Monday, October 13, 2014

Loving this Weather!

I hope all of you had a chance to get outside this weekend and enjoy the amazing weather!  Even though it was definitely a bit windy for me today!

Upcoming Weekly Events
for October 13th-17th
 
Monday- Holiday!

Tuesday- Angie Out Morning - Principal Meeting


Wednesday- Kinder Assessment Half Day (AM)-Literacy Library

Vertical/PLC Meeting 3:15 (Library)
                   

Thursday-1st Grade Assessment Half Day (AM)-Literacy Library
 
Friday- Texan Town
RTI/PST meetings- C106 

Announcement Weekly Info  

Life Principle:  Optimism

Cowboy Courtesy:  When homework is assigned, do not moan or groan
 
ABC of Etiquette: Do not play with your food

Important Reminders and Updates

Texans of the Week
Please remember to fill out the form Cindy sent out for our Texans!  This year we wanted to do something a little different to add more of an emphasis to our life principles.  
Make sure and nominate your first five learners or one's that would be selected for those principles!

   TCE UbD Lesson Design
Please make sure that your team is downloading our lesson design units to our new site for this year!  Marly sent out an email to those team members who have rights to download.  If another team member needs to have rights, 
please let her know. Here is who currently has rights: 
Lori Vincenzo
Kelly McShan
Ashlin Bowman
Meredith Garnier
Heather Judd 
Candace Coffee

Remember that you can still access last year's plans on our site from last year!  
Site from last year: www.tinyurl.com/tcecurriculum
Site for this year: www.tinyurl.com/tcecurriculum2

October Birthdays 
Gloria Yates - 8th
Jenna Taylor - 25th

Shout Outs!
We are so excited that Meredith got engaged this last week!  Congratulations!!
Shout out to Marly and Alicia for getting our TCE UbD website ready to go for this year!

Shout out to our classroom teachers for the amazing job you did with our parent conferences and helping to continue forming relationships with all of our learners and their families!  

Shout out to 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th grade and Ashley Martin for the incredible planning and brainstorming you had during your STEM days!  

Shout out to Ashley Minton, Brad Cook, Candace Coffee and Lisa Hansen for helping during the STEM planning days!

Engineer of the Week 
This year we will be celebrating an "Engineer" of the week, because each of you are incredible designers 
each day in lesson design!  
Please remember that Brett or I will cover a morning/afternoon or lunch/recess duty for you during the week!  Just email us to let us know what might work out!  Also, you may leave early one day once your kiddos are dismissed!

This week we are celebrating:  Candace Coffee


Visible Thinking in the Classroom

The following are a few links sharing tools to use on the iPad that would help to show learner thinking.  
Also there are pictures of examples of how you might use questioning or show learner thinking through formative assessments or visuals. 
Remember that the more learners can see how others are thinking and give feedback on their thinking the more connections can be made in learning! 





Final Quote
One of my favorites I reflect on from time to time in my life:  


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