Montessori Minute
October 6, 2017
Are you wearing your NE LOVES PS t-shirt today?
Remember, the first Friday of the month is set aside for jeans and your I Love Public Schools t-shirts!
If the rain holds off....
I am planning on leaving around 10:15am today (Friday) to attend the district softball tournament in Lincoln. It was postponed from yesterday and Friday's forecast doesn't look very good either, so you may see me after all.
Class Dojo & PAWS
I am still hearing very good feedback from parents about Class Dojo and the PAWS program. I know you may be feeling a little "Dojo Fatigue" but I encourage you to push through it! Keep posting updates and student work. Take it a step further and ask Meghan to write something about PE that you can post....or ask Nancy to shoot a short video of kids singing or Connie to have students take a picture of one of their art pieces. Keep pushing forward!
Another thing to think about....are we giving too many golden tickets? We don't want these things to lose their luster and if we give out too many, they'll lose their "cool-ness" pretty quickly!
Family Newsletter
Below is a link to the monthly newsletter I sent out to our families. It's also posted on our website.
I'd like to incorporate more video into these newsletters and maybe a student "co-star" or two so parents don't have to look at my face for the entire 4 minutes.
If you have ideas, pictures, or video I could use in the monthly newsletter, I'd really appreciate you sharing them with me. Sometimes it's hard to come up with information and photos.
Tweet of the Week!
Take a look at this article from Edutopia on how positive words can affect students--and how you can frame these words to get maximum effectiveness!
https://www.edutopia.org/article/positive-words-go-long-way?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
Another Gerry Books video!
A couple weeks ago, I shared a video from this guy who is supposedly a principal who was helping out in the cafeteria. In this one, he's helping Kindergarteners take an online assessment!
https://youtu.be/Qu40uvGSKwE