November 13, 2017

Celebrations  

• Mrs. Peaden and Mrs. Judge-Lenkeit continued leadership leading our SIP team!
• Mrs. Wehmann matted, laminated and cut our Q2 elective signs.
• Mr. Marrow and Mrs. Merritt for continued to keep our learning spaces clean, we hope to have our hired part-time custodian working upstairs soon. Paperwork has been turned in we are waiting for HR approval.  
• Sunshine Club for providing coffee and donuts for our business meeting!
• PTA for sponsoring our half-day Teacher Planning days. Teachers worked with Mrs. Judge-Lenkeit on curriculum unpacking work and creating units of studies for second quarter. 
• Congratulations to our Teacher of the Year: Mrs. Rachel Frasier!
• Congratulations to our Teacher Assistant of the Year: Mr. Lance Lehning!

Collaboration 

Media Center --  We have a ton of groups working in there this year (yea!!) and we want to make sure that the media center space is assessable, but also the calendar is as accurate as possible to avoid frustration. More info available at https://ugtmmediacenter.blogspot.com/. 

Foundation Football Meet-Up - Thank you to those that attended our Monday Night Foundation Meet-up at Rudinos last night. Reminder that Foundation will kickoff its annual fund drive on Giving Tuesday (November 28th). For more information check out the website -- http://www.underwoodfoundation.org/ 

Critical Thinking 

Moonlight Reading -- We are excited for our Book Fair! Save the date for November 28th for our Moonlight Reading celebration at Underwood! Our staff is excited about reading to the students during this evening event! 

Lockdown Drill Follow-up - Our staff and students did an awesome job on the lockdown drill!  The three uniform officers said it was "one of the best that they had seen"! 

Communication 

New, Free Conscious Discipline Webinars!  Each Monday for the next four weeks, CD is offering  free webinar.  This week's topic is "Guiding the most challenging children" with Master Instructor Jill Molli.  Visit here for the details.

Creativity 

Student and Staff Awesomeness -- Check out what our team is doing in their classrooms -- via Twitter - @underwoodgtm -- #weareunderwood Keep up the great work! 

Calendar:

November 21st - Early Release, School Family Assembly 9:30

November 22nd - 24th - Vacation Day and Holidays 

November 27th - Book Fair 

November 28th - Moonlight Reading  
December 5th - Business Meeting 
December 21st - Early Release 
December 22nd - January 1st - Winter Break