May 8th, 2017

High Point News

Week of: May 8th, 2017

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Condolences

Mary Ellen Robson, principal at New Prospect Elementary, passed away this past weekend after a courageous battle with cancer. Mary Ellen was a teacher, CST, AP and Principal in Fulton County schools for the past 30 years. She made a huge impact on everyone around her and will be greatly missed! 
High Point will donate to the Mary Robson Literacy Enrichment Fund and also support her staff, students, and parents any way we can. Please keep the entire North West Learning Community and Mary Ellen's family in your thoughts and prayers. 

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Condolences

Our sincerest condolences go out to Kelsie Wright for the loss of her grandmother. Please keep Kelsie and her family in your thoughts during this difficult time. 

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Ice Cream! 

We scream!
You scream!
We are STILL screaming for ice cream! 

We will have ice cream again on May 11th at the end of the day in order to celebrate a wonderful Field Day and to get you destressed before your LAST PLC meeting!!!! Because the EOY Party will be on the 18th, the 11th is the last PLC for the school year. 

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E-I-E-I Oops!
Kindergarten had their E-I-E-I Oops Musical this past Friday and it was a HUGE hit!!! Many thanks goes out to all the Kindergarten teachers, assistants, and Ms. Reich for their hard work in pulling together this amazing musical!!!

  

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TKES and PKES

All TKES Summative Assessments and Conferences are to be completed and signed-off by THIS FRIDAY!! Please make sure you have signed off on all the necessary components in TKES by that time which include Self-Assessment, TKES Goals, ALL observations, and Summative Conference. 

PKES Employees: All evaluations will be completed over the next two weeks. If you would like to meet to discuss your evaluation, please email Pitchford or Alexander

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PBIS
We hope everyone enjoyed the movie and pajama day last Friday!!! Thank you to PreK and Third Grade for picking the reward!!

As we wind down the year, please remember to keep your procedures, routines, and expectations consistent for our students. We are seeing a lot of students begin to get very emotional about the school year coming to a close and might be acting out more than normal because of it. 
If you have a child that you feel like needs some more emotional support, please contact Ms. Wooden. 

Congratulations to Colleen Zeller for receiving a Buddy Brag and getting the TOTY parking space for the last 2 weeks of school!!! Thank you to everyone who filled out a Buddy Brag recognizing your colleagues!!! 


******VISUALS of BEST PRACTICE******

As part of kindergarten's IB unit of study, Sharing the Planet, Ms. Foster and Ms. Stahura's students took a virtual field trip through Google Expeditions. They traveled deep into the blue sea exploring various coral reefs to compare the similarities and differences in groups of organisms. Thank you Ms. Dierdorff for leading our expedition! 

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During Ms. Collins’ 3^rd grade writer’s workshop block, students are writing adapted fairy tales. This is their 4^th and final unit and the students cannot put their pencils down! The unit started with them doing a modeled writing of adapting a classic fairy tale; as a class. They brainstormed, created an anchor chart and used a graphic organizer. Students are now adding dialogue, figurative language, and more descriptive words to their fairy tales.  Writer’s workshop time is one of the students’ favorite times of the day. They are excited and love sharing their fairy tales that they have adapted.

*******WRITERS' GALLERY**********

The writers' gallery will be hosted by Ms. Lee's class this week.

The writers' gallery will be hosted by Ms. Mayhall's class next week. 

******CALENDAR OF EVENTS*******

Monday, May 8th
7:30 am - SGC Meeting
Pre-K Conferences ALL DAY

Tuesday, May 9th
5th Grade Field Trip to Stone Mountain
1:30 pm - Oratorical Competition Celebration
2:50 pm - New Kids on the Block and Para PLCs

Wednesday, May 10th
Breakfast on a Cart! 
College Spirit Wear
Kindergarten Collegial Planning 
PLCs during Planning
3:00 pm - PBIS Committee Meeting

Thursday, May 11th 
ICE CREAM SOCIAL After School!!!
Pre-K-2nd Grade - Field Day from 8:15 am - 10:45 am
3rd - 5th Grade - Field Day from 11:00 am - 1:30 pm

Friday, May 12th
4th Grade Poetry Event 
ESOL Monitoring Notes Due

************BIRTHDAYS! ****************

There are no birthdays this week!