Thanks to Colleen, Alex and student council for sponsoring both the spirit week (music in the Halls is always a Kim G favorite) and the HR pumpkin decorating contest. It was a close contest and everyone should be proud of their efforts. Congrats to Cathy, Jim and Melissa for motivating their homerooms to win at all costs! jk
Speaking of Halloween Fun. I was thrilled with the amount of students that dressed up and that everyone followed the costume guidelines. Staff would not be outdone and were definitely showing their Halloween Spirit. What a fun day!
I was able to make it over to Evergreen for their Halloween parade and groundbreaking ceremony, the latter which was livestreamed to the staff and students in the gym. There was a lot of work involved to make this happen including but not limited to securing participation from the fire department, police department, bus company, construction company, architects and school board members. Dr. Woell, Dr. Filas, Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Agres should be proud of their accomplishment. Danielle, Angela and Vanessa also played vital roles in making all of the technology work.
Parent teacher conferences are coming up on November 4th, 7th and 14th. We will have the PTA dinner on the 4th and the office will provide dinner for the 7th and 14th. Details to follow. Thanks for your preparation for these important nights of parent teacher communication and problem solving.
Station Rotation for ELA
Save the Date: November 11th is our Veterans Day Assembly. April sent out details of the structure of the assembly earlier today.
4 ways to build student reflection into science lessons.
I was able to do a lot of classroom pop-ins yesterday (I know, not exactly ideal on Halloween) and was able to see some great teaching and learning activities taking place. Some escape rooms, music composer research, background research on a story the class was about to read, and math problem solving to name a few lessons I saw.
Thanks to Margaret for doing a great job of organizing and putting together this months newsletter. This is another avenue of communication to inform our parents of what is going on in our school.
Tryouts for Bye Bye Birdie were very successful this week. Thanks to Stephen, Danielle and April for their hard work in making this run smoothly.
Basketball got underway this week with home games on Tuesday and Friday. Thanks to Dan, Matt, and Nicole for their coaching. Bill and Marcia for taking care of the scoreboard and book and to our supervisors for making our home games run efficiently.
Teen Advisory Board has some unbelievable participation this year. Thanks to Michelle for guiding and supervising this group.
I appreciate the extra help I received from Greg this week in trying to get a Savvas problem fixed by working with their customer support staff. #patience
I appreciate Nicole C organizing the PST breakfast this week. It was fun bonding with everyone over food, stories and some problem solving.
"Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering."
-- James Hillman
"I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity, is daring to dare."
-- Maya Angelou
"The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for."
-- Joseph Campbell
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