Hagood Elementary

The first days of the school year are critical to establishing rapport and developing crucial relationships that will mark the tone and success of the school year. Take the time to enjoy getting to know your students and letting them get to know you.

Dear all,

Thank you again for your hard work in getting your classrooms prepared. Below I have listed the schedule for each day this week and some notes if applicable. Most likely you will receive additional information throughout the week regarding specifics for each day.

Monday, August 14

• School Hours – 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

• Dress Comfortably

• Lunch @ 11:30 in cafeteria. (turkey wrap & chips (Coyote Coffee), assorted desserts

• Jessica Ashe (TOY) and Kayla McCollum (SEOY) will be recognized at E3 District Conference at Easley High School.

• 12:00-6:00 designated folks will help with new student registration, returning student registration, and issuing car rider tags.

• Note: Since this is a normal work day for us, teachers have the option of attending E3 sessions and/or working in their rooms.

Tuesday, August 15

• School Hours – 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

• Dress Comfortably

• Lunch on Your own

• Look for student transportation information in your box.

• Note: Since this is now a normal work day for us, teachers have the option of attending E3 sessions and/or working in their rooms.

Wednesday, August 16

• School Hours – 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

• Dress Comfortably

• Back-to-School Breakfast; 8:00 a.m - 9:00 a.m.; cafeteria; Please be on time.

• Breakout sessions with Mrs. Alexander and Mr. Freeze (see attachment)

• Lunch on Your Own

• District specialized meetings for designated employees

• Work in your classrooms to prepare for first day with students

Thursday, August 17

• Our Hagood Eagles arrive!! With our opening day, everyone is asked to be on campus at 7:30 a.m. to welcome our new students and parents to the 2017-2018 school year.

• Wear black pants or jeans with new school shirt.

• Parents will be allowed to meet their child's teacher this morning with the adjustment of the schedule.

• Breakfast will be served on a different schedule to accommodate.

• Homeroom teachers, please think about this morning and what the kids can be doing while you are meeting their parents. You will also want to get transportation information for the solar eclipse this morning if you can.

• Related arts schedule begins on the first day.

• Mr. Freeze will visit each classroom on Thursday to check on transportation with students.

• Send home the following:

• School Calendar

• August Menu

• Solar Eclipse transportation form for those you did not see that morning. This will be placed in your boxes.

Friday, August 18

• Students will be sent to the cafeteria first thing in the morning for breakfast.

Please meet as a grade level this week to discuss plans for this day. You all may want to consider a viewing schedule between 1:00-2:45. 1st and 2nd grade classrooms will have extra adults for the viewing.

Timeline

The first phase (partial) will begin just after 1:00 p.m. and the total eclipse is expected to begin around 2:30 pm in Pickens County, and last approximately 2 ½ minutes. The final phase (partial) will end at approximately 4:00 p.m. The expected dismissal time for elementary schools will be 3:00 pm, followed by secondary dismissal at approximately 3:45 pm. See link for time-lapse demo...

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/greenville

I wanted to give you all a heads up on how we are going to handle breakfast count this year. After discussing with Wanda Lance, we thought it would help the time efficiency in the morning if students did not enter their numbers. Wanda and her staff are willing to continue entering numbers as they have in previous year. When students come in to their homerooms, part of their morning routine needs to be indicating whether they ate breakfast that morning. It can be as simple as clips with a yes/no choice. Then, homeroom teachers will check those students on the spreadsheet provided. Place spreadsheet out in hallway with lunch choice count.

Refer to the first 15 days of implementing Daily 5 attachment from last week. This is a great resource to use to help establish Daily 5!

As you are developing and finalizing your classroom schedules, you need to designate times for reading workshop and writing workshop. Chandra can answer any questions regarding this, if needed.

In an effort to be time efficient with our BOY schedule, I am sending information for you to read prior to Wednesday (see attachments). Mr. Freeze and I will discuss any questions during our breakout sessions on Wednesday.

• HES BTS PowerPoint
• Hagood Faculty & Staff Handbook
• District Employee Handbook
• Hagood School-wide Behavior Plan
• Overall Behavior Matrix
• Teacher Quick Check for Behavior
• Clip Up/Down Chart
• Positive Office Referral

It is fine to keep your hallway display is to keep it simple. For example make a clothesline out of cute ribbon, command hooks and use clothespins to display student work.

• Safe Schools training needs to be completed by August 31st.
• All certified teachers need to complete the Standards and Objectives component of Teacher Rubric Training.

Confidential Employee Information - Update emergency information on form that is attached.

• Turn in to Nurse Krista. Due asap.

Room Inventory - I would recommend saving this to your laptop and then you can just update each year.

• Form is attached. Due September 1 .