Friday April 10th, 2015

Please remember that 3rd-5th will be at Canyon Ridge for the Synergy show Friday morning. We need to get them on the bus as soon as we can.

Please check the school website, google calendar, or school app to ensure that field trips and special activities have been listed. The end of the school year is full of special events, and we need to make sure families and staff members are aware. 

We had several great pictures from our Leadership Day. Here are a few put into a video, and this would be great to share with students:

Leadership Day Video

Here is one more picture from Leadership Day. Amazing how many people we can fit in the fifth grade classrooms. Leadership lesson with the new reading curriculum:

We had a cat visit on Thursday. Not only did he enter bright and early with our students who start school early, but he stayed with Title 1 until the end of the day when the owners were found. He was very much loved by students:

Tuesday April 7th, 2015

Here is a video clip from Kambra. This is a great opportunity to see fifth grade and kindergarten buddies as they were greeting our visitors, as they arrived for our Leadership Day.

Welcome

All of our students have leadership notebooks this year. Students have been owning their own learning as they have made personal and academic goals, reflected upon those goals, tracked data and growth on items such as reading fluency and sight words, and analyzed with their teachers and families. This is a great article that matches what we have done this year at Harrison, and the article gives ideas for enhancing student leadership notebooks:

Making Students Partners in Data-Driven Approaches to Learning

This image is a great reminder. Every staff member is a public relations person. From the hallways and playground, to the classrooms, the whole school, and even in public places like the grocery store:

Monday April 6th, 2015

Duties for the week:

     AM Bus: Coleman
                  Garcia
                  Taylor
     PM Bus: Goodwin
                  Hammond
                  Jacobson
     Lounge: Terrell

Meetings/Reminders for the week:

   April 6th, 2015- Monday- Porter: Great Harvest Bread 9-10 and 1:30-2:30

   April 7th, 2015- Tuesday- RTI

   April 8th, 2015- Wednesday- Eval Team

   April 8th, 2015- Wednesday- 2nd Grade Bowladrome 9:15-11:15

   April 8th, 2015- Wednesday- Goodwin: Great Harvest Bread 9-10 and 1:30-2:30

   April 8th, 2015- Wednesday- Staff Meeting

   April 9th, 2015- Thursday- Jacobson: Great Harvest Bread 9-10

   April 10th, 2015- Friday- 3rd-5th at Canyon Ridge for Synergy 9-11

   April 10th, 2015- 4th and 5th Mardi Katz 12:30-2:30

   April 10th, 2015- Friday- Root beer floats and movie rewards for the math-a-thon, by PTA

Staff Meeting Agenda:

1. Khrista: How to read Imagine Learning reports
2. Melissa: For those who are involved with the SBAC testing, we will discuss the classroom activity and performance task.

Wow! We had an awesome Leadership Day! I can't even describe how impressive our staff  and students are. Many staff members grabbed items from their classroom to assist second graders with their costumes. Mrs. Anderson literally ran home to find a nice shirt for one of our MC's, ironed the shirt, and found a nice tie for him to wear. We had a young man in fifth grade who gave his tie to our second MC so he had something nice to wear. We had older students helping younger students prepare. We had staff jumping in and assisting even when they thought no one was looking. Truly impressive! I heard several positive comments from our visitors.

Here are pictures from the behind the scenes that people didn't see. Students and Staff were jumping in and helping with so many items:

Preparation Pictures

We had two student photographer leaders, so stay tuned for more pictures and a video next week! These pictures are only the first batch:

First Batch of Leadership Day Pictures

We even had our two MC's interviewed by KMVT, and they did an excellent job answering questions. They answered in complete sentences and even restated the main part of the question when responding:

KMVT

In addition to our Leadership Day, we had other leadership and learning activities this last week. There are so many great pictures, but the young man assisting a student brand new to the USA with reading is just impressive:

Pictures This Week

Monday and Tuesday I will be out for part of the day with Project Leadership and the standards based report card committee.

Anne and Jenny will be out Wednesday-Friday, as they attend the Prevention Conference. With Anne out, let us know in the office if students need anything.