LS Weekly Memo
Week 10: October 21-25
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Looks like we have another week of sun. I hope your students and you get out and enjoy it. Good luck with conference preparations this week and next.
COMMUNITY
Kristen Update
Congratulations to Kristen and Joe on the arrival of Cora Lucille Haferbecker on October 15.
Dave Hall
Our thanks to Dave Hall for stepping up so quickly to take up Kristen’s BS and First Grade music classes. Dave has also picked up Kristen’s Second Grade support duties. Way to go, Dave! We appreciate all the time and effort Dave, the Second Grade team and Amy (his music mentor) are contributing to make this all work!
Madeleine Jennings
Please welcome Madeleine Jennings, Carole’s long-term substitute and parent of an Upper School student, to our community. Madeleine immediately fit right into the fabric of the classroom and the Beginning School team. We feel so fortunate to have her with us!
Goals with Assistants
Assistant Teachers and their supervising classroom teachers should meet and develop goals for the year. You will both have an opportunity to reflect on Assistants growth and achievement of goals later on in the winter. You will each complete a supervision and evaluation form before Spring break in March 2014.
Lisset’s Galaria
You may have noticed beautiful art work emerging in Lisset’s Galeria between the First and Second Grade Common Area and the library. If your students have some type of promotional posters to hang, please remind them not to hang posters in Lisset’s Galeria. Muchas Gracias!
Fall Conferences Coming Up
Please let Ari, Patti, Chris or David know if you need support, with planning and/or attending conferences. We will all be on campus and can make time in our schedules to attend conferences if you let us know ahead of time.
Fourth and Fifth Grade Lunch Concerns
This past week a number of students, largely Fourth Graders, have taken it upon themselves to fill out Bon Appetit comment cards. The first day the comments were critical, the second day the comments were down right rude. We are looking into this early next week. If you supervise Fourth and Fifth Graders in the dining hall, please be aware and watchful. Asha and her team have noticed that her students are eating little to nothing and spending time chatting instead of eating. We are realizing there may be more to this. Stay tuned.
Exciting Days Ahead, Friday, Oct. 25th and 26th
We begin the day on Friday, Oct. 25th with an assembly (more details to follow), and throughout the day will visit Pumpkin displays in the Common Areas and library.
Saturday, Oct. 26th is Spooktacular, the annual Halloween party extraordinaire. This is a very fun family event. You attendance is optional. Prizes are usually offered to the best faculty Halloween costume.
All School Wetland Consortium, Monday, Oct. 28th, 3:15-4:15
All faculty who use the OES wetland for exploration and study, will gather in Erin Baker’s classroom after school. If you treasure the OES wetlands with your students and can get away from conference prep, come to this meeting. It promises to be an exciting first step in an all-school collaboration. Our thanks to Erin, Kirstin and Tracy for spearheading this movement.
PROGRAM
Visiting Classes
Remember that Team Leaders can be scheduled to cover your class so you can observe colleagues teach.
Open House is Around the Corner
Be thinking ahead to how you will make students’ learning visible for our visitors coming on Wednesday, November 6th. Look for more details in next week’s Weekly Memo.
AS Meeting - Monday, October 21 @ 3:15
Benefits Meeting in the Dining Hall. See Jennifer Lushenko’s email for details.
Benefits Fair - Tuesday, October 22, 12:30 - 4:30
See Mo’s email from 10/17 for details
Thursday Meeting, October 24
Faculty Meeting - Team and Specialist meeting 7:40 - 8:40
BS - See Team Leader for agenda
1st & 2nd - See Team Leader for agenda
3rd - 5th - See Team Leader for agenda
Specialists - See Team Leader for agenda
OPERATIONS
Substitute Folder- A Friendly Reminder
All classroom teachers, assistant teachers and specialists should keep up to date sub folders, ready with a emergency lesson plan (not for assistants), schedules, class lists, medical alerts, etc.
Safe School Training - See Jennifer Lushenko’s email from 9/30
DUE OCTOBER 31
Open the login instructions for accessing the SafeSchools training site. Follow the instructions for your user name. All employees are required to complete these courses by the end of October.
How to log on to the online training program:
- To access your assigned training, enter your username, which follows the following format: last name, first initial of first name
Example: John Smith = smithj
- Select any course by simply clicking over the name of the course. The courses have audio so turn up your speakers or headphones if you wish to hear the narration.
- Complete all the training scenarios and the assessment to receive completion credit for the course.
- Please print out a Certification of Completion once you complete the course and turn in a copy to Jennifer Lushenko.
Conference Schedule
All teaching Assistants are schedule to eat lunch from 11:00 - 12:00 so there will be no child care during that hour. Please do not schedule conferences during that time.
Dress Code Policy Check In
We just finished the First Six Weeks of school and we can see that children are having a hard time meeting dress code guidelines. There are obvious issues with sweatshirts inside. Students are to wear navy blue or green sweatshirts (OES logo in 2014), no spirit wear. This past week I saw everything from a “I Love New York” sweatshirt, OES spirit wear to lots of NIKE sweatshirts.
Please review the uniform policy with your students, then:
-Remind them once
-Second time, send students to room 10 to get a used sweatshirt to wear for the day
-Third time, contact the family/parents
Care of Common Areas
Please be sure not to leave dirty dishes in Common Area sinks.
Stray clothing should go to room 10, not be left by Chris’ office.
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