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Great Things I Noticed This Week:
- Class discussion to check in on students' reading goals progress and update their goals for March.
- Cooperative learning activity in which students had to practice coming to an agreement (on any given topic) within 10 seconds, practicing a compromise if they couldn't agree, and then saying their response together as a team.
- In preparation for designing their own board games, students applied informational reading skills to comparing several board game instruction packets to determine common elements to include in their board game directions.
- 4th graders were completely afraid of their new math lesson (algebraic expressions), but by the end of the lesson were so excited as they figured out how to solve them. I love watching "light bulbs" flashing around the room with smiles as their confidence grew.
Events Next Week:
Today: Due to a HS event in the Media Center at the end of the day, I cannot play our celebration song on the announcements. Please celebrate in your classes together, by playing the song from this youtube clip: Celibration You don't need to actually show the video (unless your students are interested in seeing the band performing this in the 80's) although, please stop it before the very end, since there's no telling what youtube will recommend for videos to visit afterwards!
Tuesday -Grade Level Meetings
Wednesday - 2/3rd grade DART Meetings in Mayville
-Vision Screening, scheduled by class
Thursday - Vision screening, scheduled by class
Friday - Staff social lunch
The following week is our annual March Madness college promotion week. Please see the email of details from Mrs. Figarsky.
"Nuts & Bolts" Notes:
- I've had many staff and students asking for "Stop, Drop and Read" to continue! I'll go back to doing it a couple times a week at random times...please make sure your students are in the habit of taking their books with them to specials. We started this so that they develop the habit of always having a book with them to read for any of those opportunities to "steal reading minutes." There will also be a few baskets of books/magazines in the music hallway area to be used for waiting in line or take to the lunch room. Please tell your students about these.
- Please remember to use your named clips when you take books from the book room. There are many missing books without a clip on there...we don't know if the books are missing or if you forgot to use a clip. Many $ (and teacher time) has gone into creating the book room and we don't want to lose any of them!
- Kohls field trip grants are still available until they run out. 2nd grade received notice this week that their request was granted already! Brochures with more information are up in the lounge if you're interested.
- Just a reminder to stomp your feet off well in the vestibule in the mornings before entering the office area. Mr. Schimmel said that the office rug/carpet are starting to look bad...the rug in the vestibule is meant to handle the water and salt from our boots.
Blogs, Pins & Tweets...Oh My!
- 7 Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension (Thank you to Mrs. Madsen for finding this)
- Mrs. Laidler's blog...an intermediate science teacher in Chicago that posts many ways she uses ipads with her students.
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