Week of October 28, 2024

Cheers to wrapping up the week.  Thank you for all of your participation in Red Ribbon Week and for learning with Dr. De La Isla and her team after school.  I appreciate how hard you work to meet the needs of ALL of our children!  The weekend is almost here!

DID YOU KNOW:

• we will start having TWO lines on pizza Wednesdays?  Thank you to our cafe staff for making this happen.
• there is a link on Lee Links for you to get to the folder to add pictures for yearbook?  There are folders created for Red Ribbon Week, Nanna Puddin', Trunk or Treat and Specials so far.  Let's make sure as many kids are represented as possible!
• we have several situations where parents are not communicating with the front office when their learner is withdrawing?  Please send this form to parents when they mention the will be withdrawing.  The link is on our LEE LINKS document, as well. 
• you can Early Vote?  Don't forget to make your voice heard!  If you need coverage to go vote, please reach out to Admin. 
• Hour of Code is coming up next month?  Please sign up if you plan to participate and start reaching out to our LCs for coding assistance for the week of December 9-15.   
• our leaders accepted a trophy for Samira and our LEEdership Council for their service to the community?  Thank you, Samira, for guiding this group of role models.  Our new fifth grade leaders are pictured below and represented us well at their training at Wilson Elementary.

ONE WEEK LEFT TO DONATE

There is only one week left to donate to our annual PTO fundraising campaign, Write-a-Check.  This is the main source of funding for our FamiLEE PTO, and is in lieu of sending learners door to door selling fundrasising items each year.  The recommended donation is $100 per student, however every dollar counts!  Let's work together to get our participation rate to 100%. Please consider donating TODAY!  bit.ly/RJLWAC

THANK YOU FOR TRUNK OR TREAT EFFORTS
Thank you to all of the houses and departments for their hard work to get ready for Trunk or Treat.  Gina has candy sorted for your trunks.  We can't wait to see you there tonight!  May the BEST trunk win!

WEDNESDAY TREATS FROM ADMIN

Wednesday is National Candy Corn Day.  In celebration, we will have candy corn, popcorn, and corn dip for you in the teacher's lounge.  ENJOY!

MTSS UPDATE

SOCIAL SPURS SPUD LUNCHEON

NEW WINTER SPIRIT WEAR AND HOUSE COLOR SECOND CHANCE

We are excited to offer winter spirit wear this year with a fun new design that is sure to be a keeper for  years to come!  We also worked with our vendor to provide you with a final opportunity to purchase a House Color shirt should you have missed the previous sale.  All items will be on sale through November 10th with delivery of items by the week ending December 6th.  Place your orders today: bit.ly/rjlstore

TOY

REMINDER!!!  NOMINATIONS DUE NOVEMBER 8!!!  Please take time to nominate someone in our building for this incredible honor.   If you need admin to cover your class so you can observe your nominee, to help you better answer the questions, please arrange that with us.  We are happy to help.  Here is the TOY Website and Nomination Criteria and Form.

FROM THE MATH DIRECTOR

REFLEX MATH CHALLENGE

I know that so many of your utilize Reflex Math to encourage your learners to be fluent in their math facts.  Here is a challenge open to our learners.

SAVE THE DATE FOR FAMILEE FEAST

Please let your famiLEEs know if they want to attend our annual Thanksgiving Lunch that they need to sign up ahead of time.  This lunch will be in place of FamiLEE Friday lunch this week. Parents can Sign up here.  THIS YEAR: Child Nutrition has requested guests PREPAY ($8) for their meal to expedite their lunch line.  Please send payment to your child's lunch account before the event.  

CIP
The 2024-2025 Campus Improvement Plan can be found here. Each quarter this document should be reviewed and updated.  Leadership, please download the PDF into Noteability or print it off, review it, and annotate it with your house in a Thursday Meeting.  Please forward your annotated copy to Angel and Kat by Friday, November 8.

GT UPDATE

3 and 5 Testing- Abilities testing will be ongoing for 3rd grade and 5th grade next week.  Testing will take place between Monday-Wednesday.  Please maintain a testing environment in your houses so our learners can do their best.

Math Olympiad Testing- Math O tryouts will take place in the cafeteria on Thursday and Friday of next week.  Fourth grade will test on Thursday and Friday and will be 5th grade.  More information will be given to specific grade levels next week. 

ATTENDANCE MATTERS

📊💡 Did you know? If every student missed just two fewer days of school, CISD could receive an additional $1.3 million! This funding supports teacher salaries, classroom materials, support staff, enrichment activities, and more. Your child's attendance makes a difference! Let's prioritize attendance to benefit our entire school community.

COPPELL EDUCATION FOUNDATION GRANTS FOR LEE

WALKTHROUGHS IN OCTOBER

For this month, we will be giving you feedback on Domain 2.5:  Monitor and Adjust.  We will be looking for:

• How you adjusts instruction and activities to maintain student engagement (movement, music, manipulatives, small groups and individual work, conferences with learners).

• How you address learner engagement/disengagement.

• Questioning and feedback used to check for understanding.

• How you use of a variety of assessment/input from learners to gather data.

• Checks for understanding through purposeful questioning and feedback.

• The pacing of the lesson.

OCTOBER IS DYSLEXIA AWARENESS MONTH

LAS UPDATE

LESSON IN LEADERSHIP

DATES TO REMEMBER:

• WRITE A CHECK WINDOW
• NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH
• NATIONAL SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY WEEK

Oct 28- 3rd and 5th GT Testing

Oct 29- 3rd and 5th GT Testing

Oct 30- 3rd and 5th GT Testing

Oct 31- MTSS Meetings

Nov 1- 3rd and 5th GT Make Up Testing

     Diwali