Johnson Memo: Friday Focus

Mar 24, 2017

Great Things I Noticed this Week:

1st graders checking out the cutest pet contest choices and then writing an opinion paper about why they think their favorite pet should win. Nice way to tie in a school even to writing!
College students visiting classrooms to talk about what it is like to be in college.
Students researching a college and creating a college pennant with the information they learned.
Students exploring occupations of interest to them.
Students researching a famous person of interest to them, including if and where they went to college.
Students exploring college/career/military tracks and completing their college applications.
Students asking staff (other than their classroom teacher) what college they went to.
The many ideas that were generated for college promotion at last week's PD day were amazing and definitely warrant a committee for this next year so this can be a part of our culture all year next year!
A SMOOTH start to Forward testing with our 4th graders that is due to the preparation in classrooms leading up to this. 3/5th grade-you should know that there were NO technical issues (**knock on wood**) so it should be smooth when you start testing too!