Announcements - First Weekly Email

August 31st

Drills - We will call classes out to do bus drills between 10:00 AM and 11:00 AM on Friday, September 3rd.

August 30th

PLCs: PLCs will be on Thursday this week with grade level teams.  

Transportation:  Please turn in your list of students with how they get home to Robyn by Monday morning.  

For Transportation Changes:  

1.  Copy the note

2.  Give Robyn a copy

3.  Keep a copy in your room.

4.  Fill out a Bus Ticket if the change involves taking a bus home.  Be sure you use the Bus Change Transportation Ticket to indicate to bus drivers how students are getting home if there is a change.  You may want to print multiple copies and have a stack in your room.  

Virtual Opening Day

New Staff Video

Fran Award Video

Opening Day Video

Cafeteria News: Snack Cart Will Start on Monday.  Prices will range from $.25 to $1.00.  

Create Seating Charts for your classroom, carpet, cafeteria, and small groups.  Here is a suggestion:

1.  Start by making your classroom seating chart based on what's best for whole group instruction/Kagan Strategies.

2.  Make a seating chart for small groups based on how you want to differentiate.  

3.  Decide if you want students to sit in the cafeteria and in specials by their small group pod or their whole group order.  Keep the specials seating consistent with the cafeteria seating arrangement.

Keep an updated seating chart for each area on file and add the date that the seating chart changed if you change where students sit.   

Your careful attention to keeping up with seating charts will limit the number of students that need to be quarantined.  

More District Updates

Clever

iReady and TCI Science Alive are both linked to Clever for our K-8 students. This means that they will not need additional usernames and passwords to access these sites. When they login to their chromebooks, they will click on the Garrard homepage, student applications, and Clever (or if you have Clever badges, it's even easier). Then they will click on iReady or TCI to get into either of these programs. The students have been automatically uploaded into these programs. (We are getting a weird message from iReady though so Chris has contacted them and should be fixed today--Friday)

GCLA

The district is looking for someone or multiple people to work a couple days after school for about an hour and a half each day to provide content and learning support for students who are in GCLA.  Let Scott Bolin know if you are interested.  Your hourly rate is based on your daily rate.  This would start after labor day. 

Constitution Day

Constitution Day

What is Constitution Day and what are schools required to do on this day?

Under legislation passed by Congress, all education institutions receiving Federal funding are required to commemorate the signing of the U.S. Constitution, on September 17 of each year. If September 17 falls on a holiday or weekend, Constitution Day is to be commemorated the preceding or following week. To assist students and educators in their studies, the National Archives and Records Administration offers key resources, such as "The Constitution at Work," a matching game connecting primary resources to constitutional articles, and "Exploring the U.S. Constitution," an eBook that explores the roots of the three branches of government.  Likewise, free online resources are available from the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the U.S. Senate.