Coming soon to Arno…
March 1
March is Reading Month Begins!
Steve @RESA
March 2
Dr. Suess’s Birthday
March 3
PTA Meeting 6:30
March 4
School wide Bingo on zoom
Report Card Window Opens
March 7
Mobile Dentist in gym
PBIS District meeting 1:30
March 8
Teacher Data Meetings
March 9
PBIS 8:00
March 10
STAFF Meeting 7:45
Spring Pictures
March 11
End of 2nd Trimester
March 16
Tornado Drill 10:00
SIP 8:00
March 17
Happy St. Patty’s Day!
Report Card window closes
SRCR 8:00
SEL 8:00
District Safety Committee 9:30
March 18
No School- Teacher PD
Report Cards Released
March 21
World Down Syndrome Day- Rock your socks!
March 23
Bingo for Books 6:00
SRCM 8:00
March 24
PBIS Reward March Madness
March 26-April 3
SPRING BREAK!
ARNO VISION
ARNO ELEMENTARY WILL PROVIDE A SYSTEM OF SUPPORT TO EMPOWER
AND INSPIRE STUDENTS TO BECOME COLLABORATIVE LEARNERS
THAT STRIVE FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
TITLE I/SIP SURVEYS
It is that time of year… we are in need of your opinion of how things are going at Arno for school improvement planning. Please take a moment and complete this year’s survey which has been revised by the SIP team. Student survey information for grades 3-5 will be given by Carrie Solak during this same time. The survey will stay open until March 9
Staff:
https://forms.gle/G7HsCzqAUVkLNhM8A
World Down syndrome Day is March 21- Rock your Socks!
WDSD 2022 Flyer
Spring Fever
Committee Review
SRCR
Edmentum before school groups going
-Good attendance
After school tutoring groups going
-Lots of positive feedback from students
-Will be adding reading opportunities for students to come read to Young fives
NWEA award ceremony a success
-Seems to motivate students
-Should always do one grade at a time (better attention and control)
-4th and 5th grade have had their extra recess
-3rd grade extra recess to be completed in the future
-ten top students had their movie reward
Vocabulary tests are going
-Necklaces are started
SBA practices will start soon
Edmentum contest going
-Second grade won this month – they decided on a PJ day as the reward
-Discussed Edmentum teacher reports and controls
-competition working well as motivation
PBIS
- Data
- RESA powerpoint
- missed rewards
- Budget
- February Reward
- Organizer: Emilie Talamonti
- Date: Friday, March 4, 2022
- Reward: School Wide Bingo (via Zoom with Steve)
- Missed Flips: 5 or less; non-earners only miss 20 min.; all students can wear PJs
- whole class suckers
- Monthly Rewards
- March: March Madness, Lisa Smalley
- Grade levels meet with Sandy
- Missed reward students go to different classroom for that time
- April: Clubs, Katie Jensen
- March: March Madness, Lisa Smalley
- Smencils
- December sales: $801
- March sales
- Break it into upper and lower
- Need to purchase more
- District Meeting Update
- Tier 2/3 numbers
- special education not included
- Tier 2/3 numbers
- Planning Date for Katie & Lisa – Feb. 28, 2022
- approved
- PTA Proposal
- Cougar Store
- books (Follett money)
- jump ropes/balls
- art kits
- mini STEM
- mini instruments
- mobile kiosk/mobile food cart
- Cougar Store
- Smencils
- Cougar Store
- FOLLOW UP!
- CONTACT office for purchase of:
- Smencils
- dum dums
- Data of cultural switching
- Research diversity inclusion presenters/materials
- Monthly Themes
- Not only ethnicity based but incorporated
- CONTACT office for purchase of:
- FUTURE
- Check for Zumba needs to be done ahead of time
- Added to monthly to do calendar
- Check for Zumba needs to be done ahead of time
SRCM
The math team is currently looking at implementing a monthly home calendar that students would complete and bring back, possibly for an incentive. More info to follow. This would need to become part of our SIP plan
SIP
Looked at activities and goals that will need to be added/adjusted to the main district MICIP plan
SEL
Data Questions
Thank you all for some very productive data discussions this month, hopefully you are finding Educlimber as a useful tool when you need to reference data or progress monitoring information. Now that we have had discussions on our new data- how will you know if the desired learning is occurring as a result of your instruction and intervention. What will that look like in 3 weeks? 6 weeks? 8 weeks?
Mobile Dentist is Coming March 7
If you have families that would still like to register, please click on the link: https://www.myschooldentist.com/AEAPMI
Mobile Dentists COVID FAQs for Schools
Spring Pictures are here!
Picture Day for Arno Elementary is scheduled for Thursday, March 10, 2022 and this Picture Day event’s Order Code is 67356XF
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March is Reading Month Activities
Travel the World with Books!
One Book, One School
Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures!
This year to celebrate March is Reading Month, our entire
school will be participating in One Book, One School by
reading Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures: The Mount
Rushmore Calamity. Each student will be receiving a copy of
the book. Please pass books and parent flyers out on February
25. We are asking that you follow the pacing guide provided
and read this book aloud to your students throughout the
month of March. Due to COVID guidelines, safety, and
scheduling, March is Reading month will be a little scaled
down this year, but we know that reading will be emphasized
this month in each of your classrooms.
Pacing Guide
February 28-March 4: Chapters 1 & 2
March 7- 11: Chapters 3 & 4
March 14-18: Chapters 5 & 6
March 21-25: Chapter 7
Flat Stanley
Students will be receiving a blank copy of a Flat Stanley
for them to decorate and mail home if they so choose. In class
have students write about where they would like to send Flat
Stanley. We have provided a template for you to use in your
classroom if you want. Please hang your writing in the hallway
during the month of March.
Wear it Wednesdays
Celebrate March is Reading Month by dressing up each Wednesday to match the reading theme.
March 2: Pack your bags! Wear a shirt from you favorite location, vacation, or somewhere you want to go!
March 9: Pawsitively Wild About Reading! Wear animal print!
March 16: Team up for reading! Wear sports apparel.
March 23: We “read” all month! Wear red!
Unplugged Tuesdays
Turn off electronics… and turn on your imagination! Every Tuesday night in
March “unplug” and spend some quality time with your family!
March 1, 8, 15, 22
Final Week: Reading “Spirit” Week
To celebrate the end of March is Reading Month, we will be hosting a
Reading Spirit Week.
March 21: Be a Word! Wear a shirt or hat with words on it, or pin a word
and definition to your shirt.
March 22: Be a Book Character! Come to school dressed as your favorite
book character.
March 23: Wear Red because we “read” all month (Wear it Wednesday)
March 24: Michigan Day! Wear your favorite Michigan themed clothes.
March 25: Read and Relax! Bring in your favorite book and wear your comfiest pajamas.
DEAR
On Tuesdays and Thursdays each classroom will participate in D.E.A.R!
Someone will announce this over the PA. If you are on prep, participate in DEAR at your convenience.
Book Exchange
During the week of March 7-11 students will be participating in a book
exchange on their library day. Flyers have already gone home to parents with information about the Book Exchange.
Penny Wars
Save your spare change to bring to school on the following days: March
2, 7, 9, 14,& 16. Give your pennies to your class and your nickels, dimes,
and quarters to other classes. Pennies add to your classes total, but other
coins count against your total. The class with the highest total wins! All
proceeds will go to future March is Reading Month events!
Bingo for Books!
Bingo for Books is back! Watch for an email about when to send flyers
home for students to sign up for Bingo for Books. Bingo for Books will be
held March 23 in the Arno cafeteria. Dinner will not be provided this year,
but everyone will go home with a snack bag along with the books they
win! Please consider volunteering to help work this amazing event. Sara Bleau sent out a sign-up genius link via email.
Weekly Incentives
Each Friday, to celebrate please pass out the weekly incentives to your students. They will be in your mailbox on Thursday.
March 4: I can’t bear to be without books!! Gummy Bears
March 11: Smarties
March 25: Finger Flashlights
Tech Time
This is really cool…
Yellowstone Distance Learning Opportunities
A couple of weeks ago I shared some information about Denali’s Distance Learning Program for K-12 classrooms. This week I learned that Yellowstone National Park offers a similar program.
Yellowstone National Park’s distance learning program lets you schedule a twenty to forty minute virtual presentation with a Yellowstone Park ranger. Presentations can be scheduled for students to learn about geology of the park, the animals of the park, and the history of the park. Rangers are also available to talk about careers in the National Parks Service and more.
Yellowstone National Park is in the mountain time zone. If mountain time presents a scheduling challenge for you, there are also recordings of ranger’s presentations that are available right here on Yellowstone’s Distance Learning page. Handouts and worksheets to use with the virtual presentations are available here.
Here’s a video of a Yellowstone distance learning presentation about bears.
Read Aloud in Chrome
My usual recommendation for teachers and students who need webpages read aloud is to use Immersive Reader which is built into Microsoft Edge. But if Edge isn’t available to you then you might want to try the Read Aloud extension for Chrome. The Read Aloud extension does exactly what its name implies, it reads pages aloud.
The Read Aloud extension doesn’t offer nearly as many options as Immersive Reader in Edge offers, but there are a few customizations that you can make to it. You can adjust the speed at which pages are read, the size of the text as it’s displayed when being read aloud, and you can change the size of the text box that is displayed when a page is read aloud.
Watch this one-minute video to see how Read Aloud for Chrome works.
