Principal Walder's Monday Memo
For the Week of September 24
Collaborative Magnetic Poetry
Shake up Learning is one of my favorite blogs and Twitter feeds for fun applications of technology in the classroom. Most of her posts are on using Google Tools in unique ways. I challenge you to try this template this week. Here is her post about Magnetic Poetry with an explanation. Click the name for the link to Kasey's post.
Here is the link to the template.
Here are the different levels of the challenge.
- Click on the link above. Read the post and try out the template by projecting it in your classroom for an activity of your choice.
- Click on the link of the template, add it to your drive, and share it with a teacher in our building. Each of you projects the magnetic poetry in your classroom during the day. Each of your classes tries the poetry at different times during the day to leave each other's class poetry stories.
- Click on the link to the template, add it to your drive, and then put in your week's spelling or vocabulary words for students to use in sentences.
PLC Agendas this Week
Please bring your computers and reading data this week. Our objectives for PLC in Grades K-4 this week are as follows:
- Walk to Read will have started in all classes this week. We will start with any quick questions about this first.
- Please bring your computers and we are going to dive into more of our NWEA data now that the testing window is closed.
Mrs. Walder's Schedule
Monday:
- 9:00 Meeting at DEC
- 10:30 Individual Teacher Meeting
- 1:20- 2:05 1st Grade PLC in Mrs. Westhoff's Room Bring Computers.
- 2:10- 2:55 Kindergarten PLC in Mrs. Snell's Room Bring Computers.
- 4:15 Instructional Leaders Meeting at DEC
Tuesday:
- 7:30 am TAT Meeting
- 9:30- 10:15 4th Grade PLC in Mrs. Rhead's Room Bring Computers.
- 10:20- 11:05 3rd Grade PLC in Mr. Westhoff's Room Bring Computers.
- 2:10 Kindergarten Meeting in Mrs. Snell's Room
- 3:30- 4:30 Stop the Bleed training at the DEC (with Mr. Johnson)
Wednesday:
- 9:00- 9:30 JK PLC in Mrs. Nelson's Room- Mrs. Walder will not attend. Led by Mr. Bullis.
- 10:45 to 11:45 Teacher Observation
- 12:30- 1:15 2nd Grade PLC in Mrs. Walder's Room
Thursday:
- Teacher Meeting 7:30 am to 8:00 am in Ms. Rederth's Room
- MTSS: Behavior Meeting 3:30- 4:00 pm in Mr. Westhoff's Room Bring Computers.
Friday:
- 7:30 am IEP
- 11:50 PLC for Interventionists
Contact Mrs. Walder
Email: Samantha.Walder@k12.sd.us
Website: https://www.teaschools.k12.sd.us/
Location: Tea, SD, USA
Phone: 6058817381
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TeaAreaLegacy/