Coming soon to Arno…

Oct. 15

3rd grade BAS

Ad Council 9:00

Oct. 16

PTA Angelinas Fundraiser

2nd Grade BAS

Steve @Riley 9:00

4th grade DTE 12:00

Oct. 17

1st Grade BAS

SIP Meeting 7:45

Steve @RESA 8:00

District PBIS meeting 1:00

Oct. 18

No events

Oct. 19

No events

Oct. 22

Kinder BAS

Oct. 23

Steve/Sandy in Lansing

Oct. 24

Data Dive per schedule

Preschool Title 1 event 4:30-5:30

Oct. 25

Data Dive per schedule

Conf Links Due

Oct. 26

Conf Links out to Parents

Darga at Arno

4th Grade to Parade Company

Arno Vision

Arno Elementary will provide a system of support to empower

and inspire students to become collaborative learners

that strive for academic excellence

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FROM THE HR DEPARTMENT:

For those employees required to complete Safe Schools Training, the system is now open and available to complete for the 2018-2019 school year. The modules need to be completed by October 31. Please email me if you have any issues.

http://apps.mi.safeschools.com/login

Self-Efficacy

This was one of the key notes from my conf. Although this is just a small portion of it, look at the effect size of teacher (Hattie’s new number 1) and student self-efficacy. Please take a look at some of the slides below and check out the article for more information. I’ll have more on building self-efficacy next time.

Collective Teacher Efficacy (CTE) according to John Hattie

From the PTA

The Membership Drive is still going on. Register today by going to http://arnopta.memberhub.store
Currently Mrs. Martinchick’s class is in the lead, followed by Ms.Smalley and then Ms. Watson. This contest ends on October 25th and the winning class will receive an ice cream social onOctober 30^th.

Our Angelina’s Fundraiser will be taking place on October 16that all 3 locations Allen Park, Wyandotte and Southgate from 11am to 9pm. This fundraiser includes dine in, carry out orders and drinks! Arno PTA will receive 20% of all proceeds. Come enjoy Taco Tuesday with us!

Calling All Artists! For 50 years the PTA reflections contest has given students the opportunity to express themselves through the arts. Please join us as we celebrate this golden anniversary. This year‘s theme is “Hero’s Around Me” It’s free to enter and students can choose from six categories which include: Visual Arts, Photography, Literature, Dance Choreography, Film Production, and Music Composition. Reflections kick off is today! Watch for more information to come home with your child.

Join us on October 25th from 6pm-8pm at the Lincoln Park Skating Center for our Halloween Skate Party!! A prize for best dressed boy and girl, so wear your best costume! Tickets are $10 each and include admission, skate rental, pizza, pop and glow stick. Reserve your spot today by purchasing tickets at: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4CA4AA2AA4FE3-Halloween

The Fun Run was a huge success! The PTA held the FUN RUN on September 28^th and the weather turned out to be in our favor!

We made $18,092 total and after approximately $3,500 in expenses, the ARNO families will net over $14,000! This was all made possible by the countless parent volunteers, generous donations, The Get Movin Crew team, and the ARNO teachers and staff for making the event an enormous success!

The kids enjoyed a popsicle the day of the event and all kids that donated they will receive a Zoo Themed Stuffed animal and zoo stickers. Random students will be chosen for an additional prize as well.

The top student winner is Nina Hegedus and she will have the opportunity to be the principal for a day, on November 1!

The top grade winners will be going out to lunch with Mr. Zielinski in a limousine to celebrate their success on October 22! The top class was Mrs. Martinchick’s 1^st Grade class. They earned over $2,400 and they will enjoy a pizza party on October 18!

Thank you to EVERYONE that made this possible and together we are amazing Caring Cougars!

Our TOP grade winner are as follows

TOP STUDENT PER GRADE

Grade	Teacher	Student
Pre-K	Haskin	Ariana Laughlin
K	Stanley	Sutton Holt
1st	Watson	Lacey Mansfield
2nd	Schultz	Olivia Ostrander
3rd	Wesley	Marshall Hegedus
4th	Smalley	Meadow Stewart
5th	Creutz	Luke Feroni
Cross Categorical	Jensen	Zoey Boyd

TOP OVERALL IN ARNO

1st	Martinchick	Nina Hegedus

The next PTA Meeting is on November 1, 2018 in the Arno Cafeteria at 6:30 p.m. As always Free Childcare for school aged children will be provided. Spirt wear will also be sold (cash, check and credit card is accepted).

Holiday Fever is almost here! Join us on Saturday November 3rd at the Allen Park High School from 9am-3pm. There will be a craft and vendor show, mom 2 mom sale, tin can raffle and concessions. Admission is $1 (over age 12). Proceeds go to the PTA Council scholarship fund. This is a perfect time to start your Holiday shopping!

PTA Reflections Contest Kickoff

Please the attachments for information on this year’s exciting theme for the PTA Reflections contest

reflections entry form-u6kpjy Reflections PDF-wshid2

Thanks to everyone for your participation in Walk to School Day!

White & Park: Mrs. Smalley
Cleveland & Park: Ms. Higgins
Harrison & Rosedale: Mrs. Martinchick
McLain & Park: Mr. Trionfi
Regina & Rosedale: Mrs. Jensen
Markese & Park: Mr. Creutz
Thomas & Rosedale: Ms. Dalton
Englewood & Park: Mrs. Hool
Oceana & Park: Ms. Amonette
Jonas & Park: Ms. Byrne
Champaign & Park: Mrs. Kalis

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Picture retake day is Nov. 15th

Food Drive

Please see the attached flier for information on a food drive that be will be occuring at Arno from Oct. 22-Nov. 9th. Boxes will be brought in, and collected by the coordinator.

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SKATE PARTY

Mark your calendar for the Arno Skate Party on October 25, sponsored by our awesome PTA! Be sure to dress up!!

Halloween Parade

Time to get those costumes on the kids and come on down to Arno on Oct. 31 at 10:00 for our annual Halloween Parade. Our route will take us out of the 4th grade doors that morning, making a loop on the inside perimeter of the playground. It is a district PD day with an 11:30 dismissal that morning.

PBIS Smencils for Sale

Smencils sales will begin again starting Oct. 9th! 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!

Tech Time

Remove Distractions from YouTube

When you’re showing a video in your classroom you can remove distracting sidebar and “related” materials from YouTube with the following tools.

ViewPure is one of my longest standing recommendations for viewing YouTube videos without distractions. At its basic level to use View Pure just copy the link of a video into the “purifier” on the View Pure website and then click purify. Your “purified” video will be displayed on a blank white background. You can password-protect links to videos that you share through ViewPure (click here for directions). In the last year ViewPure expanded to offer curated collections of educational videos.

Watchkin is a service that provides a few ways to watch YouTube videos without seeing the related video suggestions and comments. You can enter the direct URL of a video into Watchkin to have the sidebar content removed. You can search for videos through Watchkin and have family-friendly results displayed (if a video appears that is not family-friendly Watchkin has a mechanism for flagging it as inappropriate). Watchkin also offers a browser bookmarklet tool that you can click while on YouTube.com to have the related content disappear from the page.

Seven Good Places to Find Writing Prompts

Anyone who has ever taught language arts has heard, “I don’t know what to write about” from a student or two. If you’ve ever heard that from a student, take a look at the following sites and apps to find writing prompts.

Emoji Prompts uses emojis as writing prompts. To generate a prompt just go to the Emoji Prompts site and click the blue “and then” button to add emojis to the screen. Students can write stories inspired by the combinations of emojis that are displayed. Emoji Prompts was created by Ian Byrd and I learned about it from one of Tony Vincent’s recent Tweets.

Story Dice for iOS is a free app that lets you select up to ten dice from four story categories. The dice feature pictures that are intended to prompt you to write about them or include them in a story. You can roll the dice by shaking your iPad or by just tapping the roll icon. Want to write your own Star Wars fan fiction? Story Dice has a Star Wars category.

Scholastic Story Starters is a great tool that students will enjoy using to create short, creative fiction stories. Scholastic Story Starters offers four story themes; fantasy, adventure, sci-fi, and scrambler. To create a story on Story Starters a students picks a theme, enter his or her name, chooses his or her grade, and spins the big wheels of prompts. The student can spin the wheels until he or she finds a prompt he or she likes. After the prompt is selected the student can write his or her story using the letter, postcard, notebook, or newspaper format provided by Scholastic Story Starters. When the story is finished it can be printed.

StoryToolz offer a nice collection of useful tools for writers. Writers who are struggling to come up with ideas for fiction stories will like the story starters featured on StoryToolz. StoryToolz has three tools that you can use to get story ideas; Random Conflicts, Half Title Generator, and Story Idea Generator. To use any of these three tools just select the tool from the main menu then look at the randomly generated idea. If you don’t like the options, run the tool again until you get options that you like.

Toasted Cheese is a daily writing prompt site that publishes prompts on a monthly calendar. The whole month is laid out for you with a different prompt each day. Don’t see anything you like on the current calendar? That’s okay, click through the previous months to find old prompts. Periodically, Toasted Cheese holds writing contests which you can learn about by clicking on the links on the calendar. The writing contests are based on one or more of the prompts from the calendar.

Make Beliefs Comix is a multilingual comic strip creation service that offers more than 300 comic templates. These printable templates are in addition to the online Make Beliefs Comix creation tool. The templates are divided into dozens of thematic categories including history, holidays, and civil rights. There is even a category of templates titled Emotions which is designed to help students express how they are feeling through comic characters. The printable templates from Make Beliefs Comix could be excellent resources to use as creative writing prompts. You could have students start a simple story by using the templates then expand the story into a longer narrative.

Writing Sparks. Writing Sparks offers timed writing prompts to share with your elementary school students. Students can respond to the prompts by writing on paper, in a word processing document like MS Word, or by writing on the Writing Sparks website. The Writing Sparks website provides students with templates to complete as they respond to each writing prompt. In the video that is embedded below I provide a demonstration of how to use the free Writing Sparks service.

Vocabulary Focus

As we continue to start our high focus on vocabulary this year- take a look at this great vocab site:

A Good Site for Vocabulary Lists and Practice Activities

Vocabulary.com is an excellent vocabulary study service offering thousands of vocabulary practice lists and activities for students in elementary school through graduate school. In addition to lists of SAT, GRE, and other test prep words, you can find vocabulary lists that are attached to novels, historical documents, famous speeches, and current news articles.

When you sign up for Vocabulary.com you will be given an assessment quiz in order to give you suggested lists with which to start your practice. After completing the assessment you can use the practice lists suggested by Vocabulary.com or choose your own lists from the huge gallery of vocabulary lists.

Applications for Education
One of the aspects of the Vocabulary.com activities that I like is the instant feedback for every practice question a student attempts. As you can see in the image above, if a student answers incorrectly on his first attempt, he will see the definition and the word in context.