Week Ahead: Sept. 5-9

Here we are already to September!  Rhythms are being established, and things are flowing well.  One month down of school, and only 5 and 1/2 weeks left in first quarter.  Lots of exciting things happening in those weeks – here is what is coming next:

Monday, Sept. 5

• Day 1: ABCD
• Session 1 ASAs Start
• MS Student, Faculty, Staff Photos
• 1:30-3:00 Sr Admin Mtg (Molly and Phil attend)

Tuesday, Sept. 6

• Day 2: EFGH
• MS Student, Faculty, Staff Photos

Wednesday, Sept. 7

• Day 3: BCDA
• MS Student, Faculty, Staff Photos
• 3:15-4:30 MS Division Mtg, Library (eval system, evac training, grading guidelines)

Thursday, Sept. 8

• Day 4: FGHE
• MS Student, Faculty, Staff Photos
• 1:30-3:00 Sr Admin Mtg (Molly attends)

Friday, Sept. 9

• Day 5: CDAB
• 1:05-1:40 Dragon Time: Evacuation Training (take attendance and come to gym ASAP)
• 4:30-5:30ish Hot Pot Happy Hour, HaiDiLao at Crescent Mall (6th floor, new section so use the escalator on the L’Usine and Typo end of the mall))

Saturday, Sept. 10

• Happy Birthday Meg Kottwitz!
• 10-2:00 PTA Family Fun Day

Upcoming (on the radar)

• Sept. 16 – StuCo Movie Night
• Sept. 17 – First Aid Training
• Oct. 3-4 – MS Student Health Screenings
• Oct 13, 14 – Parent Teacher Conferences
• Oct. 17-19 – Fall Break
• Oct. 28 – StuCo MS Dance

EVACUATION TRAINING:  

We will do evacuation training on Friday.  On Friday, you will quickly take attendance and come to the MS gym, bringing your evac folder with you.  I will share our evacuation expectations and procedures in the gym first.  Then we will exit to the field and line up so that students know where they will regroup to in an evacuation drill.  I am hoping the entire process will only take 20 min.  From the field, we will dismiss to advisory or 4th block depending on the time.

22-23 PLANNING CALENDAR:

In an effort to help consolidate dates when we have events that could disrupt normal lesson planning, we have used a planning calendar.  22-23 MS Planning Calendar  (currently you have editing access to this doc, but please do not edit anything.  If you want to add or change something, please do it in a comment.)  This calendar does not include all things related to MS – it includes only things that could disrupt how you plan for your lessons.  By pulling it all into one place, we hope to help you when planning ahead.  Some examples include sports tournaments where students will be missing, times when certain students will be off timetable, and early dismissal PD days.  This is a work in progress, and events will be added as they come up.

HOT POT HAPPY HOUR ON FRIDAY:

To celebrate a very successful start to the year, we are hosting a HaiDiLao Hot Pot Happy Hour for MS faculty and staff on Friday, Sept 9 at 4:30.  With the help of our staff and the amazing service at HaiDiLao, you will be a hot pot expert.  Or at the very least highly entertained by the noodle dance or by getting your nails painted at the restaurant’s nail service.  Be on the look out for signs ups – coming soon.

Haidilao Hotpot – “There are no afflictions that a hot pot meal cannot solve.”