March 29-April 2

Hi Everyone,

I want to start the memo this week with family picnic information to make sure that we all are on the same page.

Here are things to know:

• Please make sure if you have families with older siblings that plan to come to the picnic that the family calls Mrs. Preston in attendance by Wednesday. It gets tricky having lots of secondary students out of class to join us and we try really hard each year to create a master list by grade level to help know who is suppose to be out of class.

• Please be "on duty" during the picnic and help monitor student behavior. There is not to be any recess equipment out (footballs etc.) and students are not allowed to run around playing tag etc. If we all pitch in and remind the students(and their families) not to run around it will help keep everyone safe.

• Sign out: Please have a designated place for your students to sign out with you. They should know where to go to sign out. I know that most of you have them sign out as they leave to eat with their parents which works very well. Please help our new folks figure out a system.

• The playground will be locked during the picnic.

• Finally, if this is your first picnic or your 15th this is what PKY is all about!

Here is the rest of our week:

Wednesday:

• Creek School

• Math adoption conversation continues

Thursday:

• Creek School

Friday:

• Pavlik's class digital story telling showcase in the community classroom from 10:30-11:30am.

• Family picnic 12-1

Coming Soon/Announcements:

• Spring Break April 5-9

• Teacher Workday 4/12

Celebrations:

• Happy Birthday to: Sue Ireland 4/1 (HS counselor), Rob Cox and Julie Johnson 4/2, Marion 4/3, Coach Lou 4/4 (Football and HS PE), and Shirley Ann 4/7!!!!!

"Let Passion drive your profession."

From the Oprah List

See you in your rooms,

Amy

3/22-3/26

Hello Elementary Faculty,

Testing is over and we have two weeks to maintain our academic focus until Spring Break. We can do it!

Here is our week:

Tuesday:

• Kindergarten to IFAS fisheries

Wednesday:

• no meetings today!!!

Thursday:

• Inquiry Science Research in action day. We are hosting visitors from the Florida School for the deaf and blind with the visit focus being inquiry science.

• Everyday Math rep 3:00-4:30pm

Friday:

• K-1 CBM data due to Marisa

Coming Soon/Announcements:

• Good News we still have a Fossil Pit to use for our inquiry based Science lessons. If you need to use the "pit" please contact Renee Andrews (randrews@pky.ufl.edu) to reserve it.

• 4/2 Elementary Family picnic 12:00pm-1:00pm -Learning community leaders please make sure that folks new to our faculty know about this event. We will also discuss it at out 3/31 faculty meeting.

Celebrations:

• Thank you to Kelly Dolan for administering the Stanford 10 test to Angie's class!

• Thank you Ritzy for all of the things you did to help with testing!

• Happy Birthday to: Linda Preston 3/26!!!

"Our greatest wealth is having choices."

Think about it-What opportunities do we provide for our students to have choices in their learning every day?

See you in your rooms,

Amy

3/15-3/19

Hello Elementary Faculty,

FCAT Schedule Changes that are still in effect until the end of this week:

• FCAT lunch and special schedule
  

o  4^th grade switches with 1^st grade for specials for the two weeks Monday 3/8-Friday 3/19

o  5^th grade will eat lunch in the classroom for the three days that there is an overlap in their testing time and lunch time.

o  March 11^th 4^th grade will do lunch in the classroom

o  P.E. will be on the covered court or in the gym

o  Wait for the all clear to go out for recess

o  Art will be in the classroom unless Kathy lets you know differently

Here is our week:

Monday:

• Testing continues please remember to be quiet in the halls and outside of the lunchroom. No recess until the "all clear" signal.

Tuesday:

• LC  team leader meeting 3:00pm Angie's room

• SAC 5:30pm
  

Wednesday:

• Learning Community Work 1:15 -4:30pm-focus on envision math program 

Coming Soon/Announcements:

• 3/24 ***meeting change*** we will meet on Thursday 3/25 from 3-4:30pm to see the everyday math program presentation. The rep was not available on 3/24. The good news is we have a Wednesday afternoon with no meeting. The trade off is that we will have a Thursday meeting instead.

• 3/25 Elementary Research in Action

Celebrations:

• Happy Birthday to: Sandra Villanueva 3/15, Ellen Greenstein 3/17, and Michael Roberts 3/20!!!!!!!

"You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams."

Dana Torres

 who at 41 and the mother of a very young child came within 1/100th of a second of wining a gold medal at the Olympic games.

See you in your rooms,

Amy

3/8-3/11

Hello Elementary Faculty,

FCAT Schedule Changes that were decided upon by the elementary lead team:

• FCAT lunch and special schedule
  

o  4^th grade switches with 1^st grade for specials for the two weeks Monday 3/8-Friday 3/19

o  5^th grade will eat lunch in the classroom for the three days that there is an overlap in their testing time and lunch time.

o  March 11^th 4^th grade will do lunch in the classroom

o  P.E. will be on the covered court or in the gym

o  Wait for the all clear to go out for recess

o  Art will be in the classroom unless Kathy lets you know differently

Here is our week:

Tuesday:

• FCAT testing begins-quiet in the halls and no recess until the "all clear" signal.

• LC  team leader meeting 3:00pm Angie's room

• PKYPTO 5:30pm
  

Wednesday:

• Learning Community Work 1-4:30pm

Coming Soon/Announcements:

• 3/15 k-2 CBM window starts/FCAT and Stanford 10 testing 

• 3/16 SAC

Celebrations:

• A big shout out to the kindergarten and their Dragon Parade-it was a huge hit with all of the people on the front circle.

• Happy Birthday to: Mr. Dodge 3/10, Russ Froman and Ann Marie Heller (HS Chemistry) 3/11, and Marisa 3/13!!!!

"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress."

Gandhi

See you in your rooms,

Amy