11-10-2023

 I am looking forward to the Veterans Day Assembly on Friday.  For me it is one of the highlights of the year. I truly appreciate the amount of time and effort that Melissa puts into this event to make sure it is special for our Veterans and their families.

Danielle and Angela have been all over the building (and the district) giving lots of support to people in many different ways. I appreciate their flexibility in working with individual staff and meeting them where they are at (geographically and readiness)!

Thanks to Evelyn for getting out the newsletter. I appreciate her patience with someone who had not turned in his article after numerous reminders!

We now have grade level colored fish slips!  Please use these as a motivating factor in the classroom to reward students for giving their best or going out of the way to help other students.  Friday during study skills is when they can shop at the Fish closet and this Friday we will have a drawing for a $25 prize or two. 

Working with Nicole C's help I have sent about twenty letters to parents in regards to their child's attendance.  In addition I put something in my (late) newsletter article about the importance of on time daily attendance.  

Please sign up for our Thanksgiving Potluck on Wednesday November 15th.  Thanks to Lauren and Michelle D for helping to organize this fun bonding event!

Speaking of Thanksgiving, we will be serving Turkey to the students and staff on Friday November 17th.  Any help that you can provide in making sure your homeroom students sign up for lunch each week (Thanksgiving or otherwise) would be appreciated!

Article highlighting great ways to group students for Cooperative Learning.

Cooperative Learning Strategies

Thanks to the Specials Team for their Fabulous Thanksgiving theme student of the month bulletin board.  I'm honored to be "driving the truck"! 

Thanks to all of the Game Day supervisors for the work they do at each game to supervise the students and families attending our sporting events.  Special thanks to Megan D and Jessica who each had to handle a situation last week as a supervisor.  This message was sent out to all parents tonight.

Student attendance at Basketball Games

Students are allowed to go to the JV (4pm) and Varsity (5pm) basketball games.  We have adult supervisors for these games.  Students need to be picked up promptly at the finish of these games which is usually one hour after start time.  

Students are only allowed to go to 6th grade games (6pm and later) as a spectator if they are accompanied by their parent.  We do not have supervisors after 6pm.  After the varsity game supervisors will bring all unaccompanied students out of the gym to call home for a ride.  All students are expected to follow all school rules while in attendance at the games and listen to the game day supervisors directions at all times. Any students not following the rules or not listening to the supervisor will be asked to leave and call home for a ride.  Thank you for your support in reinforcing these guidelines with your children. 

Congrats to Melissa Falkos for getting her GoFund Me  microscope project funded in just one week.  This project adds to the growing list of GoFund Me successes for our teachers that benefit our students.  Special thanks to Janice and Lisa for all of their hard work and effort to make these projects successful.  

Please take a look at the April's theater needs list and see where you might be able to help.  

I appreciate Greg, Vanessa and Michelle F's hard work to make the Gamers Club Minecraft Education edition up and running for our students.  The students were engaged and having a great time this week.  

"People didn't believe me when I told them I practiced harder than I played, but it was true. That's where my comfort zone was created. By the time the game came, all I had to do was react to what my body was already accustomed to doing." —Michael Jordan

"You can't have an up without a down. You can't have a left without a right. This is duality. If you have a problem, you must already have the solution. The question is, do you really want the solution, or do you want to perpetuate the problem?" -- Byron Katie

"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us." — Marcel Proust