Sunday, August 27, 2023

Walgrove Weekly Message

Dear Walgrove Families and Staff, 

Thank you to all those who came out to the Back to School/Welcome Picnic yesterday. What a wonderful turnout of beautiful people!








I played terrible pickleball then pulled a hamstring (or glute?) while playing terrible pickleball and am now limping whilst sporting fond memories of the very lovely day!

Thank you Lindsey Rosenberg for this cool video of the event: 

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1001398544231959

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

BELL SCHEDULE

The Bell Schedule is SLIGHTLY different based on new rules, which require all 39 Tuesdays to be early release PD days and for all those days to have a one-hour difference between regular dismissal and early dismissal. There are a few other quirky rules. But what this means for us is that our schedule is almost exactly the same except:

On Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, school is out at 2:32. 

On Tuesday, school is out at 1:32. 

https://principalkittelson.blogspot.com/2023/08/2023-2024-bell-schedule.html

ATTENDANCE

This year, we will emphasize attendance. Now that COVID has moved from pandemic to endemic and the LAUSD medical director has said that we should all attend school unless bleeding profusely from our eyeballs (with a mask, of course, under such dire circumstances), we should all attend school. 

Here are some good reasons:

1) Bonding - Being physically present means you not only hear the information shared and practice the skills provided, but you bond with your teachers and friends and get to know their proclivities on a much deeper level so you can build greater empathy for others and a deeper understanding of self...

2) Automaticity - Practicing routines and skills many times over means they come more easily and eventually automatically so you can then add on new routines and skills...

3) Momentum - The aforementioned bonding and automaticity create momentum, and the momentum increases in intensity and speed. Learning becomes a runaway train. 

Also know that each daily absence costs the District approximately $70 per student per day in State funding. [Schools are funded using Average Daily Dttendance (ADA) formulae]. So, not only does your kiddo miss out when they are absent, but other kids do too. 

PLEASE SCHEDULE VACATIONS TO ALIGN WITH THE SCHOOL CALENDAR. THERE ARE 13 VACATION WEEKS AND SEVERAL THREE- AND FOUR-DAY WEEKENDS.

Here is some of what is coming up this week at Walgrove:

MON

DIBELS, iREADY, INITIAL ELPAC (DIBELS Gr K-2, iREADY 3-5) ALL WEEK+

TUE

Williams Textbook Certification Due

Early Dismissal 1:32

Staff Meeting and PD in Rm 24 at 1:45. Nurse Lennis Joyce will train/retrain us all in Prader-Willi, EPI Pen, Seizures and Narcan

WED

Principal Meeting. Dr. K offsite

THU

Robust instruction (as always)

FRI

NO SCHOOL FRIDAY AND MONDAY FOR LABOR DAY WEEKEND.

Farmer Adam is on vacation through Labor Day weekend.


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