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February Calendars

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February Principal Message

Focus in the Right Direction

I hope you don’t mind if I share my personal thoughts with you this month. I love where I am in my life at this moment and I love McKinley School, the staff, and this community. I feel we all give our all for the kids.

With this in mind, I do feel that in the most part, education focuses far too extensively on test scores and far too little on the whole child. We often choose one-size-fits-all fixes while ignoring solid research about the infinite ways students learn and children develop. The true measure of students’ proficiency and college, career, and citizenship-readiness must be based on more than just their scores on state standardized reading and math assessments.

We shouldn’t simply teach to the test. We need to teach for understanding, and assessments are tools to gauge that understanding. When used effectively, assessments can facilitate high levels of student achievement by providing ongoing information about students’ grasp of key concepts and how to enhance their learning to help them meet or exceed academic requirements. We also need to provide fun activities with music, P.E., and the arts.

Parents, our test scores did slip a little this past year so please encourage and help your student with their studies by encouraging them to follow through with their teacher’s excellent teaching. If you have questions, please communicate with the teacher and then render timely service to your child. Value those individual needs and extend a hand when needed. This will ultimately show in increased test scores for your child and the school.

I want all of you to know that we’re here and we’re committed to our school. The TEAM at McKinley is determined to instill in our students strong skills in reading, writing, and math. We are also determined to give students a home-away-from-home that provides endless motivation, support, and guidance.

We are always open to ideas and suggestions so please feel free to drop by my office with your ideas and successes to share. As we establish a connection and value individual needs we all can see the “big picture” and make McKinley even better.

Thanks again!

Mr. Chadaz

Volunteer Hours

Parents: PLEASE, PLEASE make sure you check in at the office when you go in to volunteer for any type of project at the school (help in the classroom, fieldtrips, PTA help, Book Fair help, etc.) and sign in and out with how long your were there on the clipboard that is in the office. PTA is required to turn in volunteer hours to the state PTA so we would greatly appreciate your help in tracking this better. THANKS for you willingness to volunteer at McKinley. You are AMAZING!

100th Day of School Room Parent Activity

Room Parents: 100th Day will be celebrated on Wednesday, February 8th. Please come up with a short activity and a small treat to do in the classroom and check with the teacher to see what time would be best to come into the classroom to celebrate that day!

There will be a Boat Parade that day at 1:30 PM. Parents, watch for more information to come home regarding this event. You child may participate in the parade by making a boat with 100 things to decorate it with to display in the parade!

Parent Teacher Conferences & Book Fair

Parent Teacher Conferences will be held on Wednesday, February 1st from 2-6 PM and on Thursday, February 2nd from 3-6 PM. Kindergarten students will not have school on Friday, February 3rd for Parent Teacher Conferences to be held that day for KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS ONLY. Your student's teacher will send home a note requesting the date and time for you to come with your student to meet with him/her.

There will be a Book Fair on Wednesday, Feb. 1st from 2-6 PM and Thursday, Feb. 2nd from 3-6 PM during Parent Teacher Conferences. The book fair will also be ONLINE and you can order on our ONLINE BOOKFAIR as well and McKinley will receive credit for the books ordered. It will run from January 25th to February 7th. Check out the online Book Fair at: http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bookfairs/cptoolkit/homepage.do?method=homepage&url=tremontonmckinley

Yearbook Deadline

Just a reminder that the last day to order yearbooks is January 27th. The price is $11 per book. We will be ordering a limited amount of extra books so please get your orders in as soon as possible. Any orders accepted after the 27th of January will be $12. Please get your orders to Mrs. Spackman in the front office. THANKS!!!