Friday Focus - November 3, 2017

Great Things I Noticed this Week:
*Several teachers walking students through the process of rereading math word problems, stopping to ask questions reread for understanding: What is this problem about? What is it asking? What information does it tell us? Let's act what is happening.  These are all great strategies for students to learn how to keep rereading for meaning, those close reading skills that apply to math!
*Great collaboration for WIN...I've seen students excitedly changing rooms for "what they need." We know that in order to close the gaps and raise our higher students, we have to provide ALL of our students with the instruction that they need at their level. 
*Students in writing partners, providing each other with feedback and questions to help each other revise their writing to add in descriptive details.

Events Next Week:
Monday - grades due by 7:30 am

Wednesday - 1st quarter report cards distributed
- fundraiser pick up 3:00-5:30

Thankful Thursday - you can be thankful for jeans in place of our casual Friday since you need to dress up for Veterans Day.

Friday - Veterans Day Assembly starting at 9:30.  Please dress professionally on Friday as we will have many community members in our building for this event.
-No AM recess

Our 1st Quarter Dodgeland Pride Assembly is Friday, November 17th at 2:30.

"Nuts & Bolts" Notes:
*Please review behavior expectations with your students before taking them down to the gym for the Veterans Day Assembly. Please also make sure to be there prior to 9:30 so they are not waiting for us to get started.  
*For 1st Quarter awards: I will share a google doc with you for On a Roll.  For Honor Roll there will NOT be a google doc. I am just going to go through all of the 3-5th report cards after their final reprints on Wednesdays to determine certificates. Please make sure to send home an invitation to the assembly for those that you know make Honor Roll (or On a Roll, or a Specials Award).

Blogs, Tweets & Pins...Oh My!!!
*Change the World, or Simply Maintain It? great post by George Couros