Monday Memo
January 27, 2020
Great Things!
We had a lot of fun at our Tuesday PD last week! Thank you to everyone for having fun and laughing together!
Thank you to Brie for making our PD worksheet for our webinar on Tuesday! So helpful!
The snow falling was so pretty! Big fluffy flakes were so beautiful to watch fall!
Challenge: "We are all in this together"
With the celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. last week, we will continue to celebrate his life's work by focusing on the "Power of Unity". It says: "we are all in this together". Let's focus on connection and treating others the way we want to be treated this week.
(taken in part from CD FB page)
Are you willing?
Dates to remember:
January 27: Fire Drills (rescheduled x2-unannounced)
January 29: Parent Committee 1:00 (library)
January 31: Lockdown drills 10:15/1:45 (moved from January 30)
Nuts-n-Bolts:
*Announcements are uploaded and ready to go-Kim McN's a.m. kids continue for this week (next week Sarah J)
*Art in the Office January: Kim McNally (February: Shandi)
*Messy Night will be here before we know it. If you signed up to be on the planning committee, please plan to get together to get started.
*We will be doing a Chiefs Spirit week for Tuesday through Friday of this week (staff and students). If you choose to participate - you may wear jeans on spirit days. Flyers should go home with students on Monday.
*Please wish Bailey well this week, as Friday will be her last day with us. We will miss you Bailey!
*If you are willing, we are still in need of some volunteers to help with childcare on Wednesday from 2:00-3:00 over the next 3 weeks. The sign up sheet is on my window outside my office. We are looking for 2 each week to help with this.
*Websites are due to be updated by end of the day January 31. Please email me to let me know you have done this.
*January book shelving duty: Caiti
Speech and Language Tip of the Week:
Do a quick check to see how well your kids can state simple opposite pairs. You can say the first word and see if your kids can state the opposite word (up/down, fast/slow, big/little, boy/girl, awake/asleep, stand up/sit down, clean/dirty, hot/cold, tall/short, etc.). Kids always enjoy acting out opposites so you may want to give that a try. Using different activities/strategies when learning skills is often helpful with helping kids learn and retain new information.
Fine Motor Tip of the Week:
Just a reminder of how helpful Cool Move is for our students:
Cool Move incorporates all 3 “power senses” that Cari Ebert talked about in her presentation to us. It provides tactile, vestibular, and proprioceptive sensory experiences- the systems that are the foundation to a child’s central nervous system and critical for learning.