Useful Links:
Orchard Ranch Bronco intranet website. Click HERE
Lunch Helpers for this week: Mrs. Spears... Click here for the lunch helper schedule! Please send the same 4-5 students this week to help in the lunchroom. Thank you.
INFORMATION & ANNOUNCEMENTS:
(“*” Indicates the number of weeks it’s been in newsletter.)
This week's staffroom Cool and the Gang mix is being brought to you by Irma Salinas!
*Walk to Learn: An outcome of our Culture Club meeting was clarification surrounding Walk to Learn at OR. Here are the steps we created for the process. Remember, the process is always changing and has room for improvement. We hope this helps. It's in the team drive. Flow Chart
*PIE Grant: Please Apply!!!
A reminder PIE Grant Program applications are due by Thursday, September 13, 2018.
PIE Grant Program recipients agree to attend the October 4, 2018, Board meeting in order to receive your grant allocation, and the May 2, 2019, Board meeting in order to report the results of your student work. Please click on the link below to access the 2018 PIE Grant Application. The RCSD Foundation's mission focuses on STEAM: Science, technology, engineering, arts, and math enrichment. Preference will be given to those applicants who request funding for any of these areas.
All documentation supporting your PIE Grant Application needs to be scanned and emailed to, OR shared via Google with, Renee Borowiak, rborowiak@rcsdk8.org
Don't Forget: Sign up for a PTC meeting to attend and for OR staff music.
Volunteers: Remember, volunteers have to be on the approved volunteer list that Crystal shared, before they can be scheduled to come into the classroom. This is for the safety of our students.
Volunteers: Remember, volunteers have to be on the approved volunteer list that Crystal shared, before they can be scheduled to come into the classroom. This is for the safety of our students.
Rainy Day Schedule: I know it's far away from rainy season, but attached is the schedule for inside recess during lunch. Most kids just go back to class after lunch, but there are some classes that have to go to other classes, so we can make sure we have an MDS on duty by them. Please review. It's also in the Team Drive. Thank you. Rainy Day Schedule
A WORD FROM THE SLP:
Topic of the Month: Articulation Disorder
Articulation errors are highly common in young children (and make up the bulk of my caseload). Errors can be characterized in the following ways:
Substitutions –replacing one sound with another (Examples: wed/red, fum/thumb, bee/pea)
Omissions – omitting a sound or sounds in a word (Examples: ca/cat, pay/play, nake/snake)
Distortions – producing the sound in an unfamiliar way (Most common examples include children with lisps and children unable to produce vowel driven /r/ as in the words “car, bear, her, ear, hire, horse”)
Substitutions –replacing one sound with another (Examples: wed/red, fum/thumb, bee/pea)
Omissions – omitting a sound or sounds in a word (Examples: ca/cat, pay/play, nake/snake)
Distortions – producing the sound in an unfamiliar way (Most common examples include children with lisps and children unable to produce vowel driven /r/ as in the words “car, bear, her, ear, hire, horse”)
When a child demonstrates articulation errors beyond what is typical for their chronological age, a speech-language pathologist may diagnose them as having an articulation disorder.
GOOD TO KNOW: There are different parameters used when identifying and diagnosing children who speak a dialect or are English language learners.
Note: Dates may change. Please continue to double-check the google calendar to confirm dates.
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