Wildcat Update
December 3-7
Weekly Schedule
3 - Texas Roadhouse Night
4- Mental Health Training 4-6 p.m.
7 - Sign up for a Hammertime during the month - no official meetings
December 11 will be KHS choir at 9:00 - a favorite for sure!
Duties
Team 2 - Saleske, Youngblood, Hightower, Evans, Tillery
Imagination Station: 1st grade team
Congratulations to Cary Sikes
Cary Sikes has received the MCTM Outstanding Math Teacher Award. What a well deserved award! Congratulations Mr. Sikes! The celebration banquet is Friday night in Columbia!
Information
We will honor the Leaders of the Month on December 7 during the students' lunch time.
Teacher and Staff of the Month:
Congratulations to December Teacher of the Month - Lindsey Price
Lindsey Price, for all of the hard work that she does representing us with the PTA. She also always has a calm, kind spirit about her.
Congratulations to December Staff of the Month - Shelby Tillery
For planning wonderful grade level musical performances and having a cheery smile on her face and expecting nothing but the best from the kids.
Gift of Time for December
December 19 will be a gift of time for you at these times:
K-2 - 9:30-10:30
CHAMPS and 3-4 - 1:30-2:30
Specialty team leave during the party on December 20 @ 2:30.
Watching the GrayT singers program and sing along time will be December 20 @ 1:30 and plan to send back at 2:20 to begin the parties!
December 21 we will have 2 hours of Professional Learning and the rest of the day will be work time. Feel free to come early that day to get your time in and be able to start holiday break a little early:)
Observation Notes from Peers:
Carroll: I loved the calm environment and the different options for flexible seating. My take away is the way her class tracks Lexia/Dreambox weekly goals. It is a great visual for students to see if they are on track. Champs: This classroom was also very calm. Light music was playing and an essential oil diffuser was going as the students were working. I immediately felt calm as I walked in. My take away from this classroom is how effective a student mentorship can be. I observed a big champ and a little champ working together on a writing project. The big champ was scaffolding the little champ, which was, in turn, reinforcing the big champ's learning. Awesome to see! Price: I noticed a chart that was hung up on the wall that they had created as a class. This chart helped with subtraction and knowing when to borrow: "More on top? No need to stop!, More on the floor? Go next door and get 10 more!, Number is the same? Zero is the game!" This is something I am going to do with my classroom because this is a concept that some students have been struggling with.
Sikes and Barrett were working thematic writing. The students were given rubrics and real-world applications. The students were prepared and engaged in the writing. The focus was pilgrims/Thanksgiving. Brady's class was working on google slides to display their PBL work with their 51st state unit. I noticed that in Math students are given a must do/may do chart. I would like to incorporate that into my math lessons more when we aren't rotating through stations.