Weekly Wrap Feb. 15th

Essential Pieces,
I hope many of you are getting back in the swing of things. Thank you to al l who attended the NC wise parent assit meeting. Please keep the following family members in your thoughts and prayers. Mrs. Bradley lost her uncle this past week and Mrs. Carver lost her mother. The following are reminders of important things we have coming up this week.

Important Reminders:
1. PLCs please bring a copy of your CFA for School Administration and CFA data to PLCs this week.
2. PLC chairs please submit your Professional development and Administrator support for the title I needs assessment by next Monday(March 1, 2010.)
3. We will have a staff meeting on Monday, regarding PBS. This will take the place of the March staff meeting.
4. Please begin to set up spring parent conferences.

I hope you all had a great weekend!

Weekly Wrap for Feb. 8

Essential Pieces,
It was great seeing you all for a full week. I hope you enjoyed the snow this weekend. Everyone did an excellent job on their SWOT analysis report! You guys have worked extremely hard this quarter and we appreciate it. Thank you to SIT team members, Mrs. Harvin, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Rodriguez, Mr. Ingram and Mrs. Henderson for their help with our HonorRoll/BUG/Green team Celebration. A very special thank you goes out to Mr. Maglio for organizing the entire ceremony. It was an excellent program and we recieved positive feedback from our parents.

Important Reminder:
We will not have PLCs on Monday, Feb. 15th. Please remember to give your CFAs by Feburuary 19th. Grades 2-5 please submit to me a copy of your reading CFA.
I hope you all had a great Valentines weekend and remember " We love our Teachers at NorthHills!"

Quote for the Week: Love is a Choice: "You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love" ( Henry Drummond.)

Important Info for this week:
Feburary16-19 CFA Assessment
Feburary 16th: New teachers meeting after school/ Demonstration Classrooms ( Active Board Classes) Rm 120.
Feburary 18th: After school Staff Meeting on NCWise Parent Assistance @ 3:00pm

Thanks for all you do!

Weekly Wrap for Jan. 13th

Essential Pieces,
We have long weekend ahead of us. As we embark on Martin Luther King Jr. Day please remember to celebrate by serving others. Thank you, third grade team for making our celebration of the holiday a memorable one. Our Martin Luther King celebration was featured in the Saturday addition of the Winston-Salem Journal. You can check it out on theJournal’s website. The link is posted below. I would like to leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Dr. King that I live by:

“Everybody can be great; because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s Theory of Relativity to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermo-dynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2010/jan/16/peace-hope/

Important Reminders:
If you have not turned in your CFA information or had to make revisions to your data from last week, it is due Tuesday, January 20, 2010.

Weekly Wrap for January 4

Happy New Year!


Essential Pieces,
Welcome back!!! I hope you all have had a wonder restful weekend. Congratulations, to our 2009-2010 Teacher of the Year Angela Bradley! Congratulations, to Ms. Preston on her Target Field Trip Grant. Mrs. Shannon had her baby girl. Please send her cards of congratulations.

Here are a couple of important reminders for this week:
• Bring CFA data to PLCs this week.
• Formative Assessment Training for grades 2-5 during PLCs.
• PLC chairs should turn in a day that their PLCs will meet outside of their regular PLC on Mondays and Tuesdays.
• SIT team meeting will be held on Monday after school.

Weekly Wrap for January 4

Weekly Wrap for Dec. 7th

Season Greetings Essential Pieces,
You made it through another week. I hope that many of you will find SMART Tutor helpful for intervention purposes. Please bring your CFA data to PLCs this week. We will be reviewing the data for discussion. This week the PTA will be selling holiday gifts through Santa Workshop. This is a fundraiser for the PTA. Please encourage the students to buy gift items from Santa’s Shop. The prices are very economical. Please remember to pay your PTA Dues. The “T” in PTA stands for teacher. We are apart of this organization and we do not want to give off the impression that the school does not support the PTA.


Please remember we will have a holiday program on Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 6:00pm. We will also have our staff holiday luncheon on the 17th. We will let you know about coverage later on in the week. On Friday, December 18, 2009 we will have a holiday open house during the school day for our parents. Parents will do a holiday craft with their child. We will also have a holiday sing along in the Gym at 2:00pm. Where we will sing holiday carols together as a school. Everyone should report to the gym at 2:00. Please remember there will be know afternoon specials on December 18th. Specialists are expected to help with craft activities.

Thank you, Mrs. Crim for organizing and collecting donations for our families who are in need of a little extra help this Holiday Season. Thank you to all of you who have contributed to the spirit of giving. Please keep all of our families in your thoughts and prayers over the break. I hope that we all return from break safe and sound!


Happy Holidays,
Karen Morning-Cain

Weekly Wrap for Nov 30th.

Season greetings Essential pieces!,
Welcome to our blog! I hope you all had a great week back at work. This week 3rd and 4th grade were able to participate in our newly implemented monthly planning day. They were able to accomplish several weeks of planning. Thank you to Mr. Maglio for putting the schedule together to make this happen! Please remember that you should be following your daily schedule. I have noticed that several of you have not been following your schedules or you are at least 15 to 25 minutes behind. Please make sure your objectives are current and your essential questions should be posted for each subject area. It is the expectation that you implement strategies and activities from your Partners in Mathematics training and indicators into your daily instruction. I have seen some of you use the activities from the trainings, however that is just a few. This is not optional, this is the expectation. Please make sure you are posting up quality student work. Several of you do not have quality student work samples posted inside or outside of your rooms. Please remember to do this.

Important Reminders:

• All Teachers in grades K-5 stated in PLCs that they wanted to improve in implementing small, cooperative groups according to their CWT data. We will be looking for evidence of this in the areas of math and reading.
• Remember to complete your data analysis sheet highlighting your strengths, improvements and next steps with your CFA data. Some of you only turned in your data. This is due by Dec. 8th.
• SMART Tutor Training during PLCs on Dec. 7th and 8th.
• Technology Demonstration Classrooms have training on Dec. 9th. (Promethean training)
• Please start your CFAs by Dec. 10th.
• If you have over 10 absences you will be required to provide a Doctor's note this is in accordance to school board policy.
• Please remember that we will be hosting a Holiday open house for our parents on Dec. 18th.
• Please remember to treat all staff, parents, and students with dignity and respect!!!