Week Ahead: Dec. 7

Just two more weeks … another semester down.  But between now and Dec. 18th, there is a lot of stuff going on.  Most of it really fun!  And much of it a bit stressful in some way for our kids … and for us too.  Clear, timely communication along with a lot of compassion and kindness will get us through to the end!

Here is what’s up this week:

Monday, Dec. 7
Day 3 BCDA (DEAR)
8:00 LS Mtg for JB
1:30-3 Admin Team Mtg

Tuesday, Dec. 8
Day 4 FGHE (Advisory, HL Schedule for Gr 6 Skype Call)
9:30-10:30 HOS/MS Principal Mtg

Wednesday, Dec. 9
Day 5 CDAB (Advisory, special schedule for Gr 8 Buddy Program)
9:35 SRT Mtg
11:40-1 Music Rehearsal (Grade 7 and Grade 8 Music classes, Choir class will rehearse for upcoming concert.  Grade 8 Music and Choir will miss their A block class.)
1:05-1:35 Advisory
*No PD Meeting today (Open for MS/HS to do comments)

Thursday, Dec. 10
Day 6 GHEF (DEAR)
7pm MS Music Concert

Friday, Dec. 11
Day 7 DABC (DEAR)

Saturday, Dec. 12
5:00 SSIS Music at Crescent Mall
6-11 Holiday Party

Upcoming (on the radar)

• Dec. 14; Gr 8 Drama Rehearsal, 8-11:00; Gr 8 Drama Production, 6:30pm
• Dec. 15; Gr 7 Drama Rehearsal, 12:15-3; Gr 7 Drama Production, 6:30pm
• Dec. 18; Special 1/2 day Schedule; MS Talent Show and Fun Day

Comments and Grades for S1:  The end of the semester is coming quickly.  For comments, you will be using the S1 grade bucket (except for 6th Grade Exploratory classes who will use Q2).  You will receive an email from Ms. Nghi with the following information:

• Please follow the links below to ensure your Gradebook is setup correctly
  1. Semester Grade Setup Link
  2. Entering Comments Link
  3. Final Grades Completion Link
  
  Deadlines are:
  December 17 – comments and grades completed, verification reports printed at 3:00
  December 18 – verification reviewed, signed and returned to office by 12:15

December Assessment/Project Calendar: Building systems to support high achievement in students is important.  One critical step is to ensure that major assessments and projects aren’t piled on top of each other.  December represents a crunch time for this as all courses are usually wrapping up for the semester.  To assist, we will be using an Assessment Planning document for each grade level to make sure we are aware of their “big picture.”  Please add your information to the December Assessment/Project Calendar for each grade.  Working together, we can ensure students have the best chance to show us their best work.

• Grade 6 December Assessment/Project Calendar
• Grade 7 December Assessment/Project Calendar
• Grade 8 December Assessment/Project Calendar

Dec. 18 Schedule and Events:  We are working to finalize the whole schedule, but at this point we are looking at an all division gingerbread house building contest followed by a rotation between Santa’s Workshop (fun activities in the gym) and Hour of Code.  We will end with an assembly featuring a live staff skit/dance and fun awards from the previous activities.

Staff Skit/Dance: Please join us in an easy … and very fun … staff skit/dance to be performed during the assembly on Dec. 18.  This is a long standing tradition we hope all of us will join in.  We will have our rehearsal on Dec. 16 during the divisional time.  Sneak Peak?  Check out this link … pick your favorite move 🙂