{"id":2690,"date":"2023-09-22T15:48:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T15:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/monday-am-teacher-notes\/?p=2690"},"modified":"2023-09-24T16:48:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T16:48:01","slug":"monday-am-notes-september-25-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/monday-am-teacher-notes\/2023\/09\/22\/monday-am-notes-september-25-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday AM Notes, September 25 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello All!<br>I hope you had a fantastic weekend!  It was a HUGE weekend for Michelle and I as we dropped our youngest, Kaila, off at college (go Beavers!).  We are officially empty nesters.  Now what?  I read a funny quote:  <em>Behind every great kid is a couple of parents who are sure they screwed the whole thing up<\/em>.  Here&#8217;s hoping we didn&#8217;t!<br><br><strong>A few notes to get you going:<\/strong><br>1) Camp Amity today and tomorrow!  You all know my biggest concern: Remember that we always need one adult on the dock and that adult should stay on the dock until another adult comes to trade out.  And, remember to take your turn on the dock.  Thanks!<br><br>2) We&#8217;ll just have Invitations on Thursday of this week (Camp Amity on Monday).<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1qKLTCTNAx6u2afEWICjZ18KIG-JjRrge6caD6lLNdoI\/edit?usp=sharing\"> Invitations 23-24<\/a><br><br>3) Lockdown Drill on Thursday&#8211;look for an email with some good info on Monday.<br><br>4) At SIW this week we&#8217;ll dive into our roll out of next month&#8217;s theme: Problem Solving.  1:30pm in Grade 5.<br><br>5) Tuesday is Team Collaboration Time, 2:45-3:30pm.  This will be a good time to talk about what you want to work together on as a team this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6) Buddies through the end of October: K\/5, 1\/4, 2\/3 on Fridays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7) Our first Cafe Amity of the year is this week on Wednesday hosted by Grade 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">8) Our annual Pancake Breakfast is on Friday starting at 7am.   All hands on deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">9)  Mark your calendar.  We&#8217;ll be doing the Jammie Jam again this year on November 1.  We got lots of volunteers for the event signed up at Back to School Night!  We&#8217;ll be sending home pledge sheets in a few weeks.<br><br>10) Deb Fisher, Rebel&#8217;s aunt, will be our Visiting Artists in October.  I&#8217;ll be working with you on dates soon.  Deb will be doing a mask making project with your classes and I will be sending you an email soon so you can give some input on the mask making options for your class. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Upcoming Dates <\/strong>(just keeping all this on your radar)<br><strong>September 25\/26<\/strong>: Camp Amity at Shevlin Park!&nbsp; 9:30am-1pm<br><strong>September 26<\/strong>: Team Collaboration Meeting, 2:45-3:30pm<br><strong>September 27<\/strong>: School based SIW<br><strong>September 27:<\/strong> Cafe Amity, Grade 5 hosts<br><strong>September 28<\/strong>: Lockdown Drill, 9:20am<br><strong>September 29<\/strong>: Pancake Breakfast, 7-8am<br><strong>October 4<\/strong>: DIBELS<br><strong>October 4:<\/strong> School based SIW<br><strong>October <\/strong>6: Bread and Jam<br><strong>October 10<\/strong>: Picture Day<br><strong>October 10<\/strong>: Staff meeting, 2:45-3:30pm<br><strong>October 11: <\/strong>Educator Network SIW<br><strong>October 12<\/strong>: Bus Evacuation Drill, 9am at the Ed Center<br><strong>October 16-17<\/strong>: Dental Screening<br><strong>October 17:<\/strong> Teacher Collaboration Time, 2:45-3:30pm<br><strong>October 18:<\/strong> Teacher work day SIW<br><strong>October 20:&nbsp;<\/strong>Earthquake\/Fire Drill, 10:45am<br><strong>October 21<\/strong>: Harvest Festival, 4-7pm<br><strong>October 25-27<\/strong>: Conversations (likely 25<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;and 26<sup>th<\/sup>, no work on 27th)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello All!I hope you had a fantastic weekend! It was a HUGE weekend for Michelle and I as we dropped our youngest, Kaila, off at college (go Beavers!). We are officially empty nesters. Now what? I read a funny quote: Behind every great kid is a couple of parents who are sure they screwed the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/monday-am-teacher-notes\/2023\/09\/22\/monday-am-notes-september-25-2023\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday AM Notes, September 25 2023&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/monday-am-teacher-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/monday-am-teacher-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/monday-am-teacher-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/monday-am-teacher-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/monday-am-teacher-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2690"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/monday-am-teacher-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2701,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/monday-am-teacher-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions\/2701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/monday-am-teacher-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/monday-am-teacher-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/monday-am-teacher-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}