Friday Update 12-18-09

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:

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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!