Coming soon to Arno…
June 1
NWEA Reward Picnic for Top 10 Readers and Most Improved 11:30
NWEA Certificate students extra recess 1:30
June 2
3rd Grade to Greenfield Village
June 3
5th Grade to Greenfield Village
Senior Walk 1:45
June 7
5th Grade Graduation APCA 9:15
Honors Choir APCA 7:00
June 8
Mentor Celebration 1:20
June 9
5th Grade Picnic
Super Cougar Ice Cream Party 2:30
June 10
1st Grade to Bowling
3rd Grade to Barney Park
Kindergarten to the Zoo
June 13
Early Release 11:30
3rd Grade to Boccabella
4th Grade to Pretty Family Park
June 14
Early Release 11:30
3rd Grade to Pretty Park
4th Grade to Boccabella
Kindergarten Celebration Picnic Barney Park
June 15
Early Release 11:30
Last Day of School
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June 22
Office Closes
2022-2023 School Year
August 22
Arno Office opens
September 1
Meet the Teacher
September 6
Student First Day
September 8
First PTA Meeting 6:00 New
PBIS Stations
Arno Vision
Arno Elementary will provide a system of support to empower
and inspire students to become collaborative learners
that strive for academic excellence-
Final Committee Updates:
SRCR:
*NWEA spring assembly for students that met their goal or are at grade level – May 25, 2022
Fifth grade in gym 8:45-9:15, fourth and third grade in art room 9:30 & 10:00
*Top ten per grade level & most improved reward – park trip with Steve June 1, 2022 11:30-1:00
*Discussion on this year’s M-STEP scores
*Concerns expressed over the class sizes in current first grades and the impact on future scores – Is it possible to add an additional class of second grade for next year?
*Start fifth grade MSTEP prep earlier next year, not enough time to get it all in
*Add synonym word changing in directions as a strategy next year
PBIS:
PBIS Beginning of the Year Stations and Follow-Up Activities
Thursday, September 8, 2022
Thursday, January 12, 2023
There will be 10 minutes spent at each station which includes the discussion and travel time between stations. You will rotate in sequential order.
Start Times and Station Double check 2022/2023 Specials schedule
8:45a–Trionfi (1), Talamonti (2), Johnson (3), Pushman (4), Watson (5)
9:35a–Warneck (1), Guyot (2), Kalis (3), Schultz (4), Martinchick (5)
10:25a–Garza (1), Zuke (2), Higgins (3), Cervantes (4), Amonette (5)
11:55a–Haskin (2), Harrison (3), Mercer (4), Roller (5)
**Presenters, please note that the 11:55am rotation are all littles. Please shorten your presentation to short attention spans, highlighting the big ideas. Thank you for making this accommodation!**
1.Office Expectations
Staff: Kim Dowd or Cathy Anderson
Location: outside of office for space
- Assembly and Bullying Expectations
Staff: Andrea Alvarez
Location: gym or outside
- Bus Expectations
Staff: Steve Zielinski
Location: bus located in parking area
- Cafeteria Expectations
Staff: ????
Location: Cafeteria
- Hallway Expectations
Staff: ????
Location: hallway outside of Media Center/Computer Lab
SEL:
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Continue monthly activities identified through the calendar. Please use all of the literacy resources in the media center.
SRCM:
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The math committee reviewed NWEA math data. We worked to find the percent of students who met the cut score in each grade. We compiled the percent proficient from each grade and you can see the breakdown here. The plan is to track the percent proficiencent from each grade year to year. One teacher from each grade will receive the previous years’ scores so you can see where next year’s students ended this spring. Thanks for all of your hard work this year!
SIP:
Completed all sections of required plans and goals for submission to the district. Planning is complete, the information will be shared at the first staff meeting.
Final Eval meetings/Data meetings
We will have our combined final eval and final data meeting together on June 8. If we are unable to finish while we wait for final data, then I will schedule something separate with you to wrap this all up.
Senior Clap Out
Please mark your calendars for the Senior clap out on June 3 @1:45pm. We will start at the 5th grade doors, and walkthrough to the main doors- Kindergarten can join in the main hallway.
FYI- PLEASE be sure this is up to date
School Supply Lists are out and ready to go…
This year we are using Teacherlists.com to post all of our supplies. You can access the lists down below from the click-button, or you can access from our Arno site off the main APPS website. This feature also allows you to choose a store, if you wish, which auto sets up the list for purchase and lets you finish the process without ever setting foot in a store.
https://www.teacherlists.com/schools/31210-arno-elementary-school
NO BACKPACKS PLEASE…
Please note that students may continue to carry backpacks through Tuesday, June 14. Students should not bring a backpack on the last day.
Some New Beginnings
Some people would say that change is good. In some cases they would be right,, but not in this case. This year we must say goodbye to two of our MVP’s of Arno- Michele Sbonek, Colleen Byrne. We are also saying goodbye again to Sandy Bennett, who has stepped back into the social work role this year at Arno. The mark they have left on us, and the tremendous impact on kids that they have had is immeasurable. They are truly the professionals that put kids first everyday, but have also been tremendous supporters of our staff. We wish them well in their retirement as they begin anew, waiting for their next big adventure. They will always be an Arno Cougar– We will miss you!!!
Michele Sbonek
Michele Sbonek has been a fixture in our resource room at Arno for a long time. So many students have passed through her door that were in need of assistance, and so many shined brightly because of it. Michele has that magical touch that really digs down to the heart of what is needed, and reaches her students in an inspiring way. Michele develops those key relationships with her students that helps to motivate and engage them in their learning. In the same way, Michele has been an invaluable resource for our entire staff, tirelessly working with every classroom teacher to bring the best learning opportunities for her kids. We will miss Michele at Arno, whether it was for her work with students, the APHS scholarship team, or just being there for the staff- Michele was all you could ask for in a teacher- and we wish her Congratulations, and best of luck in this new chapter in her life.
Colleen Byrne
Colleen Byrne has been a fixture in the Arno media center for a long time as well. Her love of literacy and positive enthusiasm for it, is very engaging to our students. The students always love going to Mrs. Bryne’s class for special because of all the fun lessons with reading they experience, and that is a big part in helping students achieve a love of reading. Mrs. Byrne has also been a big part in supporting our social-emotional team, bringing in literature to support student needs, as well as co-chairing our student peer to peer mentoring group at Arno- an invaluable experience for both the mentor, and the mentee. Student engagement in literacy at Arno is in a better place thanks to Mrs. Byrne and we wish her Congratulations and best wishes in all her future plans.
Welcome to Arno!
This year we are pleased to welcome to the Arno staff Ms. Jessica Eskew, new teacher for our CI program, as well as Ms. Aly Kubik, who will be our new resource teacher. find out more about our new teachers in this fall’s first blog post of the 2022-23 school year. Welcome to Arno Jessica and Aly!
Additional changes for 2022-23
Mrs. Jensen, our current CI teacher, will be moving into the role of Media Center teacher, which will take on some new STEM initiatives in the years to come!
Mrs. Dana Brown will be returning to us from leave in the fall, she will be taking on the the social work position at Arno
Kiwanis Fun
Kiwanis Club Kids Day-A Fun Day for AP kids Preschool-Grade 5 (1)
5th Grade Graduation
It’s hard to believe that we are already upon the end of the year. That always means celebrations, picnics, and special activities. The biggest event that takes us into the summer, though, is 5th Grade Graduation. We will be hosting the celebration on June 7 starting at 9:15 at the Allen Park Center for the Arts adjacent to the high school. This year’s 5th grade picnic will take place on Thursday of that week. Please mark your calendars
NWEA Celebration
We kicked off another celebration of our students who have worked so very hard to meet their goals on the NWEA. This time around, all students who met their goal or achieved grade level on their NWEA will receive an extended recess. We also have a Top 10 reading scores per grade, and a “Biggest Jump” category for those who saw the biggest jump in score from Sept. to May. All Top 10 and Big jump kids will be attending a pizza picnic at Boccabella park on June 7- those students have a note and permission slip to take home. It was so great to see all of the smiles and the M-STEP charm necklaces, which were very filled up to end our testing season!
Congrats to all of our hard working 3rd -5th graders!
3rd Grade
4th Grade
5th Grade
Top Ten Readers
Most Improved
Tech Time
Alternatives to Book Reports – A Post Inspired By My Daughter
My five-year-old daughter has a healthy obsession with the According to Humphrey the Hamster series of books. She got one of the books for Christmas and we’ve been reading through the entire series since then. Last week I came home from a bike ride and she couldn’t wait to show me her latest art project! It was a paper replica of how she pictured Humphrey’s cage. She had even used some paper and tape to create a little hamster wheel to put in his cage. On a scale of 1-10 I was at about 15 for how impressed I was that she came up with that idea on her own.
Inspired by my daughter’s creation of a replica of Humphrey the Hamster’s cage, here are some other ideas for alternatives to traditional book report assignments.
- Create a book trailer video. This is a short video intended to get people excited to read a book. Students can summarize key points in the book and try to entice viewers to read the book. Canva’s video editor and Adobe Creative Cloud Express are great tools for making book trailer videos.
- Have students design and publish their own online games based on the plot and characters of a book. Flippity offers great templates that students can modify to create their own online games.
- Students can use Google Earth to create virtual tour based on locations featured in a book. Students using the web browser version of Google Earth can include videos in the placemarks in their tours. Students who use Google Earth Pro can record audio narration for their entire tours.
- Consider using the choose-your-own-adventure model and have students write some alternate endings to a story. They can do this in Google Slides. Here’s a video about the process.
Five Google Earth Activities to Get Kids Interested in the Outdoors
In last week’s Week in Review I mentioned a new book titled Outdoor Kids in an Inside World. In the book Steven Rinella presents a lot of ideas for getting kids interested and involved in learning about nature. In the first chapter he presents a big list of ideas for things that you can do to spark kids’ curiosity before you even head outside. As I was reading through those ideas it struck me that many could be done or be aided by the use of Google Earth.
Inspired by Steven Rinella’s Outdoor Kids in an Inside World, here are five Google Earth activities that you can do to get kids interested in learning about the world around them.
- Trace a drop of rain from your house to the nearest stream, river, lake, or ocean.
- How many total feet or meters of elevation change would you cross to walk from your school to the highest point in your state, province, or country.
- Create a tour of the five most interesting geological features in your state, province, or country. Let students decide what qualifies as “interesting.”
- Use the historical imagery in Google Earth to view changes in shoreline over the last fifty years. Have students create a list of the factors that contributed to those changes.
- Take a walk outside and look for bird nests. Record their locations in a Google Earth file. Repeat the process the following year with another group of students and see if the bird nests are in the same places.
If you’re interested in learning more about Google Earth, enroll in A Crash Course in Google Earth and Maps or take a look at Around the World With Google Earth.
