Week of January 27, 2025

Happy Thursday, sweet folks.  Thank you for all of your hard work submitting your SLO documentation and getting MOY assessments completed.  We appreciate your attention to these tasks.  I can't wait to see your banners looking beautiful hanging through our school after Monday's parade!  Store them somewhere SAFE so that custodians don't accidentally throw them away.  I'm off tomorrow and will be with fifth grade at Sky Ranch on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, so hold the fort down, team!

DID YOU KNOW:

• Admin wants to make 100 calls on February 3? If you haven't added learner names to the document shared from leadership, please help us so we can call a boy and girl from every class. We can't wait to brag on our top 100 kiddos!
• Tara and Annah will be with us at Sky Ranch?  We will have a substitute nurse in the clinic.
• Baby Tyler Patrick Curran is home safely with mommy and daddy?  Check out the cutest new future Spur!  Thank you, Abeer, for being Rachael's long term sub.

GREAT KINDNESS CHALLENGE IS HERE

Looking forward to seeing you in your pajamas on Monday.  The parade will start at the back stairs right after morning broadcast.  

LEEDERSHIP COUNCIL HOT COCOA SALE

LEEdership Council will be selling hot chocolate on Tuesday morning.  The cost is $1.00.  Please share in your newsletters.

SKY RANCH

5th grade will be at Sky Ranch Wednesday through Friday this week.  Thank you to those who are helping to watch fifth grade learners in the houses on Wednesday morning as the fifth grade teachers check in chaperones and learners.  Thank you, in advance, for all of the help on Friday afternoon when we arrive back on campus for having the cafe ready for us.

100th DAY OF SCHOOL

Can you believe we have already been in school almost 100 days?  We are more than halfway through the year!  Feel free to participate next Monday, February 3.

WORLD READ ALOUD DAY

We are working with CMSW for a couple of partner reading and opportunities for World Read Aloud Day.  Please see information below or visit with Holly if you have questions or an interest in participating.  They will have lots of free online author visits on the 5th.  

BOOK FAIR VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

The Scholastic Book fair is coming to the RJL Library in early February, and we still need a few more volunteers for the 8am slots for Feb 10-12. Please consider signing up if you can! This is a great way to get involved and foster young readers!  bit.ly/RJLBookFair

Reminder, if you plan to volunteer for these or any other future events, complete your yearly required CISD Background Check asap here. 

LAST CHANCE

Our PTO grant application cycle for this school year closes this Sunday, January 26. If you are interested in applying for a PTO grant this year, please submit this form.  We look forward to partnering with you!

WALKTHROUGHS

We will be increasing our walkthroughs now that formal TTESS and mid year goal setting is concluding.  We will give you feedback in Domains II and III.

COACH'S CORNER

ESL STRATEGY OF THE WEEK

Provide opportunities for free write time. This helps lower the affective filter when EBs approach writing in English, especially those that may have some anxiety around writing specifically. If you have an EB who is Beginning or Intermediate, allow some of their writing to include pictures or copying words. This is still helping them to grow in their English proficiency. Provide sentence frames to build paragraphs.

This is a great strategy to remember as our EBs approach TELPAS with writing as a domain. Having our 2nd-5th graders type what they wrote will also be beneficial practice!

LESSON IN LEADERSHIP 

DATES TO REMEMBER:

MOY MAP and MCLASS WINDOW THROUGH FEBRUARY 28

GREAT KINDNESS CHALLENGE WEEK

January 27- Kindness Parade (8:00 AM)

January 28- Hot Cocoa Sale (before school)

     3rd Grade Design Time (AM)

     Yellow K-2 Design Time (PM)

January 29- Sky Ranch

January 30- Sky Ranch

     MTSS Meetings (Conference Time)

     Super Teacher Luncheon (Enjoy Megan and Kristi)

January 31- Sky Ranch