Happenings Next Week at Lava Ridge:
- Monday: The Book Fair begins!
- Tuesday: Dress Up Day: Halloween Costume or Book Character; Lion Pride Drawings @ Lunches; Harvest Parties; Conferences 3:15-7:15 (Dinner provided by PTO @ 2:30 in the Staff Room)
- Wednesday: Work in Classrooms 7:15-3:15; Conferences 3:15-7:15 (Dinner: Pizza @ 2:00 in the Staff Room)
- Thursday: Conferences 7:15-3:15
- Friday: Enjoy!
On Tuesday and Wednesday, Laci and I will be stopping by classrooms after 7:15 pm with a friendly reminder that conferences are finished for the day. The goal of this visit is to get you home! To assist with this, please turn off your lights when you leave after your last conference. Thank you!
The week of November 4th during the morning announcements we will be announcing the name of a student from each class that has been excelling with the trait of responsibility. We are are planning to call Kindergarten/1st on Tuesday; 2/3rd Wednesday; 4th and 5th on Thursday. Here is the doc to enter a name for your class. We will do this again the week of November 18 for an additional student in each class.
Fun Friend Friday will begin in December! We are planning to connect this to belonging and that grade levels will be able to earn this through the consistent use of “dinner table voices” throughout the week. More details to come.
Save the date! Wednesday, March 5th from 5:00-6:30 will be the first Lava Ridge Showcase. Here’s the scoop…Post-COVID we have hosted Art Night each spring to build community with families, especially those that are not able to attend events that occur during the school day. This week the ICCL Team discussed rebranding this event and expanding the options for what teachers could have families see during their visit to Lava Ridge and our classrooms. This might include student writing, a scavenger hunt through math workbooks, a project student’s have been working on, art… We are planning that certified staff will attend and that this will be one of the evening events that are part of the new collective bargaining agreement. In selecting March 5th, the team felt that scheduling on a teacher-prep Wednesday would be most optimal and that we were best to avoid the busy months of April and May. We’ll discuss more details after we return from Winter Break.
From Kerry Morton: Math Field Test Materials – October 29-October 31, each elementary school will have all three programs available in their buildings for families and teachers to view. Reach out to a Math Curriculum Review Team member if you have any questions about the programs: Amplify Math with Desmos, StemScopes Math, and Experience Math. At Lava we will likely have this display in the lobby.
From Scott in Technology: YouTube Access for K-8 Students – Trial of “Allow List” Solution. As you know, we are currently blocking all YouTube content for students in grades K-8. Starting next week, we will be implementing a trial of an “allow list” solution, which will enable students to access a curated set of videos. At present, nearly 1,000 YouTube videos necessary for the SchoolLinks curriculum have been added to this allow list. Why is this important? If this trial proves successful, we can explore expanding the allow list to include additional teacher-requested YouTube content.
Here is a list of items the we couldn’t live without:
- Coffee
- My son
- Espresso Machine
- My dog
- Diet Coke
- Nalgene Water Bottle
- Special people in my life
- A creative outlet
- Access to mountains
- Costco Card
- Chapstick! (mentioned twice by respondents)
- Smiles!
- My car
- Books
Staff Room Tidy Team: Specials
