SHES Weekly Update

This past Monday and Tuesday, we welcomed math coaches into our classrooms from Math Transformations. Our teachers worked with a coach on their instructional routine of Number Talks with the goals of:

• Asking good questions

• Listening to student thinking

• Noticing the important “mathematical moments” when students share their thinking

• Facilitating student-to-student discourse

• Recording student thinking

• Fostering curiosity about quantities, numbers, and operations

• Building number sense and procedural fluency

On Friday, our students came ready to celebrate. We saw so many creative costumes and our Halloween Parade was a HUGE success. PTA was tasked with the impossible of finding the best costumes. Students were called at the end of the day to get their prizes and take pictures.

This coming Friday, we are bringing back another SHES tradition as we have our first spirit awards assemblies since November of 2019. At these assemblies, we recognize students for their accomplishments at school. As we have done in the past, the parents of these students are invited to attend. All parents attending these assemblies must be masked as they are inside with students.

November 1 to 5th, we are hosting SHES Red Ribbon Week. Each day has its own theme.

• Monday, November 1 - Twin Day + classes will tie ribbons to the fence out front as our campus commitment to be drug free.
• Tuesday, November 2 - Wear Red Day + PTA will provide temporary tattoos, stickers, and arm bands for every student
• Wednesday, November 3 - Crazy Hair and Sock Day + BMX Assembly during school!
• Thursday, November 4 - Pajama Day
• Friday, November 5 - SHES Spirit Day + class contest for most participation.

“Día de los Muertos—the Day of the Dead—is a holiday celebrated November 1 - November 2. Although marked throughout Latin America, Dia de los Muertos is most strongly associated with Mexico, where the tradition originated.

Día de los Muertos honors the deceased with festivals and lively celebrations. It’s a typically Latin American custom brought to the region by Spanish conquistadores.

Assured that the deceased would be insulted by mourning or sadness, Día de los Muertos celebrates the lives of the deceased with food, drink, parties, and activities the deceased enjoyed in life. Dia de los Muertos recognizes death as a natural part of the human experience, a continuum with birth, childhood, and growing up to become a contributing member of the community.

The most familiar symbol of Día de los Muertos may be the calacas and calaveras (skeletons and skulls), which appear everywhere during the holiday: in candied sweets, as parade masks, as dolls. Calacas and calaveras are almost always portrayed as enjoying life, often in fancy clothes and entertaining situations.

If your family would like to learn more, Old Town San Diego usually hosts an event each year at the end of October. You can look it up online for 2021. Also- “Coco” & “The Book of Life” are both great movies for kids that pertain to this theme.

As many of you know, our school follows the Positive Behavior and Supports Model (PBIS), where we have three school rules: Be Safe, Be Respectful, Be Responsible. Once a trimester, we evaluate our work through the eyes of our third through fifth-grade students and all grade level families to continually improve our school's climate. We never want to stop growing. We are asking for students and families to take their respective anonymous surveys to evaluate, learn, and move forward together to make SHES the best school it can be. Students will be taking the survey in class during the week of November 8-12, 2021. If parents do not wish for their child to participate, please print out and return the PBIS Survey Opt-Out Form to your child's teacher by November 5, 2021. Below are the questions that your student will be asked:

1. What grade are you in?
2. I like school. A: Never, Sometimes, Often, Always
3. I feel like I do well in school. A: Never, Sometimes, Often, Always
4. My school wants me to do well. A: Never, Sometimes, Often, Always
5. My school has clear rules for behavior. A: Never, Sometimes, Often, Always
6. Teachers treat me with respect. A: Never, Sometimes, Often, Always
7. Good behavior is noticed at my school. A: Never, Sometimes, Often, Always
8. I get along with other students. A: Never, Sometimes, Often, Always
9. I feel safe at school. A: Never, Sometimes, Often, Always
10. Students treat each other well. A: Never, Sometimes, Often, Always
11. There is an adult at my school who will help me if I need it. A: Never, Sometimes, Often, Always
12. Students in my class behave so that teachers can teach. A: Never, Sometimes, Often, Always

Parent Opt-Out Form - For third through fifth-grade families that do not want their child to take the in-class survey.

Parent Survey - To be completed by all grade level parents by Wednesday, November 10, 2021.

Parent/Teacher conferences are from November 15th through the 19th. School dismisses every day this week at 12:52pm. Please reach out your child's teacher to secure a time.

COVID testing will be held at Joan MacQueen Middle School once a week on Wednesday's in the JMMS staff parking lot from 7:30am - 12:30pm. Testing is open to staff, students, and the community. Please pre-register at https://www.covxlabs.com/prereg-form.

• Instructional Assistant, Special Education - Under the direction of a Special Education teacher or other assigned administrator, assist in the instructional program and behavioral management of physically, emotionally and learning disabled students in Special Day Class, Resource Specialist Programs and/or any other regular education of special education program; provide instruction and a positive role model to students in basic living skills, social interactions and academic development.

JMMS will be starting a PTA and is actively looking for members. Please see the flyer.

• Red Ribbon Week - Twin Day + classes will tie ribbons to the fence out front as our campus commitment to be drug free.

• Red Ribbon Week - Wear Red Day + PTA will provide temporary tattoos, stickers, and arm bands for every student
• School Site Council, Library, 3:30pm - Agenda

• Red Ribbon Week - Crazy Hair and Sock Day + BMX Assembly during school!
• Covid 19 Testing, JMMS, 7:30am - 12:30pm
• Early Dismissal, 2:02pm

• Red Ribbon Week - Pajama Day

• Red Ribbon Week - SHES Spirit Day + class contest for most participation.
• PTA Meeting, Room 3, 8am
• Spirit Awards Assembly - Fourth and Fifth Grade, Auditorium, 12:30pm
• Spirit Awards Assembly - Second and Third Grade, Auditorium, 1:15pm
• Spirit Awards Assembly - First Grade, Auditorium, 2:00pm

• 11/9: Fifth Grade Punkin' Chunkin'
• 11/10: Fourth Grade Punkin' Chunkin'
• 11/10: AUSD Board of Trustees Meeting
• 11/11: Veterans Day - No School
• 11/15 - 19: Parent Teacher Conferences-School dismisses at 12:52pm
• 11/15 - 19: Minimum Day Dismissals, 12:52pm
• 11/22 - 26: Fall Break - No School

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Phone: 619-445-2977
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