Coming soon to Arno…
Oct. 23
Admin Team Meeting Riley 9:00
Oct. 24
Dr. Hall reads to 4th grade 2:15
Skating Party 6:00
Oct. 25
Staff Meeting 7:45
Sbonek IEPS
Preschool Parent Meeting 4:30-5:30
Oct. 26
MTSS Committee Meeting 7:30 (open to everyone)
Cervantes obs 9:30
Higgins obs 10:15
Conference Links due
Fire Assembly
- Grades K-3
- 9am-Grades 2 & 3
- 9:30am-Grades K & 1
- Location: Gym
Oct. 27
Conference Links go out to parents
PBIS Reward
Membership Drive Winners reward
Oct. 30
No events
Oct. 31
Halloween Parade 10:00
Teacher PD half-day, dismiss 11:40
Nov. 1
No events
Nov. 2
3rd Grade Mobile learning
Proud Like a Lion Assembly
K-2 9:00-9:45
3-5 10:00-10:45
Super Cougar Pizza Lunch 11:00
PTA Meeting 6:30
Nov. 3
Happy Friday!
Arno Vision
Arno Elementary will provide a system of support to empower
and inspire students to become collaborative learners
that strive for academic excellence
From the PTA
http://www.signupgenius.com/
Halloween Parade
Our Halloween parade will take place on the 31st around 10:00. Everyone will join as the line goes by and we will exit out of the 4th grade doors, go around the inner playground perimeter and enter through the main office doors.
MTSS- Intensifying Interventions
As mentioned last blog, there were 4 levels of intensification that we will look at in the blog- the second key feature will be engagement. Please take a look below at some information from the session:
What it is NOT:
The second of 4 Key features of intensifying supports:
http://www.intensiveintervention.org/sites/default/files/DBI_Framework.pdf
Think of when support comes to your room- instead of working or helping with an assignment from the room- the intensified support drills down and services the deficit areas so that the student can complete the assignment that was given.
Critical Question– How can you apply this notion of drilling down to PBIS in your classroom at the Tier 1 and 2 levels (see below
Techy Stuff
Alternatives to YouTube
Use the search engine below to find educational videos that are not hosted on YouTube.
Some excellent educational content can be found on YouTube. However, many teachers cannot access YouTube in their classrooms. Therefore, I compiled a list of other places to find educational videos that don’t rely on YouTube.
1. School Tube is a website dedicated to the sharing of videos created by students and teachers. School Tube allows teachers and schools to create their own channels for sharing their students’ works. School Tube also provides excellent how-to resources, copyright-friendly media, and lesson plans for using video in the classroom.
2. Teacher Tube has been around for a while now, but I still run into teachers who have not heard of it. Teacher Tube provides user generated videos for teachers by teachers. Many of the videos on Teacher Tube have teachers sharing lesson plans in action. Some videos on Teacher Tube are simply inspirational. And other videos don’t have teachers or students in them, but contain educational lessons none the less.
3. Next Vista is a nonprofit, advertising-free video sharing site run by Google Certified Teacher Rushton Hurley. Next Vista has three video categories. The Light Bulbs category is for videos that teach you how to do something and or provides an explanation of a topic. The Global Views video category contains videos created to promote understanding of cultures around the world. The Seeing Service video category highlights the work of people who are working to make a difference in the lives of others. Watch this interview I did with Rushton to learn more about Next Vista.
4. Academic Earth is a video depot for individual lectures and entire courses from some of the top universities in the United States. Visitors to Academic Earth will find lectures and courses from Yale, MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford.
Read the rest of list of Alternatives to YouTube here. And if you are fortunate enough to work in a school that allows you to use YouTube, you still might want to use View Pure, Safe Share, or A Cleaner Internet to prevent the accidental display of inappropriate “related” videos or advertisements.
Kindy Engineers
Students in Ms. Stanley’s kindergarten class participated in a STEM Challenges this month to learn more about engineering and science! The students met four different engineers from our community, including PTA Treasurer Mrs. Hegedus and Ms. Stanley’s father, Greg Stanley. They had a lot of fun learning about safety, goal setting, design testing and planning, problem solving and collaboration! Kindergarten engineers are hard at work!
Summer Reading
Congrats to all of our readers who hit 1000 plus reading minutes over the summer. For all of their efforts, Arno gave them a pizza lunch with the principal where we shared our favorite summer reads! Great job to this group and all of our summer readers who earned various rewards!
1000 Minutes Plus Club
Grant Szwed Kylee O’Connell
Jacob Gombos Anahi Chapa
Carlos Sanchez Cole Newsted
Jordyn Russel Reese Hastings
Haley Kuryvial Alivia Gonzalez
Stacey Stecconi Allan Irick
Stephanie Warneck Julia Schroeder
Benjamin Mayor Gavin Leeman
Xander Warneck David Richarson
Bentley Vu Gabrielle Moore
Kylee O’Connell Rosaria Orskinski
Samantha Muse Peyton Will
Miley Keysaer
New Chromebooks
Our district has been great at keeping us current, and there latest task was to replace an aging cart of chromebooks that were becoming useless in the tasks we needed them for. Our new HP cart for 5th grade is filling the need right away as our students were enjoying them just minutes after delivery. Thanks AP!
PBIS Smencils for Sale
Smencils sales will begin again next week! Smencils will be sold on Tuesday afternoons at 2:30p. The proceeds from Smencils benefits the PBIS program at Arno. With the funds, we are able to have great monthly incentives such as pizza lunches for Super Cougars and Zumba. The prices for items are as follows:
Smencils: $1
Smens: $2
Smencils Pouches: $8
Happy Smelling!
Full Brochure:
Brochure:
Please see the flyer below for exciting details on how to enter your class into this contest.
