#sanfordbookpushercommunity jan11
#teachers engaged w kids #Closing Circle is instruction
UPCOMING EVENTS
Jan 14 Team spirit day--wear something to show who your team is
Jan 15 NNPS Support Team visit 830-1000
Jan 17 Posting window opens MP2 report cards
Jan 17-24 Book Fair
Jan 21 School Closed MLK Day
Jan 24 MP2 Ends
Jan 24 Family Fun and STEAM Night 530-700
Jan 25 Teacher Workday
Jan 28 PD Day (more info to come) 815am at Sanford; afternoon at various sites
Jan 29 Sanford Spirit Day wear black
Jan 29 Report cards due for review 4PM
Jan 31 Social Committee Gathering after school: BJs Brewhouse
Feb 5 Report cards go home
Feb 5 Goal Setting for Student Progress Form-Mid Year Due
A learning community: Collaboration: Students are collaborating to research Natural Disasters in fifth grade
Community: Breakfast together in Heather Hudgins K room
Mindfulness: Closing activity as K Art ends in Nicole Piland's room
Focus Items during classroom visits
-Evidence of consistent, daily Morning Meeting and Closing Circles
-Formative assessment daily in math at the grade level standard of rigor
-Small group reading plans at the reading table
Morning Experience: A community of learners playing a large dice game on a 100s chart in Kerri Nelson's first grade room
Nonstandard Measurement in Taylor Howell's first grade room
Engagement: This is the time of year when football has captured many of our students and their families attention.
Community, collaboration: Using the balance scale with classmates as a Taylor Howell Morning Experience
Community: Closing Circle
Community: If you get in Melene Skeeter's class you get to have working lunches and the kids love it.
Second Grade Independent Work Options Expanded
Reading in second grade
Word games--during the Reading block in second grade
Shark Attack Word Games from the Curriculum as part of the independent work that our second graders can do
Word card game in Jessica Gibson's second grade room
Reading: If the best text for the small group lesson is on the computer, bring the computer to small group as Tulsa Silver has done
Bookpusher Reading
A Rachel Letchworth first grader
Effective Read to Self is evident in this picture
Math instruction requires concrete supports. Here a Jessica Gibson small group is adding using base 10 blocks
Learning to count money and make change requires students to be able to handle, touch the money
Fifth graders now have to divide with decimals.
Anchor Charts help.
Does your room have Anchor Charts to reflect current instruction. This Anchor Chart was from Krista Yarbrough's classroom.