Wildcat News
October 2 - October 6
Weekly Updates/ Reminders:
- ACTION: Bulletin boards and schedules must posted.
- ACTION: Daily schedule must be posted outside of your classroom door.
- We are nearing the end of the quarter, please make sure that you and your grade level team are working on common ELA assessments that are aligned to grade level standards with grade level text.
- Attendance is posted outside your classroom door on your frame by 9:30. Please make this a student job, we want them to understand the importance of attendance, take pride in being at school each day and to encourage their classmates to be present each and every day!
- ACTION: At least one grade per week must be entered for each core subject.
Check out the awesome things happening at Wheatley!
Ms. Gandy's class celebrating the Attendance Challenge with popsicles.
Using our interactive reader's workshop notebooks to learn about plot.
Practicing what to do in case of a tornado.
Professional Development
- Wednesday, October 4, 2017 Professional Development: District PD 7:30 - 8:30-- Please ensure that you are arrive on time.
- K-2: Wheatley
- 3-6: Rogers
Instructional News and Focus:
- Please make sure you have completed and submitted your QRI and Alpha Kids scores on the data dashboard.
- Continue working on incorporating DOK 3 and DOK4 questions into your lessons during guided practice and utilizing exit tickets that incorporate writing, explanation and evidence from the text.
- WEEKLY LOOK-FORS: Student friendly objectives aligned to grade level based standards & high level questioning
Counselor Notes:
- PST Team meetings will take place each Friday morning. An agenda will go out each Wednesday, if you have a student on the agenda please make sure you are available at the designated time.
Restorative Justice Focus:
http://inservice.ascd.org/two-minutes-to-better-student-behavior/
How has the impacted your relationship with at least one of your students? Please be prepared to share in our data team meetings.
Shout Outs
- Staff and Students for the awesome turnout last Wednesday for our Attendance Challenge, our attendance was 96.2%. Let's keep pushing attendance all day, every day!
- Mr. Bell for pitching in every morning to help greet and walk students in from the busses.
- Ms. Silva for reaching out to parents to volunteer in her classroom.
- Ms. Miller for holding her students to high expectations in and out of the classroom.
- 2nd grade team for working to collaboratively maximize their instruction for the kids.
Growth Mindset Quote of the Week:
"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
As we continue our journey, let us apply this quote to not only our students but ourselves. Let's reflect on the small successes we have shared up until now. Our focus is to teach, love, and support our students to the greatness of their futures and show them how to learn from the past and practice that greatness in the present. Just as much it is a process for students, we are in a process of development to greatness ourselves! Wildcats, we can and we will! Stay encouraged! Have a Wonderful week!