Weekly Update

I'll close nominations for our December Team Member of the Month on January 1.  It's not too late to nominate a 3-5 teacher!

Please make sure all of your Christmas decorations are down before the students come back!



Tuesday, January 2 is a teacher work day.  We have various meetings (Fine Arts, Sped, EnRiCH, Primary Math)  going on throughout the day.  Some are at Cahaba, while others are off campus.  We will start the day with a breakfast in the cafeteria provided by Faith Church. It will start at 8:00 am.  

Please remember Dawn Kemp and Christy Ellison.  They both had deaths in their families over the holiday. Dawn's mother in law and Christy's grandmother.

January 3rd  will mark the opening of the testing window for STAR (1-5), EL (K) and Reading Performance Testing (2-5).  PLEASE make sure students are tested before January 12!

Duty

AM

Front Porch: Johnson

Car Line: Scott

Breakfast: Fortenberry

Kindergarten: Jones

First Grade: Harrison

Back Hall: Bramlett, Dickerson, Odom

PM

Carline: Gudgen, Young, Pennington

Buses: Ford

Top of the Ramp: Feild

Intersection on the front hall: Higg

Enjoy your last few days of 2017, but especially enjoy your families and your time off.

This Week!

We'll have a couple of parents roaming the halls taking pictures next week 

between 7:20 and 8:00.

We've had a recent rash of people showing up and their name not being on your guest form.....  We aren't going to allow anyone to go to your room unless they are listed and approved!  This includes, "my sister, her grandmother etc......"

Perception is so important and somewhat easy for you to control.... ..     

a few reminders.

-  Your Class FB page or Class communication should focus on news that directly effects your students.

-  Look at your news from the eyes of a parent.  Does you page reflect the priorities of your classroom? 

What they see is what they perceive that goes on all day.

- Be Intentional. Post the positive. Post about reaching goals. 

 Post students learning. 

- Your post should be student centered!

Our halls will be filled with guest this week.  Make sure the displays outside your door are timely and reflective of rigorous expectations.

DUTY
AM 
Front Porch - Odom
Car Line - Pennington
Breakfast - Young
Kindergarten - Fortenberry
First Grade Latham
Back Hall - Willson, Windham, Bamberg
PM
Car Line - Gudgen, Meredith, Giangrosso
Buses - Windham
Top of Ramp - Wessel
Intersection on the front Hall - Williams

Fifth Graders are Pledge Helpers this week!





Don't forget our Dress Up Days this week!

We have an alternate schedule (posted and emailed) for Wednesday, December 13.  Friday, December 15, we will not have specials or PE.  Assembly at 9:00 and dismissal at 12:00.

Our Staff Party is going to be so much fun!  We are continuing with our Movie Theme - The PTO ladies have planned marvelous food and fun.  We will have a game to swap ornaments ( please wrap them) and reveal our Secret Pals.  The fun will start at 2:30 in the library.

PLEASE make sure all of your students have taken the Math Performance Assessment by the end of the day Tuesday. 

A couple a days ago I forwarded an email from Mrs. Fortenberry about 

your participating in our Sing-a-long Friday.  Please use your Collaboration Time 

Tuesday to get your grade level plan up and going! You may meet in your rooms or the Collaboration Room.  

Please let me or Tina know if you have any questions.

Thank you Mrs. Harrison for the wonderful mailbox outside the library door.  If any of you have Santa letters, you are welcome to use it. 

 

Schedules

We will run a slightly different schedule on 

Wednesday, December 13.

PE CHANGES ----

Second Grade PE @ 12:10

Third Grade PE @ 1:30

ALL Specials will stay at the SAME TIME --

Instead of going to Music, Rish will go to Counseling with Odom's class.

Instead of going to Music, Aldrich and Wessel will go to Library.

Friday, December 15 - 

There will be no PE or Specials - 

We will have a general assembly at 9:00AM

Students will dismiss at 12:00PM -  

All Staff will be dismissed as soon as the campus is cleared of students. 

December 4

Are you using Study Island (2-5), myOn and your Think Tank boxes?  We expect that our students are using all of these wonderful resources.  Please let us know if you need additional support

TECHNOLOGY from home should not be brought to school unless it is being used to directly impact our instructional program.  

Our Cahaba Christmas Party will start at 2:30 Monday, December 11 with a staff picture.  We plan to gather on the porch if the weather is nice.  Immediately following the picture, we'll be in the library for our party sponsored by our PTO. If you would like to participate in an ornament swap, please bring a wrapped ornament. ALSO -  We will reveal our Secret Pals -  Make sure to bring that special FINAL gift! 

Duty

AM

Front Porch - Young

Car Line - Prickett

Breakfast - A Smith

Kindergarten - Shorter

First - Bonovitch

Back Hall - Almon, Higg, Marshall

PM

Car Line - Gudgen, Pennington, Osburn

Buses Aldrich

Top of the Ramp - Dickerson

Intersection on the front Hall - F. Smith

Please use this Monday afternoon to meet with your team and finalize your plans for the next two weeks.  Tuesday, Collaboration Day, we'll only meet during your specials time in the collaboration room to look over LC and upcoming Math units. Please bring any questions you may have, the coaches will be available.

It's time to give the Math Performance Assessments!   Please do your best to get this done this week and use next Monday and Tuesday for make-up days.

Upcoming Events
12/5 - First Grade Field Trip All Day ~  Kindergarten Field Trip AM only
12/5 - SHINE -  Winter Wonderland - Show and Dinner - 6 PM
12/8 - Third Grade Field Trip AM only ~ Friday Freeze
12/13 - First Grade Performance -8:30AM - Alternate Schedule this day TBA
12/13 - SHINE - Caroling ~ 1:00
12/15 - School-wide Assembly - Christmas Sing-a-long 9:00AM - Alternate Schedule this day TBA