Friday Update 3-5-10

Friday Update
March 5th, 2010

Article excerpt from “New Horizons in Comprehension” by Ellin Oliver Keene in Educational Leadership – March 2010

Key Reading Comprehension Strategies

Monitor for meaning. Know when, as a reader, you fully understand or don’t understand

Use schema. Relate the new to the known; activate prior knowledge to help you understand new information. Make connections between texts, portions of the same text, the text and broader knowledge, and the text and the reader. If you realize that you lack necessary schema to understand a text or concept, create schema using a variety of methods.

Infer. Predict; make independent decisions about inexplicit meanings; form opinions and defend them; draw conclusions and defend them.

Ask questions. Generate questions before, during, and after reading. Use questions to focus, delve more deeply, and extrapolate to insights within and beyond the text.

Create images. Use images that emanate from all five senses and from the emotions to understand more vividly.

Determine importance. Make decisions about which ideas and concepts are most important in a text; articulate why those ideas are most important.

Synthesize. Be aware of how one’s thinking changes during reading. Create a cogent expression of key points after reading, which may contain information from a variety of sources outside the current text.

"Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it."-Zig Ziglar

Next week
Monday 3/8 – 3rd grade PLC @ 12:10, SAT, Admin. Team Mtg., Multiplication Tournament, 1st grade to Millis Regional Health Center (Tilley, Wilson, Lawrence)

Tuesday 3/9 – Kindergarten PLC @ 8:50, Specialists PLC @ 9:30, Watch Dog – David Rhyne, Multiplication Tournament, Staff Meeting/Marzano training (please plan to meet until 4:30), Big Shotz Night, Board of Education Mtg.

Wednesday 3/10 – 1st grade PLC @ 10:20, EC PLC @ 12:00, 4th grade PLC @ 12:55, Multiplication Tournament

Thursday 3/11 – 2nd grade PLC @ 11:05, 5th grade PLC @ 1:40, Multiplication Tournament, Principal’s Mtg., Technology Workshop – Digital Storytelling

Friday 3/12 - Watch Dog – Doug Ford, Admin. Team Mtg.

Week of 3/15-3/19
(3/15) 3rd grade PLC @ 12:10,SAT, Science Festival Kick-off
(3/16) Kindergarten PLC @ 8:50, Specialists PLC @ 9:30, Science Festival, Progress Reports Go Home, SIT, PLC Facilitator Mtg., Time to Eat Night
(3/17) 1st grade PLC @ 10:20, EC PLC @ 12:00, 4th grade PLC @ 12:55, Science Festival, CC Mtg.
(3/18) 2nd grade PLC @ 11:05, 5th grade PLC @ 1:40, Science Festival
(3/19) Watch Dog – Todd Stephens, Admin. Team Mtg.

Duty Schedule
*Breakfast – Womble, Aikins, Letourneau, Sereika


FYI/Reminders
-Just a reminder that if you would like to make a contribution to the FCAE campaign fund please see Terry Zimmerman, Pateah East, or Kathi Lawrence
-The RJM Financial Southwest Golf tournament is scheduled for Friday, April 9th at Salem Glen Golf Club. We are still seeking players, teams, sponsors as well as donations for the raffle. During the next three weeks, students may pay $1 to have their name put on a “golf ball” that will be used to decorate the hallway.
-Get well – Joanne Baker, Jan Hipp and Tiffany Larson

Staff Stars
Pateah East and Jan Womble – Thank you for all the hard work (and paperwork) you do for our children. You both do such a wonderful job!
Cornelia Hauhuth- Thanks for the work you do
Hospitality committee – Thanks for your efforts to brighten our winter blahs
Kindergarten – Thank you for bringing Dr. Seuss alive this week.
Gloria Allen – Thank you for your guidance with Black History Month and Music in schools month.
Bus and Car duty staff – Thank you for helping to make sure our students arrive and leave safely on a daily basis.
Kathy Wilheit – Thank you for your efforts to keep SIT on track.
PRT’s and assistants – Your work in our classrooms is invaluable!
Kim Cressman, Tom Keener, Debbie Herrin – Thank you for your continued leadership.
3rd Grade and Kiki Hutcheson – What a wonderful baby shower for Jennie Currie!
Ann White – Thanks for working with teachers to get our science lab off to a running start.
Jan Freshwater – Great job with using DIBELS data to monitor your students.

Can-Do Winners for 3/5/10

K-2 Mrs. Lawrence 3031 (new record high for one week!!!)
3-5 Mrs. DiSorbo 430

Honorable mention:
Ms. Cohn 660
Mrs. Sutcliffe 254



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