- Wonderful music concert last night...our 1/3/5th graders did a great job singing and speaking parts about having good character and our 5th grade band blew us away! Kudos to Mrs. Kopfer and Mrs. Battenberg. :)
- Hands-on learning in science creating circuits to light up a light bulb.
- Students reading to each other in partners and then working together to create a compare/contrast Venn Diagram.
- A teacher having 1:1 goals conversations with students to review their academic/behavior goals they made at the start of the quarter to check in with them on their progress and make plans for the last month of school.
- Sense of urgency for learning during 1st grade snack...while eating their snack students watched a reading strategy video clip from "Into the Book."
Events next Week:
Today: Treats in the lounge (I promise this time...I said they'd be there everyday, but got busy with meetings yesterday and completely forgot!)
Tuesday: Grade Level Meetings (see details below)
Wednesday: Olympic Day in the afternoon (Mrs. Garland emailed the details a while ago)
Friday: Grandparents Day...please leave your jeans at home this day and dress professional for all of the guests in our building. You can swap your casual clothes for Wednesday's Olympic Day fun. Thank you :)
- With many field trips this month, please remember to check with Nurse Miller on students needing medications. Some medications do require extra training from her.
- Next Tuesday's grade level meetings will be open for your grade level planning. You had time for cross-grade level meetings on our PD day, now I'm sure you'll still need time to collaborate together on plans for the last stretch of the year...what CAFE strategies to focus on, what writing pieces are you working on, what are you doing with math? I will not be in the meetings this time, but I know you will do a great job of keeping the discussions focused on literacy/math.
- CLASS LISTS FOR NEXT YEAR: We will be using our grade level meetings on May 28th to work on class lists for next year. Before this meeting you will need to pull out your student profile cards and either add notes to it or get blank ones from the mail room (blue for boys, orange for girls) to staple on top with additional information. I am putting a sheet in everyone's mailbox: "Information for Student Profile Cards." Please let me know if you have any questions.
Blogs, Pins & Tweets...Oh my!
*Christopher Lehman @iChrisLehman (Co-Author of Pathways to the Common Core)7 May
"Teaching writing can just be teaching writing or it can be giving voice, power, belief to kids and teens." #edchat
*Great blog post on Historical fiction Book clubs HERE
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Lesson idea to "erase meanness" HERE |
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