Band Concert Excellence
Coming soon to Arno…
May 14
Ad Council 9:00
May 15
Dr. Hall reads to 4th
K screeners
May 16
Jazz Band 10:30 Grade K-3
SIP Meeting 3:45
May 17
No events
May 18
Arno Planting Day
Cub Scouts Reps to talk to kids
May 21
5th Grade transition meetings
District SIP meeting
ICC 4:00
May 22
5th grade Counselors at Arno 9:00
Smalley boat trip
May 23
No events
May 24
MTSS meeting 7:45
May 25
PBIS reward
Senior Walk
Supply Lists
Here once again is the link to register you grade supply list by June 1
https://www.teacherlists.com/
Final Evals
Walkthroughs are almost complete, and your student assessments for your goal areas should be complete soon, please be sure that your STAGES information is updated and we can plan to have our year-end goal meetings. You can start by making sure your Self-Assessment is complete and submitted, your Results for Professional Growth Goals are complete (just a narrative), and you have uploaded any evidences you would like to be considered as a part of your final evaluation for the year.
EVAL Final Checklist:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_1XbTEDwNNunyBxh0AkptLN1cH_7gnmTGMRE0b7Hmhs/edit?usp=sharing
School Improvement
Please remember to complete you grade/class SIP dic of activities for this school year. This must be finished before you leave for summer. They are housed in the “First Staff Meeting” folder -> School Improvment
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByBcxrtSW_W4SFAwYkRKNTdET28
PD LOG
Please log your PD in your MOECS account to be sure that your certification stays current! Please remember that you must print and sign your PD log as part of your final evaluation process. That can be done as soon as you have finished entering it! Stay tuned!
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As a member of the Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ Community, we’d like to invite you to an exclusive live webinar with Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell. We’ll be picking up our series on the NEW Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ with Part 6: Put Reading Minilessons Into Action. Reading Minilessons are short, concise, purposeful lessons with a practical application in a specific area of literacy. Each minilesson engages children in inquiry that leads to the discovery and understanding of a general principle. Growing out of the interactive read-aloud experience and linked to independent reading, teachers use many of these texts as examples from which they generalize the understanding. In this hour-long webinar, you’ll learn more about how to incorporate this important instructional context into your classroom.
Educationally Yours, Erika Denn |
Thank you PTA!
All of Arno joins me in thanking our PTA for their dedication and hard work in raising the bar on what this group can do. What our PTA has accomplished over the past two years is nothing short of remarkable. Their willingness to do things different, and bring the digital age into the mix has allowed our PTA to bring in funds to do amazing things, as well as amazing events. Please check out their post below, Thursday’s PTA meeting vote has given us a brand new kindergarten playscape! Amazing! Thank you Jenny Sauve, Shannon Mihalik, Nicole Atkinson, and Julie Hegedus for all your service.
Congratulations to our new Board as well, whom was sworn in for the upcoming 2018-19 school year. Our new Board includes Stacey Sisson, President, Sascha Mansfield, Secretary. and Julie Hegedus continues as Treasurer. There were no candidates for VP of Fundraising, the Board is actively looking for someone who is willing to step forward and help out.
PTA Board delivers Robots used for coding lessons to Carrie Solak, Tech Teacher. Julie Hegedus and her husband Gary received a combined grant from Consumers Energy that paid for the entire purchase. As you can see, there were many smiling faces.
Congrats to our new Board at their swearing in!
President Stacey Sisson, Secretary Sascha Mansfield, and Treasurer Julie Hegedus are sworn into office by Shannon Mihalik.
From the PTA
Happy Friday! Let’s hooe the weather this weekend is kind so all of us mothers can enjoy a wonderful, sunny Mother’s Day!! Happy Mother’s Day to all the hard-working, wonderful moms!
A BIG THANK YOU to Stacey Sisson and her mom, Jill, for chairing our Daddy/Daughter Dance that was held at the Prestige Banquet Hall on Friday, April 27th! The girls and dads had a great time dancing to the music played by Scott Piestrak! This event would not be possible without ALL of our wonderful volunteers that helped to make it so successful!
✅Our last PTA Meeting was quite eventful! Our members voted in a new Executive Board, to replace the older, orange playscape with a brand new one (coming this Summer!), two of our PTA Members (Julie and Gary Hegedus), gifted Mrs. Solak with coding robots and mice from a grant they earned from Consumers Energy for all of their volunteer work, the PTA was able to donate 10 Books about ALICE to the school, a new wheelchair and foot rest for the school, and we have our chair for the Fun Run next year!!
Please help us congratulate our 2018-2019 Executive Board Members:
President: Stacey Sisson
VP of Fundraising: Tricia Moore
Secretary: Sascha Mansfield
Treasurer: Julie Hegedus
️Last week also kicked off a fun week to for our staff: Staff Appreciation Week!
This years theme was Tigers Baseball! The Fin started the week before on April 21st with a FREE Tigers Game courtesy of the Detroit Tigers commission and then continued the full week of April 30th! That week started with a catered breakfast by our wonderful resident Caterer: Mr. Kyle Kalis! Kyle dishes out homemade muffins, eggs, fruit, bacon, sausage, and biscuits and gravy. The staff also enjoyed juice, water, coffee, and Larabars! We were also able to share with them some the homemade cookies from Yah-ki-doc Bakery! Thursday was a catered Lunch from Brass Kitchen! Homemade sandwiches, bags of chips, fruit, pop, and water! It was a delicious spread that Kyle was able to obtain for us and everyone enjoyed it so much!
The week was also filled with lots of treats in the lounge and a gifts that were distributed to the staff on Thursday at the luncheon from many of the parents! Some of our teachers received headphones and gift cards from our Sign Up Genius link! For a full list of all of the goodies, check out our Facebook Page!
If you are looking to help out with 5th grade and Kindergarten Celebrations please contact Mrs. Hool (for the 5th Grade Celebration) and Ms. Stanley (for the K Celebration).
Thank you to everyone who helped to make these past two weeks so fun and successful! We appreciate all that our members do for our school community!
Update from the District
Arno Gardening Club
Twenty 3rd-5th graders have been meeting on Tuesdays for 25 minutes after school to attend Garden Club and beautify the courtyard. On our first meeting, we created some goals for the area which included planting some food plants and flowers, weeding, and doing experiments. We weeded last week and are getting our garden boxes ready for a salad garden. A salad garden is a garden that grows salad produce (think different lettuces, radishes, etc.) at a faster rate allowing us to enjoy some of our fresh produce before summer vacation. We are also one of this year’s MSU Tollgate Education Center and MSU 4-H Children’s Garden Cool Kid Plants collaborating classrooms to determine which plants (petunias, geraniums, pentas, and marigolds) attract butterflies. While we are collecting data through June, Garden Club has requested that the classrooms that are studying butterfly life cycles release their hatched butterflies in our courtyard to encourage butterfly attraction to our plants and add to our data. Happy Spring!
Safety Town Program
Who: 2018-19 Kindergarten and 1st Graders
When: June 18 thru June 28 – AM & PM Classes Available
Where: Lindemann Elementary, 9201 Carter, Allen Park
Safety Town is an interactive safety awareness program for children from 5-6 years of age. Each day the children will be introduced to various safety issues in a fun and safe environment. The program is taught by a Police Officer and a retired Allen Park teacher, with hands-on topics led by community guest speakers as well as visits from the AP Police & Fire Departments. Please see attached for more information and sign your child up today!
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4th Grade Inquiry based learning using cupcakes…
How are earth’s layers formed? How. An geologists view what is underground?
Students predicted, took core samples of their cupcakes, drew models of their findings, and shared with the class.
4th grade photos from our stormwater drain stenciling with Arch Environmental Group.
Smart Money Magic Show
Arno was treated to some Smart money advice via magic at an assembly last week. Great tips were given to students, while having a fun time. Arno students also received a free book with similar money lessons.
Arno Planting Day
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Want to Sign up? Click on the link below
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0d4eaaac2ea4f94-arno
Tech Corner
Book Creator Now Offers “Read To Me” Mode Online
Last summer the Book Creator team launched a web-based version of their popular iPad app. The web-based version, called Book Creator for Chrome, has been a hit with teachers and students.
The latest update to Book Creator for Chromeincludes a feature called “Read To Me.” Read To Me is a text-to-speech function that reads the words on the pages of any book created in Book Creator. Read To Me highlights each word as it is read aloud. The pages of the books automatically turn when the end of a page is read aloud.
Read To Me works in Chrome, Safari, and Edge. It also works within the iPad app.
Book Creator’s Read To Me includes the option to change the speed at which the text is read aloud. You can also specify whether or not words are highlighted and whether or not multimedia elements are played within the book when Read To Me is enabled.
5 PowerPoint Features Often Overlooked by Students and Teachers
About ten years ago I started to notice a lot of alternatives to PowerPoint popping-up on the web. Some of those presentation tools like Google Slides and Prezi are still going strong while others have faded away. Through it all, PowerPoint kept chugging along even though it wasn’t a darling of Web 2.0 users. Today, PowerPoint has all of the features students and teachers need, including collaboration, but often those features are overlooked. If you haven’t taken a look at PowerPoint in a while, here are five PowerPoint features that you should try.
Screen Recording
Making a presentation about your favorite software or websites? Try using the screen recorder that is built into PowerPoint. Your recorded video is automatically inserted into the slide that you have open at the time you make your recording. Of course, you can use that video in other slides too. Find the screen recorder in the “Insert” menu in PowerPoint.
Sound Recording/ Sound Upload
Add your voice to your slides through the audio recorder built into PowerPoint. This is particularly useful if your slides will mostly be viewed independent of your presence.
Have music or sound effects that you want to add to your slides? In PowerPoint you can upload those recordings directly to your presentation and play them on the slides of your choice.
The sound recording and sound upload options are found in the “Insert” menu in PowerPoint.
Add-ins
Google Slides has Add-ons, PowerPoint has Add-ins. Add-ins offered by third parties can provide additional functions in PowerPoint. In my video embedded below I demonstrate how to find and install PowerPoint Add-ins. The video features the Pixabay Add-in that provides access to thousands of images that are in the public domain.
Word Art
Tired of the same old Times New Roman, Georgia, or Comic Sans (gasp!), use Word Art to create custom fonts. You’ll find Word Art in the “Insert” menu in PowerPoint.
Morph
Morph is a PowerPoint feature available to Microsoft 365 subscribers. Morph allows you to create animations by combining two similar slides into one display.
