First week down, so all of you and your kiddos should start to get into the groove of school again! I appreciate each detail you put into last week with getting our kiddos excited, happy and ready to go! Also, I appreciate your emphasis on alignment as you created structures to help you and your learners get organized as well as set expectations to make this a successful year!
Week of: August 28th-September 1st, 2017
Monday- Fire Drill - 8:15am (this one will be announced the rest will not be for this year) - if rain, postponed
Site-based will be rescheduled - will let you know shortly the date
Site-based will be rescheduled - will let you know shortly the date
Wednesday - Extra Jeans Day- any shirt, since we have to stay late on Thursday makes for a happier day!
Thursday - 5th Grade Safety Patrol Meeting - 2:00pm - Cafeteria
Curriculum Night (K-2: 5:30-6:30pm) (3rd-5th: 6:30-7:30pm)
Curriculum Night (K-2: 5:30-6:30pm) (3rd-5th: 6:30-7:30pm)
Friday - Jeans Day - any shirt
Important Reminders
Norms
Don't forget that it is very important to establish norms with your learners as a whole class as well as for various instructional times you may have this year. (ex: norms for writing time, norms for small group, etc.) This will help to hold learners accountable for this actions and you can revisit them throughout the year as a touch base point for being respectful, having integrity and creating a safe and collaborative learning environment. If you would like to refresh your memory on norms, click on our TCE Schoology course and look under the Professional Learning Community folder. Our campus and team norms are all added there.
Compliance Trainings
Don't forget about finishing up the compliance trainings in Schoology. Scroll back to last week's blog if you need more info!
Goal Setting
Don't forget we still can't enter in our goals yet into Eduphoria! I will let you know as soon as we can!
Curriculum Night
Here are the locations for this Thursday evening. Please remember that you need to email Annelise and I a copy of your presentation. Also, we will be sending out a flipped video for our parents this week before the event. This will cover all of the safety, certain policies, etc.
I would like you to make sure you also cover that we are no longer doing bday treats. (you will be able to follow the info below that I send out in my beginning of school year letter.)
- Please make sure that you check everything with your presentation in the area you will be located to ensure you are ready to go. If you need items, please check with Tina, Annelise or me in time to make sure everything is ready way before the presentation time.
K,1,2 (K in library, 1 in cafe, 2 in gym) Gym/Cafe needs microphone
3,4,5 (3 in gym ,4 in library, 5 in cafe) Gym/Cafe needs microphone
I would like you to make sure you also cover that we are no longer doing bday treats. (you will be able to follow the info below that I send out in my beginning of school year letter.)
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TCE Birthdays:
This year we are going to be celebrating each of our learner’s birthdays by giving them their usual shout out on our KTEX announcements as well as will have a special treat provided from the office. They will also get a gift certificate for one free treat in our cafeteria.
We ask that you do not bring in treats/snacks for the class to celebrate your child’s birthday. We are trying to promote more health conscience choices for our kiddos and appreciate your help with this!
"Who made you happy this week?"
Shout Out Your Happiness!
Kristan Thank you for helping us with our pictures. They
turned out so cute! We appreciate all that you do for our kiddos. Love, 5th
Grade
Candace, Thank you
for already being on top of everything for our learners for this year. We can't
wait to see all of the awesome learning they will experience. Love, 5th Grade
Sherri, You are the laminating queen! Thank you! –Mary
Sue, Thank you for keeping us all safe, healthy, and HAPPY!
You have the sweetest spirit! Love, Mary
Mike, Patrick, and Beth: The kids have been RAVING about
Specials! We all appreciate your hard work, collaboration, and positive
attitudes! It's contagious! –Mary
TCE staff, thank you so much for helping to make this week a
great start to a new school year! it is such a blessing to work with people who
always put children first. Thanks for all of your hard work and dedication to
our students. Sherri
Lauren, Kim, and Lorri- Thank you so much for making this
week such a FUN and FABULOUS week! I absolutely love being on a team with you!
<3 Courtney
Big thanks to Tina for trying her best to help get my
projector squared away with the tech department. Also, to Coach Michael for
letting me borrow his in the meantime! It's been a great week so far working
alongside all the wonderful educators here at TCE!
HUGE Shout out to Erin, Brooke and Candace for helping me
get all of the devices/carts out this week! It takes a village and I appreciate
your willingness to lend a helping hand!
Candace--Thank you for your help with the new light table
and other makerspace additions to TCE! Can't wait to see our learners explore
these new tools.
Shout out to Sherri and Julie for doing afternoon bus duty.
It is not an easy task and they have done a great job! As far as we know there
was no child left behind!
Julie, Kelly, Lori & Marie, Thank you so much for making
Callen's first week in Kindergarten a big success!! He loves school! He loves
TCE! I know he will have great learning experiences with all of you! Thank you for taking such good care of him!
Love you all, Lorri B.
Kim, Thank you for our really CUTE hallway "Happy"
signs! They look great! Thank you for getting all of our signs and dots....
ready for "Meet the Teacher" . We are so "happy" you are on
our team. Love, First Grade
Lauren - Thank you so much for getting our "First Grade
Blog" up and running! It looks AMAZING!! Thank you for all your hard work
creating our blog. We appreciate YOU! Love, First Grade Team
Lisa Hansen- I can't thank you enough for the video of
Callen's First Day! Thank you for taking your time to take pictures throughout
the day and putting together the cutest video. You brought such
"happiness" to my family!! My daughter really appreciated you face
timing with her, and giving her such a beautiful keep sake. You are such a
thoughtful person, and it makes me happy to work with you. Thank you, Love you,
Lorri B.
Heather and Catherine-It has been a great first week working
with you both!! Thanks for the flexibility and sharing of class space so our
learners could experience the eclipse together. We are going to have a fabulous
17-18 school year!
Laura-give this lady a halo! She stops in mid sentence to
fix anything for you! Since the day I interviewed I have always felt welcomed
and a part of TCE. Thanks for all you do each and everyday!!
Sherri - Thank you for coming to my rescue and killing the
cockroach that scared the daylights out of me! I am thankful you were so calm
and collected when I clearly wasn't :) Love you! Kelly
Annelise - You are so efficient at everything you do! I love
all of the ideas you've contributed to our team as well as your humor and wit!
So glad to have you! Love, Kelly S.
Kristan - Thank you for taking the time to brainstorm ways
we can make stuco better! So glad we get to work as a team! Kelly
Dianne, I am so impressed with you! Already pushing in on
week one!! I love that you are at TCE, and I am looking forward to learning so
much from you this year! – Jenna
Marly, Heather, and Morgan- Thank you for being patient with
me as I am learning how to be a writing teacher! I am excited to get to plan
with you all this year!
Dianne, You are BASICALLY Wonder Woman in glasses. You do it
ALL with grace and a smile! We love and appreciate you! –Mary
Patti/Lisa Makes me happy to see how you both work so hard
to insure the learners are safe, have their needs met and are engaged in
learning all day long! Couldn't do this without both of you! Anne
I want to thank Mary Kennington and Lisa Hansen for helping
me out with my technology issues. Thank you for patience and guidance! You both
rock!
August Birthdays
Casey Wagner - 6th
Sara Cruz - 17th
Kelly Spears - 23rd
Curriculum Connection
As you start the year, remember a big piece of our alignment as a campus is with Thinking Maps. Here are the video connections I had posted in the past to jump start your thinking/memory again for how to model for your learners as you use the various thinking organization strategies. I am also going to place these videos in our TCE Schoology Course under the Professional Learning Community folder. These videos would be a great resource to add to your Google Site as well as possibly publish in your team blog. As they are introduced to learners, you can also make sure your parents then can know how they are used in learning!
One thing the video doesn't display is the frame of reference. This is actually a critical piece of the thinking map that helps one to remember how they have learned or gained the information. You draw a large square around the border of the thinking map and add this info.
Bubble Map
Double Bubble
Flow Map
Multi-Flow Map
Brace Map
Bridge Map
Tree Map
Final Quotes for the Week
As we go into our week of learning, thought these quotes would be good ones to get us going and ready to make a difference! Don't forget. . .three day weekend coming up!
