We Care Wednesday - Writing

This semester, we are asking YOU to nominate one another. Is there a lesson you'd love to see in another classroom? Submit a nomination HERE!

Previous Episodes:

Episode 1 - Writers' Workshop

Episode 2 - Calendar Creation

Episode 3 - Big Ideas + iPad

Episode 4 - BTC

Episode 5 - Heggerty

Episode 6 - Wacky Wednesday

Episode 7 - Daily Slides

Episode 8 - Math Boards

WICKED VIDEO

Episode 9 - Sticky Notes

Episode 10 - Phonics

Episode 11 - Call to Excellence

Episode 12 - Readers' Theater

Episode 13 - Small Group Game

Episode 14 - We Care Wednesday

With the prediction of VERY cold and wintery weather coming in on Tuesday am, we will need to distribute our Chromebooks. 

When: Monday 2/17/25

Time: 11am-1pm

Where: CE Main east side office

Parking: PLEASE park in a parking spot in front of the building or in our big lot. Do not park in front of school along the fire lane. 

Since weather is unpredictable, we do not know if we will be out or not. This decision will be made by the district as soon as they are able to make it.  Please have students bring their computers and chargers to school on Tuesday (and after) if we are in school. Computers are essential at school too so as soon as we get back to school (IF we miss) please bring computers back to school. 

Please remember these computers are only passed out to those families that have already requested them. 

You will get very specific directions from your teacher if we move to distance learning the morning of distance learning (once it is called). 

Thank you so much!
Leslie Haynes

Karla Graves 24-Aug

Kirsten Hilsheimer 27-Aug

Tom Powers 28-Aug

Nalini Harikumar 28-Aug

Nancy's Sight Word Book

Sight Word Book Instructions

8/25: Shelter in Place Drill 9:30/ Pizza LUNCH!

8/27: Fire Drill 8:55

8/29: Professional Development

9/1: No school--Labor Day

9/3: Tornado Drill 9:40

1. Access your Google Meet the way you've directed your students: Google Classroom post, Canvas, Nickname. This way you will see that it should work for them.  Any of the above methods will prevent students from joining before you are on the call. DO NOT share Google Meet Links with Students via Google Calendar Invites as this opens the opportunity for private video calls between students.

2. You can now only join Google Meets from one device at a time. You cannot have Google Meet on your iPad while you have it on a laptop or Chromebook as well.

3. Explore the features before joining the call with your students for the first time. Video Link to Navigating Google Meet (not iPad). You can mute everyone and limit their chats and cameras. You cannot force students to unmute or turn on cameras for students remotely; this is for privacy reasons. If you remove someone from a Meet twice, they cannot rejoin for 24 hours. Here is the iPad Google Meet Paper Tutorial if you are choosing to use your iPad as your Distance Learning Device.

4. Pay attention to the camera and audio settings. Students will be prompted three times to allow on a Chromebook/Browser: Audio and Camera, Audio, Camera. Check your Audio input and output in Meet settings and that your device speakers are turned up.

TBD - Very Soon

DL Attendance Tracker

Mo Willems Digital Library

Valentine Digital Library

Dice Addition

Missing Number

MORE DL Resources!

Monday: K

Tuesday: PK

Wednesday: 1st

Thursday: 3rd

Friday: 2nd

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeoENHblQ7IBKltEnQdBhwLXH3CJMnvQ1GP0t0WPZlz6vu5gA/viewform?usp=header

• Slides: All slides are linked on the Staff Hub under the Teaching and Learning and PD tabs.   If you can't find something, email me!   Happy to help.

• Writer's Workshop Share Sticks: If you requested some, I am working on these and will get them to you soon!   If you haven't requested them but want some, email me!

• Missing students in Amira: Amira is aware of the issue and working to fix it.  I will keep you posted!

• IC Support: Book a time if you'd like to launch or talk through any of these initiatives together (WW, Structured Literacy, HWT, Amira intro, etc.). 

I am at Central on Tuesdays and Thursdays!  

• Aug. 25- Shelter in Place 9:30

• Aug. 27- Fire Drill 8:55

• Sept. 3- Tornado Drill 9:40

• Sept. 8- Intruder on Campus 10:20

• Chase Morris CPR Drill- TBA

• Oct. 15- Intruder on Campus- 9:45

*If your specials is ending or beginning during your drill, please be in that specials area to help and/or get your students as needed. No time is great and we hope that all we ever have to do is a drill.

Reminders of drills:

EVERYDAY- make sure your doors are locked. If you do not have a magnetic strip for your door, let the office know. During drills, remove the magnetic strip and shut the door so it locks. This allows us to know the room is empty.

Shelter in Place -Everyone inside the building with normal movement in and out of classrooms- NO ONE is allowed outside and office doors are locked to outside guests.

Fire- Exit the building in a safe, orderly manner. Be sure you have a class list and your emergency folder with the colored papers. Hold up green if you have all students, yellow if missing students but you know what teacher they are with, and red if you are missing students and don't know where they are.

Tornado- students get to proper area shown on emergency map and crouch down on their knees with hands over head.

Intruder on Campus- Shut and lock door. Everyone gets to an area of the classroom in which they can not be seen from classroom interior windows. Outside window shades are closed Have students sit quietly.

Chase Morris CPR Drill- A person will come over the intercom alerting the need for CPR help and in what location. Those that are trained in CPR will respond to that location. Nurse Stephens will let you know if you are on that CPR response team.

Remember however if there are any issues with student pull out schedules currently please let the resource folks know immediately.

Also do NOT leave classrooms or staging area before assigned time and/or announcement.

Let me know if there are any issues with the times!

Schedule: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JGWyqREz_G3BQPSa-KpoHkM8_7PzZzRKy6vZ1HErXJE/edit?usp=sharing

1. Roll Call of grade levels- we have no parents so no stress if still perfecting the role call- if you absolutely are not ready, just tell us.

2. Minute of Silence/Pledge

3. Life Principle/Quotes

4. BCE- Leslie and myself will go through, model it, and then have kids join us with it.

5. Pirate/Dragon/Unicorn game led by Coach C

6. Perfect Attendance drawing- We will continue to keep these tickets in the jar for August, but let's reward a few already to help the students see the purpose of perfect attendance tickets

7. Grade Level Team Red Carpet Walk- we will call each grade level teams and resource teams. Find one of those groups to walk the red carpet with.  If you can't leave your area, no pressure.  (Bonus points if you dance your way on the red carpet!!!) 

8. Interlude dance with the High School Legion!!  Dancing required!!!

9. BCE full chant one more time!

10. Dismissal

Dates of sales:

August 28 - Owasso

September 19 - Choctaw - Military Appreciation

October 3 - Moore - homecoming

October 15- Enid (sales on Wed due to Fall break)

October 31 - Deer Creek - Senior Night