Monday, November 18

Happy Sunday!

In case you didn't know, last week was only 4 days, not 8, like you may have thought.

On that note, there are 5 DAYS until Thanksgiving Break!!!

We will give jog a thon donations one last push before break. We are about $2,000 from $40,000. I would love to hit $40k! 

Coming Up This Week:
Monday, November 19
8:50am Flag Ceremony
4:00pm Elementary AFG Committee Meeting

Tuesday, November 19
3:45pm LITE Meeting

Wednesday, November 20
DATA Discussion Day: Schedule
3:30pm Staff Meeting- Vicki Youhill

Thursday, November 21
3:30pm SSP Meetings

Friday, November 22
9:05am Fire Drill with evacuation
11:50-1pm: Extended Lunch- House winner celebration

Monday, November 11

Happy Veteran's Day!

Only two weeks until Thanksgiving Break and that absolutely blows my mind!

Thank you to all of you for all of your work leading up to Jog A Thon and all of the excitement you showed on the day. I will be letting parents know, and if you could also let them know, if we get $40,000 in donations, students will be able to tape me to a wall. We are about $8000 shy of that right now.

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday are our half day planning days. As of right now, the schedule is as follows.
Tuesday, 11/12: AM-First Grade
Wednesday, 11/13: AM-Fifth Grade; PM-Fourth Grade
Thursday, 11/14: AM-Kinder

Our all school Data Day is 11/20. I will be sharing a schedule for you to request your grade level time slot soon. We will also be sharing info about the data we would like to see.

Coming Up This Week:
Monday, November 11
NO SCHOOL!

Tuesday, November 12
Brooks Off-site at DO
8:50am Flag Ceremony
3:45-5pm SSP Facilitators Meeting at DO
4-5:30pm RTA Exec Board Meeting

Wednesday, November 13
3:30-4:30 PBIS Tier 1 meeting
4-6pm Costa Vida Spirit Night

Thursday, November 14
Picture Retake Day
4-5pm EL Coordinator Meeting
6-8pm Skate Night

Friday, November 15
1:15pm House Rally

Sunday, November 3

Holy Cow! November has arrived and conference week is already here. It seems like just yesterday we were talking about the fact that August would not end. Or maybe that was just me? 

Thank you for all of your hard work on Thursday and Friday. I enjoyed all of our grade level  conversations on Friday. I feel so lucky to work with a group of teachers that work so hard for their students. 

As I mentioned, we will be watching the Daniel Rios video as a staff. We can either do it at a staff meeting time, or as I was sitting on my couch tonight, I thought it may be nice to watch it in a more relaxed setting. We can talk about it, but I would like to watch it soon. 

Conference week is here. Short days with the kids, long days with the parents:) As a parent, I know they are are so excited to talk to you and hear your feedback. 

We need a few more volunteers for the Book Fair. I will include this in the parent blog as well. 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080944acab22a75-monster

One more reminder to fill out the: House Feedback Survey
I appreciate your thoughts and feedback.

Jog a thon is this Friday. Anything we can do to get more donations would be awesome!! 

Coming Up This Week: BOOK FAIR!!!
Monday, November 4
8:50 am - Flag Ceremony

Tuesday, November 5

Wednesday, November 6
PBIS Team Off-Site 

Thursday, November 7
7:45 Safety Committee Meeting:Postponed

Friday, November 8
JOG.A.THON!!!!! 

Sunday, Oct. 27

I cannot believe that October is almost over. That was a quick month! And, now we embark on the holiday season! Seems unreal!

The costume dance party was a lot of fun. We had a great turn out!

Reminder: This week is Respect Yourself Week

Jesse Bennett will kick it off with a short 30min assembly. 

Monday, Oct. 28 Assembly Times:

9:30-10am ~ Grades 3-5

10:15-10:45 ~ Grades TK-2

The dress up days are as follows:

Monday, Oct. 28~ Be Strong! Be Smart! Be You! Wear your work out clothes.

Tuesday, Oct. 29 ~ Show how you respect yourself by Dressing to IMPRESS!

Wednesday, Oct. 30 ~ Be confident in who you are and rock your Halloween costume!

Please share this link with your parents. It is the Sign up for Book Fair help. I know many of you have already. 

 https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080944acab22a75-monster 

Sign up for your Oct. 31 PD sessions now!! 

https://rcsdnamefacestory2019.sched.com

The agenda for Nov. 1 will be shared with you soon.

House Survey: Please fill out the following survey by Nov. 1. I want to give everyone the opportunity to share their thoughts individually. Please answer the questions honestly as your responses will remain anonymous. The survey is a way to gather everyone's feedback and to help create a plan for moving forward. Thank you for taking the time to fill it out thoughtfully. 

House Survey

Coming Up This Week:

Monday, Oct. 28

Wear Work Out Clothes!

8:50 am Flag Ceremony

9:30 and 10:15~ Jesse Bennet Assembly

Tuesday, Oct. 29

Dress to IMPRESS!

Wednesday, Oct. 30

Wear your Costume!

10:15 Halloween Parade

Thursday, Oct. 31

No School~ District PD for teachers

Friday, Nov. 1 

No School~ Site PD for teachers

Sunday, October 20

Happy Sunday!

The Glow Party was awesome! The kids had such a great time! 

Don't Forget! Tomorrow is Nacho Day! Bring your goodies and enjoy lunch with your coworkers.

Conference sign ups go live tomorrow, Monday. I will be sharing the link on the blog. You can also share the information with parents. 

Coming Up This Week:

Monday, Oct. 21

8:50am Flag Salute

Tuesday, Oct. 22

3:30 PTC Meeting

4-5:30pm RTA Executive Meeting

Wednesday, Oct. 23

IEP Day

3:30pm PLC Leadership

Thursday, Oct. 24

Brooks on campus at 9:30am

3:30pm SSP Meetings

6-7:30pm Costume Dance Party

Friday, Oct. 25

1:15pm House Rally

Sunday, October 13

Good Afternoon!! There is a lot of important info in this blog, so please read carefully.

This week's challenge is: Make a Social Media Post (With parents' support)

Data Day is this Friday, Oct. 18: Schedule

Our planning days are: 10/21, 10/25 and 10/28. You will have a half day sub in order to plan with your grade level. I am working on the schedule and will share it will you soon!

Meeting changes: 
We are flip-flopping two meetings in November. The PBIS and Staff meetings will switch. 
New Dates: PBIS Team Meeting- November 13
Staff Meeting- November 20 (Vicki Youhill will be presenting)

Updated Safety Procedures (District mandated):
1) Safety vests always worn when on duty- Of course, this can't happen until all of you have vests. The emergency bags are 90% ready and there is a snazzy new vest in each of them.
2) Classroom doors locked at all times

Exciting safety update: The district has purchased a safety program that checks in all guests on campus and manages attendance during an emergency. I will share more info with you as I learn about it, but it is an awesome program!

Also, an Eagle Scout painted numbers for fire drills, and the poles on our playground, this weekend. Look for the changes Tomorrow.

Jog updates:
Monday is pajama day!

T-shirt orders due Wednesday, 10/16.

Glow Party 10/18: The glow party is on our data day. Please take a look at this schedule and the data day schedule. Let me know if they work. There is currently one grade level that will go to the glow party with subs. We can change if needed. Just let me know. 
Glow Party Schedule

Red Ribbon Week Info: We will not be celebrating Red Ribbon Week, but we will be celebrating "Respect Yourself" Week. It is only three days because the kids do not have school Thursday and Friday, but we will have dress up days following that theme. Also, Jesse Bennett is going to come on Monday, 10/28, to do a couple short assemblies promoting the 'Respect Yourself' theme. I will get those times to you ASAP! 

These are the PTC needs, if you could please recruit parents:

We need chairs and volunteers for book fair. Nov 4-8 & Mar 23-27

We have 2 book fairs per year which fully fund our library media program. The chairs would work directly with Mrs Caines to set up the fair and manage the sign up genius to organize volunteer help during the week. Its quick, stress free and leaves you with a very warm and fuzzy feeling!! 

Carnival Chairs - Carnival is our community event  - face painting, carnival games, inflatables, raffle, auction, DJ,  live performances. food, and MORE! We need chairs to help organize this event; you will have the support of PTC to guide you along the way and past carnival chair has a SOP guide set up and ready to go. Our past chair, Jessica Markov, is always just a call or email away to give us support and advice.

Carnival rounds out our fundraising for the year and is a blast!!

Carnival is May 1, 2020 5-8pm

Teacher appreciation week chairs - plan a week of fun to show the teachers and staff just how wonderful and amazing we think they are. It's a fun week! The chairs pick the theme and we decorate and pick out goodies and gifts. Amanda Smith will be here to help and she's already come up with some great suggestions and ideas!!

Speaking of PTC, Art To Remember could be a really great money maker. This program is at no cost to us and we make money on all projects that are sold. The items are super cute! I will be telling parents to look for information from all of you, so please share! 

IReady Window 2 opens this week. It is open from 10/14-11/8. 
Kinder and 1st you are all set to give the diagnostic. After you give the diagnostic, the students can do the lessons. 

Coming Up This Week:
Monday, October 14
Pajama Day
8:50am Flag Ceremony

Tuesday, October 15
3:30pm School Site Council

Wednesday, October 16
Jog A Thon T-shirt orders due
3:30pm Staff meeting

Thursday, October 17
10:17 Earthquake Drill (The Great American Shake Out)
3:30pm SSP Meetings

Friday, October 18
Data Day
Glow Party
There is a House Rally Scheduled. Can we switch to the 25th?

Sunday, October 6

Good Afternoon, Stoneridge! 

What can I say? Another great week at Stoneridge. Thank you to the teachers that put in so much work on our Talent Show. Christi, thank you for the awesome dance and funny talent show script. Melissa, Shannon, Sara, Rani and Jen, thank you for all of the work you put in behind the scenes and on the music. There are a lot of moving parts to making the Talent Show happen. Thank you! 

Thank you to the teachers/staff that put in the time to practice the dance. It is all worth it when you hear the students screaming in excitement! I have never heard them cheer so loud! 

Our first PACK Pass raffle was a success. The kids cheered like crazy when their house earned points and the students that got picked were over the moon!

We have a lot of information going to parents this week that I want to share with you:
1) The Jog a Thon T-shirt order forms will be printed tomorrow and should be ready for you to send Tuesday. It is being updated as we speak and I will share it with you soon. 

2) I will be having a weekly challenge for kids to get additional donations. This week is 'Ask a friend or family member that lives out of state to make a donation.' If a student brings me proof, I will have a prize for them. 

3) It is time for 5th grade parents to get their yearbook dedications: Dedication Order Form

4) Halloween Parade will be Wednesday, October 30 at 10:15am. There will also be a Family Costume Dance Party on Friday, Oct. 24th. Stay tuned for more info. 
Halloween Costume Guidelines

Info for Staff:
1) Several teachers will be out on Oct. 11, which is the day I was hoping to have our data day. I am going to go ahead and say we will reschedule. Please stay tuned for the date. 

2) Picture Day is Wednesday!

3) Please do your best to promote the Jog a Thon. We really want it to be hugely successful. Also, please share the names of any parents you think would like to be involved in school events. For example, we desperately need a chair for the Book Fair and the Carnival, to name a few. I will reach out to these parents. 

4) We are going to keep the Glow Dance Party on Oct. 18. The thought behind it is that we will have met the fundraising goal needed to get a Glow Party by then, and it will be an immediate prize to keep the excitement going. 

Coming Up This Week:
Monday, Oct. 7
8:50am Flag Ceremony
4-5:30pm New Teacher Training (Math) at DO

Tuesday, Oct. 8
Brooks off site all day- Gong TIC
3:30 PTC Meeting
4pm RTA Executive Board Meeting

Wednesday, Oct. 9
PICTURE DAY!!!
3:30pm PBIS Team Meeting

Thursday, Oct. 10
7:45am Safety Committee Meeting
3:30-4:30pm SSP Meetings

Friday. Oct. 11
3:15-4pm Park Play Date with the Principal for winners at the Ice Cream Social