11-13-2015

Every time I go by the gym Lynette has her class actively engaged and is in the mix, modeling the skills and game-play.  Keep up the great work!

Our kids did an outstanding job of collecting over 230lbs of candy to turn into troops. It shows the giving nature of kids!
Check this out, Nasa just released 8400 moon landing photos:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums

Thanks to Nicole and Rich for presenting at our learning meeting.  Learning from our talented staff is the best PD we have.  Please let me know if you have an idea for our next meeting.

Melissa L did an outstanding job of planning the Veterans Day assembly and Mark C had the band sounding patriotic.  What was most amazing was sitting down with the veterans afterwards and hearing their stories and how much they appreciated the ceremony.

Creating a Project Based Learning gaming Unit for your class.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/project-based-learning-gamification-go-great-together-heather-wolpert-gawron

Food...food and more food.  Next Wednesday is lunch by Admin and BOE, next Thursday is the turkey feast (sign up in office) and Birthday Treats (Fiorini, Ogorek, Adams, Droste, Erickson) and

next Friday morning is Breakfast by the PTA!  Happy American Education Week.

I'm excited for the parent visitation day on Tuesday.  This gives parents the chance to see the great work you do in the classroom on a daily basis.  

I appreciate everyone's efforts yesterday as we discussed student needs and brainstormed the best ways to help them.  Hearing different points of view and working through problems can be a difficult but necessary process to help our students.

Thanks to Meghan S for bringing in the pretzels from Gnarly Knots 

I don't think I have shared this video before it is a fascinating video on the the Paradox of Choice:

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." -Mark Twain