Miss Book Fair 2018
Coming soon to Arno…
Nov. 26
Mel-Nap Young 5s visit 8:45
Report Card window open
Nov. 27
Reflections Celebrations 9:00
Nov. 28
No events
Nov. 29
Staff Meeting 7:45
LLI Para training
Nov. 30
PBIS Reward
End of the 1st Trimester
Dec. 3
No events
Dec. 4
Steve @NCI
Dec. 5
No events
Dec. 6
Staff Holiday Luncheon 11:00
PTA Meeting 6:30
Dec. 7
Report Cards go home
Arno Vision
Arno Elementary will provide a system of support to empower
and inspire students to become collaborative learners
that strive for academic excellence
Special visitor to Arno
Lisa Smalley’s nephew, Caleb Foote, starring in ABC’s “The Kids are Alright” paid a special visit to our 4th grade today. Check out some pics below and you can see his show on ABC every Tuesday at 8:30 p.m.
Please take a moment and read the communication link below for information on our Nov. 26th launch date for the new buzzer security system.
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From the PTA
Happy Thanksgiving from the ARNO PTA! We hope you all have a happy, safe, and fun Holiday and we will see you back at school on November 26th!
The Reflections Celebration for the students that have participated in the event will take place on 11/27/18. Invitations have been sent home.
We are in need of a few volunteers to help out during the celebration. If you would like to volunteer please sign up using this link: https://www.signupgenius.com/
The Founders day nominations are due 11/30 please take a look at the link and submit and nomination!
The categories are (last years winners are listed next to each category and can not be nominated again this year):
§ Outstanding educator-Nikkie Stanley
§ Distinguished service award-Shannon Mihalik
§ Outstanding business partner-ATS Tax Service
§ Outstanding program-Fun Run
§ Outstanding support personnel-Tim Tanskley
§ Council member of the year-Paulette Lenart
§ Michigan Life membership-Michelle DesJardins
All nominations are due by Friday, November 30th and will be voted on at the December PTA meeting. Nomination forms can be downloaded by visiting: https://sites.
Please submit your nominations to the ARNO office in a sealed envelope marked “PTA President- Founders’ Day” OR via email to arnopta@gmail.com with the subject: “PTA President- Founders’ Day”
The next PTA meeting is on 12/6/18 at 6:30 PM. The Founders’ Day voting will be held during this meeting so bundle up and come see us and vote! We hope to see you all there!
Conference totals
Thank you for another successful round of conf. Arno had 84% of parents attend this fall, up 1% from last year!
District-wide Holiday Toy Box Drive
The annual district-wide toy drive for local families, as in the past we are looking for donations of new or gently used clothing and toys. The box for drop off is in the main office at our school until December. Please consider donating something if you are able.
Board Recognition
Last blog we let our families and staff know that our social worker, Sandy Bennett, was awarded a Career Achievement Award at her state conference. During the November Board meeting, she was recognized for her efforts and her outstanding work she does to service our Allen Park students, parents, and staff.
The Career Achievement Award is a prestigious honor, not annually awarded by MASSW. In fact, there have been only 5 in the last 70 years and our Sandy is now one of the elite!
This award is reserved for recognizing an individual who has demonstrated exemplary services as a School Social Worker over a significant period of time, has developed creative programs, services, and/or interventions to improve or enhance the lives of children and families in the State of Michigan.
Congratulations Sandy!!
Christmas Story Time
I would like to once again come around to all of your rooms to give you a holiday 30 minute break, and read Christmas stories to your kids. Please stop by or send me an email when you would like me to come in starting after Thanksgiving.
Christmas Luncheon
Please mark your calendars for Dec. 6th as we will be having our annual Staff Christmas Lunch. We will do the one hour block again and will have a schedule when we get close.
Updates on the 3rd Grade Reading Law
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Read Grade 3 Guide 638247 7 by Stephen Zielinski on Scribd
New!! Safeties of the Month from Ms. Higgins
I just wanted to share the exciting news of Safety of Month! Each month I have selected 3 safeties to be “Safety of the Month.” I have chosen an outdoor safety, a kindergarten/young 5’s safety and a door/hallway/bus safety The safeties were awarded last month and were super excited for the honors!
If you notice a safety going above and beyond, please shoot me an email with their name, so they may be recognized!
Here are our September and October Safeties of the Month:
September: Bailey Ellis, Ethan Armstrong, and Adrian Gonzalez
October: Katie Watkins, Sammy Unger, and Peter Lenart
Pop Can Tabs
Madeline Every has been collecting pop can tabs at our schools to benefit the Ronald McDonald House in Detroit for a number of years now and she continues this very important effort. There will be a collection box in the office where you can drop off pop can tabs off to support her favorite charity.
Techie Time
For some additional intervention…
Readtheory.org
Accompany your students on a journey through our vast library of reading comprehension content. ReadTheory’s adaptive approach fosters improvement by automatically meeting learners at their own, individual ability levels. Signup takes seconds and no time is spent vetting assignments. Progress is shown on an intuitive report, replete with actionable, meaningful insights. Our program is completely free. 7.4 million students have completed 130 million quizzes on ReadTheory to date.
A Good Tool for Writing Reflections on Stories
Scholastic’s Character Scrapbook offers a good template that elementary school students can use to write about and reflect on the characters in their favorite stories. The template is quite simple to use. Students enter the name of a story and the name of their favorite character on the first page. On the next pages students list ten attributes of the character. The Character Scrapbook also allows students to create pictures of their favorite characters.
As you can see in the image above, Scholastic’s Character Scrapbook doesn’t limit students to human characters. Students can write about and create images of animal characters too.
Applications for Education
Scholastic’s Character Scrapbook could be a great tool for getting students to think about their favorite stories. The Character Scrapbook has an easy print option so that you can print and display all of your students’ works in your classroom.
Early Literacy eResources from MeL.org
October 1st marked the launch of the Library of Michigan’s new, updated,Michigan eLibrary! Here is a look at a couple of the early literacy eResources available for use:
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