Sunday, May 22, 2022

Sunday, May 22

 

Buckle in because here we go: Four days of absolute craziness!!! We can do anything for 4 days, right?? 

But before we do anything, I want to congratulate our Teacher Who Makes a Difference! This year it is Ally Simmons. As we all know, Ally will do anything for her students. She cares for each and every one of them as if they are her own children. It definitely shows because her kids love her right back. For all of us lucky enough to work with Ally, we know she will do anything for us too! We are so lucky to have you at Stoneridge, Ally! 💗 Congratulations!!


As you all know, Tuesday is our yearbook signing party. Please pass out your yearbooks on Monday so the kids can take a look but please DO NOT send them home until Tuesday. Students always forget them on signing day. Also, additional yearbooks are available in the office for $30 cash. We would like kids to know whether or not they have a yearbook before the signing party. 

PTC has lots of goodies ready to sell at the signing party. Here is the list:


Summer Check Out Time SlotsCheck Out Sign Up

Here is the checklist: Summer Check Out

Report Card Timeline:
Monday, 5/23: Submit Report Cards
Tues & Wed, 5/24 and 5/25: Make changes
Thursday, 5/26: Report cards emailed to parents

Coming Up This Week:
May 23: PLC for Report Card Prep

May 24: 9am Yearbook Signing party and 1pm Senior Walk

May 25: 9:30am 5th Grade Tunnel and 11am 5th Grade Celebration (Kona Ice)

May 26: Last Day of School and 5th graders at SunSplash

May 27: Teacher Work Day





Sunday, May 15, 2022

Sunday, May 15

 

I was doing a distracted scroll through Instagram mid-blog writing and this was right there. I could not resist including it in the blog. I am going to be honest, this blog is going to be straight forward, and to the point. My kids and pool are calling me! 

Summer Check Out Time Slots: Check Out Sign Up

Field Day Schedule: See Christi's email for more detailed information.

Upper Grades

Academic Resources on district site: I found some great summer resources on out RCSD Learning Site. It is perfect to share with parents who ask for summer work. 

Summer Resources

Here is the link to the Family Blog. There is PTC Info, a link to the PTC meeting and more!

Stoneridge Family Blog

Coming Up This Week:

Tuesday, 5/17: PTC Meeting

Wednesday, 5/18: End of Year Party RSVP

Thursday, 5/19: Snowie King

Birthdays This Week🎈🎉 
Christi Robertson: May 16th


Saturday, May 7, 2022

Saturday, May 7

 

Happy Mother's Day tomorrow! Have a wonderful day spoiling your mom, being a mom or both. Whatever you do, relax and enjoy your loved ones. I hope you enjoyed your week of being spoiled by both students and families. It was as though our families have been looking for a way to show you how much they appreciate you, we gave them an opportunity, and the flood gates opened. It was so wonderful to see everyone come together and all because of you! 

Class Lists: I shared the class list spreadsheet with each grade level. We will work on class lists during PLC time on Monday. I will check in to see if you are ready to work together school-wide or if you need time in you PLC first.

CAASPP Completion Report: Here is the completion report for those that wanted to take a look. A huge thank you to Nichol for pulling this report and for all of her help throughout CAASPP testing!

Completion Report

Kind Assembly: Our Assembly to recognize Kind students will be Friday at 11:15am. 
Here is the spreadsheet to add your winners: Kind Winners

New Staff Member! We will have a new staff member joining our Stoneridge team! Liz Blom will be teaching 1st grade. She is coming from Riego Creek and a very familiar face to the Stoneridge family. We are very excited to have her.

End of Year Check Out: It is that time of year. Here is the form for you. Remember, you will have to do the Multi-factor authentication before you can check out. I included the steps below, but I think they are in the form. 

End of Year Check Out

  • Multi-factor authentication is a proven approach to drastically reducing automated cybersecurity attacks.

  • In compliance with the District’s cyber and ransomware insurance coverage, all RCSD employees will be required to enable 2-Step verification on or before May 27, 2022.

Please feel free to reference the below link for what to expect, instructional videos and support:

https://www.rcsdk8.org/secureaccess



Our end of year celebration will be at the Yard House on Wednesday, May 18th from 4:00-6:00. Sunshine Committee is out of funds so everyone will be responsible for their own bill but their Happy Hour is pretty amazing and super affordable. 
Can't wait to celebrate the start of summer after a very crazy year with all of you! 

Date for next year: Back to School Night will be Tuesday, August 9th from 5-6:30pm. School starts August 11. 

Coming Up This Week:

Tuesday, 5/10, @2:45pm Shelter in Place with Raptor. 

Wednesday, 5/11, @3:30pm Staff Meeting

Thursday, 5/12, @9am EcoHero Assembly in the Quad

Friday, 5/13, @11:15am Kind Assembly

Important End of Year Dates:

May 20: Field Day

May 24: 9am Yearbook Signing party and 1pm Senior Walk

May 25: 9:30am 5th Grade Tunnel and 11am 5th Grade Celebration (Kona Ice)

May 26: Last Day of School and 5th graders at SunSplash

Birthdays This Week🎈🎉 
Cathy Wallace: May 14th

Have a great week!


Sunday, May 1, 2022

Sunday, May 1

May, here we come! As we enter the last month of school, be sure to review the PACK expectations and flood with positive reinforcement. We have added some things to our reward system to make it new and exciting. This will help us end the year on a positive note. Please show the video (in the email) to your students on Monday. A few classes did the raffle last Friday and the kids were beyond excited. 

PBIS: Please share the update video with students on Monday. There is one change to the weekly drawings, I will come in on Friday mornings and pick the names. 

KIND Assembly date change: Assembly will be next Friday, 5/13.

Just a reminder that Wild Things is coming on Monday!!! I am so super excited about this assembly and hope that you are too! Please have your kids seated by your 9:00 or 10:00 start time so each group gets a full program. 

TK-2: 9:00-9:45
3-5: 10:00-10:50
Please talk with your kids beforehand about the importance of being quiet as they enter so we don't scare any of the amazing animals.
iReady: Good news, grades 2-5 will have iReady instruction in either math or ELA. 
I will be by on Monday to talk iReady! 
Thank you to all of you for testing out Raptor during our fire drill. We will have a drill this week or next. It will be a Shelter In Place drill. I don't want to interrupt the students too much, but I do want to take time to work with Raptor. I will be working on some of the issues, but in the meantime, see this Q/A. It has answers to many of our issues and questions. 

Raptor Q/A 

End of Year Check Out: It is that time of year. Here is the form for you. Remember, you will have to do the Multi-factor authentication before you can check out. I included the steps below, but I think they are in the form. 

End of Year Check Out

  • Multi-factor authentication is a proven approach to drastically reducing automated cybersecurity attacks.

  • In compliance with the District’s cyber and ransomware insurance coverage, all RCSD employees will be required to enable 2-Step verification on or before May 27, 2022.

Please feel free to reference the below link for what to expect, instructional videos and support:

https://www.rcsdk8.org/secureaccess



Our end of year celebration will be at the Yard House on Wednesday, May 18th from 4:00-6:00. Sunshine Committee is out of funds so everyone will be responsible for their own bill but their Happy Hour is pretty amazing and super affordable. 
Can't wait to celebrate the start of summer after a very crazy year with all of you! 

Date for next year: Back to School Night will be Tuesday, August 9th from 5-6:30pm. School starts August 11. 

TOSA Tidbits

A few weeks ago I shared links for a couple fluency games using doubles facts. 
Double Doubles (3rd-5th) and Dominating Doubles (1st-2nd)
Over the next 2 Fridays, if you would like to sign up for a 30 minutes time slot, I can come in to facilitate the game with your students. It might not be suitable for TK or kinders but I can always adapt this game or come in to facilitate a different math game. I taught the game to first grade and it was really fun! 

EL Update: RFEP Monitoring Round 2
If you have received an email from ELLevation with a request to complete the RFEP monitoring form, please take a moment to complete it. This is all done on ELLevation. This monitoring form needs to be completed by May 6. If you have any questions, please let Poppi or me know.  

Coming Up This Week:
Monday: Wild Things Assembly
TK-2: 9:00-9:45
3-5: 10:00-10:50
Tuesday: 5:30-6:30pm Ensemble Performance in the MP
Wednesday: Staff Luncheon, PBIS Meeting at 3:30pm


Have a wonderful week full of the spoiling you deserve! 


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