Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.   Winston Churchill

 Feb 3 to Feb 7 (School Counselor Week)

Mon 2/3          Principal Directed

                     3:45 PTA General Membership Meeting Library

                     4:30 PTA Reflection Recognition Library

Tues 2/4         Student of the Month Luncheon

3:45 AVID Meeting

6:30 PM Incoming 7^th Gr. Parent Night KJH

Wed 2/5          Viking Support Team 3/4

                     PTA Book fair 2:30-4pm

Thurs 2/6 Grandparent’s Day Lunch

                     PTA Book fair 11-1pm & 3-4pm

7:00 Orchestra Concert PHS

Fri 2/7            PTA Book fair 8:30-9:30am & 11-1pm

Feb 10 to Feb 14

Mon 2/10  Grade Level Meetings

Tues 2/11 7:00 (K-3) Multicultural concert

Wed 2/12  Viking Support Team 5/6

                     7^thGrade KJH counselors here to register

Thurs 2/13       7:00 (4-6 and room 17) Multicultural concert

Fri 2/14         

Reminder from Payroll!!!

W-2s were mailed to your current address on file as of January 30, 2014, please look for your W-2 in the mail. You may also visit Employee Online to view or print your 2013 W-2. https://employeeonline.puyallup.k12.wa.us

As a reminder, if you have elected to participate in certain plans you may have a second page to your W-2. Don’t forget to print each page of your W-2 and W-2b if you have second page posted on Employee Online. 

Upcoming Music Programs

If you’ve noticed your students leaving music singing in a language other than English, it’s because our Multicultural concert is coming up!

February 11th and 13th are our K-3 and 4-6+Choir concerts!  We’ll be singing a variety of music from cultures around the world: 13 countries spanning 5 continents!

Please remind your students of the upcoming dates and encourage them to attend the concerts in the evening!

PTA Book fair

Starts on Wednesday, on the stage and the hours are as follows:

·       Wednesday 2/5 2:30-4pm

·       Thursday 2/6 11-1pm & 3-4pm

·       Friday 2/7 8:30-9:30am & 11-1pm

Grandparent’s Day Luncheon

This is typically one of the biggest attended events by our families and community.  Please remind your students that we can show our Spinning pride by using the 4 B’s along with appearance and attitude.  Lunch will be eaten in classrooms on this day to make room in the MPR and gym for our guests.  Our Leadership students will be helping sign and seat guests along with the clean-up.  Please remember to park on the 14^th street side of the building so we have more parking available to our guests.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. 
Vince Lombardi

Jan 27 to Jan 31

Mon 1/27  DIBELS

Individual Planning

SPIRIT WEEK – Pajama Day

Tues 1/28 DIBELS

GLAD Trainers in the building

                     Pizza with the principal

                     SPIRIT WEEK – Crazy Hat/Crazy Sock Day

Wed 1/29  DIBELS

Viking Support Team 1/2

SPIRIT WEEK – College Day

Thurs 1/30       3:30 CSIP Meeting

                     SPIRIT WEEK – Spinning Viking Day

Fri 1/31     1:30 Civil Rights Legacy Tour - Becoming Bridges

                     SPIRIT WEEK – Blue Friday – Seahawks

Feb 3 to Feb 7 (School Counselor Week)

Mon 2/3          Principal Directed

                     3:45 PTA General Membership Meeting Library

                     4:30 PTA Reflection Recognition Library

Tues 2/4         Student of the Month Luncheon

3:45 AVID Meeting

6:30 PM Incoming 7^th Gr. Parent Night KJH

Wed 2/5          Viking Support Team 3/4

                     PTA Bookfair

Thurs 2/6 Grandparent’s Day Lunch

                     PTA Bookfair

7:00 Orchestra Concert PHS

Fri 2/7            PTA Bookfair


Activities

Please make sure to provide a list of names to the office for any activities that you support (Leadership, Mile Club, Basketball, etc.) as soon as you have the activity begin.  If students

After-school Program

Students participating in the Kids-Club Program at Spinning will start meeting their leader in the foyer next to the display case.  The office will not be calling these students with reminders.  We will call for new participants.

BUSY!!!

We have a lot of activities happening the first week of February.  Please make sure to inform your parents via newsletters about all the great things happening here at Spinning.

Health and Wellness

MultiCare Immunization Clinic at South Hill Mall

Located at a kiosk in the South Hill Mall in Puyallup, this immunization clinic offers free and low-cost immunizations to children and adults.

No appointments are necessary.

The kiosk is open 5 days a week to provide convenient access to immunization services:

Adults:  Tuesday - Saturday, 12:30 - 5:00pm.

Children:  Please see the current Immunization Calendar for days and hours.

No appointments are necessary, but parents or guardians are asked to bring their child’s immunization record. MultiCare offers all the vaccines recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which are required for attending school.

Walk-in immunization services are also available at MultiCare Express Clinics in Tacoma and Lakewood. The Mary Bridge Mobile Immunization Clinic will continue to offer yearly vaccination clinics in rural areas of East Pierce County.

If you have any questions about the adult immunization services at the South Hill Mall, please call Lisa Norris at 253-697-1426.

For information about children immunization services throughout Pierce County, please call the Mary Bridge Mobile Immunization Clinic at 253-403-1767

 

 

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.  Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jan 20 to Jan 21

Mon 1/20  No School Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Tues 1/21 Safety Meeting

               Mt. View Comm. Center Afterschool program starts

Wed 1/22  Viking Support Team KG

               Open GLAD Lab 3:30-5:30 FIRGROVE

Thurs 1/23      

Fri 1/24

Jan 27 to Jan 31

Mon 1/27  DIBELS

                           Individual Planning

Tues 1/28 DIBELS

                          GLAD Trainers in the building
               Pizza with the principal

Wed 1/29  DIBELS

                           Viking Support Team 1/2

Thurs 1/30 3:30 CSIP Meeting

Fri 1/31     1:30 Civil Rights Legacy Tour - Becoming Bridges

Everyday Heroes

Beginning with the next issue of Connections in April and continuing in every issue thereafter, the Department of Communications and Information plans to present a new feature called “Everyday Heroes.”

This new feature, once published, will also appear on the school district website and on the district's Facebook and Twitter social media pages.

The department is seeking suggestions of students who go above and beyond to make their school or community a better place. These students exist throughout our 32 schools, and many of them never receive a recognition such as this. Here are a few thoughts to consider when thinking about potential candidates for this honor:

Ø  Students who help regularly with community service projects. This might be the student who is the first to sign up to help and the last to leave at an event. It’s not necessarily the event organizer, a Student Council member, the Key Club president, or a school leadership class officer. Again, think of those students in all grades who do so much but perhaps work behind the scenes simply because they are dedicated to helping their school or community.

Ø  Students who go above and beyond to help their fellow peers be successful.

Ø  Students who have overcome great obstacles and persevered in their learning.

Ø  Students who regularly invite others to play at recess, befriend a new student on campus, or do other acts of kindness to make their peers feel welcome.

This is our opportunity to do more to spotlight student heroes around the district, and we trust our community will enjoy hearing their inspiring stories.

Please send names for consideration to Communications Specialist Susan Gifford at gifforsg@puyallup.k12.wa.us. Include the name of the student, school, grade, and a brief description of why the student should be considered as one of our "Everyday Heroes."

Send ideas by February 1, 2014 to be considered for the April 2014 Connections.

Laptops

Next week, ITC and Student Learning will be asking staff to complete a survey on laptops replacement and professional development.  Results of the survey (due Jan 27th at 3pm) will impact the laptop replacement initiative and professional development decisions in our district.

EdLine

Did you know if you are signed in to EdLine and click on My Edline, click under My Content on Combined calendar and you will see all of the happenings that are on the school district calendar?

 

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.  Oprah Winfrey 

Jan 6 to Jan 10 

Mon 1/6          Principal Directed. Welcome BACK!!!

Tues 1/7         3:45 AVID Meeting

Wed 1/8          Viking Support Team 3/4

Thurs 1/9 Spinning Volleyball starts

Fri 1/10           BLUE FRIDAY “GO HAWKS”

 

Jan 13 to Jan 17 

Mon 1/13  Grade Level Meetings

                Open House Mt. View Community Afterschool Program

Tues 1/14 Glad Trainers will be in the building

Student of the Month Luncheon

Wed 1/15  Viking Support Team 5/6

Thurs 1/16       Staff Meeting

Fri 1/17           12:46 Dismissal (Student Learning Day)

 Jan 20 to Jan 21

Mon 1/20  No School Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Tues 1/21 Safety Meeting

Wed 1/22  Viking Support Team KG

                     Open GLAD Lab is scheduled for January 22nd from 3:30-5:30!

Thurs 1/23      

Fri 1/24

New this month for Student of the Month

Trying to add a little to the parent luncheon, so starting this month, the pencils and certificates will be handed out during the luncheon so parents can hear and see child getting this recognition.  Please continue to on with whatever you typically do in the classroom to celebrate this achievement.  In addition, please feel free to come by and greet parents when they are in the gym for lunch.  Parents love to make that connection with you.

Friday, January 17th

Teachers, we have an Instruction and Learning Day in the commons on this day.  Since we did not have the opportunity to have our DIBELS discussions today we have worked it into the agenda for Friday.  Start time will be at 1:15 pm and we will provide lunch for you.  What do you need?  Yourself and your laptop for the latter portion of the day. Don’t forget to sign up on the PRODEV website beforehand.

 

News from ITC

In response to many of your suggestions for improvements to TAC, the Information Technology Center installed an update to Teacher Access Center this past Friday 1/3/14 which introduces some of the following new features and functions:

 1.   Option to automatically save changes in gradebook entry

2.   Option to import scores from a CSV or text file to your gradebook

3.   Edit all mode to quickly update all or a group of assignments in your gradebook

4.   Save your custom views for class roster and gradebook pages

5.   Change to access to Show/Hide columns and Add Empty Columns on the class roster

6.   Display all prior marks when entering marks for report card competencies

7.   Create seating charts for non-attendance classes

8.   Improvements to seating chart functionality

9.   Changes to attendance by photo functionality

 

To access the full description of how to use these new features, please follow this link (you must logon to Edline to access this document).

https://www.edline.net/files/_wGLwS_/22c6dc4f9a67c7db3745a49013852ec4/TAC_Updates_Jan_2014.pdf

 In addition to these new features, the following issue has been corrected:

 

Duplicate emails are no longer sent from TAC when more than one person in the household has the same email address

 

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact ITC Helpdesk at 8600, extension 3 or Select Tools > Need Help? in TAC and open a HelpCenter request under Software > Teacher Access Center.

Free Resources to Help You Cover Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

This month, focus part of your social studies curriculum on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. We are pleased to offer you time-saving resources to help you bring this important lesson into your classroom.

Through the partnership between Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and HISTORY®, This Month in History provides you with standards-aligned Lesson Plans, Teacher's Guides, and Study Guides.

Special Presentation: King

Monday, January 20 at 8 AM (ET) on HISTORY®

King is a moving two-hour documentary that explores the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and examines the indelible mark he left on the world. With veteran journalist Tom Brokaw, this program retraces the journey of Dr. King, focusing on his leadership in the Civil Rights Movement.

For the latest news and journal articles, check out

hmhinthenews.com (elementary current events) and
hmhcurrentevents.com (secondary current events).