It's "A" Week

You have duty this week..........
AM
Car Line: Johnson/Bridges
Ceteteria: Ford
Sidewalk between the gym/first grade: Scott
Back Hall: F Smith, Wilkerson, Wilson
Library: Shannon
Amphitheater: Latham
PM
Car Line: F Smith, Gudgen, Latham
Front of school near gym: Rish
Front hall/intersection: Williams
Top of the ramp/teacher workroom: Mills





Pledge Helpers
Mon: Patterson
Tues: Rish
Wed: Windham
Thur: Marshall
Fri: Dickerson






During Collaboration this week we'll prepare for our student led conferences.  Please bring:  4-5 examples of your student data binders.  You are also encouraged to bring any ideas that you've found that may be helpful for your grade level in facilitating a student led conference.  There are literally hundred of ideas on the web.  Plan to collaborate across PE and Specials.   We also have performance data to give you!











If you have not paid your Grace Group fees, please do as soon as you can.  This leadership team does a fantastic job taking care of our staff.

Tuesday we'll invite our students who had perfect attendance during the month of September to a porch party. Due to the large number of students, it will be very short.   Certificate, gummy bears and picture...   Be on look out for an email with exact times. 






Take time this week to review your Social Contract with your students.  Everyone needs a refresher sometimes.  Also, don't forget the importance of greeting your students every morning.

Book It!

Teachers, Book It materials were placed in your boxes for those of you who signed up to participate.  There is a letter with the packet with helpful links and information.  Here are some key notes:

1.       -Book It will start in October.  (Do not give out pizza certificates for September.)  It will run through March. 

2.       -There is a coupon booklet, parent letter, and poster in the packet for you to use this year.

3.       -You must fill out each certificate completely—front and back.  Coupons expire one month from the day you sign it.

4.       -Remember, if students meet your monthly requirement (either by days, books, minutes, points, etc.), they earn the pizza   

            certificate.

5.       -Put the certificate booklet in a safe place!  We can NOT replace lost coupon books.

If you have any questions, ask Beth Anne Marshall!

Family Update

From Karen Gudgen - My Grandma (almost 99 yrs. old) fell & broke her hip last week. She had surgery & is in lots of pain. She’s having some issues (aside from the hip surgery). They ran blood work & further tests. Results today came back that she has leukemia. Please be in prayer for her, the doctors & my family.

From Tony Gagliano  - Dr. Lou came out and said all went well.  Thomas had 2-3 extra electrical pathways that they had to burn.  He said he has probably been living with this for a long time and it has been causing him problems.  He just didn't realize he was having them. God truly had had his hand in this! If he hadn't passed out, this wouldn't have been found. 

Weekly Update!

It's B week!




Duty This Week
AM
Car Line: Ford
Cafeteria: Scott
Sidewalk between buses and building: Bamberg
Back Hall: Marshall, Dickerson, Feild
Library: Shannon
Amphitheater: Bonovitch
PM
Car Line: Gudgen, Crocker, Osburn
Front of school/front of gym: Meredith/Franklin
Front Hall intersection beside the library: Windham
Top of the slope/beside teacher workroom: Rish





Pledge Helpers
Mon: Higg
Tues: Mince
Wed: Feild
Thur: Mansfield
Fri: Smith


Please check your Dreambox settings and turn the Arcade OFF!  Students are logging in minutes on DreamBox and some are doing most of it on the game.  Arcade can be used at your discretion as an incentive.




Please remember!  Students should NEVER sit out of recess to complete work. If completion of work is a problem you are having, please let me know and we'll work on another option.

You have voted!  Our student led conferences will be held October 9,  10:30 am to 6:00 pm.  The PTO will provide lunch that you can "grab and go" 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm.


You can google and find study after study about the power of being grateful.  For me, our Team Member of the Month recognition is a window into the level of expressed gratitude of our staff.  When we started TOM, I would receive 6-7 nominations.  And, that was after asking several times over a week.  Friday, you precious people sent in 20 nominations in just 3 hours. What a great thing to be able to say about our staff!  We love each other, we want to recognize each other and we are grateful for each other. #goals #growth #blessed   (there's still time to send in more nominations!)



Our first PALS Academy is here!  PLEASE encourage your students to bring their parents and the device they use at home for accessing Clever.  If you can come and help, we'd sure appreciate it.  All workers are wearing a black shirt.  We are using an EdCamp format and the classes start at 5:30, Tuesday evening.  Pizza supper, drinks and desserts for all teachers who stay to help @ 4:45 in the cafeteria. 

Recess Equipment:  Rosetta has been collecting recess equipment from the front lawn for weeks.  If you are missing something, please go by her office.  We are considering using them for door prizes in our next staff meeting! 




Many of you are copying me on your weekly newsletters and I really appreciate that!  If you aren't, PLEASE add me to your Newsletter distribution list. I also need to be a part of of your closed Facebook pages.  If you haven't already invited me, please do so today!




Shout Out to all of you for your wonderful attitude concerning our construction mess, no playground, and second graders scattered all over the building.  Not once have I heard one of you complain.  Barry told me last week that we would be able to move into the new area before Christmas, if not sooner. 




Our Teacher's Advisory Counsel will gather Wednesday afternoon to compile your questions into a document for me.  If you have anything for them, please get it to them asap.    Gudgin, Prickett, Ford, Shannon, Marshall, Mince

TCS Bus Information

 If a student is riding any bus other than their regular home bus OR getting off at a different stop other than their home address a form must be filled out by the office.   If teachers get a note about a bus change send it to Nancy as soon as the student turns it in.

Bus drivers will NOT let a students just ride with a friend or get off at a different stop without approval from an administrator. 

STIPD

If you have submitted PD for Approval in STI and uploaded your certificate to the Cahaba Teacher Dashboard, it has been approved.  You should have received an email confirming your approval.  Several people have PD from before 2017 in the system that was not approved.  Please take a moment to look in STI-PD and make sure you have been approved for all of your PD.  If you see that you are not approved, please upload it to the form on the Cahaba Teacher Dashboard or email April Smith a picture of the certificate.  You will get an email confirming that it was approved.

Weekly Update!

It is "A" Week,

Book Fair Week and

 Grandparents Week!

Duty this week

AM

Car Line: Fortenberry

Cafeteria:Young

Between gym/first grade door: A Smith

Back Hall: Wilson, Mince, Wilkerson

Library: Harrison

Amphitheater: Grogan

PM

Car Line: Gudgin, Grogan, Giangrosso

Front of School/near gym:Shorter

Front Hall Intersection: Mansfield

Top of the ramp/teacher workroom: Jones

Pledge Helpers

Mon.: Wilkerson

Tues: Wilson

Wed: Crocker

Thur: Mills

Fri: Wessel

We will NOT meet as a collective staff tomorrow afternoon.  Please use this time collaborating with your team.  Spend your time with one of the following suggestions: speed teaching this week LC's lessons, working through the math problems that your students will complete, building projects for social studies and science in myOn or creating an EnRICh proposal!  Let us know if you'd like our help or input.

Please make sure your students are headed to your classroom no later than 7:50 every morning. 

Consider contributing to the United Way.  For more information, contact Rachel Osburn.  Deadline: FRIDAY!

A new TTR list was sent out early last week.  If you have any questions about who to send email  Tyner or A Smith.

If you are sending cash to the office, you should bring it up during your planning time or after school.  We've had some $$ disappear form the basket in the hallway!

During collaboration this week we will be working on e-learning and updating campfire (this include kids that are 504, MSl, monitor, T2, T3 and/or being referred for testing)

Reminders about this week.............

Parents may come and shop with their children during their regular library our counseling time ONLY.  We will not call students out of class to meet their parent in the book fair.

Students will be allowed to join their grandparents in the book fair after lunch. They will come back to class asap.  Administrators will be in the hallways as well as PTO volunteers

Our students have rounded up grandparents from across the USA and abroad.  We are expecting record setting numbers ( Tues/156, Wed/162, Thur/151) We will all have to be flexible.

We will have extra personal in the cafeteria and extra seating outside on the front lawn.  

Please avoid the front door and the front lawn between 10:15 - 1:15

Grandparents are not allowed to go back to the classrooms! 

October 9 will be our Student Led Conferences - Please vote for the time frame you would prefer VOTE HERE

Our Five Deep Roster still has empty spots!  Please take another look.

If you have ideas for EnRICh 

please fill out a proposal this is the link:

EnRICh Proposal

Kindergarten Early Interventions are on hold until we re-evaluate

Weekly Update

It's B Week! AND Testing Week! 

Duty this week.............................
AM
Car Line: Prickett
Cafeteria: Pennington
Sidewalk between the gym and the door: Scott
Back Hall: Mill, Williams
Library: A Smith
Amphitheater: Ellison
PM
Car Line: Gudgen, Osburn, Wessel
Front of school/near gym: Meredith/Franklin
Front hall at the intersection: Jones
Top of the ramp/teacher workroom: Feild

Pledge Helpers this week.............
Mon.: Bamberg
Tues: Harrison
Wed: Jones
Thur:Shorter
Fri: Shannon


Don't forget to complete the 5 Deep Roster Activity
                                                             Five Deep Activity

There are two clipboards on the counter in the front workroom with the name of all our CES Dogs.  Please stop and give a check to any CES Dog that you've seen doing an exceptional job.  I use this information to determine the High Fives that are given out each Friday.  Thank you!

If you are a 3-5 teacher, please make sure you've notified your parents that we'll be testing this week.  I posted information on FB, but I didn't send you anything with instructions to distribute.  Thank you!




Teacher Advisory Elections are over!  Your representatives are:

Specialist: Amy Prickitt
K/1:  Audrey Shannon
2/3:  Beth Ann Marshall
4/5;  Sarah Mince
Classified:  Karen Gudgin
Exceptional Ed: Holli Ford

We'll get a red dot on their box, so you'll know where to leave any anonymous questions.  You are also free to email them.



PTO Meeting - Monday Night @ 6:30 in our Cafeteria.  If you'd like to volunteer to be our faculty rep for this meeting, please let me know.  Everyone is always welcome to attend.

100% of you joined the PTO!  




Congratulations to Angela Shorter!  She was selected to present at the 2018 Alabama Science Teacher Association conference!  #CESproud









We have PST Monday!  If your name is on the schedule it's VERY important that you come at the assigned time.  We have a very tight schedule and we'll be moving as quickly as possible.



The Grace Group met last week and developed a tremendous plan to help us support each other.  We are asking that each staff member contribute $30 by Oct. 1st.  A letter that gives all the details will be put in your mailbox this week.  Please don't miss the opportunity to thank these people for the good deeds they do: Ashleigh Bonovitch, Stephanie Young, Julie Grogan, Christy Ellison, Sarah Mince, Linda Odom, Taylor Harrison, Kristy Windham and Felicia Smith

PST Schedule - Sept. 10

8:15	Odom
8:35	Marshall
8:50	Johnson
9:00	Dickerson
9:05	Cates
9:15	Patterson/Smith
9:25	Rish/Windham
9:30	Wessell/Higg
9:40	Ellison
10:05	Grogan
10:15	Latham
10:25	Bonovitch
10:35	Philpot/Mince/Feild
11:35	Wilkerson/Wilson
11:45	Crocker/Mills
12:30	Harrison
12:45	Bamberg
1:00	Jones