Week of October 8, 2018

Have a wonderful conference day with your learners and their parents!  Enjoy the LONG weekend...you deserve it!  THANK YOU, Green House for making cards for the custodians and to Social Spurs for purchasing the gift cards.  If you have not turned in your contribution to Social Spurs, they are due tomorrow.

DID YOU KNOW:

• relatives and non-family members are welcome to come to lunch when they are accompanied by the parent/guardian OR with written parent/guardian permission?  This page on the CISD website reviews CISD visitor and volunteer expectations.  Please share this information with your parents!
• the Teacher of the Year Nomination window is open?  You can fill out a nomination form here.  Nominations are due to campus administration by November 2. 
• Apple has an idea of our school can help other schools trying to become Apple Distinguished.  If you use Apple applications (ex: Keynote, Pages, Clips, Numbers, etc.), please use the hashtag #AppleDistinguishedSchools.  You can also follow that hashtag for great ideas from other ADS schools. 
• that I visited with DeLaIsla this week and she shared that there is a good chance that CISD will add the Lucy Calkins Classroom Libraries in the new adoption process.  Stay tuned!  

NELSON VISITING
Nelson will be here three days next week.  He will join in your Tuesday House meetings to support your design work, so please include him in your agendas.  I request that ALL STAFF please fill out this VERY SHORT form before leaving on Friday to let us know if you would/would not like to collaborate with Nelson when he is here on Wednesday and Thursday.  He needs this information to plan accordingly. 

BLUE HOUSE SOLUTION

Please share in your newsletters!!  Our challenge is to create happiness. Blue 1 & Blue 4, while working in our mentor/mentee time, have decided to work together to create a ripple effect of happiness. Their goal is to spread happiness to children being treated for cancer.  Learn more here: Hats Off For Cancer.

What: Hats Off For Cancer hat drive

When: October 15th-19th we will collect new (with tags on) hats

Where: 2 collection boxes (back entrance / front entrance) w/ collection managers

How: we will create a digital advertisement (less than 2 minutes) to show on broadcast & post a few flyers around the school

Last year we collected 109 hats. Our goal this year is 200! 

SPIRIT ASSEMBLY
For those new to Lee, this is our 9 week celebration as a school.  We will host morning broadcast in the gym and sit by house.  We will call you down at 7:50 so we can start promptly at 8:00. 


FAMILEE MOVIE NIGHT

Thank you for making it a priority to stop by Friday night's event, if even for just a bit, so that the children and famiLEEs can see you. This is our first PTO event, and it communicates a positive partnership with them when we have staff members present. Not to mention... the event will be FUN! Doors open at 6:30 and the movie starts at 7:15.

DOCUMENT CAMERAS

Please save your boxes and pages with your codes in your house storage rooms in case you need to re-register them.  I like your creativity some of you have displayed with moving your projector to the lower shelf so you have a place to put your cameras.  If you need any help, please let us know!

KEYS
A friendly reminder, we need copies of keys to all mobile locking carts.  This includes your new iPad carts.  Thank you, Jessie Tadgerson, for turning yours in already!  Please get these to Ashley before leaving on Friday.

DESIGN DAYS

House leadership, please sign up for your house Design day and time.   We will schedule your subs for you through the office.  You do NOT have to go into Eduphoria and request the day.

OCTOBER IS DYSLEXIA AWARENESS MONTH
Each week, this month, Melissa will share videos and information to build our awareness of dyslexia.  You can also follow her on Twitter to see what learners do in their MLI class.  This short clip will help you understand dyslexia.  What does reading do to your brain?  This graphic will help you learn how dyslexia and intensive reading instruction affect the brains of struggling readers. 

LEE LIFE PRINCIPLE:

self discipline- the ability to choose and control one's own actions

LESSON IN LEADERSHIP:

Make eye contact. When someone is speaking, keep your eyes on him or her at all times. If someone makes a comment, turn and face that person

LEE QUOTE OF THE WEEK:

“If we were supposed to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.” -Mark Twain

DATES TO REMEMBER:
Oct 8- NO SCHOOL
Oct 9-11 Nelson Taylor at Lee
Oct 9- Bridal Showers for Kylie and Cindy
Oct 10- Convocation T-shirt with Jeans
     Staff Meeting- (3:30-5:00 Deskin's space)
Oct 11- Kristina's Birthday
     Spurs Savings (before school Cafe)
Oct 12- Shanna's Birthday
     Education Foundation Grants Due
     Spirit Assembly (8:00 Gym)
     FamiLEE Movie Night