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sept 21 Putting the ELEMENTARY back into elementary school
UPCOMING events
Sept 21 Reading Data for Portfolios due (contact Barbara Brinker for more info)
Sept 25 Book Pusher shirt day
Sept 25 Brian Nichols presentation to staff 315 in library
Sept 25 NNPS Curriculum Chat (Various locations by grade level) each grade level should have at least one teacher attend, prefer multiple team members attend 430
Sept 27 Leadership Team meeting 310-410
Sept 28 Cub Scouts visits classrooms (130-230)
Sept 28 Student Records Checklist due to Brian (and other items due-see Due in September document)
Oct 1 Sept 24 Reading Inventory (RI) Training by Barbara all 3-5 teachers will attend one session (Session I)
Oct 1 Scout Recruiting Event 630-730 (teachers do not need to attend)
Oct 2 Fall picture day
Oct 3 Sept 24 Reading Inventory (RI) Training by Barbara all 3-5 teachers will attend one session (Session II)
Oct 10 Sanford #sanfordbookpushers and problem solving PD Day 315-415
Oct 25 Back to School Literacy Event 530-700 (all teachers expected to attend) Just Announced
Oct 29 MP1 Posting window opens
Nov 5 MP1 Ends
Nov 6 Teacher Workday
Nov 7 MP1 Report cards due (email Brian when Marked Complete)
Nov 14 Report cards go home
Observational Look For's
Learning Targets are posted and clear for students to see.
Learning Targets are referenced at least 3x during the lesson. Our goal is that students can articulate the LT and connect the LT with the activity.
Morning Experiences, Morning Meetings, Closing Circles and Mindfulness embedded during the learning day
Action Item
Student Records Checklist is due Sept 28.
One of the most important parts of this task is identifying students who have Child Study paperwork in their file. Please recognize the importance of this task. We are simply looking for you to list student names if they have Child Study paperwork.
ITC Alex will be in the building all next week. Please invite him to collaborate with your students or to plan.
Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) in Holly McElveen's fourth grade room
To set the tone and expectations, Holly Mcelveen is reading a book while the students are reading
Also, see the SSR Expectations chart (Teacher Actions/Student Actions) on the Sanford SharePoint page
Book Pusher
Third grade planning and their planning documents are on their Google Team Drive
This closing circle in first grade included singing a digraph song.
Closing circle in Colleen Dwyer's first grade room made great use of the time while students were awaiting dismissal and dicussed a math learning target from the school day.
Piano music helps set a calming mood in Rachel Grochowski's second grade room.
A K Provocation with a guiding question in Heather Hudgins classroom
A K Provocation that aligns very well with K Letter and Letter Sound learning targets
A K Provocation
K students in Brittany Hudnall's classroom with a Morning Experience that connects tightly to their literacy learning goals: making letters.
A first grade Morning Experience with two students playing cards and were later joined by another student who played the card game
Taylor Howell's first grade students doing the pledge, Sanford pledge and Moment of Silence on a day we do not have the Morning Show.
An engaging Morning Experience question in Kristie McCray's fifth grade classroom
Small group reading instruction with a guest in Nikki Hendron's third grade room.
Book Pushers and thanks to Kathleen Ward and Sandra Toler for all thier hardwork in putting the library back together. THANK YOU!
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Prize Patrol
Heather Hudgins, Wendy Morgan, Brittany Hudnall