Sunday Scoop 10.1.17

Terrific Thursday!

Sunday Scoop 9.24.17

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for an AWESOME day of growing and learning on Friday.  We had a lot of courageous conversations and new learning in our efforts to support our students.  

Picture Day: Wednesday, September 27th.  The schedule can be found here.  

Grades 3-5 Data Team meetings:  We will be meeting on Thursday in the creation station.  Please bring your laptops and all specialists are encouraged to attend (ELL, Math, Reading, etc)

PTG Request Form:   Please feel free to complete form found on our Concord Resource Page (found under Concord Forms) for any items you would like to request.  Our parents are SO excited to help fund your projects and requests.

Curriculum Guides and Priority Standards: As you are beginning your work with your SLO’s, please be sure to use the updated curriculum guides that can also be found on our Concord Resource Page (found under Curricular Information).  All of the current priority standards are listed on page 2 of the curriculum guides.  

Fall Lindbergh U courses are now available for you to sign up in MLP.  Here are some of the courses that support our building and personal PGP goals.

Registration will close on 9/29/17 at 3:30 p.m.

MANDATORY PD REMINDER...LAST WEEK!!!!  All emails from SafeSchools went out last week.  If you have not received an email with your mandatory PD modules from SafeSchools, please try the following steps:

1.  Check your spam, promotions, social folders.  It would come from Lindbergh R-VIII School.  Looks like this:

2.  If you still cannot locate the email, please contact Rachel Slunaker through email at rachelslunaker@lindberghschools.ws  She will send you the information you need to get going.  

Thank you for your patience with our new program.  Reminder:  All mandatory PD is required to be completed no later than September 30th.

Sunday Night Lights, September 24:  Sunday Night Lights is a fantastic program that allows kids battling cancer and serious childhood illnesses to participate as athletes, cheerleaders, and band members under the lights at Lindbergh High School in a typical high school football.  Our Concord Choir is performing before the game and during half time.  Pregame starts at 6:30.   I hope to see you tonight!

• The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
• Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
• Click, Clack, Moo by Doreen Cronin
• Pancakes, Pancakes by Eric Carle
• Galimoto by Karen Williams
• Bobby Baseball by Robert K. Smith (chapter book)
• The School Story by Andrew Clements (chapter book

• Special thanks to Teri, Valerie, and Gina for attending the PTG meeting this week.
• Hats off to Adrienne, Mindy, and Tammy for sharing your STEAM knowledge with the group on Friday.

Please share the following links on your social media sites this week.  At our PTG meeting this week, we had 2 presentations.  Here are the links to both:

Bullying Presentation-This is the link to the bullying presentation by Ms. Gina Poeppel.

Concord Parent Resource Guide-  Save this link as we will continually update it with important tools and resources for Concord parents.

Angie will be out Wednesday-Friday October 4th-6th at Leadership Academy.  

Wednesday, Sept. 27	School Picture Day and BE THERE DAY!!	All Day	Concord
Wednesday, Sept. 27	Concord Night at Grant’s Farm	5:00 - 9:00 pm	Grant’s Farm
Thursday, Sept. 28	3-5 Data Team Meeting	8:45 a.m. to 12:10 pm	Creation Station

Tuesday, Oct. 3	Leadership Committee	7:45 am	Creation Station
Tuesday, Oct. 3	PTG Board Meeting	9:00 – 11:00 am	Creation Station
Thursday, Oct. 5	K-2 Data Team	10:50 am to 2:30 pm	Creation Station
Friday, Oct. 6	Family Trivia Night	6:30 – 8:30 pm	Truman Cafeteria

Sunday Scoop 9.17.17

PTG Meeting, Tuesday, September 20, 7:00 p.m.:  We would love to see one person representing your team at the meeting.  Gina will be sharing information on bullying and then we will be sharing information about the digital parent handbook we are creating.

Learning Labs, Thursday, September 22: Here is the agenda for our first learning lab.  We can’t wait to see you during your block time in the creation station.  

PD Day, Friday, September 22: Here is the agenda for Friday’s PD day.  It is going to be an AWESOME day of learning!

Sunday Night Lights, September 24:  Sunday Night Lights is a fantastic program that allows kids battling cancer and serious childhood illnesses to participate as athletes, cheerleaders, and band members under the lights at Lindbergh High School in a typical high school football.  Our Concord Choir is performing before the game and during half time.  Pregame starts at 6:30.  

Mandatory PD: All staff, classified and certified, are required to complete this training. An email from SafeSchools went out the first week of school. It came from Lindbergh R-VIII School. All mandatory PD is required to be completed no later than September 30th.

#lindberghlearns:  Please be sure to use this hashtag to highlight the awesome things happening in your class.

This week we will focus our Flyervision announcements on being proactive.  Here are some great books you might want to use during your read alouds to support this habit.

• Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
• The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
• King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood
• The Very Lonely Firefly by Eric Carle
• The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
• Salt in His Shoes by Michael Jordan
• Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville (chapter book)
• On My Honor by Marion Bauer (chapter book)

Did you know our students have that exact same ability when it comes to Google Docs? Just talk and it will type! Check out our blog post that shows you how to get it up and running on a laptop. Don't worry, devices are covered in this post.

Worried that it isn't 100% accurate? Have you ever known someone who was 100% accurate when they used paper and pencil? Paper and pencil is good enough to get your ideas down to then start editing, just like using your voice to type.

BONUS:

Use this simple process for connecting personal devices to the new LindberghBYOD network.

Movie Night: Thanks to TK,  Becky, Valerie, and Sharon for working the snack bar.  The students had a blast!

Character committee for planning the Buddy Assembly and activity: Thanks to Marikate, Jessica, Lindsay, Ashley, Valerie, Brooke, and our speaker/media leaders for a great day!

Angie will be out Thursday, September 21st @ 1:00 to Moore for district data meeting

Tuesday, Sept. 19	Instructional Leadership Committee Meeting (PD)	8:00 am	Creation Station
Tuesday, Sept. 19	PTG General Meeting Party Planning	7:00 – 9:00 pm 6:15 pm	Library
Thursday, Sept. 21	K-5 Learning Lab	8:55 -  2:30	Creation Station
Friday, Sept. 22	PD Day - No school	ALL DAY
Wednesday, Sept. 27	School Picture Day and BE THERE DAY!!	All Day	Concord
Wednesday, Sept. 27	Concord Night at Grant’s Farm	5:00 - 9:00 pm	Grant’s Farm
Thursday, Sept. 28	3-5 Data Team Meeting	8:45 a.m. to 12:10 pm	Creation Station

Terrific Thursday: Novel Engineering Activities

What is Novel Engineering? (From the Novel Engineering Website)

Novel Engineering is an integrated approach to teaching engineering and literacy. As part of Novel Engineering, students develop projects based on texts they read in English Language Arts or other content classes, such as history. The characters become their clients and students pull from the text to scope problems and set constraints as they engage in engineering design.

Teachers play a pivotal role in supporting their students' engagement by providing a supportive, responsive environment that will allow students to build on their ideas as they work on complex problems. Instead of prescribing a particular solution or process for students, we believe that teaching engineering involves listening to, understanding, and responding to student thinking. Design is about realizing the ideas of individuals and Novel Engineering gives students the space to explore their ideas through design projects.

In a read aloud for the Reading Units of Study, second grade students used the book Those Darn Squirrels.   In Mrs. Martin's class, students brainstormed the problem in the story.  They then designed a plan for how they could solve the problem of Old Man Fookwire with the squirrels stealing the bird food from the birds.  Before they could begin designing their structures, they had to get their plan approved. Some students built traps for the squirrels, some designed intricate bird feeders, and others created food sources for the squirrels so they wouldn't eat others' food.  This is yet another way to engage your students in the engineering process.

Scoop for the Week 9.8.17

Staff Meeting @ 7:30 in the library: Please bring your book study book and be prepared to talk about Chapter 1.  Grandpa Ippolito will be providing bagels for everyone.  Here is a link to the agenda.

PGP Reminders: Please sign up for a time to meet with Liz and I in regards to your PGP.  Also if you have not begun your plan for SLOs, that is a great topic to discuss in your PLC this week.

Early Dismissal Wednesday: Put this at the top of your parent emails.  Parents should put any changes in dismissal plans in the PikMyKid app.  Dismissal is at 1:40.  AM Kindergarten is dismissed at 10:50 and PM Kindergarten begins at 11:30.  

See schedule for the day here. Please watch your email for the location of your District wide PD.

Buddy Teams: We will meet for our first buddy assembly and activity on Wednesday.  We will begin calling right after Flyervision to come to the gym.  We will call buddy classes at the same time so you can sit together in the gym.  Please read this document for the activity to do when you return to one of your buddy classrooms.  We are hoping the t-shirts will be ready but will keep you posted.

Learning Labs: We have moved the learning labs for all grades K-5 Thursday, September 21st. Topics we will be covering are MYON and “STEMifying” the classroom.

Staff Lounge: Just a little reminder to please clean up after yourselves in the lounge.  It is appreciated!

Laptop Carts: Just a friendly reminder as your class is finished with the laptop cart, please pass it on to the teacher who is next on the Google calendar.  Please remember to plug it in between each use.

From Ronni Zagora:  The district will be conducting a book study of Better Than Carrots or Sticks: Restorative Practices for Positive Classroom Management for teachers, counselors, and administrators who are interested in learning more about restorative practices and how to apply them in your classroom and school. The district will provide the book, and three after-school meetings will take place throughout the fall semester for discussion and shared learning. Please notify Ronni Zagora (vzagora@lindberghschools.ws) if you would like to participate.

Grant's Farm Night-NOW FREE PARKING FOR TEACHERS

We are so excited to announce that teachers and their families will be able to park for FREE at our first ever Grant's Farm Night on September 27th from 5-9.  There will be a DJ and glow sticks for kids in the courtyard, and food/beverages available for purchase.  There will also be free adult beverage samples available for those 21 and older.  I would like to encourage EVERYONE to sign up here for this event.  It is such a fun time and a fun way to mingle with Concord friends and families.  You will need to sign up no later than September 20th.  

iPad Apps: If there are apps you'd like the district to purchase for your classroom iPads, please email Tara Sparks and Mariano Marin to make the request.  They'll work together to review the resource and approve those apps in a timely manner in order to support student learning.  Please note that there is a limited supply of money allocated for these purchases, so only request those that will be integral to your instruction.

Green & Gold Spirit Day: Lindbergh homecoming is next weekend with the parade on Thursday evening.  To commemorate this event, we will have a green & gold spirit day on Thursday.

Learning walk: Dr. Sparks will be here on Monday afternoon for a learning walk.

MYON Update: Just wanted to keep everyone in the loop on MYON usage.  I know many of you shared the details on how to log on with parents.  This is a great tool for students to use at home as well.

Angie will be at a leadership meeting on Wednesday morning.  

Monday, Sept. 11	D.O.C. Meeting	7:00 pm	Helen Fitzgerald’s
Tuesday, Sept. 12	Staff Meeting	7:45-8:30	Creation Station
Wednesday, Sept. 13	Buddy Day Early Release	9:00 a.m. 1:40 pm	GYM
Tuesday, Sept. 19	Instructional Leadership Committee Meeting (PD)	8:00 am	Creation Station
Tuesday, Sept. 19	PTG General Meeting Party Planning	7:00 – 9:00 pm 6:15 pm	Library
Wednesday, Sept. 20	RTI	8:00 am	Creation Station
Thursday, Sept. 21	K-5 Learning Lab	8:55 -  2:30	Creation Station
Friday, Sept. 22	NO SCHOOL	ALL DAY