The Weekly Spur
Week Twenty-six: March 7-March 11, 2016
Women’s History Month
American Red Cross Month
Fire Prevention Month
Music in our Schools Month
Read Across America (March 2, which is Dr. Seuss’ birthday)
March 7-11 National School Breakfast Week
St. Patrick’s Day (March 17)
Pi Day (March 14),
Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.14159.
Pi has been calculated to over one trillion digits beyond its decimal point. As an irrational and transcendental number, it will continue infinitely without repetition or pattern. While only a handful of digits are needed for typical calculations, Pi’s infinite nature makes it a fun challenge to memorize, and to computationally calculate more and more digits
St. Patrick's Day: Every year on March 17, the Irish and the Irish-at-heart across the globe observe St. Patrick’s Day. What began as a religious feast day for the patron saint of Ireland has become an international festival celebrating Irish culture with parades, dancing, special foods and a whole lot of green.
Word of the Week, Quote & Call back:
W.O.W. – Courage: strength to act even when afraid
Quote: “It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.” By Elizabeth Kenny
Call Back: Are you ready?......We were born ready!
What's on tap this week?
Don't forget your Thank You's for Thank You Thursday!
Monday, Mar. 7 - 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade TELPAS online Reading test, SLT Meeting, PTA General meeting @6:00pm
Tuesday, Mar. 8 - 3rd & 4th grade Math Benchmark, 5th grade Science Benchmark
Wednesday, Mar. 9 - 3rd & 4th grade Reading Benchmark, 5th grade to Camp El Tesoro until Friday.
Thursday, Mar. 10 - 2nd grade TELPAS online Reading test
Friday, Mar. 11 -
Happy Birthday to You - this week!
none this week, but two over spring break!
March 14 - Rose Arnwine
March 18 - Corey Fairchild
A look ahead...
ENJOY YOUR SPRING BREAK!!!!!!! March 14-18
Monday, Mar. 21 - Principal's Fundraiser Kick off! (K-2 at 8:30, 3rd-5th at 9:00)
Tuesday, Mar. 22 - TELPAS Rater Party during your conference time in the conference room
Wednesday, Mar. 23 - vertical alignment
Thursday, Mar. 24 - PLCs and PBIS info, Staff Luncheon
Friday, Mar. 25 - End of 3rd Nine Weeks/Bad Weather Make-up Day
Monday,Mar. 28 -
Tuesday, Mar. 29 - STAAR Writing Grade 4, STAAR Math Grade 5
Wednesday, Mar. 30 - STAAR Reading Grade 5
Thursday, Mar. 31 - report cards
Friday, April 1 - Kinder trip to Casa
Pictures for the Yearbook - please share!
Here is the info for uploading pictures to eshare. If you have a flash drive and/or memory card, Jennifer Andrews can take those as well... So far they need pictures from meet the teacher all the way through Christmas parties.
You can also upload your pictures to eShare or use the HJeShare app!The eShare code is CSESpurs. In the next week, PTA will be pulling pictures and designing pages and would love to have your pictures to choose from, too
PTA Information:
*PTA has created a BOX TOP GARDEN. Depending on how many box tops you have turned in depends on how many petals are on your flower. The first petal represents 25 or less box tops and every petal after represents 10 boxtops. **Just a reminder, SPED will be picking up your box top envelope every Friday, not PTA. **
*If you have any pictures from your classroom that can be shared, please send them to Crystal Barnhill or Jill Wagenknecht. We will forward them to the yearbook committee. Thank you in advance!
Steps to Create the Conditions for Deep, Rigorous, Applied Learning
Here is a link for an interesting article entitled:
"Steps to Create the Conditions for Deep, Rigorous, Applied Learning"