Happenings Next Week at Lava Ridge:
- Tuesday: Lockdown Drill @ 10:00
- Wednesday: Lava Care Team Meeting @ 8:00 (C5); Belonging Assembly* @ 12:05 in the gym (loading @ 12:00) SIW: Work in Classrooms
- Thursday: National Custodian Day! Photographer on site for new web page pictures; PTO Meeting in the Media Center @ 2:30
- Friday: PTO Movie Night @ South Playground (gates 6:00, movie @ dusk)
Here are the Assembly expectations to review with your class for Wednesday. Thank you! At this assembly we will also be announcing Buddy Classes for the year. 🙂
From TLC: Registration is open for the first Educator Network Day on October 8th. Here are the topics and locations. Thank you for registering even if you plan to attend the session at your school.
Thank you for always having a walkie-talkie with you on recess duty. This is important for communication in the event of student injury and to be able to reach staff or students on the playground.
Here is the Standard Response Protocol (SRP) lockdown lesson to review with students in preparation for the drill on Tuesday. We are planning to announce the beginning of this drill over the intercom and will be joined by several members of the Bend-La Pine SRO team, Scott Bojanowski (Safety Department) and Kayla Martin (Safety Department).
The PTO is planning to have three after-school (2:30-3:15) meetings this school year in the Media Center. Similar to years past, one of the agenda items will be 1-2 minute teacher updates. Thank you for having a member of your team attend to share goings-on at your grade level. Attendance is not necessary if you have MTSS.
In response to the incident on Monday the Maintenance Department mowing team will be making the changes below:
- Using mulching machines for areas around school windows (when available)
- Operating mowers with the discharge sides positioned away from windows.
- Ensuring proper use of the mower discharge guards so that items caught in the mower are not projected upwards toward windows.
- Throttling the engine lower around windows so that any debris is not disbursed a great distance
From the Guru of Tech, Brad: I had a teacher at another school lose years of work when their laptop died. It doesn’t appear they had their data backed up anywhere. Apple makes this pretty easy to back up your Desktop & Documents folders to iCloud which is great because Apple also gives Education customers 200 GB of storage instead of the normal 5 GB. Take a few moments to make sure this feature is on and save yourself some grief. Reach out if you have any questions. Note: if you are using some other backup service like the Google Drive app, please don’t proceed.
From Kinsey in the Office of Policy and Advocacy: Here is the Bend La Pine policy and guidelines for religion and holidays.
If we could visit any fictional time or place we would go to…
- I would love to go to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
- Jurassic Park
- The 1960s
- The Shire for second breakfast
- Narnia!
- Hogwarts
- The Hundred Acre Woods
- Joseon Dynasty – historical kingdom of Korea
- Any of the dig sites from Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory
- Stars Hollow, Connecticut
- Hmm, the shire from Lord of the Rings? It looks cozy, peaceful and relaxing
- a place where everyone gets along…
- The Emerald City
- The Grid (from Tron)
- The land of OZ
- 1800’s
- Smallworld (from Disneyland)
- Hogwarts
- Visiting a fantasy world with dragons and magic would be pretty amazing!
Staff Room Tidy Team: 3rd Grade
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