Saturday, February 24, 2018

Here Comes March and Hopefully more Sunshine!!

I don't know about y'all, but I am about done with this cold weather and ready to have some more sunshine and warmth!  Love that the sun is coming out today and even though we may have a bit more rain this week. . .we will cross our fingers for sun toward the end of the week!  Thank you all so much again for all of your efforts on Engineering Showcase Night!  It was another fun filled event for our families and kiddos and I loved seeing all of the ideas you came up with to make it a good time for our TCE families!  Thank you!


Week of:  Feb. 26th-Mar. 2nd, 2018

TELPAS window opens
Monday- Angie Out (PM)

Tuesday - Angie Out (AM)
STEM Planning Day - 4th and 5th grade - Kristan's Room
DEIC Meeting - 4:30 - Admin (campus reps)

Wednesday - Jeans Day - Any shirt!
TLC Meeting - 3:15 
STEM Planning Day - 2nd and 3rd grade - Kristan's Room
PTO Program - Cafeteria - 8:30-9:15 (K-2), 9:15-10:00 (3rd-5th)

Thursday - PTO Meeting - 8:15am

Friday - Jeans Day - Any shirt!
Texan Town
Jump Rope for Heart - rescheduled

Important Reminders
Hallway Displays and Digital Showcase
Don't forget to be working on getting our hallway/classroom displays ready to go for Open House.  This should include paper based examples such as journals, writing samples, etc. as well as digital presentations/products.  Also, please make sure you are finding ways in which to showcase digital portfolios as well as tools such as See Saw that you have used this year for sharing learning.  

Engineering Showcase Night Photos
I would love for us to gather all of our photos from the event, so we can make sure and share these with our families through our website and our front digital display at the entrance of the school. Click on the following link (Google Folder) and download any cool pics you took!
Click here to add pics!

Reminder:  Final Product for Cultural Plunge 
A short presentation using some kind of technology to share out your experience (individual or with partner).  Could be something where you use pictures, quotes, expressions, thoughts, etc.  You may be creative in how you share out!  



"Who made you happy this week?"
Shout Out Your Happiness!
Candace,Thank you for helping us get get the Ozobots ready for Engineering Night! - Casey and Rachel

Rachel, Thank you for being the best partner for Engineering Night! You are the best! - Casey

Kasey Kemp - Thank you so much for creating a new assessment tool for Assessing Math RTI. I appreciate you taking the time out of your day to help me! Thanks, Lorri Brehm

Renee - First Grade loves your Technology Club! Thank you, and your club for helping our Learners create their QR Codes. We appreciate all they do to help with our learners. - First Grade

Grace-Thank you so much for being you!! I am so lucky to have such a wonderful Student Teacher that is kind, sweet, and willing to help all learners. You make such a difference in their lives and mine too! I Love that I get to work with you everyday! Thank you for all your technology skills too! I appreciate all your help! Thank you! Love, Lorri B.

Brooke - I can't thank you enough for helping me sort out my technology issues. I appreciate your patience and experience! You are the best! - Lorri B.

Logan, thanks for being my partner for the TCE extravaganza! It was busy and exhausting, but always a blast with you! -Katie

Happy shout out to the 2nd grade team. Y’all are rockstars and constantly make me smile. Very grateful for the 4 of you. :) -Katie
Thank you, Rachael, for sharing your umbrella on a rainy morning before school! Good hair day because of you! Anne

Angie and Annelise, Thank you for always being understanding and accommodating for doctor appointments! As we all know, doctors don’t work on a teacher time!

Laura thanks for keeping me hydrated this week! You made my week! ❤Lisa

Casey aka Edward Scissor Hands thank you so much for helping me out this week! You’re a great friend and I so appreciate you! ❤Ya Lisa

Mary thanks for being my morning duty buddy and always being so flexible! ❤ Lisa

Candace--Thank you for partnering with me to host Winter Olympics! I love getting to work alongside of you to give our learners this special experiences. ---Tina

Julie F. We are so incredibly lucky to have you at TCE!! Thank you for making Jump Rope Heart such a huge success for our campus and learners!

Thank you Lisa and Kelly for all of your help doing the TELPAS tutorials with our learners!  - Angie

Tina, thanks so much for letting us come to the library last minute and for setting things up for our speaker! –Lori

Lisa, you are amazing! Thank you so much for all of your help with TELPAS. We’re so lucky to have you at TCE! -Heather B.

Ashlin - thank you so much for giving me your extra solar system materials! You are wonderful and I appreciate it!! – Lauren

Brooke, thank you so much for sharing at our vertical meeting this week!  It was great to see even more ways we can connect as a staff and with others in education!  - Angie


Courtney- thank you for getting everything going with our first grade field trip! The kids are going to have a great time! -Lauren

March Birthdays
Finished up all of February birthday folks, so moving on to March!

Kelly Burks - 8th
Elliot Pitchford - 15th
Sherri Kingsley - 16th
Beth Parker - 17th
Mike Erickson - 19th
Meredith Schaaf - 20th
Megan McGraw - 26th
Lorri Brehm - 30th

Curriculum Connection:  Twitter, Tweetdeck and Twitter Chats (Cont.)


Tweetdeck:  Maximize Your Twitter Experience - this is a great blog that I found for us to follow up from our training with Brooke with using Tweetdeck!  It and has videos throughout in order to go back and review some of the strategies we learned in our vertical meeting!

Also, don't forget that you can go back to our TCE Schoology course to find all of the resources from Brooke's presentation.


Click here to go to shake up learning and learn more educational hashtags!

Click here if you are still trying to wrap your head around how you can use Twitter!  

Here are a few articles that have links and tips to continue building on knowledge of Twitter chats and how you could use them to grow and share with others! 
This will help as we start having more opportunities for Twitter chats at TCE!  




Final Quotes