News for February 4, 2019
Welcome back! What a wild week of wintery weather!
This is such an optimal time of year for our students at all levels to experience growth. Thank you for partnering with your colleagues and encouraging our young scholars to seize every opportunity for deep levels of learning.
Not a lot of new information for this coming week as we haven't been together this week. The first grade musical has been rescheduled to 9:00 on February 14th. In addition, Kindness Week will begin Monday, February 4th instead. IEP meetings are being rescheduled. Please look for a google invitation from Sherry Fudge if you were planning to meet on Friday morning.
This Week at Brown
Feb 4 Kindness Week begins! (rescheduled for this week due to snow days)
WIDA Testing begins
Hearing/Vision Re-screening
Feb 5 Curriculum Release Day: 1st (a.m.); K (p.m.)
Play It Safe!
Feb 6 Late start day
Curriculum Release Day: 3rd (a.m.); 2nd (p.m.)
DLC 4:15-5:30 @ Central
Play It Safe!
Feb 7 Danapilis/Fedewa to the planetarium 8:35-9:30am
Curriculum Release Day: 5th (a.m.); 4th (p.m.)
Play It Safe!
Feb 8 Ice skating with buddies!
Schedule coming soon - will be emailed to staff ASAP
Family Movie Night @ Brown 6pm
Coming Up...
Feb 11 Pennies for Patients continues this week
WIDA testing continues
Kim begins in Kindergarten
Bear Tracks submissions due
Calling All Colors - Grimm in gym 9-11:00am
Student Council Meeting @ lunch - Lokey's room
Feb 12 5th graders to Sarett 9-2:30pm
Tornado Drill @ 10am
Staff/SI meeting in Lear's room 4-5pm
Feb 13 Late Start Day
Count Day
Feb 14 First grade musical - 9am & 6pm - rescheduled
All School Recess @ 2:15pm
Valentine's Day parties 2:30-3:45 pm
Feb 15 Jen's last day in first grade
Crazy Hair Day - SC Fun Friday
School Store @ first recesses
Kristen @ Central (a.m.)
Feb 18 Erica returns!
Yearbook group photos - rooftop shot @ 10am
Release Time Bible Class 2:20-3:35
Board of Education Meeting @ Central 6pm
Feb 19 Barron's class to planetarium 8:50-10am
Staff/SI meeting 4-5pm
PTO Meeting 7pm in M.C. - Barkovich
Feb 20 Late Start Day
Lockdown Drill @ 10am - exterior threat
Ann's lunch with 5th grade group 12:15-12:45pm
Feb 21 Cloverleaf Spelling Bee (a.m.)
Feb 22 1/2 day - dismissal @ 12:05pm (PM schedule)
Core5 Update
As I prepare for my mid-year data call with the Lexia Core5 trainer, I was incredibly encouraged by how grade levels are collectively closing the achievement gap through daily practice and intervention on skills that require additional support.  |
| The gray bar represents students with skills below grade, light blue is on-grade level and the dark blue bar represents students above grade level. Way to go third grade team! Closing the gap with 100% of your students meeting usage each week (see below). |
Below is our school-wide graph representing students with skills represented below, on, and above grade level. Shrinking that gray bar and increasing the blue bars! Way to go, Team Brown!
Way to go, fourth grade team - closing the gap with fewer and fewer students at "high risk" for meeting end-of-year grade-level benchmarks due to meeting usage goals and participating in intervention (see graph below).
Kevin and Rick for the heroic snow blowing and shoveling work this week! PHEW!
Our Safe & Civil Schools team (Caroline, Stephanie, Morgan,
Elizabeth, Stephanie, and Kelly for sharing their knowledge and success regarding our LLI implementation.
Kristi, Sandy, and Carol for working so hard on progress monitoring our at-promise readers and mathematicians. Teachers, remember that the data is live (meaning graphs are updated automatically as interventionists add the numbers in the charts) and is always available to your team for planning and reflection in your shared grade level Tier III folder in google.
Becky for organizing the recycling team and Student Council.
Stephanie for leading the Grizzly Tech Team.
Jen and Elizabeth for hosting the student book club at lunch.
Kim, Caroline, Beth & Linda for mentoring our newest staff members.
Books by the Bushel is offering a contest to win free books and build your classroom library.
Great news! The Foundation graciously granted funds to expand our 4th and 5th grade classroom libraries district-wide. The books have been ordered and we are looking forward to getting them in our students hands soon!
Guess Who...
In our last edition of "Guess Who" we featured Sue Riemland as our mystery staff member. Aren't we so lucky to have her energy, positivity, and support right here at Brown School?
This week's featured staff member...
loves to watch MASH, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Guy's Grocery Games, and Property Brothers.
enjoys reading Counting by Sevens by Holly Goldberg Sloan because it is a "very sweet book about how kindness can change a life".
is afraid of squirrels because they have no fear.
loves penguins, lobsters, and okapi.
