It's  "B" Week!

Duty this Week

AM

Kindergarten: Pennington

First Grade: Harrison

Cafeteria: Garrett

Carline: Faucher and Searcy

Zone 1: Dickerson

Zone 2: Rish

Zone 3: Windham

PM

Radio: Prickett

End of Carline: Ellis

Monitor Carline Students: Summers and Wilkerson

Intersection on the back hall: P Franklin

Hallway around Kiefer/Searcy: Fortenberry

Intersection on the front hall: Young

Walker Pass Colors

Mon: Blue

Tues: Pink

Wed: Green

Thurs: White

Fri: Yellow

Star Students

Mon: Vincent

Tues: Kibbey

Wed: Johnson

Thurs: Lipford

Fri: Dickerson

next Tuesday Marshall

On the Calendar

Tuesday: PST for 2nd and 3rd grades - Announce Pacesetters for August

Bendy's Back To School Spirit Night

Thursday: Announce Team Member of the Month - Staff Meeting

Friday: Chickfila Biscuit Breakfast in the back workroom - College Colors Day-EI Forms completed -Pacesetter Breakfast @7:20

Next Week, Rachel Brockman will meet with us during Collaboration Tuesday (9/5) to train or update our SMORE skills.  Please make sure you have WORF'd access to SMORE.  After this opportunity all Newsletters will be SMOREs

Morning Announcements and Pledges

Announcements start every morning at 8:00. PLEASE have your class seated and ready to listen and participate in the pledges. This is a Cahaba Non-Negotiable!  Students caught in the hall because they are late should stop where they are for the pledge and the Star Spangled Banner. Please model this behavior!  If this is new for your students, please make this the topic of a Morning Meeting this week.

Guest Form

Beginning Tuesday, September 5 we will allow guests in the building. You will find the Guest Approval Form in the Drive in the FORMS folder. Please make sure it is filled out completely and get it to me no later than a week before the visit.

Husky Paws and the Prize Patrol

Husky Paws are in your boxes!

Husky Paws will be used to reinforce positive behavior. This year, we will have a specific emphasis for each week or maybe two weeks.  I would prefer to get those from you.  You can use this link Ideas for earning Husky Paws to record your ideas.   This week I'd like for you to reward students who are using their time wisely.  That can be before school or in the classroom.  Let's also reward cafeteria behavior.  Please share your ideas!  Students should write their name on the back of the Husky Paw and put it in a container in your room. Friday you will draw out one winner and turn that name in the Cissie.  The Husky Prize Patrol will come around to all classrooms Friday afternoon between 2:15 - 2:45.

Team Member of the Month

Monday is the last day to nominate a Kindergarten, First or Second Grade Teacher for Team Member of the Month!  Email me your nominations!

Family News

Please keep Lindsey Faucher in your prayers.  Her grandmother passed away last week.

Educational Information - Contacts

Your email distribution list is for custodial parents only. Please don't add grandparents and step parents!  Your closed FB pages are for parents too!  You may add other people at the written/emailed request of the parent.  We need to be really careful.  People aren't always on the "up and up". Please finish your Educational Information Form by Friday!  

Prayer Group

Our Cahaba Prayer Group will start back this week.  We meet on Wednesday mornings in the conference room by the historical entrance. We try to start around 7:20, but people frequently jump in later. You can come every week or every once in a while. 

Handbook Review 

Clocking In - Collaboration- Data Notebooks

 It's "A" Week!

AIMSWEB Reading  Assessments

Monday: ACOE Rep in back workroom today

Tuesday: Grade Level Collaboration - Goal Setting

Thursday: Fire Drill- Short Staff Meeting

Duty this Week

AM

Kindergarten: Jones

First Grade: Latham

Cafeteria: Faucher

Carline: Garrett and P. Franklin

Zone 1: Marshall

Zone 2: Vincent

Zone 3: Moore

PM

Radio: Jackson

End of Car Line: McIntosh

Monitor Carline: Shorter and D. Franklin

Intersection of the back hall: Searcy

Hallway around Searcy/Kiefer:  Kiefer

Intersection of the Front Hall: Fulmer

Walker Pass Colors

Mon: Green

Tues: White

Wed: Yellow

Thurs: Pink

Fri: Blue

Star Students

Mon: Windham

Tues: Wessel

Wed: Mann

Thurs: Rish

Fri: Mosley

Next Monday will be Vincent

Educational Information for Students - Here is the link for the form you'll need:   EI - Students   Once you've completed this form, you will need to upload in the designated folder, by grade level, in the Drive.  Remember:  Make a copy of the form before you start making it your own!  This is due no later than September 1.

Classroom Contracts  Every Homeroom should some sort of classroom contract hanging in your room. There are many variations for this concept and we're pretty flexible on what you decide to use.  Key Components: 1. Student and Teacher Created, 2. Student and Teacher signed, 3, Displayed in your room. 4. Re-visited often. 5 Shared in your Newsletter    We'll come around and see these beginning September 5

Red Sub Folder - You don't have to start all over! Sometime Monday, Barbara will put your old sub folder in your box.  Please have yours updated and back in the office by September 8.

Before you can release ANY information to anyone other than the child's parent, we must have a signed TCS Bilateral FERRPA-HIPPA Release Form (old 3rd party form).  You'll find this new form in the drive. Once these are signed, please give me a copy.  We can also use this form to request information from people providing outside services to our students.

You need these phone numbers programed in your phone!

Joy Tyner - 601-573-1211

Nurse Amy - 205-283-2838

Officer Antonio - 205-305-8717

Handbook Review

It's time to nominate for Team Member of the Month!  This month I'm asking that you nominate a Kindergarten, First or Second Grade Teacher. Don't forget, in your email you should tell me why you think they deserve Team Member of the Month! 

Code Word:  CAHABASTAFF

Your WINGS already exist. All you have to do is FLY!

#givethemwings  #readytosoar

 It's "B" Week!

Star Students

Monday: Wilkerson

Tuesday: Moore

Wednesday: Franklin

Thursday: Mills

Friday: Collins

next Monday will be Windham

CES Dogs start their work this week!

Tuesday: Data Meetings during Specials

Thursday: Short Staff Meeting - Early Dismissal Starts

Friday: Husky Pride Day! Football Team helping with arrival.

next Monday the ACOE Rep will be in the back workroom

Duty this Week

AM

Kindergarten: Bamberg

First Grade: Bridges

Cafeteria: Garrett

Carline: Faucher and Searcy

Zone 1: Lipford

Zone 2: Kibbey

Zone 3: Wilkerson

PM

Radio: Smith

End of Carline: Wessel

Monitor Carline students: Pennington and Mills

Intersection of the back Hall: P. Franklin

Back Hall around Kiefer/Searcy: Fortenberry

Intersection of the front Hall: Young

Walker Pass Colors

Mon: Blue

Tues: Yellow

Wed: White

Thurs: Pink

Fri: Green

Everyone in the building should be on our REMIND.  This will be our primary way of communicating during or after a crisis situation.  We will use this app during our drills.

Please make sure the window on your classroom door is uncovered.

Post Fire and Tornado Evacuation Routes in your classroom

Please talk to your students this week about hiding in your classroom.  Make sure they know where to go and what to do.

Make sure you are parking in a designated parking place. We shouldn't be creating our own!

Currently enrolled - 536 

Largest Class - Tied - First and Fourth Grade both have 97 students

Smallest Class - Kindergarten with 79

If you have a student, particularly a 3-5 student, who is not following our dress code, please send Mrs. McIntosh an email and she'll follow up.  You should do this no later than 8:15. That will give us time to address the infraction before her classes start. You are not responsible for addressing dress-code violations yourself. Let us do this in a private setting.

Meetings with parents are held in the conference room in the office.  You may "book" the room by writing your name and time in the calendar in the office.  If there's a conflict with that room, you may book the conference room beside the historic entrance.  There's a calendar for that too!  Our Collaboration room is reserved for meetings with each other. We will have student data displayed in this room.  Please do not invite parents to your classroom during the school day.

Handbook Review

Thank you for all your preparation and planning.  Last week we enjoyed one of our best starts to a school year. This week will be tougher and more exhausting for you.  Take care of yourself! 

We are all packing parachutes...............

 

It's "A" Week!

Duty this Week - 

AM (7::20)

Out on the front lawn: Prickett, Rosetta and Officer Antonio

Watching the halls - especially the entrances: Fortenberry, Ellis and Jackson

Photos - Smith

Kindergarten/front of library: Summers and Shorter

First Grade/back of library: Patterson and McDonald

Cafeteria: Faucher, Searcy and P. Franklin

Car Line: Kiefer, Garrett and McIntosh

Zone 1: Johnson

Zone 2: Mann

Zone 3: D. Franklin

PM

Radio: Prickett

End of Carline: McIntosh and Tyner

Monitoring Carline students: Kibbey, Lipford, Johnson, Dickerson and Young

Intersection on the back hall: Searcy

Hallway around Searcy/Kiefer: Kiefer

Intersection of the Front Hall: Fulmer

Buses: Antonio, Rosetta, Fortenberry, Smith, 

Star Students will start Monday - August 14 - First up Fifth Grade

Monday - Wilkerson and Tuesday - Moore

On the Calendar

Sunday: Fourth Grade Meet the Teacher

Monday: Staff Meeting and Breakfast (library 8:15) - First and Second Grade Meet the Teacher

Tuesday: 8:30- Gen Ed Teachers at HTHS - Staff Picture -9:45 (wear your shirt) - Staff Meeting - Snacks in the Workroom -Parent Led Prayer Walk 

Wednesday: Students last name A-J -BooHoo Yahoo -

Thursday: Students last name K-Z - BooHoo Yahoo -NO EARLY Dismissal

Friday: 5th Grade Last First Day Breakfast - Biscuits in the workroom from Faith Church

Specials and PE this week

All Schedules are loaded in the DRIVE - 

Regular PE Schedule beginning Wednesday

For SPECIALS - we will run Wednesday's schedule on both Wednesday and Thursday. By doing this gen. ed teachers will have Specials both staggered start days.

NO EARLY DISMISSAL -THURSDAY - AUGUST 10

Information for the PTO

LINK TO FAVORITE THINGS

Room Parent Selection Form

PLEASE do not communicate with anyone your selection.  It may be that your 2nd choice is chosen.  It makes things easier if you don't have to go back and retract!

 

Staggered Start Schedule

Aug. 9 - Last Name starts with A-J

Aug. 10 - Last Name starts with K-Z

Your personal children may come to school both days!

Registration update

Students who were at Cahaba last year that haven't registered - I feel certain that most of these will be added to our class rolls.

First Grade: 6

Second Grade: 7

Third Grade: 3

Fourth Grade: 6

Fifth Grade: 5

This Week......

Wednesday: New Teacher Orientation - Staff Shirts delivered  (WEAR to INSTITUTE)

Thursday: Institute -staff lunch in the gym - Some have SM training - 

-Fifth grade Meet the Teacher-

Books in Hallway will be donated TODAY

Friday: SM training continues - Kindergarten and Third Grade Meet the Teacher 

Next Week......

Sunday: Fourth Grade Meet the Teacher

Monday: Staff Meeting and Breakfast - First and Second Grade Meet the Teacher

Tuesday: Gen Ed Teachers at HTMS - Staff Picture - Staff Meeting - Snacks in the Workroom -Parent Led Prayer Walk 

Wednesday: Students last name A-J -BooHoo Yahoo -

Thursday: Students last name K-Z - BooHoo Yahoo -NO EARLY Dismissal

Friday: 5th Grade Last First Day Breakfast - Biscuits in the workroom from Faith Church

CHECK THE CALENDAR FOR DETAILS

Don't forget to pick up your t-shirt today (Wednesday) or come by Cahaba on your way to Institute Thursday morning. They will be in your box.  If you don't think this will work for you, contact Barbara.  The shirts are blue!

All ID badges are being updated this year. Your yearbook photo will be used. If you'd like to have a different picture on your ID, be on the look out for possible appointment time from Tomeka.

We are counting down the days to school starts on our website, FB and IG.  If you have a way to share, please do! Each day comes with a challenge.  There will be some follow up during the first days of school.

We are in need of a Science Olympiad Coach for Cahaba. It does include a small stipend.  If you are interested, please let me know!