Nightly News for June 6th

• This is a late addition as I forgot to put it in when I sent this out earlier. Dan Carpenter will be offline tomorrow. He will be in the building, but is preparing for an event with our 7th grade WEB students. As a reminder I will be out of the building until around noon and will then be working with the WEB students for the remainder of the day. 

• The library will not be open starting Friday the 9th. The last day of classes in the library are the 8th. I have communicated with those impacted. 

• More boxes will be arriving hopefully tomorrow. Boxes will be located in the office and five will be given out at a time to ensure everyone has an opportunity to pick up some boxes. 

• Here is the link to the year end check list. Please note it has several links on it (thus I am sharing it electronically). All staff needs to fill out a paper copy.  https://docs.google.com/document/d/18gESP3EuR0Q9hreSX7wGOpyRYUa0viDs/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117829890836834948640&rtpof=true&sd=true

• Thank you to those of you who have communicated out end of year plans and reserved specific spaces for your events (i.e. garden, playgrounds, auditorium). If you are making plans, please be sure to check in with Leah and/or Shannon to ensure spaces are not already taken up. We are trying to be mindful about planning ahead so we don't run into issues the last few days of school. Please be aware there are some shifts in recess locations/times. I have directly communicated this out and will try to do so here as well. 

• K-5 Classrooms - It is important you have your classroom libraries that go with Wit and Wisdom. Also, K-2/3 ensure you have all of your Geodes and Fundations materials together.  Next year Clark will be fully implementing the district's literacy program. You can find the library distribution list here. 

• Field Day Info

 Shannon sent out the slide show for Field Day. Please take some time to go over this with your classes BEFORE Friday. We strongly suggest reviewing it on Friday as well to set students up for success. We will have classes go during their normal specials timeslot. Teachers are to remain with their classes during field day. Please feel free to take a ten minute bathroom break,  just be sure to find another staff member supporting field day to cover your class during this time. I did check and we will have enough planning minutes for the week (410). 

9:20-10:05 (4th/5th)- DaRosa, Kempster, Zhang, Jarvis, Schulze. 

Support Staff- Roddis, Anishenko, Hauth, Chukwu, Howard, Le, Chen

10:10-10:40 (Kinder/1st/2ndDLI)- Stahlecker, Metcalf, Jenness, Dunn, Foreman, Yin

Support Staff- Ruiz-Riehl, Ford, Kosky, Mahoney, Zhu, Knapp, Richey

11:20-12:05 (2nd/3rd)-Novick, Fitzgerald, Vane, Newton, Brey, Gevurtz, Le

Support Staff- Chukwu, Kennedy, Ford, Freeman, Roddis, Ruiz-Riehl, Watkins

12:10-12:57- 6th Grade (Students go to 4th period class for attendance) Staff w/ classes- Brenner, Wickstrom

Support Staff- D. Carpenter, Le, Chen Morgan, Curtis (Sub), Mahoney, B. Carpenter, Servin-Gonzalez

1:45-2:22- 7th Grade (Students go to 5th period class for attendance) Staff w/ classes- Steeves

Support Staff- Moore, Bottolfson, Chukwu, Howard, Vue, Simpson, Anishenko

2:30-3:15- 8th Grade (Students go to 6th period class for attendance)

Support Staff-Dickey, D. Carpenter, Bottolfson, Chukwu, Ruiz-Riehl, Mahoney, Morden, Staff w/ classes- Brandt-Lazar

There are seven staff supporting each session of field day. If you are willing able to provide additional support let me know!  Those being asked to support please let me know if there is a duty conflict with the times assigned. I tried to avoid conflicts, but figured I probably made a mistake somewhere. 

Please note that afternoon recesses on the big playground will also be impacted. Below are times that the small playground is available for your 2nd recess. You are welcome to come up with another plan for recesses, but we want to avoid issues with too many students on the field/playground at once. 

3rd Grade- Small Playground 2:35-2:50

4th Grade- Small Playground 2:50-3:05

5th Grade- Small Playground 1:05-1:25

The Small Playground is available until 11:10 in the morning on the 9th, but can not be used after that as it has classes scheduled on it. The Big Playground is not available all day with the exception of those participating in Field Day or Lunch Recesses. 

• K-5 SUMMER INSTITUTE SESSION CHANGES

Since we are continuing piloting the Social Studies Curriculum for another year, we have other session options that you can choose to replace the K-5 Social Studies session. This change has allowed us to differentiate our offerings. Here is the 2023 Summer Institute Registration Document. 

On June 22nd Summer Institute, you will need to pick two 90 minute sessions to replace the 3 hour Social Studies Session.

8:30-10am Sessions are:

• K-5 Wit & Wisdom Module Study Protocol

• K-5 Learning Ally: Integrating Audiobooks

• K-3 Learning A-Z: How to Use and Increase Family Involvement

• 3-5 CommonLit: Integrating Digital Texts

• K-2 FUNdations: Refining Your Instruction 

10:05-11:35am Sessions are:

• K-5 Wit & Wisdom Module Study Protocol

• K-5 Learning Ally: Integrating Audiobooks

• K-3 Learning A-Z: How to Use and Increase Family Involvement

• 3-5 CommonLit: Integrating Digital Texts

The rest of the day stays the same:

11:35-12:35 Lunch

12:35-1:20 Teacher Panel in the auditorium

1:20-1:30 Break

1:30-3:30 K-2 Phonemic Awareness: Heggerty

1:30-3:30 3-5 Teaching Hard History in the auditorium

On August 14th Summer Institute, everyone will attend Zaretta Hammond’s presentation and you will need to pick one session to replace the 3 hour Social Studies Session. 

8:30-10am Zaretta Hammond in the auditorium

10-10:15 Break

10:15-11:30am Sessions are:

• K-2 Dyslexia Screener

• 3-5 Module Study Protocol

• 3-5 Learning Ally

11:30-12:30 Lunch

12:30-1:30 Sessions continues

• K-2 Dyslexia Screener

• 3-5 Module Study Protocol

• 3-5 Learning Ally

1:30-1:40 Break

1:40-3:30 K-2 Phonemic Awareness: Heggerty

1:40-3:30 K-3 K-2 FUNdations: Refining Your Instruction New offering!

1:40-3:30 3-5 Teaching Hard History in the auditorium

Melissa Schachner, Director K-5 ELA & SS, mschachner@pps.net