Friday Update 5-14-10

Friday Update
May 14th, 2010

As we wind down the school year, our focus is forced to move to End-of-grade tests and end of year assessments. While we know that these provide important information for determining how much our children have learned, they are not the only ways that we measure success. As elementary school employees we are charged with guiding their learning AND their development into good people. I trust that our assessments will reflect the hard work that we have done with our students, but please remember that we also affect our children in other ways that can not be assessed. Thank you for loving and nurturing our children every day so that they love coming to Southwest.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
-Garrison Keillor

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Next week
Monday 5/17 – SAT, EOG Science for 5th grade
Tuesday 5/18 – EOG Reading for grades 3-5, Progress Reports Go Home, SIT, Time to Eat Night, Pack Treats for Troops
Wednesday 5/19 – EOG Calculator Active for grades 3-5, 2nd Grade to Heritage Theater (Dease, Freshwater, Hipp, and Chadwick)
Thursday 5/20- EOG Calculator Inactive for grades 3-5, 2nd Grade to Heritage Theater (Sutcliffe, Baldwin, Tsolis, and Crain)
Friday 5/21 - Watch Dog – Last day for library book checkout. Todd Stephens, All Pro Dad Breakfast, EOG Make ups, Admin. Team Mtg.

Week of 5/24-5/28
(5/24) EOG Remediation and make ups, SAT
(5/25) EOG Remediation, PBS Mtg., Sagebrush Night
(5/26) EOG Remediation, Skippy-John Jones library activities
(5/27) EOG Remediation, Skippy-John Jones library activities
(5/28) EOG Remediation, All books library books DUE, 5th Grade to Tanglewood, Kindergarten with Kiddie Kriterz, Admin. Team Mtg.

Duty Schedule
*Breakfast – Biggam, Trinkle

FYI/Reminders
-Don’t forget to remind your students about our latest Treats for Troops collection. We will pack the care packages on Tuesday, May 18 at 6:00.
-We are already seeing our rise in student discipline issues as we predicted. Please make every effort to provide tight supervision at all times. The bathroom has been a hotspot location for incidences so please keep that in mind. Thanks for all you do to keep our students safe.
-Please remember that attendance should be completed by 8:30 daily.

Staff Stars
Tracey Moss – Nice job with your gardening project.
Aaren Brown – terrific use of graphic organizers and role playing with her "Court Case" of the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf.
Mary-Jane Everhardt – Thanks for organizing the training for the new Schoolwires webpage provider.
Kim Moore – Thanks for your consistent integration of technology into your lessons.
Debbie Herrin –Thanks for repeating at least 6 times the EOG training workshop!
3rd, 4th & 5th grade – Great job with end of grade preparation with your students.

The lower grade classes – Thanks for adopting and encouraging the upper grade classes during EOG week.
Kathryn Dice – Great job with reading and math tutoring for 4th graders.
Nicole Skinner and Jan Merritt – Thanks for making the team some terrific math and reading EOG practice sheets!