Sunday, August 28

Happy Sunday!! Well, we made it through our first fire drill! I know it sounds crazy, but I am actually happy it went the way it did because I was able to learn the ins and outs of our alarm. Before, I would just go and push the buttons I was instructed to and sometimes it would work. Ha! Now, I know HOW it works and can help others. We will add that to the 'things I didn't realize I needed to know' list. The bottom line: you can go into the next fire drill confident we will not have a repeat of Friday's drill! 

Drill/Raptor Feedback: If you haven't already, please share your issues and feedback with Raptor. If you could not log in or take attendance, I need you to add your name to the Google Doc. Thank you for taking the time to do this. 

Drill/Raptor Feedback

Last week was a busy week! Although it was busy, it was fabulous! The parents were so excited to be part of our assembly recognizing their children. It feels so good to add back some of the 'normal' things! 

Daily Schedules: I will be creating my schedule to come into classes. When I come through, I will be looking for things like ELD structured support, Second Step, RTI time and small group time. Having your schedules will help guide my walk throughs. Please add your schedule to this folder:

22/23 Daily Schedules

Adjunct Duties: Here is the list of Adjunct Duties that you signed up for. Please remember that one person needs to take the lead role, check in with me and then get it up and running. I have included the list for you to look at. Also, add your name, if needed. Some things do not have anyone signed up, so they will not be able to happen this year. Which is OK! Let me know if you will be taking the lead and let's start planning. 

Adjunct Duties

PBIS Pop Up: As Kelly mentioned, we would be sharing an idea bank. Please take and share ideas on this document:

PBIS Incentive Idea Bank

EL Reminder

• Initial ELPAC: we have 8 students who are either finishing or need to complete the initial ELPAC. We will have an examiner on campus on 8/31 to do this. 
• Newcomer Support: Here is a link to some great resources for Supporting Our Newcomers in RCSD
• Attention 3-5th grade teachers: Rosetta Stone-if you have a student in need of intense language support please complete this form as soon as possible as our licenses are limited.   2022-2023 Rosetta Stone Form

Coming up This Week:

Monday, 8/29: LITE Meeting @ 2:45pm at DO

Tuesday, 8/30: Staff Meeting @ 2:20pm in Staff Room

Wednesday, 8/31: K/1 Lexia Training on Zoom at 1:45pm and SSP Meeting by invite only. 

Friday, 9/2: Friday Morning Flag Salute at 7:45am

Birthdays This Week🎈🎉 

Sara Franco: August 28th

Melissa Oxenham: September 2nd

Sunday, August 21

 

Just a little reminder for both you and I. I think I had a false sense of security that adults would be more settled and children more ready as we began school this year. I keep reminding myself, that each step we take in a positive direction is progress. It may seem like a long road, but if we keep things moving forward, we are being successful. I have also stopped saying things like, 'It will be better when... or I will be happy if... or Things will calm down as soon as...' The truth is, even when those things happen, I will find a reason not to be happy or there will be something else to keep me crazy busy. We need to find contentment in the process, and in our progress, in all that we do. 

Lunch Count: We will be creating a Google Doc for lunch counts, but it will not be ready for a couple days. Please continue to use your paper rosters until you get the Google Doc. Thank you for your flexibility with this. 

GoodNotes App: Awesome News!! We have the Good Notes App available on our iPads. This app allows you to write on the student workbook pages on your iPad. I am trying to get everything working and squared away before we train you on how to use it. It requires a stylus and I think I have the right ones coming, but they don't arrive until Tuesday. As soon as we have a functioning Stylus for everyone, the most awesome Kelly Ebner has volunteered to help train everyone. 

iReady Diagnostics

i-Ready diagnostic assessments are available for students in 2nd through 8th grade. Please see the diagnostic windows below. The first diagnostic will be automatically assigned. Please view the RCSD Assessment Calendar linked below for more information on assessments.

• Window 1: 8/15 - 9/16
• Window 2: 12/12 - 1/27
• Window 3: 4/17 - 5/26

TOSA Tidbits

I have had so much fun coming into classes this last week, I decided to extend sign-ups for another week! I changed the document a little bit to include some 40 minute blocks. (TK-2 teachers: I am merging the assessment support doc with this one. Your sign-up was transferred over) Feel free to sign up again, if I've already visited your class. I can even come in for a quick 15 minute energizer. We did a fun one in Sarah Lee's class on Friday. :) I love getting to know the amazing community of learners you have in your classes. Thank you so much!

Wright: First Two Weeks Activity Schedule

Thursday: Thursday is a BIG day! We will have our first assembly and will recognize students who are 'Proactive.' You may choose 2 students. Please keep your reason why as brief as possible. I know we want to rave about our students, but they do get restless. The format will be just like last year. 

Thursday is also the Ice Cream Social. It is from 5:30-7:30. You will not be scooping ice cream, but your presence is so LOVED by the kids. 

Slight change: There was supposed to be an evacuation drill on Thursday, but we are going to move it to Friday. I will be sharing Raptor information to the new staff members. Your safety bags are not quite ready because of the changes to safety drills, but they will be soon. 

Coming Up This Week: (I hope to have everything added to the Staff Calendar this week)

Tuesday, August 23: PLC Leadership at 2:20-3:20pm

Wednesday, August 24: SSP Meetings from 2:00-3:00pm

Thursday, August 25: PACK Assembly from 9:15-9:50am and Ice Cream Social from 5:30-7:30pm

Friday, August 25: Good Morning Get Together (GMGT) in the Quad (Just testing out names) from 7:45-8:00am

The prize for this week's GMGT is to be on Stoneridge Instagram. (Calendar of prizes to follow)

Friday, August 25: Evacuation Drill at 10am. 

Birthdays This Week🎈🎉 

Rori Wright: August 21th

Abby Wilkinson: August 22nd

Welcome Back!

 

Well, there you have it. The first two days of school are ✔ done! I can't believe it. It has been a wonderful start to the year and I am excited for what is to come. Thank you to all of you for everything you are doing and for the countless hours you put in preparing. The smiles on the kids' faces say it all!! 

I wanted to share the document with our Collective Commitments. I am so excited about what we have committed to as a staff. I encourage you to print it out and hang it up. We will revisit this at our first staff meeting. Stoneridge Collective Commitments

Here is the updated 'Dates to Know' calendar. I think we have everything squared away. A couple things have changed, so be sure to double check anything you may have written down. We will also get these things added to our staff calendar:

Dates to Know

So you have it on hand, here is the: PTC Calendar of Events

We have the Ice Cream Social coming quickly on August 25th! Details will be shared soon. 

Request: Please find a parent to be the PTC Liaison for you class. You can share that name with me or email it to the PTC.

Evaluations: If you are being evaluated this year, you will get a F1 form emailed to you this week. You can e-sign to acknowledge your evaluation. Then, I will reach out to set up a meeting to discuss goals and set some dates. 

TOSA Tidbits

Over the next 2 weeks my schedule is flexible and I would really enjoy coming to visit your classes. Here is a link to sign up for a time. On the sign up sheet, there are activity ideas that you can choose from or let me know if you have something else in mind. I'm looking forward to a great year!

LINK

Also I am no longer in the office "room 34 3/4" near the PLTW rooms. I am now in the old tech/speech room in the main office. 

EL Update

We are getting up and running right away on having our students administered the Initial ELPAC assessment. These are students who have not been tested before and we need to determine their English language proficiency status. Three examiners will be at Stoneridge on Friday, 8/19. The examiners are experts and will phone your classroom or come to pick up your students. There will not be a specific schedule. Currently the teachers who have TBD students are: Haupt, Nelson, Schmitz, Larsen, Hardy, Wilkinson, Smith, DeCuir, Santos, and Oxenham 

The district continues to enroll new students and this list is likely to change. Please explore ELlevation for information on your EL students. 

Thank you for everything you do to support your students!

Coming Up This Week:

Wednesday: PBIS Tier 1 Meeting at 2:20pm (I will reach out to members)

Friday: First morning PACK pass drawing party! 

Birthdays This Week🎈🎉 

Kelly Ebner: August 20th

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 Slots: Check 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

 

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.

Lower Grades

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

 

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

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! 

Doubles Math Game Sign-Up

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!