Joan Martin Weekly Update

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ALL orders need to be made by 3/16. No purchases will be allowed on 3/17. Help the office raise money for staff treats as well as classroom items.

Yearbook order forms have been sent home this week. If you want to order online, information is below.

We will be participating in in the Best Buddies Friendship walk this spring at the Lake County Fairgrounds on May 13th! The Best Buddies walk helps raise money for Best Buddies so that they are able to continue supporting inclusion for people with disabilities.

We would love for you to join us at the walk if you are able. It's for a great cause and we are really excited to participate this year!!! Everyone is welcome, this is a family friendly event, the more the merrier!

I've provided the link below to join our team. This acts as a 'roster' for the Friendship Walk. You do NOT have to donate in order to register on the JM team.

https://www.bestbuddiesfriendshipwalk.org/lakecounty/supporting/#jm&registration/36055

We are also selling our Joan Martin Best Buddy shirts in order to help raise money for our Best Buddies chapter here at JM. If you purchase a shirt please wear it to the walk, so we are recognizable as a team.

If you would like to use the image below to promote to your parents on dojo/remind/facebook pages, etc. We would very much appreciate it 🙂 Hope to see you at the walk in May!!

Parents, please help your students remember to bring back and return their Library Books. We are having several students forget to turn them in. We will be sending home notices for students that have outstanding books, please make sure to ask your student about this. We appreciate your partnership in this matter.

Car riders are to pull around to the back of the school and students will enter through Door 11. Please know that on a regular start day, this door is closed at 8:55 and on Late Start Wednesday it is closed at 9:15. Students are released to go to their classrooms at 8:45/9:05 and the bell rings to start class at 8:55/9:15. If you arrive after these times you need to park in the side lot and walk your student up to Door 1 to check them in. Walkers arrive through Door 7 and this door is closed at 8:50/9:00. If you arrive after that please walk to Door 1. It is important that we keep all our students safe and we need to partner together to make this happen. Thank you for your cooperation.

Please remember the front of the school is for buses only during arrival and dismissal. We are having an increase in cars coming through the Buses ONLY lane. If you need to walk a student in during this time, please park in the lot off of 10th Stree and walk up to Door 1. There is an enterance to this parking lot that does not go through the bus lane. Thank you in partnering with us to keep the kids safe!

We have a growing number of sweatshirts, coats, hats, and gloves that are being left behind. Please have your child check to the Lost and Found if they are missing items. If possible please write your child's name on a tag in items to help us get them back to their owners if they are lost.

Please make sure you are sending students in dressed for outside recess. We will continue to go outside as long as the Feels Like temperature is 20 degrees or higher. It is important that students have coats, hats, and gloves. Once the snow starts to fall, remember students will need snow pants and boots in order to play in the field or on equipment, without these items they will be asked to stay on the pavement. Sending in an extra pair of socks or pants is also a good idea for these days, just in case things get wet!

Please make sure you student is dressing for the weather. We will continue to go outside and we are seeing a lot of kids coming in still in shorts and/or without a coat.

Please make sure if your student brings in any athletic balls from home for recess that they bring them in to school either in their backpack or another ball. We are having students playing with and dropping them along cars and busses creating a safety issue. It is also recommended that students names are written on the equipment they bring in from home. Thank you for your support with this.

Some information on What the Science of Reading is and how it is a shift from how reading was taught in the past.

Week of 3/3/2023 Winners

Art - 2nd Grade Ms. Leonard

PE - Mrs. Evans

Library - 3rd Grade Mrs. Floyd

Music - 5th Grade Mrs. Smith

These classes demonstrated that they knew what it means to be a Brickie by following the Code of Conduct and Class Procedures! They were chosen by the teacher as the Class of the Week! They recieved a Traveling Trophy to display in their classrooms, a Yohan Sticker for the classroom door to track their winnings, and each student recieved a ticket to enter into the PBIS box!

Way to Be Excellent On Purpose!!

Congratulations to the new Artists of the Month! These students worked hard to create some pretty awesome art, all while modelling great Art Room procedures!

Thank you for Being Excellent On Purpose!!

Winners

1st Grade - Malina DeBold

2nd Grade - Amelia Hardy

3rd Grade - Zoey Moreland

4th Grade - Iyla Korzeniewski

5th Grade - Rachel Hendricks

iReady Assessments for Grades K-8!

i-Ready is an online program that will help us determine your child’s strengths and areas for growth, personalize their learning, and monitor their progress throughout the school year. i-Ready allows us to meet your child where they are and provides us with data to inform instruction. i-Ready replaces the Star Renaissance Assessments that they students took last school year.

The i-Ready Diagnostic is an adaptive assessment that adjusts its questions based on student responses. Each item a student receives is based on their answer to the previous question. For example, a series of correct answers will result in slightly harder questions, while a series of incorrect answers will yield slightly easier ones. The purpose of this is not to give your child a score or grade but to determine how to best support their learning.

Thank you for your continued support and for being a partner in your child’s learning! I look forward to sharing i-Ready information with you throughout the year. If you have any questions about i-Ready, please do not hesitate to contact the school. You can also learn more about i-Ready by visiting i-ReadyCentral.com/FamilyCenter.

• 3/6 - 3/17 - iRead Testing Window Grades 2 and 3
• 3/13 - 5th Grade Health Care Expo Field Trip
• 3/13 - PTO Meeting
• 3/14 - 5th Grade goes to HMS for Band
• 3/14 - 5th Grade Music Concert 6:00 - 6:30
• 3/17 - Kona Ice (more information will come soon)
• 3/27 - 3/31 - Spring Break
• 4/4 - Spring Pictures
• 4/7 - No School
• 4/12 - Brickie Makers & Innovators Showcase
• 4/17 - 5/12 - iLearn testing Grades 3-5

Crystal Rodriguez is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Joan Martin Monthly PTO Meetings

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Meeting ID

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Invite Link

Invite Link https://us04web.zoom.us/j/76781420305?pwd=jZ9yR9pSWQsPL1PnKP6TRaVCDvZzeh.1

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Meetings:

The Second Tuesday of Every Month at 4:00 pm in the Library at Joan Martin

Tuesday, March 13

Tuesday, April 10

Tuesday, May 8

Thank you for your support and partnership!

PLEASE CONTINUE TO SEND IN RECIEPTS, THIS ENDS MARCH 31!

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