COMING SOON TO ARNO…
Teacher Appreciation Week Begins!!
May 2
Kindergarten Roundup 6:30
Hearing screening Y5, K, and 1
May 4
Staff Appreciation Lunch 11:00-12:00 ALL
May 5
PTA Meeting 6:30
May 6
Early Release 11:30/PM PD
May 9
Ad Council
Steve out in pm
May 10
Steve RESA PD
May 11
Hearing retakes
PBIS 8:00
May 12
ALICE EVAC DRILL
Staff Meeting 8:00
May 16
ICC 4:00
May 17
K Screening
APMS student orientation 9:00
May 18
SIP 8:00
SRCM 8:00
May 19
K screening
SEL 8:00
SRCR 8:00
Safety Committee 9:30
May 23
Steve off
District PBIS meeting 1:30
May 24
Data Meetings
May 27
PBIS Reward
5th Grade reprod unit
SPED to APMS
May 30
Memorial Day- No School
May 31
Ad Council 9:30
Teacher Appreciation Week
Hour Lunch Schedule
ARNO VISION
ARNO ELEMENTARY WILL PROVIDE A
SYSTEM OF SUPPORT TO EMPOWER
AND INSPIRE STUDENTS TO BECOME
COLLABORATIVE LEARNERS
THAT STRIVE FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE-
Committee Updates:
PBIS: PBIS Clubs are back, be sure to set up any plans or get materials you need for reward day
SIP: The SIP team will meet on May 3 for a full day to wrap up school improvement for the year.
SEL: Be sure to check out this month’s newsletter and resources
SRCR: M-STEP Prep has now ended- plans will be discussed for next year
SRCM: Discussion of modifying the monthly calendar to increase student participation
Data Time
We will be having our May data dive toward the end of the month so that we can have all testing finished at that point. Please make your plans for NWEA testing. We are working on providing a sub for everyone so that you can have a day to BAS your room as well, Beth’s team will FAST and progress monitor throughout May.
M-STEP preliminary scores will be issued soon when we have everything in.
3rd and 5th grade march to victory on the M- STEP
SUPPLIES
If you have special requests for supplies, please get them to Cathy by Friday, June 15
KINDERGARTEN ROUNDUP
We are pleased to be bringing back the normal kindergarten round up this spring for all incoming kindergarteners. This year’s event will be on May 2 starting at 6:30 p.m. Parents will attend in the gym, all future Cougars will attend within the 3 different classrooms. Remember that Kindergarten registration is now open at Riley.
Kindergarten 2022-2023 Information
K Registration 22 23
young 5 22 23
22 23 Kinder instruct.
Congratulations to our New PTA BOARD for the 2022-2023 School Year
President: Nicole Adkins
Vice President: Meaghan Bachman
Treasurer: Jesse Spencer
Secretary: Sarah Wald
*Our last meeting of this school year will be on May 5 at 6:30
MACUL 2022
MACUL LINK
EARTH DAY STATIONS
Tech Time
Three Great Ways to Create Online Exit Ticket Activities
This morning I received a question from a reader of my Practical Ed Tech Newsletter. She wanted to know what I would suggest as an alternative to Google Forms and Google Classroom for conducting exit ticket activities in her biology class. I quickly replied with three options that I really like.
The first option that came to my mind was Ziplet. Formative was the second option that I thought of. And the third option was a PowerPoint add-in called ClassPoint. All three of those free tools are demonstrated in this new video.
- How to Use ClassPoint – Teacher and Student Views
- Two Great Features of Formative for Formative Assessment
- Best of 2021 – Ziplet Exit Tickets
Timers
Four Convenient Classroom Timers
I’ve always taught in schools that use a block schedule. The shortest blocks being 80 minutes and the longest ones being 240 minutes! Therefore, I’ve always used some type of timer to keep track of how long students were working on an activity and to keep track of break times between activities. When I first started teaching I did that with an actual egg timer like this one. Later I started using online countdown timer tools. The first one being Online-Stopwatch.com. That’s one of the four convenient classroom timers that I featured in this short video.
In the video above I featured the following four online timer tools:
- “Set Timer” in Google.
- Online-Stopwatch.com
- Classtools.net’s Countdown Timer
- Classroomscreen.com
