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march 2
UPCOMING EVENTS
All of March: Recycling Contest--see information at the bottom of this week's blog
March 3 (Saturday) NNPS Family Engagement Literacy and Math Event at Discovery STEM
March 6 Lemonade Wars culminating event 530-700 (all teachers are encourage to attend and show support--each grade should have at least 1-2 representatives
March 12 Picture Day (group and individual photos)
March 12 Chick Fil A Spirit Night (details forthcoming)
March 14 Lead Teacher meeting 310PM
March 21 NNPS Lead Teacher/Curriculum Chat-all grade levels should have at least on rep attend (location: various sites by grade level)
March 23 Dress for Success (K-2): A Career Day Event facilitated by Melissa Locke
March 29 Grade 1 performs 530 PM
March 30 Career Day speakers (3-5): A Career Day Event facilitated by Melissa Locke
March 30 MP3 Ends
April 2-6 Spring Break
April 10 Report cards due for review by 4PM-email Brian when complete
April 17 Report Cards go home
Instructional Time
We are in the midst of the longest, least interrupted instructional time period we will have all year. We have no half days or days off until spring break. Instructionally, this is the most important time of the school year. This should also be the most fulfilling time of the school year for us as educators because this is when we will see the most amount of academic growth in our students.
At Sanford, the most important instructional asset we have is INSTRUCTIONAL TIME. We have a limited amount of the precious asset of time with our kids. June will be here in the blink of an eye. Every minute, every second we have with students is important. The instructional decisions you make in your classroom will impact our educational outcomes and our students success. Please be mindful of the asset of time, maximize the instructional time with your students and use this precious time with your students wisely.
Formative February continues into March FOR-MARCH-ATIVE
ForMARCHative
Formative February continues... with the following focus. Please layer in and increase student artifacts as a product of the formative planning, formative assessment and the sharing of student work in planning.
An instructional look for about Formative Assessment.
Expectations for formative assessment include:
1. Team planned formative assessment indicated in lesson plans. Just as you plan learning targets, you plan the formative assessment.
2. Formative assessment is part of every lesson in reading math, science and VAS. While some formative assessment can be teacher observation, the vast majority of formative assessment should be a student work product. This makes our learning VISIBLE, sharable, assessable.
3. Teachers are recording formative information (see an example picture below). An example of this is having a formative assessment recording tool so that you can make notes about students who have mastered and students who have not mastered.
4. Student work products are produces for formative data. Student work products are shared at grade level planning to guide instruction.
Formative: Here third grade is reviewing a student work product to determine subsequent instructional decisions.
Formative: Student Work Product
Formative: The Book Guide as a student work product.
Book Pusher Displays: A first grade display in Kerri Nelson's classroom.
Krista Yarbrough's Book Pusher display: What are you reading?
Keep your morning experiences exciting and updated. Students were building in Taylor Howell's K class.
Student taking attendance. In Jessica Gibson's second grade class, a student is taking attendance.
Math: Hands-on. Students in Elizabeth Hickman's class are demonstrating they understand symmetry.
Student Engagment: Mr. C is presenting this science lesson on making an element model with enthusiasm. Not one but two classes are in the room and his enthusiasm rubs off on the students.
Reading during Read Across America.
Read Across Sanford
NIcole PIland's and first grades Seuss-like display on the main hallway.
Third grade
Holly McElveen
Melissa Locke and Georgia Estes--I think :)
Recylcing Contest
Let the games begin. Sanford Recycling is competing with other school's in the division for cash prizes for recycling in March. Please help by maximizing your recycling in your classroom blue bins. This would be a good time to go through old files you no longer need or bring in newspapers that we can recycle. See Shelly Breitbeil for more information.