Monday February 27th, 2017

Duties for the week: 
     
     AM Bus: Moore
                 Anderson
                 Hammond
     PM Bus: Ardito/Kober
                 Pauley
                 Thomason
     Staff Room: Kober
 
 
  Meetings/Reminders for the week:  
 
   February 27th, 2017- Monday- Spring Pictures

   February 27th, 2017- Monday- Eval Team

   February 27th, 2017- Monday- Spelling Bee at Roper, 6:30 pm

   February 28th, 2017- Tuesday- Intervention Meeting

   February 28th, 2017- Tuesday- Principal's lunch with February student leaders

   March 2nd, 2017- Thursday- Title 1 Family Night 5:30-7:00- No after school programs

   March 3rd, 2017- Friday- Student leaders selling pencil top erasers for .50 cents each

   March 3rd, 2017- Friday- Friday Fun- Super Hero Day

                                       

Habit of the week/Classroom leading morning announcements:
 
  Fullmer- Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind


We have a great Title 1 family night planned for Thursday. Please help remind students and families. We've had a family activity almost every month, and every activity brings different family members. That is always great to observe. From the public library, arts, STEM, food, the new Science Fair, and more:

Spring Title 1 Family Night


Here are few pictures from this last week:

Pictures This Week


This is a great positive video that could even be shared with students:

Overcoming a Challenge with Great Success, With Sign Language


This blog post link below reiterates what we have talked about in regards to the current climate in the community and the US. School should be a safe place for all kids. We all work with a very diverse student population, and every student and staff has a story.

We have recently had the nurses at our school for both the fourth grade hygiene talks and the fifth grade puberty talks. The nurses were very complimentary of how kind and respectful students were as peers shared personal situations and questions. That's the safe place we have worked hard to create, especially with all the social and emotional learning, as well as daily classroom community circles. Here are a few tips to help with conversations and questions:

Teaching Diverse Students in an Age of Uncertainty


I think we can all relate to this post by a teacher's husband. As the authors mentions, we usually just ask what size when a kid needs something:

In the Classroom

This image is a great visual to help distinguish between traditional approaches to discipline, and the restorative approach that we use at our school:

image: @LCCommJustice