Monday Message
March 9th - March 13th
Our Week At A Glance....
Monday, March 9th:
8:00 Bumbles the Bee - 1st Grade
9:35 IEP Meeting (Kelly)
10:25 IEP Meeting (Kelly)
10:30 504 Meeting (Traci)
2:05 IEP Meeting (Kelly)
3:00 IEP Meeting (Kelly)
3:00 Junior Janitors - Room 216
Tuesday, March 10th:
8:00 - 2:30 Literacy Check-Ins: K-2 (Kelly & Traci)
3:00 IEP Staffing (Kelly)
3:00 Encore Kids - Room 403
Wednesday, March 11th:
*3rd Grade to Symphony*
8:00 Conference Call (Kelly)
9:00 LEAD Mid-Year Conference (Traci)
10:30 Room Capacity Meeting @ LISDAC (Kelly)
11:30 SITP Meeting (Kelly)
2:15 RTI Meeting (Traci)
3:00 Watch Me Sculpt - Room 403
3:05 IEP Meeting (Kelly)
3:20 GT Update Hours/Selection - Sockel's Room
Thursday, March 12th:
8:00 LEP STARR Meeting (Traci)
8:45 IEP Meeting (Kelly)
9:35 IEP Meeting (Kelly)
3:00 Coding Club
3:00 Spanish School
3:20 Instructional Team (Library)
Friday, March 13th:
*End of the 3rd Nine Weeks*
*PTA Pajama Day - $1*
*5th Grade Growth & Development*
8:45 Speech IEP Meeting (Traci)
9:35 Speech IEP Meeting (Traci)
11:45 Student Early Release
2:45 Staff Early Release
Something to Inspire....
Les Brown: A Moment of Clarity
Les Brown is one of the world's foremost motivational speakers and thought leaders on self-improvement and goal-setting. However, it wasn't always that way for him. Born in Liberty City, Miami on the floor of an abandoned building, he has known struggle and hardship his entire life.
Academically, Les was a struggling student from the get-go. The story goes that during his school days he was labelled "educable mentally handicapped" by the academic intelligentsia of his day and placed back from 6th grade to 5th grade. To make matters worse, he had a twin brother who was exceptionally bright and gifted, and as such Les became commonly referred to by his peers as the "DT"—the "dumb twin."
One day a teacher asked him to come up and solve a problem on the chalkboard, but Les refused and said that he couldn't. "Of course you can," the teacher responded encouragingly. "Young man, come up here and solve this problem for me."
"But I can't," insisted Les. "I'm educable mentally handicapped." The rest of the class erupted in laughter. At that point, the teacher stepped out from behind his desk and looked Les straight in the eye. "Don't ever say that again," he told him firmly. "Someone else's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."
Les never forgot those words, and spent the rest of his life overcoming incredible odds and pursuing his goals with passion and fervour. Time and time again, thanks to that one teacher's powerful revelation, Les has lived the phrase he's famous for all over the world: You have greatness within you.
Pajama Day!
This Friday is PTA Pajama Day! For $1 you can wear pajamas to school ALL DAY! The money collected will go to buy awesome raffle items for the kid's baskets at STARFest!
Technology Grant
Frontier Internet is currently offering three $1,000 grants for classroom technology for K-12 teachers. To apply, instructors need to submit a unique lesson plan explaining how they would use technology to teach social responsibility. More information about this opportunity can be found here.
The application deadline is May 15, 2020.
Early Release
Something To Make Us Think....
What Teachers Can Do to Boost Student Motivation - Part 4
What teacher doesn’t want an environment where students are working on lessons and learning because they want to do it instead of because they have to do it? Researchers have identified four specific ways to nurture a sense of intrinsic motivation in students. In this video series, educators and authors Larry Ferlazzo and Katie Hull Sypnieski discuss these elements: autonomy, which is helping learners feel that they have a choice in what they do and how they do it; competence, or creating situations in which students feel that they are capable of doing what they are being asked to do; relatedness, or doing activities that help students connect to others; and relevance, or making work seem interesting, valuable, and useful to students’ everyday lives.
Making Students’ Work Relevant
For students to feel motivated, they must see the work they are doing in the classroom as interesting, valuable, and useful to their present lives. Teachers should consider having lesson plans and discussions about topics prevalent in students’ lives, having students set academic and non-academic goals, and challenging students to write about why what they are learning is relevant.
This Is OSE.....
Getting A Start On Read Across America!
Plant Investigations in 2nd Grade
All the Things!
Something To Make Us Laugh....
~ Kelly