School wide Theme: Community!
Happy 2nd week! The first week felt so good, lots of connecting and happy kiddos–thanks for all your efforts to make the first week so great!
A few notes to get you going…
1) Lunch update: I feel like we made a little progress the first week by using a decibel meter and showing a mellow nature video for the last 5 minutes. We’d like to be eating outside all week, but at the moment the weather is not looking too favorable. We’ll see how it goes.
2) Some notes about lunch duties: If you are in the cafeteria (or outside depending on the weather) your duty ends at 11:05–you do not need to stick around for dismissal. If you are on playground duty, please grab a red safety bag and proceed directly to the playground at 11:05–you’ll be the first adult out there. Your duty ends at 11:25 to give you time to get ready for kids returning to class. Please let me know if you have questions.
3) Specials start this week!
4) SIW this week: We’ll dive further into our book study so please bring your copy of Neurodiversity Affirming Schools book.
5) Pancake Breakfast on Thursday–we’ve invited families to show up starting at 7:30am (later than in the past). We’ll continue to serve until about 8:15 and I hope we can have Community Time at 8:30am. As always, we can use as much support as possible that morning starting at 7am. If you are inclined, arriving even earlier to help Patti and me get things ready would be greatly appreciated.
6) Our first Fire Drill of the year is on Friday at 9am.
7) FYI, the 2 Amity ICCL positions are open for application. If you are interested please let me know so we can chat. The positions will be posted until Thursday so please reach out to me before then if you are interested. It’s a $1250 stipend in exchange for a 30 hour commitment.
8) A big thanks for getting going on the stewardship in and around your classrooms, it is definitely noticeable!
Upcoming
11-Pancake Breakfast, 7:30-8:30am
12-Fire Drill, 9am
15-Bus evacuation drill, 9am
15-DIBELS (K-2 and a few 3-5), 11:30am-1pm
17-Back to School Night, 5:30pm
18-Dental screening, starting at 8:30am
22/23-Camp Amity
25-Lockdown, 9am
29-School Pics, starting at 8:15am
September
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 3-First Day, dismissal at 2:15pm | 4 | 5 | ||
| 8 | 9 | 10-SIW | 11-Pancake breakfast, 7:30-8:30am | 12-Fire Drill, 9am |
| 15-Bus evacuation drill, 9am DIBELS 11:30am-1pm K-2, plus some 3-5) In house ICCL, 2:30 | 16-Staff Meeting, 2:30-3:15pm | 17-SIW: TWD Back to School Night-5:30pm | 18-Dental Screen, 8:30 | 20 |
| 22-Camp Amity | 23-Camp Amity Staff mtg | 24-SIW/TCT | 25 Lockdown, 9am | 26 |
| 29-School pictures | 30-ICCL district |
Here’s to a great week ahead!
Andy