December 17, 2018

KARCHER STAFF BLOG

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Kudos

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Thank you to all of our teachers for your time and efforts this past week lining up conferences with families. It was great to see the collaboration put in to support our students!
What an exciting time we are in with the construction of a new 6-8 middle school! Thank you to everyone that attended the meetings and provided the architects with a lot to think about during their design of the new building. As we move forward if anything comes up that you want them to think about please get that information to me and I will share it with them!
Thank you to Chrystal McVey, Kris Thomsen, Stacey Steeples, Cynthia Orzula, and Vicky Lueck for assisting with some student needs this week, which, pulled you from your usual schedule. We appreciate your flexibility so that we can provide support for our neediest students first.
Thank you to Kurt Rummler for sharing his thinking and planning behind an "I do it" in his classroom during PLCs this past week! It is always so valuable when we have the chance to observe and learn from each other! Thanks again!
What a great performance by our choir students this past week! Congrats to Rod Stoughton and Jessica Wagner on a such a nice performance. And... a beautiful added touch at the end with the candles and lights off!

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Information/Reminders

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Due to break coming and the desire for students to have some ALL time prior, the rest of Careers will be moved to after ODE. Therefore, all students will be attending ALL this week!

7th grade has advisory activities from the advisory team.
8th grade is focusing on Outdoor Education prep.
Our 7th grade students in reading intervention should still report to their reading intervention.

Monday, December 17 - Start of Candygram sales for students during lunch. This will take place through this Thursday.
Monday, December 17 - BLT @ 2:40 - 3:30
Monday, December 17 - MTSS District Committee Meeting @ 3:45 - 5:15 in our Karcher library.
Tuesday - Thursday - December 18 - 20

ACCESS Testing for some of our students with Zane Bale during periods 1 and 2. Some students might extend into period 3 depending on how they test.
Tuesday and Wednesday are the set days for testing with Thursday for makeups or extended time if needed so you may see them back in class on Thursday.
A list of the students for this assessment will be shared tomorrow, Monday with staff.

Wednesday, December 19 - PLC in the library reflecting and discussing on your "I do it" went that you tried between last PLC and this one.
Friday, December 21 - Afternoon Assembly Schedule!

There will be hot chocolate sales during lunch and an array of fun activities planned for the students in the gym for the afternoon.
More details will be shared early this week.

Pictures from this week!

Students in 7th grade science creating cell division models.