Week of September 4-7, 2018
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| O.N.E. Only Need Everyone 💛We are Brown School!💙 |
Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication to ensure our year gets off to the best start ever. This past week was full of inspiration and connectedness. I can hardly wait to get started together!
Common Area Expectations
Thank you for all of your work to define common expectations in our most highly traveled areas of Brown School. On Tuesday, PLEASE take your students to the lunchroom and show him/her where to sit. In addition, please share, model and practice the expectations for all common areas with your class. This Google Slide presentation can help to guide your discussion.
Signage will be posted soon and lunchroom procedures will be practiced with classes during lunch on Tuesday with my guidance. More specific expectations for equipment use at recess will be determined by the team soon.
Please click here to sign up for Kristen to visit your class on Wednesday or Thursday to discuss the rubric, the importance of respecting our SJPS staff, and to reiterate and answer questions about the common area expectations.
Please be sure to share your grade level's common 90 minute ELA block, 60 minute math block, and 30 minute block of common time (daily or as often as possible) for SMART time.
We will develop the SSW schedule around these blocks.
Tech Notes A committee of administrators and teachers were very busy planning for innovative opportunities for our elementary students throughout the summer. Please click here to learn all about the exciting news!
Our Little Library is here! When you see him, please thank Tony for installing this in the rain to ensure our students could grab a book before school starts. It is located outside of the main office entrance in the small patch of grass. Encourage your students to take a book and leave a book (new, used, any book will work).
Special Education Blog
Please click on the link below to stay up to date with all of the current events from our Director of Special Education and Services, Denise Reisig.
https://spedsjps.blogspot.com/
Lesson Plan Sharing
Below you will find a link to a google form. Please complete the survey by Friday, Sept. 21 (it’s three simple questions). The purpose of the survey is to record where you keep your lesson plans. For this school year, you are free to use any product you wish, I know some of you use Planbook.com, some use Planbookedu.com etc. . . If you use a paper copy, please take pics weekly and place in Google Drive in a Shared Folder and provide the link. Please let me know if you need assistance setting up any of the above.
Lesson Plan Sharing
Below you will find a link to a google form. Please complete the survey by Friday, Sept. 21 (it’s three simple questions). The purpose of the survey is to record where you keep your lesson plans. For this school year, you are free to use any product you wish, I know some of you use Planbook.com, some use Planbookedu.com etc. . . If you use a paper copy, please take pics weekly and place in Google Drive in a Shared Folder and provide the link. Please let me know if you need assistance setting up any of the above.
Welcome to our newest members of our lunch monitor staff! Nikki Joanis will be job sharing with Cindy Igoe this year and Lisa O'Malley will join us five days a week as an additional team member in our lunchroom. Welcome to Brown School!
Remember that support staff will cover recesses for the first week of school, but we could use all hands on deck at dismissal throughout the week. If you are not a classroom teacher, please plan to assist Y5 and K classes.
This Week at Brown
9/4 A Day
First day of school!
- Model, practice, repeat of common area expectations - visit the lunchroom - tables will be down all morning
- Popsicles for all at last recesses
- Sign up for cool zone learning in the media center here
2 p.m. Special Education staff meets with Denise
9/5 B Day
DLC 4:15-5:30 @ Central
Kristen visiting classrooms - be sure to sign up above!
9/6 C Day
Kristen visiting classrooms - be sure to sign up above!
9/7 D Day
IEP/CST/SSM (a.m.) schedules to be sent to teachers
Coming Up...
9/12 Media Center visits begin
9/17 Constitution Day & ELE Back to School Night - schedule coming soon
9/18 PTO Meeting 7 p.m.
9/19 Late Start Day
9/22 BBQ @ Elizabeth's House
Kudos and Thank You to...
- All staff members for your willingness to embrace "whatever it takes" for our students, for your collaborative spirit, and for making this the best start to our school year. Go Team Brown!
- Beth, Kim, Caroline, and Linda for mentoring our newest staff members. They are so lucky to have you!
- Sara for all of her heroic work to ensure all of our students are enrolled and placed in classed on day one. We appreciate you!
- Natalie and Morgan for their solution-minded approach while representing Brown School as we plan for warm weather days.
- Kim, Caroline, and Erica for leading us through such an inspirational activity last Wednesday. What a touching time for our team!
- Stephanie, Morgan, Kelly N., Caroline, Natalie, and Sarah for serving on our Safe and Civil Schools team.
It's going to be a fabulous start to another amazing school year together!
