4th grade rocks out their PLC model of collaboration

Coming Soon to Arno…

Feb 13

Ad Council 9:00

Spring Book Fair Week

Feb 14

Happy Valentines Day!

Feb 15

P/T Conferences 4:30-7:30

Feb 16

Blood Drive All Day

P/T Conferences 4:30-7:30

Feb 17

From the PTA

If you are interested in donating a basket to be raffled off at the PTSA Spring Fever Craft, Vendor, and Mom-2-Mom Sale on Saturday, March 18th, please contact the PTA through our Facebook page or send us an email: arnopta@gmail.com

We are also in need of a Chairperson for this event too! Arno is in charge of the concession stand that day. If you’re interested in helping your, Super-Awesome President plan the concessions at this event, she would be eternally grateful for your assistance.

We hope everyone has a GREAT WEEKEND! We have another exciting week ahead of us!

Daddy Daughter Dance Time

 

The Daddy Daughter Dance event is finally here!  Please take a moment to read the event flyer as the location has changed this year.   This memorable event takes a lot of planning and in order to make it a success we will be honoring a FIRM RSVP DEADLINE. The deadline for RSVP’S will be MARCH 31st.  Look for the ticket form to come home with your child, or download it below.

Arno Dance 2017

Teachers, please help stress that No late RSVP’S will be accepted beyond MARCH 31st

 

Remember to always actively engage your learners…

 

Discovery Education is here!!
Current Users – Usernames and Passwords* Your educators’ usernames and passwords have not changed.  Should anyone have forgotten their login credentials, please have them click the link here to reset: Forgot username/password   2. New User Information* New users can get started by following the three easy steps below to create their individual user accounts from their school’s unique 8-character passcode. 1. Go to http://www.discoveryeducation.com 2. Select the Passcode/Create New User link at the top of the screen and enter your school’s unique 8-character passcode where prompted 3. Click Submit to create a user account and password

Get Started – Integration Ideas for All of Your Users:

Whether your teachers are new to the service or seasoned users, our recently launched Interactive Training Modules are a great refresher on the service providing tips, tricks, and practical integration strategies for using our digital resources.   Modules include:

• My DE Great place for users to get started!  Get familiar with all the tools available as part of your subscription, how to search, and more

• Digital Integration (for use of video, audio and images)

• The Student Experience

• DE Builder Tools

• The Discovery Education Community

• Literacy Strategies

• Assessment Strategies

• FLIPping the Classroom

Educators who complete the modules also receive certificates of completion that may be able to be applied towards Professional Development Credit.

Board Builder

Most Popular! Did you know that your teachers and students can be producers of content? Students love Board Builder, a tool that allows them to create virtual project boards using multimedia and text to synthesize their thinking and provide evidence of their understanding of a concept or problem. View these teacher-created guides into using Board Builder in your classroom – perfect for independent learning and small group projects.

Spotlight on Strategies

Our Discovery Educator Network Community continues to build out their series of S.O.S.  (Spotlight on Strategies) instructional strategies within Discovery Education Streaming that incorporate digital media in meaningful, effective, and practical ways.  Try a Strategy and leave a comment telling your peers how you used it with your students.

 

Professional Learning Experience Opportunity

As we will soon have Discovery Education in our building, this may be of great interest to you.  Please let me know if you would like to get into this cohort:

DEN Ambassador Recruiting Flyer 2017

Check out these great resources to assist in assessing

Edulastic: a digital formative assessment for MSTEP Test Prep
https://www.edulastic.com/

Edulastic Blog:
http://www.oaklandschoolsliteracy.org/edulastic-authentic-m-step-prep/

MAISA Reading/Writing Resources

Don’t miss our Book Fair

Don’t miss out on next week’s book fair featuring a fun camp theme.  There will a huge assortment of great titles and will be the last book fair for this school year.  The book fair will also be open both conference nights from 4:30-7:30.  Also, please remember that the PTA is hosting a small breakfast on Monday at 7:30 for you to preview and select books for parents to donate.

 

Parent/Teacher Conferences 

Please let me know as move closer if there is anything I can do for you in prep for conferences, or if you are in need of my presence at any conference.

I will supply a pizza/salad dinner on Wed at 3:45 for anyone who is interested.  Please let Cathy know if you would like to have dinner.

 

BMX Assembly Dazzles

Once a contestant on America’s Got Talent, Matt Wilhelm came to Arno with a positive message of believing in yourself and a solid anti-bully message.  Matt performed some fantastic moves and even did a daring jump over Mr. Trionfi and Mr. Zielinski!

Arno Spirit Week culminates with a pie in the face

Parent Surveys

The following is in the Parent blog, please share out in your communications as well so we can boost participation.

It’s that time of year already in our school improvement planning where we need to send out surveys to our Arno stakeholders.  You will have the opportunity to take a brief survey from the State of Michigan rating some of your experiences here at Arno.  The survey will be available  Jan 27 to Feb. 10.  We will be providing the link to it via email blast on that day, as well as posting it in the blog below.  If you are unable to access via computer, we will also have a computer set up in the office if you wish to take it there.  Giving us good feedback helps us plan better to meet the needs of every Cougar stakeholder.  In addition, students and staff also take a similar survey during the school day.

All of the feedback you provide is then summarized and becomes part of our school improvement plan for the 2017-18 school year.  Thank you very much, please click on the link to start the survey:

http://eprovesurveys.advanc-ed.org/surveys/#/action/14926/20337

Fun Fair Memories

Thank you so much to all of our families and volunteers who came out to enjoy some fun and friends at Arno’s annual fun fair to benefit our scholarship fun.  In total we raised over $2500! Way to go Cougars!!!

Arno Blood Drive

Please see the flyer below if you are interested in participating in our annual blood drive

Blood drive