Great Things I Noticed This Week:
- Evidence that we are truly building a culture of readers: When students are done with the WKCE test, they are given a packet of fun activities (i.e. word search, sudoku, etc) to keep them quiet. Many students looked at the packet contents and chose to read instead!!
- QR codes used during Daily 5 for quick/easy access to online stories for Listen to Reading.
- Use of Edmodo: students read an article online for science and then responding to a written prompt on the topic and submitted it to the teacher on Edmodo. They then posted their own questions about the article and responded to each others' questions on Edmodo. (If you don't know what Edmodo is, it's like "facebook with training wheels" and a great tool in the classroom).
- Kindergarteners starting to write independently for work on writing.
- From the mouths of babes: one student told her teacher, "I can tell my reading is getting better from all the help you teachers are giving me here."
Events Next Week:
Monday - *I will be printing report cards at 7:00 am.
Monday - *I will be printing report cards at 7:00 am.
*Veterans Day Assembly at 9:35 in the HS Gym. Please make sure to dress professionally, as this is a day that we have many guests in the building.
*Elementary Staff Meeting - the agenda is HERE. Please bring your iPad or Laptop. If you are still unsure of what the SAMR model is, here's a good explanation of it in 2 minutes using google docs as an example: SAMR in 120 seconds.
Tuesday - Fundraiser pick-up after school
Wednesday - Report Cards to go home. Please make sure to include parent invitations for students being recognized at the assembly.
Friday - Staff Social Lunch
"Nuts & Bolts" Notes:
*Remember to give your Honor Roll Names and the On a Roll Names/Reasons to Mrs. Jaeckel so she can type up the certificates.
*If you catch any students being bucket fillers, please email me their names so I can take a picture of them and add them to the bulletin board. They love looking at it as they go by.
Blogs, Pins & Tweets...Oh My!
*I learned how to use Glogster in Mrs. Battenberg's XPD. Look at how many great things you can use it for in this post: 40 Ways to Innovate Teaching Using Glogster (If you want to learn how to use Glogster, she's teaching it again on December 17).
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