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| See bottom of this post for an inspiring Pep Talk from KidPresident |
Great Things I Noticed This Week:
- Students practicing identifying compass points by walking around the building using a compass app on the iPad.
- A couple of students were so excited about "Writing Magic" that they spent most of their recess telling me about how excited they are to write and become authors someday.
- Students practicing math facts with physical activity (great for a brain break too). Students were down on the ground and popping up like groundhogs to say their answers.
- A class was checking their class Goodreads account for a book summary they wrote after reading it. Students noticed that Goodreads was like "facebook for books!"
- I've heard comments from parents of several of our students new to Dodgeland this year about how welcoming our staff are and how impressed they are with everything.
Events Next Week: Homecoming Week (theme: keep it "low key" by just wearing school colors)
Monday -Elementary Teachers training for MAP testing at 3:05 in IMC. If you haven't already done so, please watch this intro to MAP video: How MAP Benefits Your Students. You should have already received an email from NWEA MAP with your login and temporary password. Please let me know if you did not receive this.
Tuesday - Fundraiser Kick-Off at 2:00 in the multi-purpose room. You will be receiving fundraiser packets for your students to take home after the assembly.
Wednesday - Orders for Jimmy Johns due by 4:00 for Friday's Staff Social Lunch --menus in the mailroom. (Yes, I forgot to set this up this week so it's next week now. Sorry!)
Friday- Staff Social Lunch--I'll have desserts
Homecoming Pep Assembly at 1:00, Early Dismissal at 2:30, Parade Line-Up at 4:00, Parade Starts at 4:30.
"Nuts & Bolts" Notes:
- I think all teacher math guides have been distributed to classroom teachers, but we still have quite an assortment of teacher blackline masters books (i.e. resource guide, assessment guide, etc). If you are missing something, please check the table in the office next to mine. You will also be receiving a flash drive of electronic resources in your mailbox.
- Mrs. Porter is encouraging students to come to the library in the mornings for looking at books, checking out, etc. If you are ever on morning hallway/bus duty, please allow students to go if they ask to go to the library.
- Mr. Modaff will be loading "All the Write Type" in the computer lab that can still be used after MAP testing is complete. I am not going to set a requirement of how often you should take your students (if you have previously used this with your grade level), but I do encourage you to continue using it as we want our students to be able to type on the iPads and the Keyboards. If anyone finds a good keyboarding app for the iPad, please share it with Mrs. Porter or Mr. Modaff to put on the self-serve.
- As Mrs. Bartlett's email shared, we are missing many books from the book room. Mrs. Bartlett, Mrs. Madsen and Ms. Lucht have put in a lot of work into ordering and organizing books for the book room. Please make sure that they make it back. If you have an aide or parent volunteers that bring students down to pick out books, please make sure they are kept track of. Thank you for your help with this.
iPad Tip of the Week:
Love using email on your iPad, but NOT like that your signature automatically says "sent from my iPad"? You can get rid of that and customize it to say what you want. Here's how:
*I used the Educreations app to make that video in just 5 minutes. Using Educreations is SO much easier now that you can erase just your voice recording if you made a mistake and not wipe out the whole screen!
Blogs, Pins & Tweets...Oh My!
*KSH iPad 1:1 Teacher Central: Blog for an elementary school in Hawaii that just went 1:1 with iPads (I added this to the iPad resources tab at the top of the memo blog)
*http://iteachwithipads.net/: blog of a kindergarten teacher that 4K/1st might find great ideas from. (this is also added to the iPad resources tab)
*@pernilleripp
What Are You Teaching the World? A Video to Show Your Students Tomorrow http://bit.ly/1d9oexv #edchat
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