Thursday to me before you leave Tuesday.

Don't forget the alternate schedule Thursday

Our professional development tomorrow will be facilitated by Jill Lay and Kelleigh McLeod. Jill is a Reading Coach and Kelleigh, a Kindergarten teacher in Madison, MS.  We'll be focusing on differentiation and creating rigor. They will also be available during collaboration time Tuesday.  Please plan on bringing your computers. We'll be using myOn and Study Island.

Don't miss our dress up days this week!



Duty
AM
Front Porch: Higg
Car Line: Prickett
Breakfast: A Smith
Kindergarten: Segers
First Grade: Ellison
Back Hall: Almon, F Smith, Rish
PM
Bus: Wilson
At the Top of the Ramp: Wright
Intersection Front Hall: Jones

Coming Soon - District Ed Camp at Cahaba - October 30

Thursday - October 26, we will run a slightly different schedule to accommodate our Red Ribbon Week programs.

Kindergarten, First and Second grade will all attend a Bubba Bear presentation that will count as your Special for the day. The programs will be held in the Amphitheater and you do not have to stay with your class.

8:15- 8:50 - Second Grade

9:00 - 9:35 - Kindergarten

10:15 - 10:50 - First Grade

YOUR PE SCHEDULE WILL STAY THE SAME

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Third, Fourth and Fifth Grade will attend an assembly to encourage living a healthy life style, saying no to peer pressure, and anti-bullying.  Our guest for this Q and A led in a "talk show" format will be Oakland A's pitcher and my nephew, Andrew Triggs,  and Former Alabama Gatorade Player of the year, University of Alabama softball player, Kendall Sides.

The assembly will be at 1:40 in the gym.

YOUR PE SCHEDULE WILL STAY THE SAME

But your specials schedule will follow the times below.  Your students will go to the same class they would typically go to on a Thursday.

11:10 - 11:40 - Fourth Grade

12:25 - 12:55 - Third Grade

1:00 - 1:30 - Fifth Grade (come directly to the gym asap)  

PST meetings are also scheduled this day.  Lisa will send out a schedule that will coincide with your Specials Time.