The Flyer: Week 27 - Spring Break is Heaven

Great Things I Noticed:

Ada using Pear Deck and Flash Card Factory to teach about explorers!
Judid using Pear Deck and Flash Card Factory to reinforce vocabulary!
Raquel using a Choice Board to dive deeper into the Wonders selection!
Kristi signing up to present Thinglink at out PL training on Tuesday!
Kindergarten growing plants and butterflies!
FOSS Science throughout the campus!
TK Students working hard at learning through academics and play!
Ms. Ramirez's students working hard on Country Presentations!
Our PL staff being impressed and "Wowed" by what they see happening at Hawthorne!
3rd grade Solar System projects!
Honor Roll and Perfect Attendance Parties!
Movie Night for our families!

Nuts and Bolts:

The Lockdown drill went very smoothly this morning. Thank you for prepping your students and following protocal. We appreciate your professionalism!
The district will be coming through tomorrow to perform an Asset Count. They are counting anything that is valued at $500 and above - please leave your cabinets open and accesible to the team. The lead night custodians will lock everything up.
Christina Summerford from Rivera is our new 6th grade team member - taking Marcia's spot as Marcia goes off to the bliss of retirement...
Open House is THURSDAY!

4:30-6:00 Food Available
5:00-5:30 PTA Meeting/Student Performance
5:30 - 6:30 Classrooms Open

3-6 Grade will be completing the "Dry Run" for our CAASPP Assessment on Wednesday at 9:00

3-6 Grade Teams please have your action plan to me by the end of the day TODAY
Please, if possible, stay off of all devices from 9-10 Wednesday morning
More information regarding the Interim Assessment can be found here

When communicating with parents please encourage them to complete the Community Feedback Survey

The community feedback survey is the survey that we will use as you as you complete your needs assessment for your 18-19 school plan. Here is a link to a flyer that you can distribute advertising the survey https://drive.google.com/file/d/1avdeVcOyxxS8Q7QE661Z1PUJmconH_ue/view?usp=sharing
Here are the direct links to the surveys (English and Spanish) that you can send to your parents. English http://bit.ly/2FuNWnp Spanish http://bit.ly/2oS05Jm Please feel free to send the links through your remind, Dojo app or other communication.

Parent Institute for Quality Education (PIQE) - we are starting a parent engagement class on April 24th - more information at April 18 staff meeting
FYI Grade 3-6:

REMINDER: WONDERS FOR NEW TEACHERS/TEACHERS NEW TO 3-6 WONDERS: McGraw-Hill has offered to conduct a workshop on May 29, 2018, Thursday, for teachers new to 3-6 Wonders and/or teachers moving to 3rd – 6th grade and have not been trained or taught Wonders. Please encourage your teachers to sign up on the HUB > Instruction 00-06 > McGraw-Hill Publisher training.

Elementary Summer Camp Update

Now that Trimester 2 report cards have been completed, it is time to start making an “Invitation List” of students who would benefit from attending Summer Camp this year. Summer camp is designed to enrich a student’s background knowledge with science experiences that will enhance their academic development. Reading, writing, and math experiences will be infused throughout the science content.
Who should be invited:

Students who have been retained or are at risk of retention. (We will no longer be offering ASIP in the fall. This intervention will take the place of ASIP.)
English Learners
Intensive, Strategic, or Benchmark students who are at-risk of “sliding back” during the summer.
TK-6 Updates

Invitations are being sent to Publications next week, so you should be able to start inviting students after Spring Break.

Kids Art Riverside

Do you want your classroom’s artwork featured on Mayor Bailey’s social media? Here’s an opportunity to help us highlight Riverside events and themes in a fun way that includes our youth! It’s as easy as:

1. We will send packets with return envelopes and ideas for the drawings to your classroom on a quarterly basis.
2. Have your students create their masterpieces using the topics provided, then drop them in the mail back to us.
3. Watch Mayor Bailey’s social media for your art to be showcased! Click here for more info.

Focus:

Kristi Forsythe shared this Personalization vs. Differntiation vs. Individualization Chart from Barb Bray with me last week. For me, this provides a clear picture of what Personalized Learning is and how it differs from the other ways we "personalize" student learning. Personalized learning is student centered and the other two are teacher centered. As a PL school we work towards finding a balance between fully personalizing learning and maintaining the ablity to differntiate and individualize.