Great Things I Noticed the last 2 weeks (I missed a Friday focus last week!):
- Students taking pictures of real life objects to make a book of shapes (using iPad apps) to create a book to teach their younger buddies different shapes (while learning the qualities of shapes they need to know).
- Students having powerful reflections to the "bruised and bullied" apple analogy lesson. You can read about it HERE.
- Youtube clips from Have Fun Teaching channel to help memorize some of those things that aren't as easy to memorize (and it adds a brain break with fun and learning at the same time).
Events Next Week: Secret Santa starts for those that are participating
Monday - No meeting: not even rescheduled. It's cancelled. :)
I will be gone all day for training at CESA 6
Tuesday - the Mid-Year SLO Review training will be rescheduled to Jan/February (when you have mid-year data to reflect on).
Wednesday - I will be at the SLATE conference for most of the day
Thursday - Mid Quarter (yes, it's that time already!) Please make sure there are no grading surprises for parents.
Any Toy Bank donations are due to Marie.
Friday - Staff Social Lunch (1st Grade/Bartlett/Mane)
"Nuts & Bolts" Notes:
- Just a reminder to pick up students from specials classes on time to prevent back-up/traffic jam in the hallway, which can be difficult for our specials teachers to manage.
- I'm still looking for additional people to help present (or organize students to present) for the Tech Showcase on January 13th. We have secured some really awesome prizes that I think will help us bring in a big crowd. Seriously, think big prizes. :)
- As you saw above for next week's events, our Elementary Professional Learning meeting is cancelled. I will be gone for training and decided not to reschedule it.
Blogs, Tweets & Pins...Oh My!
*NonFiction Favorites for Boys: Book List
*A Gold Mine of resources: a list of downloadable non fiction text from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project: Digital NonFiction Text Sets
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