It's "A" Week!

On the Calendar

Mock ACAP Grades 2-5 - Alternate PE and Specials Schedule

No EnRICh this week

 

Monday: Announce Pacesetters -Grade Level Data Meetings during Specials - Tornado Drill

Thursday: Early Release: Team and Grade Level Meetings

Friday: Pacesetter Breakfast- Prize Patrol

Coming Soon

Collaboration with Dr. Berry

Lock Down Drill

Duty this Week

AM

Kindergarten: Jones

First Grade: Latham

Cafeteria: Faucher

Carline:: Garrett and Fortenberry

Zone 1: Marshall

Zone 2: Vincent

Zone 3: D. Franklin

PM

Radio: Smith

End of Carline: McIntosh

Monitor Carline Students: Rish and Pennington

Intersection of the back hall: P. Franklin

Hallway around Searcy/Kiefer's room: Kiefer

Intersection of the front hall: Fulmer

Walker Pass Colors

Mon: Green

Tues: Yellow

Wed: Blue

Thurs: Pink

Fri: White

Star Students

Mon: Lipford

Tues: Dickerson

Wed: Marshall

Thurs: Odom

Fri: McDonald

next Monday will be Latham

You still have a few more days to nominate one of our 3rd, 4th or 5th grade teachers for Team Member of the Month!  Mann and Wessel were our most recent honorees from this group!  It's a great feeling to know you were the reason someone special had a Great Day!

Valentine Party Reminders!

Keep you parent helpers to no more than 3 - I need one guest form with all the names listed 

We will begin taking deliveries of supplies for the parties Monday - February 12 

$8 per person or less

Please don't allow students to make personal deliveries to other classrooms during instructional time.  Bring or send those things to the office and we'll get them in boxes.

Kindergarten: 8:45- 9:30

First Grade: 8:30 -9:15

Second Grade: 12:15-1:00

Third Grade: 1:00 -1:45

Fourth Grade: 1:15 - 2:00

Fifth Grade: 11:45-12:30

ACAP Practice Test Week

Grade Level Schedules

Specialist Schedules

If your grade level would like to go to the track on Tuesday or Thursday for recess, please let me know, so I can make sure we don't double up and I can make Officer Antonio aware.  I'm giving permission for Thursday recess this week. I hope the weather cooperates.

Don't Forget your Read Aloud!  Everybody should have a read aloud time.  The book should be one or two grade levels above your grade level. Pre-teaching vocabulary would add such a great punch! If you need help choosing a read aloud for your class, visit with Mrs. Watts or Mrs. Prickett.  They have some great ideas.  It's also fun to listen to books read by actors. 

p. 47

"When you encourage each other, you make one another stronger and you make the team stronger."

"Each individual contributes to the collective optimism, belief, and positivity of a team. The fact is if you don't have it, you can't share it."

P. 49 

"A simple shift of a few words has the power to change the way you and your team approach everything,.  Instead of talking about what you HAVE TO DO, start acknowledging what you, GET TO DO" 

"When you replace HAVE to with GET to, you change a complaining voice to an appreciative heart. And, when you appreciate, you elevate yourself and your team."

 

It's "B" Week!

Star Students

Mon: Vincent

Tues: Kibbey

Wed: Mosley

Thurs: Rish

Fri: Johnson

next Monday will be Lipford

Tues: Collaboration: MTSS activity found in the Drive

Wed: Kindergarten Celebrates 100 days of School

Thurs: Glow Run during PE (regular schedule) - First Grade Celebrates 101 Days of School

Fri: Second Grade Celebrates 102 Days of School - Prize Patrol

Practice ACAP - grades 2-5

Marco's Spirit Night

Data Meetings (AIMSWeb Data)

PaceSetter and Team Member of the Month 

Lockdown Drill

Duty

AM

Kindergarten: Bamberg

First Grade: Bridges

Cafeteria: Garrett

Carline: Faucher and Searcy

Zone 1: Lipford

Zone 2: Kibbey

Zone 3: Collins

PM

Radio: Prickett

End of Carline: McIntosh

Monitor carline students: Mann and Mosley

Intersection of the back hall: Searcy

Hallway around Searcy/Kiefer's room: Fortenberry

Intersection of the front Hall: Young

Walker Pass Colors

Mon: Yellow

Tues: Pink

Wed: Blue

Thurs: Yellow

Fri: Green

Fundraiser Updates

Expect the Prizes to come by M - Th mornings

You have stickers, and will get flyers to go home Wednesday for one last push!

The Glow Run will happen during PE (I'm leaving the schedule alone! We need some normal 😊)

New Incentive: The PTO will recognize one class K-2 and another class 3-5 with the highest amount collected for the Glow Run.  Those two classes will win a pizza party and the teacher will have her classroom decorated for Valentine's by the PTO!

Good Luck!

Valentine Parties will all be on February 14

The GRADE LEVEL sign up will be opened for sign-up at 2:45 this Thursday. One person from your grade level should sign for your entire grade. They are 45 min blocks of time starting at 8:30 and ending at 2:15. If at all possible, please invite different parents to help with this party than the ones who came at Christmas.  No more than 3 parents! You'll need to fill out a guest form -please list all names on one form

This group will meet again this Wednesday morning and every following Wednesday.  Everything went as expected.  If you have any questions or you are having problems with students being late to class due to Priority Kids, please let me know. We have around 120 kids registered.

School Board Meeting

This month begins reports from each building level principal to the School Board.  Dr. Martin called it our "State of the Schools" report. Cahaba was chosen to go first.  So, I'll be presenting tomorrow evening.  School Board meetings are always open to the public, but I did want to offer my personal invitation. If you aren't already committed, the meeting starts at 5:00 and typically last less than one hour. There are always children in attendance too. It would be nice to have some of you there!

 

It's "A" Week!

Walker Pass Colors

Wed: White

Thurs: Green

Fri: White

Star Students

Wed: Mann

Thurs: Windham

Fri: Collins

Vincent will have Monday

Wed:  2nd Quarter Celebration @ 1:45 -First Grade Literacy Walk throughs

Thurs:  1st, 2nd and 3rd grade PST Meetings - Staff Meeting - Test Training

Fri: Prize Patrol

Duty this Week

AM

Kindergarten: Summers

First Grade: Patterson

Cafeteria: Faucher

Carline: Garrett and P Franklin

Zone 1: Johnson

Zone 2: Mann

Zone 3: Mills

PM

Radio: Jackson

End of Carline: Wessel

Monitor Carline students: Latham and Windham

Intersection of the back hall: P. Franklin

Hallway around Searcy/Kiefer's Room: Kiefer

Intersection on the Front Hall: Fulmer

Happy Wednesday friends!! Its time to sign up for Secret Pals! Put your name on the list if you would like to participate!! Remember, we just send our secret pal a little happy once a month and do a reveal in May!! 😊

Secret Pal Sign Up

Interns from Samford!

Caroline Thompson starting with Mrs. Shorter and moving to Mrs. D. Franklin

Hannah Pulley starting with Mrs. Jones and moving to Mrs. Wessel

Welcome to Quay Walton, the tech guy! Phil has been assigned to HTMS.  Quay will be with us all day Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Reminders about Intervention Services with Strickland, Feild and Peacock.....

Students shouldn't miss interventions! 

Please don't schedule "classroom rewards", such as extra recess during Intervention times.

Changes to the Intervention Schedule are only made by Tyner.

Eligibility for Special Education doesn't automatically mean removal from T3. Keep sending them!

Every student in T3 intervention should also be receiving T2 with you.

Reminders about empty classrooms..........

Please remind your students to wait for you in the hallway, if the class happens to get to the room before you do. Students should never enter an empty classroom.  Supervision is important.  If you are leaving during your planning time or early during the day, shut your door and turn the lights out. Better to be safe!

Weekly Newsletter should be uploaded to the drive, weekly.  If you've gotten behind, please go back and add the ones that are missing to the appropriate folder. 

Thursday, January 25th our students will participate in a Glow Run event in the gym during PE time. I will probably create a schedule that will be a little different so I can split some of the grades into two different times. It should be a fun time with music and "glowing"!

This Thursday, we'll ask that you show a 8-10 minute video to your students immediately following announcements that will serve as the kickoff for the event. The video, explains how the students should register and all about the prizes for the different donation levels. Their parents are gathering donations for the "number of laps run". Everything is through a link and done online. The link was sent out last week.

Friday Jan. 19 - Jan.25, the Glow Run prize cart will drop of the student prizes immediately following announcement.  I would suggest that they go straight to backpacks and/or lockers until dismissal. 

We are asking teachers to do a couple of things to help us out.  

1. Tolerate the morning prize delivery for 5 mornings.

2. Encourage your students to register.  You'll be given some stickers to handout.

3. Show and watch the kickoff video with your class.

Boosterthon, the company we are working with, gives teachers to ability to sign into their class page and monitor involvement, send out additional emails and track class progress. This is 100% optional. I'd prefer that you not worry about any of that stuff.  You'll find a white envelop in your box this week. The students stickers, mentioned above are in this envelop.  Everything else in the envelop is optional.

The PTO is working on a teacher prize for the class with the highest percentage of participants. I'll let you know what they come up with as soon as they finalize plans.

When I met with the PTO leaders today, I realized that this fundraiser works much like Kid's Heart Challenge. I think you'll see the similarities too.

Thank you for all the Birthday wishes last week. The cards from the students were precious and I appreciate the decorations, flowers, card and gift card from the Grace Group. Celebrating your Birthday is pretty special when you do it at Cahaba! 

A Word from Jon Gordon

 It's "B" Week!

Duty this week

AM

Kindergarten: Shorter

First Grade: McDonald

Cafeteria: Garrett

Carline: Faucher and Fulmer

Zone 1: Odom

Zone 2: Mosley

Zone 3: Windham

PM

Radio: Smith

End of Carline: McIntosh

Monitor Carline students: Moore and Harrison

Intersection of the back hall: Searcy

Hallway around Searcy/Kiefer's: Fortenberry

Intersection on the Front Hall:  Young

Walker Pass Colors

Mon: Green

Tues: White

Wed: Pink

Thurs: Blue

Fri: Yellow

Star Students

Mon: D. Franklin

Tues: Wilkerson

Wed: Moore

Thurs: Wessel

Fri: Mann

Collins will have Tues. 1/16

AIMSWeb Reading Assessments - Finish by Friday!

Tuesday: Collaboration - Check the Drive

Thursday: Early Dismissal: MTSS Training #2 - Report Cards Distributed - Rodney Scott's Spirit Night 4-8

Friday: Second Quarter Celebration - Prize Patrol

The link for PST Referrals is HERE     Check the Calendar for dates.  Invites are coming!

MLK Observance - 1/15 No School

Collaboration with Dr. Berry

Fundraiser Kickoff

PST Meetings

Test Training

Celebrating day 100, 101 and 102!

 

It's "A" Week

Tuesday:  Staff Breakfast and Meeting with Special Guest Timothy Alexander(TA) @8:30- Grade Level Planning -Cleaning up Christmas - Grade Verification due at Noon

Wednesday: K/1 Assembly @9AM, 2-5 Assembly @9:45 with TA in Gym -Check below for changes in the Specials/PE Schedules

Thursday: Staff Meeting

Friday: District Spelling Bee at BOE -James Spann Visits 3rd grade @ 1:15 -No Prize Patrol this Week 

Duty this Week

AM

Kindergarten: Pennington

First Grade: Harrison

Cafeteria: Faucher

Carline: Garrett and Young

Zone 1: Dickerson

Zone 2: Rish

Zone 3: Moore

PM

Radio: Prickett

End of Carline: Wessel

Monitor Carline Students: Wilkerson and Bridges

Intersection of the back hall: P Franklin

Hallway around Searcy/Kiefer: Kiefer

Intersection on the Front Hall: Fulmer

Walker Pass Colors

Wed: Pink

Thurs::White

Fri: Blue

Star Students

Wed: Bamberg

Thurs: Shorter

Fri: Mills

Monday will be Franklin

Welcome Back to Mrs. Candice Tillman! 

Our Special Guest Speaker for our Tuesday morning breakfast and our student assemblies Wednesday is Mr. Timothy Alexander.  You may remember TA from Institute last August.  If you'd like to refresh your memory or possibly learn more about him, please follow this link.

Timothy Alexander: Motivational Speaker

Wednesday our schedule will be a little different to accommodate the assemblies.  

9:00 -Kindergarten and First Grade

9:45 - Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Graders

Fourth Grade will move all their typical Wednesday Specials to Thursday. So, your “No Specials Day” will be Wednesday.  No other changes to the "Specials Schedule" are necessary.

Third Grade and Kindergarten PE will stay at the typical time.  No changes for you!

Adaptive PE will meet with Coach in Fulmer’s room or possibly the library or hallway anytime you choose between 8:15 -10:00.  The Coaches will have an early lunch 10:00-10:30 and then have classes for the remainder of the day.

First Grade will all have PE at 11:55-12:25 – Extra support will be provided

Second Grade will have PE at 1:10-1:40

Fourth Grade will have PE at 1:45-2:15  

Fifth Grade will have PE at 11:15-11:45

Spend extra time in Morning Meetings to consider information presented by TA and review your classroom contract. It may need amendments!

Talk to your students about next week's AIMSWeb Reading Assessments and practice fluency. Most of our kiddos probably didn't read over the holidays

Use these days to reteach setting SMART goals and working on a plan for this month, this grading quarter and even ACAP and EOY. Update your Data Notebooks

Our Pace Character Trait for January is Responsibility. What does "responsibility" look like at school?

Reading AIMSWeb Assessments

MTSS training with Dr. Bailey

Second Quarter Report Cards Published

Second Quarter Celebration

Martin Luther King Day of Observance

Kick Off for our Winter Fundraiser