"Daisy Daily" for Faculty & Staff: Daisy Daily for the Week of September 23, 2019

Fun at the Annual Daisy PTO Picnic

Daisy Staff,

Welcome to a new week!
A few notes about this week and the weeks ahead:

Grade-level meetings will take place this week, as regularly scheduled in our Daisy Staff Google Calendar.
The first PTO Meeting of the school year will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 6 pm in the cafe. All staff members are welcome to attend.
The first Department-Based PLCs will take place on Wednesday after school. Agendas will be forthcoming and those PLC Meetings scheduled at Daisy will run from 3:15-4:15 pm.
We will have our first "Good News Assembly" on Friday, September 27, at 9:30 am. The theme will be "Welcome Back to School" and "Be Kind." We will celebrate students who met the Reflex Math Challenge over the summer as well as those who participated in the Governor's Summer Reading Challenge and the Commissioner's Summer Math Challenge, in a general way. Please send any completed logs that students have brought in to the office. Also, we will recognize random acts of kindness and friendship at each grade level. Please send me an e-mail regarding 1-2 students from each class who have demonstrated kindness (however simple). This is something that we will continue to recognize throughout the school year. Thanks!
In conjunction with our "Good News Assembly" on Friday, we are also planning a School Spirit/Positive Message Day. Students and staff members are encouraged to wear school spirit wear, Westbrook purple or any clothing with positive messages regarding kindness, etc. It's always fun to read these messages on shirts, etc., and this will be very visible at our assembly. A message regarding this Spirit Day will go home to students and families. PLEASE NOTE: This may need to be rescheduled due to School Photo Day on Friday; stay tuned!!!
PLEASE remember that notices, students work, etc., should go home EVERY day in student folders. There are no longer any folders designated as "Wednesday Folders." We would like information to get home to families as soon as possible so we don't hold folders in school until Wednesday distribution as in the distant past. Likewise, parents/guardians send notes and important information to school on a daily basis in these folders, so please remember to check for such.
Please remember to share Kids' News with your students and join in the Pledge of Allegiance each morning. The link to Kids' News is on Ms. Godfrey's web page as well as our Daisy home page.
Teachers/certified staff members, please remember to update your web page frequently with important information for families. Likewise, with the number of staff relocations that took place this school year, please update the message on your classroom/office phones as appropriate.
School Photos will be taken this Thursday and Friday. Staff members who do not have ID badges must have their photos taken during that time. Please check with the office for the best time to do so, in between scheduled times for classrooms.
Monday, September 30, is a Professional Development Day with no school for students. Certified staff members will participate in a full-day of PD, which will focus on: the continuum of EL services and Alternative Augmentative Communication (AAC) with time for application of this new learning. There will also be sub-groups that participate in Math Vertical Alignment and Curriculum Writing in specific academic areas. A complete schedule of the day will be forthcoming.
STAR Assessments for Grades K-4 will be scheduled during the week of September 30, as discussed in grade-level meetings last week.
Homework Room will begin the week of September 30. Students in grades 3-4 can be recommended by teachers for participation; then letters will go home to families for permission. Invitation letters will be distributed to classroom teachers this week.
We continue to tweak our Duty Schedule as necessary for the needs of our students. Please be sure to consult the Google Doc for the most up-to-date schedule at: