News for November 9, 2020

 

We inspire and celebrate kindness every day at Brown School. This week, however, is especially dedicated to sharing acts of kindness as Friday, November 13th is World Kindness Day. We will spread kindness like confetti in every classroom around Brown School. 

See the plan below - thank you to our 3rd grade team for your thoughtful planning!

This Week at Brown School

Kindness Week Kicks Off!

11/9   Board of Education Meeting @ SJHS 6:00pm 

11/11   Late Start Day

           P2 Resources @ 8:35am via Google Meet: meet.google.com/gbk-aphz-ift

11/12   Half-day of school - dismissal @12:34 p.m.

           Virtual Scholastic Book Fair begins! 

11/13    World Kindness Day!

            Half-day of school - dismissal @12:34 p.m.

Coming Up...

11/16   Stuff-a-Truck Food Drive begins (runs through the 20th - see details below)

11/17    Lockdown Drill #2 @ 1:20 p.m. - exterior threat

(Note: please do not share specific drill plans with families for safety reasons)

            School Improvement Meeting 4-5 p.m.

            Virtual PTO Meeting @ 7pm - Hassenger & Lokey (Google Meet link: meet.google.com/yrm-csmi-acj)

11/18   Late Start Day

11/19   Special Thanksgiving meal served (in classrooms)

 11/20  Half-day of school - dismissal @12:34 p.m.

11/25 - 11/27 Thanksgiving Break - NO SCHOOL

Small group, targeted work with students.

Individual conferences with our readers and writers. 

Providing immediate feedback to our learners.

WE ARE BROWN SCHOOL.

Fogging Schedule

Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays

9:40 & 1:30  ECDD and Resource Room

10:00 Media Center

10:25 Fourth & Fifth Grades

10:50  Second & Third Grades

12:30 Media Center, Speech, Main Office, and SSW

1:50  Y5s, Kindergarten, and First Grades

Late Start Wednesdays

9:40 & 1:30  ECDD and Resource Room

10:25 Y5, K, and 1st 

10:50 2nd & 3rd

12:30 Media Center, Speech, Main Office, and SSW

2:40 4th & 5th

Indoor Recess Plan

All classes will stay in their own classrooms for indoor recess unless it is scheduled to be fogged. If it is a fogging recess, the teacher on duty will take the grade level cohort he/she directly works with to the gym and the other grade level will join Jen Berry in the media center. Thank you, Jen!

Daily Health Screener

Just a reminder to be sure you are completing your daily health screener each and every morning before coming in to the school. Thank you for your focused attention to this important precaution. 

P2 Training & Next Steps

It is almost time to officially launch P2 with our students and families! Our official start day will be on November 23rd (the start of the first trimester). While lessons will only be delivered to K-5 students, all students and staff members will receive a shirt and will be part of the movement. 

This week we will practice accessing the materials and will dedicate some time to looking through the resources and planning daily implementation with teams.  Please be sure to watch the short clip "Three Clicks to Success" before Wednesday morning. Click here for speedy access. Remember the password is "OtherPeopleMatterMindset". Instead of capturing your takeaways on a circle, we will plan to go through a few steps on a Google Meet call at 8:35am on Wednesday morning (invitation sent and also linked here), then grade level teams should plan to spend a few minutes planning morning meeting content around the slides.

Excited to check out the resources? Be sure you are logged in to your @stjoebears.com google account and click here to see what the presentations/slides are like - engaging, real examples in videos and prompting group questions - all in one place! 

Kindness Week Celebration Plan

World Kindness Day is November 13th. Our third grade team, in conjunction with our PTO, have devised an excellent plan to celebrate kindness in and around Brown School. Here's the scoop:

• Classroom teachers, you will receive a stack of "confetti" shaped cutouts in your mailboxes by November 9th.
• During a class meeting during the week of November 9th, classes will share real-life examples of kindness toward others that students & staff have witnessed at Brown School.  
• Upon witnessing/participating in an act of kindness toward others at school, students/staff will write details on a piece of confetti.
• Classroom teachers will tape the pieces of confetti along the classroom door frame in the hallway.
• We will share a Flipgrid on the Brown PTO Facebook page so that families can record and share examples of kindness witnessed outside of school throughout the week. 

Stuff a Truck Food Drive

November 16 - 20, 2020

We are delighted to partner with 97.5 Y Country to collect donations for our local families again this year. Thank you to Becky for serving as our liaison.

Boxes will be located in the cross halls for students to add to. We will also have additional boxes in the vestibule by the office for families to drop off items. There will not be a competition this year, thus no specific boxes allocated to classrooms.

Thank you for spreading the news of the collection dates in your classroom blog as well, teachers.

This will be shared with families in Sunday's post:

Brown School is proud to give back to the larger Berrien County community by collecting non-perishable (canned goods, boxed dinner/pasta) food items November 16-20. If you are able, simply pick up an item (or more) at the grocery store, and send it to school with your student to be donated. There will be a donation in the Brown School vestibule if SJVS students would also like to donate. We collect now because there is a greater need for food around the holidays. Thanks for spreading kindness and positivity!