Holmquist News and Notes
May 16 - May 20
Kimberly's Message
Shout Outs
- 3rd and 4th grade teachers did an awesome job during testing
- Kaythi and Marilyn for preparing all documents and materials ahead of time for testing
- All testing monitors that assisted during testing. They were very helpful on my hallway. I never had to wait for anyone and they checked on us a lot. I’m sure others were as helpful; these are the people I saw.
Dr. Reyna
Ms. Sanchez
Ms. Polk
Ms. Nguyen
Ms. McElyea
Ms. Upshaw for organizing McTeacher Night and for all staff members that attended the event. We raised $706.00.
Coach Foster for creating a powerpoint for our Y.O.L.O group and teaching our students about soccer.
Coach Sallee and Mr. Endsley for monitoring students during Y.O.L.O
Ms. Williams for creating the agenda for they Y.O.L.O meeting
1st grade for being the first grade level to complete Math Easy CBM
Ms. Stewart, Ms. Phillips and Ms. Diez for covering classes this morning
All volunteers that assisted with Kinder field trip
Ms. Siddiqui for jumping in and helping no matter what.
Weekly Calendar
College and Career Week
Monday, May 16th
EDC 165
Math Specialist Meeting K-2
Campus Innovation Grant Due to District
Team Leader - 3:40
1st Grade Field Trip
Orange Day - wear a college shirt with orange or an orange shirt with jeans
Tuesday, May 17h
EDC 165
Math Specialist Meeting
Fame Meeting - 3:40
Principal Talks - 9:30
Sience DCA 2 - 4
ILT EOY Debrief
Red Day - Red college shirt or red shirt with jeans
Wednesday, May 18th
EDC 166
Happy Birthday Ms. Polk
Happy Birthday Ms. Serralde
Ms. Castillo's Baby Shower - 3:40
3rd Grade Program - See Schedule
Blue Day - Blue college shirt or blue shirt with jeans
Walking Field Trip - 4th grade
Thursday, May 19h
EDC 167
Happy Birthday Mr. Legra
Cowboy Ranch Field Trip
Wear a college shirt of your choice
Friday, May 20th
EDC 168
Content/ILT
Start/Stop/Continue/Change
Jr. Coaches Field Trip at Children's Museum
What do I want to be? Dress up day
Saturday, May 21st
Ammo Competition - 4th Grade - Mr. Ponder and Ms. Wells
PLC - The Week of the 16th
Monday - PK/K
Tuesday - 1st
Wednesday – 2nd - Ms. Upshaw will email a schedule due to 3rd program
Thursday – 4th - (Last Y.O.L.O)
Friday – 3rd
Humming bird Class of the Week
Humming bird Staff of the Week
Mrs. DeSautu was born in Miami, Florida. She is a wife and mother to 2 beautiful children, Olivia and Marcelo. She has worked in Alief for 15 years and has been an AP for 8 years. She loves the staff and students at Holmquist. Her famiy and the students motivate her. Her word is Positive because you must have a positive outlook in order to be successful. And a smile brightens everyone's day!!!
McTeacher Night
Alief Mini Grant Reception
Are You a Shark or a Goldfish?
If you are facing a challenge and anxious about your situation, I know how you feel. I lost my job in 2001 during the dot.com bust. The company was losing money faster than we could raise it and eventually the company sank faster than the Titanic.
I thought it was the worst event of my life. I was two months away from being bankrupt. I had a wife, two young children, a mortgage, no health insurance, and very little savings. I was a paycheck away from losing it all.
It sounds bad. It felt bad. At the time it was bad. But one day I decided that I wasn’t going to let this challenge take me down. And that’s when I knew I had to change what I was thinking and doing.
I read a few books including Who Moved My Cheese and Rich Dad, Poor Dad
which helped me make some important decisions through the change. Eventually these decisions would lead to the work I do now as a writer, consultant, and speaker.
My layoff led to my life’s mission and purpose. What I thought was the worst event in my life actually lead to the best. I’m not alone. Gallup did a study and asked people to identify the worst and best event of their life. They found that there was an 80% correlation between the two events.
There was also a British study of 500 “charmed” people. They seemed to have it all; wealth, success, great relationships, etc. The researchers were surprised to discover that every one of these “charmed” people had bad things happen to them. They all experienced challenges and adversity, however, each one of them turned the bad
into good and their misfortune into fortune.
The truth is that challenges and change are a part of life. The waves of change are always coming our way. But when the wave hits we have a choice. We can embrace it and ride it to a successful future or resist it and get crushed by the wave.
Embracing our waves of challenge and change is all about how we perceive and respond to the events we face. In The Shark and the Goldfish I share the positive success formula.
E + P = O
We can’t always control the (E) vents in our life but we can control our (P)ositive response to these events and this often determines the (O)utcome.
When the change hits instead of focusing on the challenge we can choose to look for the opportunity. We can ask what this event is teaching us and identify how we can grow stronger and wiser from it. We can live in fear or move forward with faith and take positive action.
We can decide to be a Shark instead of a Goldfish? Goldfish become paralyzed by fear. They stay in their comfort zone and wait for someone to feed them. On the other hand Sharks (nice sharks) move forward with faith and take action. They trust that their best days are ahead of them, not behind them. Instead of waiting to be fed they venture out in the ocean of possibility in search of food. Their beliefs and actions create a self filling prophecy; because they expect to find food and take action to find it, they do.