Mosaica Online Happenings
November 12-16 2012
Upcoming Dates to Remember
- Thursday, November 29th: Parent Education Meeting @ 5:30pm Eastern
- Monday, December 3rd: CA Wildomar Center work from home day
- Tuesday, December 4th: Staff Meeting at 7pm Eastern
- Wednesday, December 5th: Paragon Night for CA Wildomar Center
- **Beginning August 28th, all adjunct teachers must submit invoices to Brenda McCullers on the 14th and 28th of the month**
Thanksgiving Break across Mercury land!
Arizona: November 21-23/Wednesday-Friday
California: November 19-23/Monday-Friday
Colorado: November 21-23/Wednesday-Friday
Staff Spotlight - Rachelle Smiley
I have been in education since 2003. I have worked with every age of students from 2 year olds- high school. I absolutely love teaching kindergarten, especially at this time of year. Students are beginning to demonstrate progress and their excitement for the holidays is contagious!
I live in Temecula, CA, with my husband Chris, a 2nd/3rd grade teacher. We have 2 kids, a 10 year- old named Jack and a 7 year –old daughter named Kaya. We are consumed with kid sports outside of work. I am my son’s team mom for his baseball team, and my daughter is in competitive cheer. We love to everything and every day is something different, but our absolute favorite thing to do is camp at the beach! Play in the waves during the day and roast marshmallows at night. Doesn’t get much better than that!
We appreciate all that you do Rachelle!
Mercury Sunshine!
Let me know of any concerns or celebrations within our Mercury family!
Club Corner
These students are beginning to work on a "garbage pizza" to show all the garbage they throw away and to recognize some items that could be recycled. Stay tuned for picture of the finished products in December!
High School Art Club:
Art Club students recently studied the "Op Art" movement. The word "Op" stands for optical and refers to a technique where artists try to create 3-dimensional designs on a 2-dimensional surface.
Check out this phenomenal design by High School artist Ashley Holden.
TEACHER TIP OF THE WEEK!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aGuLuipTwg&feature=related
What Is Going On In Other Mercury Locations?
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Alaska
Muskegon Heights, Michigan
Hyderabad, India
Ohio
You will receive updates here that will pertain to our students in any of these locations!
- be sure to consult the various calendars in D2L for these locations
Teachers PLEASE be sure you are keeping your D2L grade book updated. Whenever a program needs grades for a progress report, we export the D2L grade book current average. Thank you!
Upcoming Holidays:
India - November 12-13, November 22
Puerto Vallarta - November 23
Muskegon Heights - November 22-23
Online Paragon Nights!
https://sites.google.com/a/mercuryacademy.com/paragon-night/
Targeted Learning Series.....
Next week's topic: Performance Based Attendance Procedures - the Ins and Outs
Join us if you can:)
And Our new weekly installment..... your joke of the week
The teacher then says to the class: “What shall I do to correct this?”
One student replies: “Get a boyfriend.”