Browns Banter

To

All

Cobb

County

School District

Employees

 

Due to a major electrical upgrade at the Kennesaw Warehouse, scheduled for November 21^st through November 30^th, all IT services provided for the District will be unavailable during that same period of time. 

 

During the scheduled outage, the infrastructure in the Data Center will be upgraded with HVAC, UPS and emergency generator functionality that will provide additional capacity and enhance the disaster recovery capabilities for the District's IT services.

 

At approximately 5:00pm on November 21^st, access to all IT services will be disabled at the

Data

Center

.  This includes, but is not limited to:

 

·        Internet / Intranet

·        District Web Services

·        Remote Access Services; VPN, Citrix

·        Email services, including Blackberry support

·        Edulink ACS

·        SchoolMAX, including GoalView Interface

·        SchoolMAX iQue (Teachers)

·        SchoolMAX iParent (Parents)

·        Pinnacle Gradebook (Teachers)

·        Pinnacle Internet Viewer - PIV (Parents)

·        Pinnacle Administrative Portal

·        Meal Pay Plus (Parents)

·        Picasso

·        Destiny & CVL

·        Purchasing

·        Star (Human Resources On-Line Recruiting)

·        WebConnect (SubFinder)

·        "Bridge" Applications

·        Financial Portal

·        Advantage Financials

·        After School Program

·        Professional Learning Portal (Staff Development Registration)

 

If you are expecting email during the scheduled outage, please notify senders to either delay delivery until December 1^st or provide them with an alternate email address.

 

Resumption of all IT services is scheduled for 6:00am on December 1^st.  If you have any questions or concerns prior to November 21^st, please contact the

Customer

Care

Center

at (770) 426-3330.

 

Thank you for your patience and understanding!

 

Technology Services

 

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CRCT Vocabulary

Hello everyone, I wanted to let you know that I have sent home a list of vocabulary words that your children need to know the meaning of. These words are used in many of the questions on the CRCT. I know it is early, but I needed to do it while I had the thought:). I am now sending home definitions for Language Arts for your children to be familiar with as well. Please understand that I am also working on these words at school. If you have any questions please let me know.

Thanks,

Robin Brown

Note and Reminder

Dear Parents,

I wanted to let you know that your child will be bringing home a list of important words on Friday that will be used on the CRCT. I know it is early but I came across them and went ahead and made copies so I wouldn't forget at a later time:). Anyway knowing these words will help your child better understand what is being asked of them.

Also, please be sure and come to our big Pancake Breakfast on Saturday! It is from 7:00 to 11:00 a.m. and it is ALL YOU CAN EAT! I look forward to seeing you there!

Enjoy your day!

Robin Brown

Pancake Breakfast

Pancake Breakfast
and Raffle
Saturday, October 25th
7-11 AM
$5.00 Pre-Sale Tickets
$5.50 at the door

October

Hello and happy Monday!

I am sorry for the delay, but we have been having some difficulties with the server since the refresh, but all is well now so let me bring you up to speed with all that is going on.

Spelling- Unit 9. New words are coming home today. Spelling rule homophones. We are working on the Shirley English jingles to help with complete sentences, nouns, verbs and adjectives.

Math- We will continue to work on Elasped Time due to the fact that only a few have truly mastered it. We will also go ahead and begin multiplication on Tuesday with a pretest to form our math groups.

Guided Reading/Writing- Monday we begin new centers and will continue our reading groups. We will be working on writing a friendly letter to thank Mr. Wagner for coming in as a PRODUCER, providing a service for us as a firefighter. The children loved him, so we want to thank him.

Science-Monday a parent letter will be coming home explaining exactly what the students will be learning during our Rocks and Minerals Unit.

A few reminders:

October 14th- Picture Day. Our time is 8:10 a.m.

October 15th- Early Release Day. Dismissal is 12:20.  Please make sure I know how you child will be going home.

October 16th- Report cards come home.

October 22nd- Box Tops are due.

As always if there is anything you need please don't hesitate to let me know.

Sincerely,

Robin Brown

YEARBOOK

EARLY BIRD SPECIAL $22*
Nov. 1st price increast to $25*

On-line ordering available at:  http://www.myyear.com
*Note:  cost includes taxes.  Does not include 1x $1.75 processing fee per transaction, multiple items per order allowed.  Be sure to print & keep your confirmation for proof of payment.

ORDER FORMS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE ON THE CREDENZA OUTSIDE OF THE OFFICE.

IOWA Testing

I hope you all are enjoying your day. All is well in the Brown's home since the Yellow Jackets won a game:). Anyway all your children did very well during testing this past week. This week will be longer and more vigorous for them. It is so important that they are well rested and have eaten a healthy breakfast each morning. Testing will be about 2 hours each morning for the next 5 days. They will have a short break in between the 2 sections. I have decided not to send a homework packet home this week because they will be working so hard. I will have to send spelling homework home because they can't miss 2 weeks in a row ( I should have realized this earlier and sent it home last week instead, sorry). Our specials will be 12:40 to 1:20 for the week. The class will be split so continue to follow the schedule I sent home last week to know when your child will have P.E., let me know if you need another copy. Because of limited instructional time this week, I will work on math, reading and writing. We will pick up with science and social studies next week. Good news on science textbooks. I will try to get students entered tomorrow so that you can view the science textbook from home, just like the math book. A reminder that Target will be Friday after testing instead of Wednesday. Mr. Bayer has a conference to attend. A big congratulations to Maggie Harrison for selling the most Sally Foster items. She will be attending the Pump It Up party on Thursday. Congratulations Maggie!!!! Thank you to Mr.Duke for reading to the class, they especially enjoyed playing Hang Man with you!

A few reminders:

9/22 Wee Deliver begins

9/25 School Council mtg. 1:00 p.m. and Carvel Spirit Day at 3:00 p.m.

9/26 Parenting Workshop on new report card for k-2nd grades @ 10:00 to 11:00 in the Media Center.

As always if there is anything you need just let me know.

Mrs. Brown

Already Week 5

Boy how times flys. It's hard to believe we are already in week 5 of school, with only 31 more to go:)! Well this is what we hope to accomplish this week.

Spelling-the rule this week is "a vowel followed by r stands for a new sound." "The spelling words for the week are world, going, want, school, and important. We are continually practicing and reviewing the rules of grammar.

Math-I can hear you all now. What in the world was that all about with Front End Estimation and Mental Math? Well you all can now veiw the students math book from home to get these answers as you need them. First go to www.cobbk12.org/garrisonmill then click on web links, then weblink notebook, click on math at the top, and click on eHartcourt math. Your child's user name and password are taped on the front plastic folder of their agenda. I do apologize for the confusion on what was being asked and I will make sure that doesn't happen again. On Tuesday we will have our  test on chapter 3. We will then begin chapter 2 comparing, ordering and estimating numbers. After school on Wednesday I will be attending a workshop on teaching Guided Math, similar to Guided Reading. I will let you know what I learn and how I will be able to utilize it in our classroom.

Guided Reading/Writing-We will continue working on summarizing stories and what responding to literature is and is not. We will look at examples of writings that don't meet, meet and exceed in standards. We will also continue meeting in our small reading groups and centers.

Science-Monday we have our first High Touch/High Tech, which is called Fun'omena. Students will be introduced to the study of rocks and minerals. Tuesday we will have Guidance with Mrs. Britton and on Wednesday we will be able to begin our first unit of study in science which is Inquiry and the tools used to do this. I have entered all the students in Think Central and I will let you know how to log on to view the science textbook from home as well.

A few reminders:

Monday Sept. 8th is 3rd grade Drama Club tryouts. Students must go to ASP. Reading Night is also on Monday from 6:00pm to 8:00pm.

Thursday Sept. 11th is Patriotic Day. We are all to wear red, white and blue!

Saturday Sept. 13th is Habitat Day at G.M. starting at 9:00 a.m. Any help will be greatly appreciated by all. I will not be able to come, only because I have my class at L.M.U.

As always, if you need anything please let me know.

Robin Brown

Labor Day Weekend

Hello to all! I hope you are enjoying this beautiful, long weekend as much as I am. We will have a short but full week, so let me bring you up to date.

Spelling-we will continue lond and short vowel spelling patterns. This week is the /ou/ sound. The new spelling words are often, together, asked, house, and don't. In Language Arts we are working on word meanings, prefixes-suffixes, verb agreement, and pronouns. We continue to review the basics, nouns, verbs, adjectives etc.

Math-We are working on Chpt.3, lessons on estimating sums, and adding 3 and 4 digit numbers. When work is completed students are using the desktops to answer "Challenges" on the math website. I plan on giving the Chpt.3 unit test on Monday the 8th.

Guided Reading/Writing-On Tuesday we will begin our Guided Reading/Centers Rotation. The students will meet with me in their small reading group, work on independent reading and writing work with the focus on responding to Traditional Lit. and visit the 12 individual centers. The rotation goes for 3 weeks and then begins again with new materials based on what we are working on.

Social Studies- We are finishing up with Ancient Greece. The students are completing buildings they created on construction paper using columns the way they were used in Greek architecture. They will include answers that summarize the unit.

Science-We should begin our 1st unit in science on Friday. The unit will be on Inquiry Skills and Safety.

Computer Lab- This Thursday 1:10 to 2:10.

A few reminders:

Friday Sept.5th-Spirit Day, Sally Foster ends, Dinner and Movie Night 6:30.

Monday Sept. 8th.-Drama Club for 3rd grade.

As always, if you have any questions or need anything just let me know.

Mrs. Brown