#EWExcellence ~ Week of 04.04.2016
La ola del lago Spanish Immersion & Edgewood School
Week of April 4, 2016
Feliz lunes,
What a beautiful weekend! I hope everyone was able to enjoy the wonderful weekend weather. Conferences are coming up next week. If there is any conference you would like me to be a part of - for any reason - please feel free to let me know. As always, parents love to hear descriptive stories about their children - this is a huge part in the relationship and personalization we strive for each day with our students. And of course we always want to have some very specific goals for students to attempt to attain by the end of the school year. Thanks for all you do to ensure we are relentlessly focused on the learning of our students.
I hope everyone has a great week!
~Richie
Srta. Cook's class received letters from their penpals in Colombia!
Conferences are coming up!
**Thanks to the EWAC and LODL PTC - they will be providing dinner and appetizers the night of April 12 from 4:00 - 7:30.
Conferences for La ola del lago are:
April 12 (4:15 – 8:15), April 14 (4:15 – 6:15), and April 19 (4:15 – 8:15)
Circle of Friends Conferences are: (check your contract or with Becca for exactly what your contract says)
April 12 (Evening)
April 14 (8-4)
April 18 (Evening)
April 19 (Evening)
**Any CoF conferences that have ECSE teachers attending (including SLP, OT, PT, DHH, etc.) should plan on having conferences on either April 12 or 14, in order to ensure ECSE staff are available.
Just as the fall, please collaborate with the team to find a time. Teachers are responsible for setting up their own conference schedule.
HEALTHIER CLASSROOM SNACK IDEAS (from Janeen Peterson - Child Nutrition Services Director)
Fresh Whole Fruit — Fruit is naturally sweet so kids love it. The best
kind for classroom settings are bananas, apples, oranges, cuties, nectarines,
pears
Canned Fruits and Fruit Sauces-individual serving sizes — These can
be just as nutritious as fresh fruit. Look for brands packed in water or
natural juice. Don't forget to provide spoons!.
Dried Fruits — Look for brands with little or no added sugar: raisins,
apricots, apples, cranberries, pineapple, and papaya
Granola Bars — Look for a brand with a short list of ingredients. Try to
avoid chocolate covered granola bars that contain more sugar. Some brands
to try would be Nature Valley, Kashi, and Quaker Oats.
Fruit Leathers — Some brands of fruit snacks are more like candy than
fruit, and should be avoided due to their high content of added sugars and
lack of fruit. Brands TO AVOID include Fruit Rollups, Farley’s Fruit
Snacks, Sunkist Fruit Gems, Starburst Fruit Chews, Mamba Fruit
Chews, Jolly Rancher Fruit Chews, Original Fruit Skittles, and Amazin’
Fruit Gummy Bears. DO TRY Natural Value Fruit Leathers and
Stretch Island Fruit Leathers, which come in a variety of flavors and don’t
have added sugars.
Breakfast Cereals — Kids love snacking on dry whole grain cereals like
Cheerios, Raisin Bran, Frosted Mini Wheats, Kix and Wheaties make
good snacks. Look for cereals with no more than 35% added sugars by
weight1 (or roughly 8 grams of sugar per serving).
Whole Grain Crackers — Whole-grain individually packaged crackers
like Triscuits, which come in different flavors or thin crisps like Wheat
Thins(or similar woven wheat crackers), Kalvi Rye crackers, or whole
wheat Matzos. Also try other favorites such as Annie's Bunny Grahams
or Sunshine whole grain animal crackers
Please take a moment to complete this survey on E-STEM
Hi Everyone,
The committee sends this survey out annually and uses the results to identify how teachers are doing district-wide with integrating E-STEM into their classrooms. Please complete as soon as possible.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1l7FtROip3Rk71dVJaBr42RmZD6ywoWhZGmIimddh6PE/viewform
Note, some questions may require you to interpret what they might mean for early childhood. Here are a few key ones:
Interdisciplinary projects: consider activities in your classroom (both during choice time as well as in large group) – do they integrate more than one subject/concept such as math & technology or science & engineering.
Hands-on Science: Disregard the piece about National Geographic & think of just hands-on science opportunities in your classroom (during centers/tables and/or large group activities)
Science Notebooks: Journals
If you have any questions, let me know.
Thank you in advance for doing this.
Anna Dutke
Referendum Site Teams Formed last week
La ola del lago Referendum Team:
Berenice Nava, LODL teacher, parent
Jillian Sullivan, LODL teacher, parent
Maleigh Anderson, LODL PTC president, parent
Maure Creager, LODL parent
Aaron White, LODL parent
Richie Kucinski, LODL administrator, parent
Claudia Carlos, LODL noon supervisor, parent
PLSAS Early Childhood Team:
Gina Hendrickson, EC teaching assistant
Jenna Johnson, ECFE secretary
Rebecca Richardson, Early Childhood Manager
Heather Dione, EWAC,EC parent
Anna Dutke, EC teacher
Tiffany Wengatz, EC parent, PLSAS Demographics committee
Richie Kucinski, Early Learning Coordinator, ECFE/CoF parent
#PLSASchat ~ Tuesdays at 8:00 PM & Twitter
I would like to commend those of you who are continuing to use Twitter to post pictures, professional articles or videos, and sharing the story of Edgewood with our community stakeholders by using hashtag #EWExcellence. I would like to remind everyone our district does a weekly Twitter chat on Tuesdays at 8:00. Please feel free to follow and contribute to #PLSASchat
Our Mission & Vision: Who We Are @ La ola del lago Spanish Immersion & Edgewood School
Richie Kucinski
Email: rkucinski@priorlake-savage.k12.mn.us
Website: http://relevantparadigm.weebly.com/
Location: 5304 Westwood Drive Southeast, Prior Lake, MN, United States
Phone: 952.226.0903
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EdgewoodPLSAS
Twitter: @RKucinski