Friday Focus 4/10/15
Learning for Life
Have a FANTASTIC Friday!!!
I'm glad we missed some of the strong storms that were predicted for us. Unfortunately, other parts of the country weren't so lucky. The weather was fantastic yesterday for our students who traveled to Silver Dollar City. I enjoyed going along with them.
Have a great day today and a wonderful weekend!
A Few Tips for the Think-Aloud Reading Strategy
1. Choose a text that will challenge
2. Set a purpose for reading
3. Tailor strategy to your classroom context
4. Read the text aloud and stop to model your thinking
5. Remember, good readers...
- Draw on background knowledge as they read
- Make predictions as they read
- Visualize the events of a text as they read
- Recognize confusion as they read
- Recognize a text's structure/organization as they read
- Identify/recognize a purpose for reading
- Monitor their strategy use according to the purpose for reading the text
Also, consider what ways students can practice this type of process independently, in pairs, or in small groups.
Finals Schedule
Here is the finals schedule we've developed: Finals Schedule Spring 2015
Friday, May 15th
Senior Finals Even Classes
Monday, May 18th
Finals Review Odd Classes (all students)
Tuesday, May 19th
Finals Odd Classes (all students)
Wednesday, May 20th
Senior Scholarship Recognition 9:30-10:30AM
Senior Brick Painting
Thursday, May 21st
Yearbook Pick Up
Senior Brick Painting
Friday, May 22nd
Graduation Practice 9:00AM
Senior Brick Painting
Driver's Ed
Remind adds chat feature to great messaging app
The app has some nice features to control the flow of information. For instance, you can set office hours, so you only receive messages during specified times. That way you don't have to worry about being inundated with communication at all hours.
Learn more about Remind's new chat feature at the link below.
Freshmen will meet today during Liberator Time (Rotary Youth Exchange)
We are making plans for a Makerspace here at BHS!
Upcoming Events April
FBLA State Leadership Conference
April 16-17
State FFA Convention
April 21
Foreign Language Competition MSSU Joplin
April 25
Prom
April 27-30
EOC Testing
April 28
Statewide ACT for Juniors
May 1
FFA Parent-Member Banquet
The countdown is on...
Bolivar High School
Email: dgeurin@bolivarschools.org
Website: bhs.bolivarschools.org
Phone: 417-326-5228
Facebook: facebook.com/bolivarhighschool
Twitter: @LiberatorsNOW