Great Things I Noticed this Week:
- Kindergarteners holding focus to write independently for 25 minutes (yes, you read that number correctly). At sharing time, they read their story to partners and then each partner responded with "I noticed..." "I wonder..." It is amazing to see how much our youngest writers are capable of!
- At the board meeting a board member gave the utmost of compliments of how our elementary students were a part of the Veterans Day assembly last week, starting with shaking the Veterans' hands to just how well they sat for such a long assembly. I know this speaks to what you did in your classrooms to prepare your students for the assembly. Thank you!
- A parent of a new student has been so impressed with our school since her child transferred here. She loves school so much, which she never did before. She even wishes she could come on the weekends. Her daughter has always struggled in reading and hated it, but here she loves to read and is already seeing improvement. We truly have built a culture of children that love reading! :)
- Great conversations at each grade level about reading mini-lessons, conferring, small groups, etc. I emailed the notes out on Wednesday in case you'd like to see what other grade levels discussed.
Upcoming Events
I have no staff events on the calendar for next week. Ahhh...did you just hear the sigh of relief? Please relax, refresh and rejuvenate over the Thanksgiving vacation!
"Nuts & Bolts" Notes:
*I know I say this every time we have a holiday, but remember with Thanksgiving and a short week that the more you get off track of the regular schedule, the more your students will get off track (with behaviors and everything). Try to keep things as normal as possible. :)
*I will be adding the annual Bucket Fillers activity to the December Calendar...this will be 2 Tuesdays for 3-5th graders after school. On December 15th they will make Christmas ornaments and practice singing Christmas carols. On December 22nd we will go to Clearview to go caroling and deliver the ornaments. Please let me know if you would like to join us for the holiday fun to bucket fill for our community.
*Just a reminder that if you would like to purchase gifts for the Giving Tree (items are on paper ornaments on the bulletin board by the computer lab/gym bathroom) to bring the gifts, unwrapped with the ornament by December 7th.
*I will be adding the annual Bucket Fillers activity to the December Calendar...this will be 2 Tuesdays for 3-5th graders after school. On December 15th they will make Christmas ornaments and practice singing Christmas carols. On December 22nd we will go to Clearview to go caroling and deliver the ornaments. Please let me know if you would like to join us for the holiday fun to bucket fill for our community.
*Just a reminder that if you would like to purchase gifts for the Giving Tree (items are on paper ornaments on the bulletin board by the computer lab/gym bathroom) to bring the gifts, unwrapped with the ornament by December 7th.
Blogs, Tweets & Pins...Oh My!!!
*@teachkate
We can't expect kids to transfer EVERYTHING. We have to help them focus - what is the ONE thing you are going to carry with you? #tcrwp
(#tcrwp is the hashtag on Twitter for Teachers College of Reading Writing Program...Lucy Calkins. There is always all kinds of great things to learn from this hashtag of other educators teaching with writing and/or reading workshop!)
*Using the Writer's Notebook to Grow Ideas: Diving Into Information Writing
*Using the Writer's Notebook to Grow Ideas: Diving Into Information Writing
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