Westwood Updates
Week of 5/11/15- 5/15/15
This Week's Happenings - Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!
Monday-5/11/15
MAPS testing -Computer Lab
Tuesday- 5/12/15
SBAC testing -Computer Lab
2:20 LEADERSHIP meeting
Wednesday-5/13/15
SBAC testing- Computer Lab
DFD- Soup Plantation
Thursday- 5/14/15
SBAC testing -Computer Lab
Friday- 5/15/15
8:00 Friday Flag -
SBAC testing -Computer Lab
Leadership Meeting Tuesday
Ms. I and Kendama Wednesdays - Please Share this Video with Students
Let Shaylene know if you have questions.
SBAC Testing Continues This Week & 5th Grade Maps
- 4th graders have completed all SBAC sessions!
- 3rd graders begin math testing - this is their LAST week!
Thank you ALL for your help flexibility and teamwork!
Summer Math Training Opportunity
LSS will be offering a full day of training from Houghton-Mifflin consultants on Math Expressions Common Core Edition during the summer. The training will be held on Tuesday, July 21 from 8:00-3:00 and will be grade level specific. Details on location will be coming soon. You will receive a special daily rate for attending, but if you are unable to attend the July date, there will be a make-up date scheduled in August. Since Math Expressions has been taught in our district for a while, this training will be specifically designed to highlight the changes in the Common Core edition, how to use the resources available to support your instruction, and how to manage the resources found in Think Central. We hope you can take advantage of this opportunity to learn! Please RSVP as soon as you can so that we can reserve our trainers for the day with the following link:
Help Needed- Playground Issues
You can use this Kid President's Top 20 Things to Say video as a springboard for discussions about how being NICE to each other is Awesome! You can also remind students that our Peace Partners are on the playground to help every Roadrunner get along.
As always, we will continue to speak directly to any students have been involved in playground issues.
Reminders & Updates
From LSS
Math Videos
Our wonderful math TOSA, Lynne Haman, has shared two different videos on math performance tasks. The first video has no narration, but it gives the information in written form that the viewer reads. It tells what the performance task is, what it asks students to do, and then it gives the sample fourth grade performance task from SBAC.
The second video is a third grade teacher doing a real world performance task on designing the floor plan with furniture for their bedroom. It is seeing a performance task in action. This type of lesson will help prepare our students for performance tasks, although the SBAC performance tasks will not be as activity based. They are a scenario based, six question format, with questions that build in complexity.
My Connect Courses - Your Quick Link to Resources
LSS has linked all your resources in an easy to use location called My Connect Elementary Courses. Click here to get access to great tools from Math Central, Writing Central, and more!
Upcoming Events
May 12-15 - Last week to visit the library
May 13th- grades 1-5 NEW enrollment 9-noon daily
May 20 - PTA ART show
May 22- All books due to the library
May 25- No School - Memorial Day