Friday Update 9-17-10

Friday Update
September 17th , 2010

Thank you all for your support of the 3rd annual Southwest Fall Festival. We are blessed to have a tremendously supportive PTA and this is their primary fundraiser for the year. The Fall Festival will support their budget which will allow us to add more ActiveBoards, document cameras and projectors for your classrooms. We also hope to add some acceleration and intervention software to help with our differentiation efforts. Fall Festival week is usually a crazy one, but I want you to keep the “prize” in mind that will help us for the rest of the year. Please remember to thank our parents for all that they do to support us.

“Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!”
Amanda Bradley
Next week
Monday 9/20 –– Fall Pictures (Pictures in the gym, PE in the auditorium), Watch Dog – Dustin Isenhour
Tuesday 9/21 – 3rd grade to Heritage Theater (Vaughn, Winters, and Fausch), SIT, 4th grade On-Demand Writing Test, Happy Birthday to Amy Tilley
Wednesday 9/22 - Watch Dog – David Sipprell, 3rd grade to Heritage Theater (Drummond, Marceron, Sunderman, and Rosenberger)
Thursday 9/23 –
Friday 9/24 – TGIF, Fall Festival, Watch Dog – Randy Patton

Week of 9/27-10/1
9/27 –
9/28 –Staff Meeting with Colonial Life Representative, PBIS meeting, Scout Night
9/29 – AP Professional Development, Happy Birthday to Catherine Herko
9/30 – Technology Workshop – Schoolwires Basic Training, PLC Facilitator Support Meeting
10/1 – TGIF, All Pro Dads Breakfast, Kindergarten to Children’s Theater

FYI/Reminders
-Please remember to keep working on your new staff webpage.

-Please continue to remember those staff members who are dealing with personal illness or the illness of a family member.

-Please remember to where your staff ID every day.

-As part of our 2009-2010 end of year "Plus/Delta", several folks asked for some differentiation in our technology trainings. This summer, I assigned an on-line Atomic Learning activity was assigned to all instructional staff members. This activity is a 40 question technology skills assessment that will allow us to see where our staff stands in terms of NETS technology standards. If you accidentally deleted the email with instructions about how to complete this assignment please do not worry - we will reactivate it for everyone. If you have already completed it, please do not do it again (25 have already done it). Thus far I have not assigned a due date, but would like to have this completed by Friday, October 8th.

Staff Stars
Mrs. McGhee and Mrs McClain - great job with targeted reading lesson!

Ms. King, Mrs Green and Mrs. Nolting - Your project and reading circle were awesome.

5th grade - your Hatchet activities have really had your students engaged.

Ms. Menendez - Thank you for the way that you clarified the learning objectives for your lessons.

Mrs. Letourneau - Great job with Spanish Club planning.

K-2 teachers that have DIBELed this week have all been prepared and have done an awesome job!

Patty and Erika for diligence in DIBELing

Mrs. Crain - Thank you for challenging your students with math puzzles.

Mrs. Larson - Super positive job of encouraging our k students to read your morning message!

Mrs. Letourneau - Great job with Spanish Club planning.

The bus duty team - Thank you for maintaining our expectations and always helping when changes/absences occur.

Mrs. Wilson - Great cooperative partner math game and super job of giving students the chance to tell how they did working together.

Mrs. Merritt - Hats off to you for your work with parents this week!

Mrs. White - Awesome job of getting down to the soil in science with 3rd graders!