This Week

Monday, December 2:

   ·    Perfect Attendance Assembly

   ·    NJHS Canned Food Drive

   ·    Y5s-1^st Grade Winter Reading MAP Testing

Tuesday, December 3:

   ·    Holiday Shop

   ·    Middle School Purple Club

   ·    PLC 4-5 PM
   ·    Y5s-1^st Grade Winter Reading MAP Testing

Wednesday, December 4:

   ·    Holiday Shop

   ·    Perfect Attendance Rewards

   ·    PTO Meeting 4 PM in Parent Room
   ·    Y5s-1^st Grade Winter Reading MAP Testing

Thursday, December 5:

   ·    Staff Wear Holiday or Winter Colors (red/green or white/blue)
   ·    Y5s-1^st Grade Winter Reading MAP Testing

Friday, December 6:

   ·    Early Release 1:15 PM

   ·    Early Release PD 1:45-3:45 PM in the Gym

   ·    Y5s-2 SOM Assembly

   ·    K, 2, 4 AM Special Rotation

   ·    Staff Wear Over the Top Fur
   ·    Y5s-1^st Grade Winter Reading MAP Testing

Happy Birthday

There is a special gift in the mailboxes of all the people who celebrate their birthdays in December.

12 Days Before Winter Break

The admin team has some fun planned for the 12 days before Winter Break. See below and let the fun begin…

12 Days Before Winter Break by embryjd on Scribd

Please note: you must participate to wear jeans.

School Goals-Chronic Absenteeism

Check out your chronic absenteeism numbers year-to-date!  Last year at this time we had 14.1% of our students considered chronically absent. Now we are down to 8.7%. That is a huge decrease of 45 students! Thank you to everyone for your efforts around attendance!

Parent-Teacher Conferences Lunches

The PTO will be providing lunch next week-Qdoba on Monday and Mediterranean on Tuesday. Please express your gratitude to the PTO and our families as you see them during conferences.

Shout Outs

Keystone Staff for being flexible and meeting on Tuesday.

Ellen for all your hard work around Dreambox.  

Kelly for purchasing all the school store items on your personal time.    

Brian, Emma, Eric, Kelly, and Sarah D. for thinking of creative items to sell at the school store and running it.

Jen H. for handling all the parent communication with attendance.

Tracy for providing wonderful treats!

Sarah M. for creating the Dreambox bulletin board.

This Week

Monday, November 25:

   ·    Redeem School Store Rewards

   ·    Parent-Teacher Conferences 4-8 PM. (All Salaried Staff Expected to Stay the Entire Time)

Tuesday, November 26:

   ·    ½ Day of School-Dismissal at 11:20 AM

   ·    Parent-Teacher Conferences 12-4 PM. (All Salaried Staff Expected to Stay the Entire Time)

Wednesday, November 27-Friday, November 29:

   ·    No School-Thanksgiving Break

Important Dates

Please view the right side of the blog for important dates in 

*If you have an event to add or something has been forgotten, please let me know!  

Bulletin Board

Achievement Boards need to be done by Monday! If you changed your Achievement Board for Regional PD, you don’t need to change it again.

Please note: if the student work has a score on it, take off the student's name before displaying it. If the student’s work does not have a score on it, it is acceptable to post the student's name.

Make sure to include the following when posting your achievement board:

   ·    Title

   ·    Objective written as an I Can Statement

   ·    Standard (Common Core, NGSS, etc.)

   ·    Student work

   ·    Specific feedback for each student

o  Please write more than “Good job!”