Johnson Memo: Friday Focus - October 4, 2013

Great Things I Noticed This Week:

*A group of students talking about a new book series at lunch. (If you're curious what series...it's a secret!)

*Students using the Educreations app to make pages for vocabulary words. They had to find the word in the dictionary app, choose the correct definition and then select an appropriate image to match the word.

*During Dailly 5 when I asked a student what he was working on he said,"I'm reading and practicing checking for understanding, because that's my CAFE goal."
*Students charting their math fact fluency progress.

Events Next Week:

Monday - EP Training on SLO. If you cannot attend this day, you can join the MS/HS staff on Tuesday. Please bring your EP folders you were given at In-Service.

Tuesday - Grade Level PLC Meetings (see "Nuts & Bolts" below for agendas)

Friday - I will be out of the building in the morning.

Staff Social lunch-2nd Grade/Kopfer

"Nuts & Bolts" Notes:

*For Grade Level Meetings - I do plan on grade levels to eventually be creating the agendas down the road, but for this week we need to get the magnets up with the MAP/Benchmark scores and talk about WIN. I know that a few grade levels have already started WIN and may just need to check in on progress, but others need to plan to get started.
*There is a thank you letter for the Walmart Distribution Center in the mailrofor yesterday's exciting celebration.
*Just a reminder that student surveys are coming up for another EP step. The surveys to copy off are towards the back of your EP guides (I believe they start at page 60). They can also be found in the shared drive under Elementary/Effectiveness Project Resources.
*Planning ahead...for Halloween it is fine for you to plan a classroom party, but please keep it to no more than 45 minutes and no costumes. We need to be consistent across the grade levels for this.

iPad Tip of the Week:The iPad comes with four apps on the bottom tray of the home screen, but did you know you can add up to six apps to it? You can even remove the ones that are there by default and add your own. I put the apps that I use the most on the bottom (my home screen apps are: Evernote, Simple Goals, Safari, Remember the Milk, Mail, and a link to mylearningplan).

How can you change your bottom tray? Simply tap an icon and hold down your finger until all the apps are shaking. This allows you to move the app. To get it on the bottom tray, just drag it over and drop it on the tray. You'll see the other apps move over to make room for it, and that let's you know it is okay to drop it.

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