Great Things I Noticed this Week:
*Holy #RandomActsofKindness Week!! I saw many students and staff spreading acts of kindness...high fives, handshakes, compliments, post it notes on lockers, special notes on desks, students asking to help out with extra jobs to clean the school, and of course the shout outs on the bulletin board. What if it always felt this awesome?!
*Students getting together in partners for new growth mindset brain breaks that were learned at #SpringCESA6
*Students writing persuasive book reviews that had me hooked from their first sentences wanting to read the books they were recommending.
*Students using QR code flashcards during math (go to http://kitzkikz.com/flashcards/ to make your own).
Events Next Week: READ ACROSS AMERICA Week!!!!
The weather is calling for READING BLIZZARDS all next week!! Donalyn Miller teaches us in Reading in the Wild that lifelong readers don't just sit and read for long stretches of time, they keep a book with them for times throughout the day to steal reading minutes, so that is why we have reading blizzards...to build the habit of keeping a book with them at all times. I will announce this at the start of the week, please make sure your students always have a book with them and I will announce one each day. They won't know when, but you will (down below). I will announce the beginning of it and then you can end it. You get to bring a book for yourself to enjoy too!!
Monday - hat day
10:00 Reading Blizzard
-EP Training on the Documentation Log at 3:15 in IMC
Tuesday - Pajama Day (I will be out of the building with all of 5th grade and several other staff at a Kindness Retreat)
2:30 Reading Blizzard
Family Reading Night 6-7pm. Please feel free to join us with your own children and enjoy the night!
Wednesday - Workout Wednesday and Crazy Socks Day
11:00 Reading Blizzard
Thursday - Vocabulary Parade Day/Wear a shirt you can read
Vocabulary Parade is at 8:15
1:00 Reading Blizzard
Friday - Red, White and Blue Day
8:15 Reading Blizzard
10:25 Author/Illustrator presentation to grades 3-5 in IMC
12:30 Author/Illustrator presentation to grades K-2 in IMC
"Nuts & Bolts" Notes:
*Please Please Please do NOT park in the first section of our parking lot. I know it's annoying to walk an extra 20 steps and if you're here later you'll have to walk even further because you have to park farther away, but please see why. When we take up spots in this front section then parents cannot use it and it turns to CHAOS at the end of the day, which also makes it unsafe for our students. It is hard to see in this picture, but there are many parents lined up NOT in spaces here because there is nowhere for them to go. Please don't make me turn into a parking nazi and hunt you down...I ain't got time for that!
*Please Please Please do NOT park in the first section of our parking lot. I know it's annoying to walk an extra 20 steps and if you're here later you'll have to walk even further because you have to park farther away, but please see why. When we take up spots in this front section then parents cannot use it and it turns to CHAOS at the end of the day, which also makes it unsafe for our students. It is hard to see in this picture, but there are many parents lined up NOT in spaces here because there is nowhere for them to go. Please don't make me turn into a parking nazi and hunt you down...I ain't got time for that!
*Just a reminder that next week classroom teachers will be receiving individual student attendance calendars to start on March 1st. This should only take half a minute tops each day for students to either color in or number each day that they are in school. At the end of the month they can each write the total number of days they are there (bonus--make it a fraction at the end of the month to see how many days present out of how many days possible!)
Blogs, Tweets, & Pins....Oh My!!
*SLAM - this blog post ties in perfectly with this week's staff meeting
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