Friday Focus - September 18

Image from 

pixteller.com

Great Things I Noticed this Week:

*As students started whispering on the carpet, instead of getting louder to get their attention the teacher lowered her voice almost to the point of whispering which got all of the students' attention back on track! 

*Quick review questions asking students to show expanded, standard and word form for numbers...but they showed the teacher in 1 second for each by making an action that they had learned for each to remember the difference for each. A great way to add kinesthetic movement to help them remember each!

*1st graders SO excited to share all of their "small moments" stories that have already been writing during writer's workshop. It is amazing to see how far they are already getting!

*A class discussion student digital citizenship, specifically on private vs public information and what is ok to share, when, etc. 

Digital Citizenship chart

Events Next Week:

Tuesday - I will be out of the building in the morning
Wednesday - Grade Level Meetings - in the D.O. Conference Room so we can get there and get started on norming quickly
*3:15 - EP Training on SLO/PPG/Surveys (remember this is a review of previous trainings so it is optional. I will email out all the info afterwards too)
Friday - I will be at CESA 6 most of the day for the Learning & Assessment (DAC) meeting

"Nuts & Bolts" Notes:
*Have you noticed a new face in our building? "Miss Alicia" (her last name is Hahn, so it's easier to call her this versus mixing her up with Mrs. Hahn!) is joining our support staff for two hours a day to help with some of the students in Ms. Peters room, especially during the lunch/recess hour. She is actually a parent so she probably won't look that new to some of you.
*As you are completing your F&P Benchmark assessments, please keep the packets that you use to record notes on students. We are finding that when just the benchmark recording page (showing which level for fall/winter/spring) is sent on to the next year's teacher that it would be helpful to also have the packets from each story read.

Blogs, Tweets & Pins...Oh My!!
*The Power of the iPad in Kindergarten
*How to Handle Students who Lie and Deny