Great Things I Noticed Last Week:
*I've seen several classrooms integrate writing into math lately. This week I saw 1st graders making up their own story problems for a given number sentence.
*Literacy integrated into music classes (reading picture books to the students that have song lines in them).
*A HUGE turnout of students/parents for Family Fun Night--they were all very appreciative of this event. Thank you to everyone who helped make it possible!
*****Congratulations to Jean and Bruce, our newly married Dodgeland couple. Just when I finally got the spelling down of her last name, too!!
Events This Week:
Monday - Staff Social Lunch
-1/3/5th grade Music/Band Concert
Tuesday - 1/2nd grade SAGE Teacher interviews
Wednesday - 3/5th grade teachers scoring for 6 Traits (several guest teachers in the building)
-Elementary Meeting for class lists (room yet to be determined since the Media Center will already be in use)
Thursday - EC/4K and 5K filed trips
Friday - Carnival put on by 7th grade students 11:15-12:00 for 3-5th grades, 12:00-12:45 for K-2nd grades. The extra 15 mts will be extra recess for all, please coordinate amongst your grade level for teachers to be out there (that is the lunch break for all the support staff that supervise recess)
"Nuts & Bolts" Notes:
*Usually by this time of year we have already generated ideas and voted on our theme. It is my fault that we're behind on this; however, I also recognize that we all have a lot on our plates moving into next year with implementing Cafe and the new math curriculum (and we already had several ideas for this year's theme that didn't get followed through on). The Safe School Healthy Students grant had some money left over that was used to purchase books/materials for How Full is Your Bucket? I'm sure many of you already recall that Mrs. Breselow read this to your classes last year or this year. If not, it is basically a concept that encourages children and adults to have positive, caring and encouraging interactions with each other throughout the day. I've seen many other schools using this as their theme and since SSHS has already purchased books, we could just keep things simple and use this as our theme.
I do want you input on it though, so pleas go HERE to vote.
*We are almost finished with the Regional Summer Teacher Academy schedule (this is for August 8 and 9th). I will have it emailed out to you by the end of this week!
Neat Ideas I Discovered on Pinterest Last Week:
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| Science notebooking-read about it HERE |
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| End of Year Celebration idea-pictures of students holding the # of books they read this year. |
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| Text/My Thinking T-Chart while reading. Read more about it here. |
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