Southwest Elementary School
Friday Update
December 18th, 2009
Holiday Joy and Holiday Cheer
Gift giving time is finally here
Light up a candle or put up a wreath
Leave a cookie for Santa on Christmas Eve
Hang up the stockings, put a ball on the Tree
If it snows make a Snowman for all to see!
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE:
**You can now view the Friday Update at the following url address: http://swefridayupdate.blogspot.com/ We will continue to send the Friday Update via email AND at the blog address for a few weeks. Please begin to use the “blogspot” address to view the Friday Update. If there are corrections, they can be made in the comment section.
Next week
Monday 1/4 – Watch Dog – Justin Jones, 3rd grade PLC @ 12:10
Tuesday 1/5 – Joint Principal’s Mtg., Kindergarten PLC @ 8:50, Specialists PLC @ 9:30, Focused Staff Mtg., Donatos Night
Wednesday 1/6 – 1st grade PLC @ 10:20, EC PLC @ 12:00, 4th grade PLC @ 12:55
Thursday 1/7 – Admin. Team Mtg., 2nd grade PLC @ 11:05, 5th grade PLC @ 1:40, Technology Workshop – Social Bookmarking
Friday 1/8 - Principal’s Mtg.
Week of 1/11-1/15
(1/11) 3rd grade PLC @ 12:10, SAT
(1/12) Progress reports go home, Watch Dog – David Rhyne, Kindergarten PLC @ 8:50, Specialists PLC @ 9:30, Staff Mtg. Big Shotz Night, Board of Education Mtg.
(1/13) 1st grade PLC @ 10:20, EC PLC @ 12:00, 4th grade PLC @ 12:55, Staff Mtg. Update, WS Symphony Fun with Fiddles (kindergarten)
(1/14) Elementary Principals Mtg., Reading Quarter Tests for grades 3-5, 2nd grade PLC @ 11:05, 5th grade PLC @ 1:40
(1/15) Watch Dog – Darin Nolting, Admin. Team Mtg., Spelling Bee for 4th & 5th grade
Duty Schedule
Breakfast – East, Aikins, Letourneau, Sereika
Bus –Larson, Garlow, Dosek, Marceron, Trinkle, Vest, Letourneau, Sereika, Aikins, Hauhuth
Car riders – Morning – Patty Overby, Susan Twyman
Afternoon – Caller – Lee, Tilley
Inside –Womble, East, Roberts
Outside – Herko, King, Kreger, Currie, Drummond, Moss
Hall – Everhardt (computer lab), Hauhuth (gym lobby)
Parra (Music Hall), Allen (Auditorium Lobby)
FYI/Reminders
- Please remember Joanne Baker in your thoughts and prayers as she will be out until January recuperating
- All computers must be turned off daily. Beginning in January, Central Office will charge $1 per computer left on (OUCH!!).
- And the winner is …… MIKE HAYES! Congratulations on being Southwest’s biggest loser. You all did a great job and an extra shout out goes to Brian Vest for coming in second by less than a pound!
The staff conference sign-up sheets are outside my office door. During our “10 minute conferences” that I will have over the next few weeks, I would like to focus on ways that we can help you reach our struggling students. Thank you for all that you do every day.
**This year the “Can-Do man” will give every student either a dog tag or a bracelet when they reach the 500 can mark. Please encourage each student to keep an individual record of their can donations.
Staff Stars
Thank you all for the love, care and dedication that you bring to Southwest every day!
Friday, December 18, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Friday Update 12-11-09
Southwest Elementary School
Friday Update
December 11th, 2009
The staff conference sign-up sheets are outside my office door. During our “10 minute conferences” that I will have over the next few weeks, I would like to focus on ways that we can help you reach our struggling students. Thank you for all that you do every day.
"Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers." Josef Albers
**You can now view the Friday Update at the following url address: http://swefridayupdate.blogspot.com/ We will continue to send the Friday Update via email AND at the blog address for a few weeks. Please begin to use the “blogspot” address to view the Friday Update. If there are corrections, they can be made in the comment section.
Next week
Monday 12/14 – 3rd grade PLC @ 12:10, SAT
Tuesday 12/15 – Clemmons Middle Band concert for 5th grade @ 8:30, Kindergarten PLC @ 8:50, Specialists PLC @ 9:30, CC Mtg., SIT, Time to Eat Night, Board of Education Mtg.
Wednesday 12/16 – 1st grade PLC @ 10:20, EC PLC @ 12:00, 4th PLC @ 12:55, ES AP Mtg., TAC Mtg., Year Long Tech. training @ 3:15, Carolyn Beard’s Retirement Dinner
Thursday 12/17 – 2nd PLC @ 11:05, 5th PLC @ 1:40, 1st grade to Don Juan’s restaurant, Watch Dog – Todd Stephens, Staff holiday “potluck” 6:00 at River Oaks Church
Friday 12/18 - Watch Dog – Jason Carter, 1st grade to Don Juan’s restaurant
Week of 1/4-1/8
(1/4) Watch Dog – Justin Jones, 3rd grade PLC @ 12:10
(1/5) Joint Principal’s Mtg., Kindergarten PLC @ 8:50, Specialists PLC @ 9:30, Focused Staff Mtg., Donatos Night
(1/6) 1st grade PLC @ 10:20, EC PLC @ 12:00, 4th grade PLC @ 12:55
(1/7) Admin. Team Mtg., 2nd grade PLC @ 11:05, 5th grade PLC @ 1:40, Technology Workshop – Social Bookmarking
(1/8) Principal’s Mtg.
Looking ahead
1/12/09 Progress Report
2/2/09 Report Card
Duty Schedule
Breakfast – Weiss, Aikins, Letourneau, Sereika
Bus –Larson, Garlow, Dosek, Marceron, Trinkle, Vest, Letourneau, Sereika, Aikins, Hauhuth
Car riders – Morning – Patty Overby, Susan Twyman
Afternoon – Caller – Lee, Tilley
Inside –Womble, East, Roberts
Outside – Herko, King, Kreger, Currie, Drummond, Moss
Hall – Everhardt (computer lab), Hauhuth (gym lobby)
Parra (Music Hall), Allen (Auditorium Lobby)
FYI/Reminders
- Please remember Joanne Baker in your thoughts and prayers as she will be out until January recuperating
- Criminal Background forms must be completed online by Dec. 14th
- All computers must be turned off daily. Beginning in January, Central Office will charge $1 per computer left on (OUCH!!).
- Our Holiday staff get-together will be held on Thursday, December 17th at 6:00 at River Oaks Church. Please sign up in the lounge.
- All PLC’s will be held in Room 19 (our new science room) and will be facilitated by administration
- Kindergarten assistants need to attend Tuesdays PLC @ 8:50
- Duty Free Lunch will be held on TUESDAY ONLY this week
**This year the “Can-Do man” will give every student either a dog tag or a bracelet when they reach the 500 can mark. Please encourage each student to keep an individual record of their can donations.
Staff Stars
Dee Brown and Georgia Kennedy – Thank you for all your help making Mrs. Baker’s class run smoothly during her absence
Kim Chadwick – Good job using non-linguistic representations (tangrams) to teach geometry
Cristen Letourneau – Excellent use of technology in the classroom
Shipps Washington – Thank you for your help directing traffic in the afternoon
Numerous SW staff members – Thank you for your work to make sure that many of our families’ needs are met for this holiday season
All PLC groups - Thank you for doing an excellent job of making our conversations useful and connected to the work that we do with our students
Friday Update
December 11th, 2009
The staff conference sign-up sheets are outside my office door. During our “10 minute conferences” that I will have over the next few weeks, I would like to focus on ways that we can help you reach our struggling students. Thank you for all that you do every day.
"Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers." Josef Albers
**You can now view the Friday Update at the following url address: http://swefridayupdate.blogspot.com/ We will continue to send the Friday Update via email AND at the blog address for a few weeks. Please begin to use the “blogspot” address to view the Friday Update. If there are corrections, they can be made in the comment section.
Next week
Monday 12/14 – 3rd grade PLC @ 12:10, SAT
Tuesday 12/15 – Clemmons Middle Band concert for 5th grade @ 8:30, Kindergarten PLC @ 8:50, Specialists PLC @ 9:30, CC Mtg., SIT, Time to Eat Night, Board of Education Mtg.
Wednesday 12/16 – 1st grade PLC @ 10:20, EC PLC @ 12:00, 4th PLC @ 12:55, ES AP Mtg., TAC Mtg., Year Long Tech. training @ 3:15, Carolyn Beard’s Retirement Dinner
Thursday 12/17 – 2nd PLC @ 11:05, 5th PLC @ 1:40, 1st grade to Don Juan’s restaurant, Watch Dog – Todd Stephens, Staff holiday “potluck” 6:00 at River Oaks Church
Friday 12/18 - Watch Dog – Jason Carter, 1st grade to Don Juan’s restaurant
Week of 1/4-1/8
(1/4) Watch Dog – Justin Jones, 3rd grade PLC @ 12:10
(1/5) Joint Principal’s Mtg., Kindergarten PLC @ 8:50, Specialists PLC @ 9:30, Focused Staff Mtg., Donatos Night
(1/6) 1st grade PLC @ 10:20, EC PLC @ 12:00, 4th grade PLC @ 12:55
(1/7) Admin. Team Mtg., 2nd grade PLC @ 11:05, 5th grade PLC @ 1:40, Technology Workshop – Social Bookmarking
(1/8) Principal’s Mtg.
Looking ahead
1/12/09 Progress Report
2/2/09 Report Card
Duty Schedule
Breakfast – Weiss, Aikins, Letourneau, Sereika
Bus –Larson, Garlow, Dosek, Marceron, Trinkle, Vest, Letourneau, Sereika, Aikins, Hauhuth
Car riders – Morning – Patty Overby, Susan Twyman
Afternoon – Caller – Lee, Tilley
Inside –Womble, East, Roberts
Outside – Herko, King, Kreger, Currie, Drummond, Moss
Hall – Everhardt (computer lab), Hauhuth (gym lobby)
Parra (Music Hall), Allen (Auditorium Lobby)
FYI/Reminders
- Please remember Joanne Baker in your thoughts and prayers as she will be out until January recuperating
- Criminal Background forms must be completed online by Dec. 14th
- All computers must be turned off daily. Beginning in January, Central Office will charge $1 per computer left on (OUCH!!).
- Our Holiday staff get-together will be held on Thursday, December 17th at 6:00 at River Oaks Church. Please sign up in the lounge.
- All PLC’s will be held in Room 19 (our new science room) and will be facilitated by administration
- Kindergarten assistants need to attend Tuesdays PLC @ 8:50
- Duty Free Lunch will be held on TUESDAY ONLY this week
**This year the “Can-Do man” will give every student either a dog tag or a bracelet when they reach the 500 can mark. Please encourage each student to keep an individual record of their can donations.
Staff Stars
Dee Brown and Georgia Kennedy – Thank you for all your help making Mrs. Baker’s class run smoothly during her absence
Kim Chadwick – Good job using non-linguistic representations (tangrams) to teach geometry
Cristen Letourneau – Excellent use of technology in the classroom
Shipps Washington – Thank you for your help directing traffic in the afternoon
Numerous SW staff members – Thank you for your work to make sure that many of our families’ needs are met for this holiday season
All PLC groups - Thank you for doing an excellent job of making our conversations useful and connected to the work that we do with our students
Friday, December 4, 2009
Friday Update 12-4-09
Southwest Elementary School
Friday Update
December 4th, 2009
The staff conference sign-up sheets are outside my office door. During our “10 minute conferences” that I will have over the next few weeks, I would like to focus on ways that we can help you reach our struggling students. Thank you for all that you do every day.
“Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.”-- William Glasser
**You can now view the Friday Update at the following url address: http://swefridayupdate.blogspot.com/ We will continue to send the Friday Update via email AND at the blog address for a few weeks. Please begin to use the “blogspot” address to view the Friday Update. If there are corrections, they can be made in the comment section.
Next week
Monday 12/7 – Admin. Team Mtg., 3rd grade PLC @ 12:10, ESL Principal Mtg., Tech workshop – School Center Test Bank
Tuesday 12/8 – Interim reports go home, Watch Dog – David Rhyne, Kindergarten PLC @ 8:50, Specialists PLC @ 9:30, Staff Mtg., Big Shotz night, Central Office Holiday Open House
Wednesday 12/9 – Watch Dog – Scott Sluder, 2nd Quarter round table mtg., 1st grade PLC @ 10:20, EC PLC @ 12:00, 4th grade PLC @ 12:55, Staff Mtg. Update
Thursday 12/10 – Principals Mtg., 2nd grade PLC @ 11:05, 5th grade PLC @ 1:40, 5th grade to Stevens Center for Nutcracker
Friday 12/11 - Watch Dog – Loran Perkins, Admin. Team Mtg.
Week of 12/14-12/18
(12/14) 3rd grade PLC @ 12:10, SAT
(12/15) Kindergarten PLC @ 8:50, Specialists PLC @ 9:30, CC Mtg., SIT, Time to Eat Night, Board of Education Mtg.
(12/16) 1st grade PLC @ 10:20, EC PLC @ 12:00, 4th PLC @ 12:55, ES AP Mtg., TAC Mtg., Year Long Tech. Mtg., Carolyn Beard’s Retirement Dinner
(12/17) 2nd PLC @ 11:05, 5th PLC @ 1:40, 1st grade to Don Juan’s restaurant, Watch Dog – Todd Stephens, Staff holiday “potluck” 6:00 at River Oaks Church
(12/18) Watch Dog – Jason Carter, 1st grade to Don Juan’s restaurant
Looking ahead
Duty Schedule
Breakfast – Biggam, Trinkle
Bus –Larson, Garlow, Dosek, Marceron, Trinkle, Vest, Letourneau, Sereika, Aikins, Hauhuth
Car riders – Morning – Patty Overby, Susan Twyman
Afternoon – Caller – Lee, Tilley
Inside –Womble, East, Roberts
Outside – Herko, King, Kreger, Currie, Drummond, Moss
Hall – Everhardt (computer lab), Hauhuth (gym lobby)
Parra (Music Hall), Allen (Auditorium Lobby)
FYI/Reminders
- Please remember Joanne Baker in your thoughts and prayers as she will be out until January recuperating
- Criminal Background forms must be completed online by Dec. 14th
- All computers must be turned off daily. Beginning in January, Central Office will charge $1 per computer left on (OUCH!!).
- If you have not voted for Teacher of the Year, please write your nomination down on a purple slip ( Kim Skinner's desk) and put in the basket which is also located on her desk (the deadline is Monday, December 7 at 12:00).
- Our Holiday staff get-together will be held on Thursday, December 17th at 6:00 at River Oaks Church
- The angel tree is up in the Lounge. When you take a tag, please sign on the line beside the tag number. This year, we are requesting gifts be turned in unwrapped, but you can include wrapping paper if you wish. Just make sure that the tag number is on each item or on the bag.
As usual, if you would like to help, but are unable to shop, we will take monetary donations and do the shopping for you.
**This year the “Can-Do man” will give every student either a dog tag or a bracelet when they reach the 500 can mark. Please encourage each student to keep an individual record of their can donations.
Staff Stars
Heidi Lee – Thank you for your commitment to our parents and children in your leadership at car duty (year round, rain or shine!)
Donna Williams – Thanks for your extra time and effort working with a certain ESL student
Terry Zimmerman – Excellent use of laptop computers and math website to reinforce improper fractions, mixed numbers and simplifying fractions.
Eugenia Ivy – Thank you for your support with our special situations.
Katie Chamra, Terry Lowe and friends – Great job with Jump Rope for Heart
PRT’s – Thanks for working well with everyone to make DIBELS work well
* Week of 11/20
Can Winners
K-2 Tilley 448
3-5 Merritt 679
Honorable mention
K-2 Pennington 204
3-5 Moore 506
Currie 486
Week of 12/4
Winners
K-2 Lawrence 1175
3-5 Vance 416
Honorable mention
K-2 Gough 575
Kreger 467
3-5 Vaughn 386
Marceron 249
Friday Update
December 4th, 2009
The staff conference sign-up sheets are outside my office door. During our “10 minute conferences” that I will have over the next few weeks, I would like to focus on ways that we can help you reach our struggling students. Thank you for all that you do every day.
“Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.”-- William Glasser
**You can now view the Friday Update at the following url address: http://swefridayupdate.blogspot.com/ We will continue to send the Friday Update via email AND at the blog address for a few weeks. Please begin to use the “blogspot” address to view the Friday Update. If there are corrections, they can be made in the comment section.
Next week
Monday 12/7 – Admin. Team Mtg., 3rd grade PLC @ 12:10, ESL Principal Mtg., Tech workshop – School Center Test Bank
Tuesday 12/8 – Interim reports go home, Watch Dog – David Rhyne, Kindergarten PLC @ 8:50, Specialists PLC @ 9:30, Staff Mtg., Big Shotz night, Central Office Holiday Open House
Wednesday 12/9 – Watch Dog – Scott Sluder, 2nd Quarter round table mtg., 1st grade PLC @ 10:20, EC PLC @ 12:00, 4th grade PLC @ 12:55, Staff Mtg. Update
Thursday 12/10 – Principals Mtg., 2nd grade PLC @ 11:05, 5th grade PLC @ 1:40, 5th grade to Stevens Center for Nutcracker
Friday 12/11 - Watch Dog – Loran Perkins, Admin. Team Mtg.
Week of 12/14-12/18
(12/14) 3rd grade PLC @ 12:10, SAT
(12/15) Kindergarten PLC @ 8:50, Specialists PLC @ 9:30, CC Mtg., SIT, Time to Eat Night, Board of Education Mtg.
(12/16) 1st grade PLC @ 10:20, EC PLC @ 12:00, 4th PLC @ 12:55, ES AP Mtg., TAC Mtg., Year Long Tech. Mtg., Carolyn Beard’s Retirement Dinner
(12/17) 2nd PLC @ 11:05, 5th PLC @ 1:40, 1st grade to Don Juan’s restaurant, Watch Dog – Todd Stephens, Staff holiday “potluck” 6:00 at River Oaks Church
(12/18) Watch Dog – Jason Carter, 1st grade to Don Juan’s restaurant
Looking ahead
Duty Schedule
Breakfast – Biggam, Trinkle
Bus –Larson, Garlow, Dosek, Marceron, Trinkle, Vest, Letourneau, Sereika, Aikins, Hauhuth
Car riders – Morning – Patty Overby, Susan Twyman
Afternoon – Caller – Lee, Tilley
Inside –Womble, East, Roberts
Outside – Herko, King, Kreger, Currie, Drummond, Moss
Hall – Everhardt (computer lab), Hauhuth (gym lobby)
Parra (Music Hall), Allen (Auditorium Lobby)
FYI/Reminders
- Please remember Joanne Baker in your thoughts and prayers as she will be out until January recuperating
- Criminal Background forms must be completed online by Dec. 14th
- All computers must be turned off daily. Beginning in January, Central Office will charge $1 per computer left on (OUCH!!).
- If you have not voted for Teacher of the Year, please write your nomination down on a purple slip ( Kim Skinner's desk) and put in the basket which is also located on her desk (the deadline is Monday, December 7 at 12:00).
- Our Holiday staff get-together will be held on Thursday, December 17th at 6:00 at River Oaks Church
- The angel tree is up in the Lounge. When you take a tag, please sign on the line beside the tag number. This year, we are requesting gifts be turned in unwrapped, but you can include wrapping paper if you wish. Just make sure that the tag number is on each item or on the bag.
As usual, if you would like to help, but are unable to shop, we will take monetary donations and do the shopping for you.
**This year the “Can-Do man” will give every student either a dog tag or a bracelet when they reach the 500 can mark. Please encourage each student to keep an individual record of their can donations.
Staff Stars
Heidi Lee – Thank you for your commitment to our parents and children in your leadership at car duty (year round, rain or shine!)
Donna Williams – Thanks for your extra time and effort working with a certain ESL student
Terry Zimmerman – Excellent use of laptop computers and math website to reinforce improper fractions, mixed numbers and simplifying fractions.
Eugenia Ivy – Thank you for your support with our special situations.
Katie Chamra, Terry Lowe and friends – Great job with Jump Rope for Heart
PRT’s – Thanks for working well with everyone to make DIBELS work well
* Week of 11/20
Can Winners
K-2 Tilley 448
3-5 Merritt 679
Honorable mention
K-2 Pennington 204
3-5 Moore 506
Currie 486
Week of 12/4
Winners
K-2 Lawrence 1175
3-5 Vance 416
Honorable mention
K-2 Gough 575
Kreger 467
3-5 Vaughn 386
Marceron 249
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