Happy Thursday! We hope you felt some love with your Glow and Grow posters today. I heard from many of you that you wanted to continue to spread gratitude, so please leave your posters up for at least a few more days so that you can receive words of affirmation from your FamiLEE. When you are ready to take your posters down, feel free to add your post its to your gratitude jars because YOU MATTER and deserve to know it!
DID YOU KNOW:
KINDNESS SPIRIT DAYS
We will participate in the following spirit days this week:
GREAT KINDNESS PARADE
DATES TO REMEMBER:
DID YOU KNOW:
- that staff that participates in the Kids Heart Challenge for at least 20 minutes will be able to wear sweats/athletic gear?
- the office is happy to do all of our laminating moving forward? Please put your items in the bin by the laminator marked "to be laminated" and they will laminate twice a week. THANK YOU!
- congratulations are in order for Suzi? Her newest grandson arrived today. Nathan Ezekiel arrived at 4:19!! He's 21.5 in and 7.15 lb of pure perfection!
100TH DAY OF SCHOOL
Feel free to dress up as a hundred year old or decorate a shirt with 100 items, whichever suits your fancy for this FUN day! Thank you, May, for sharing this 100th Day resources created by Mary Kemper.
KINDNESS SPIRIT DAYS
We will participate in the following spirit days this week:
- Tues: Dream of Kindness Day. Wear your pajamas to school.
- Wed: Team Kindness Day. Wear your sports team attire.
- Thurs: Peace, Love and Kindness Day. Wear tie-dye or 60's attire
- Fri: School Spirit Shirt Day
GREAT KINDNESS PARADE
We will start the parade at 8:10 at the cafeteria by lost and found. We will begin by having guests line up in the cafe in parallel lines and along the walls by CREATE and DESIGN ending toward the front office doors (not passing into yellow house). Guests will cheer our kids on as they parade one lap and return to your houses.
The order of the parade will be: Green House -> Purple House -> Blue House -> Red House -> Yellow House. Go right after the house in front of you with a couple of learners carrying the class banner. (Talk to learners about how to participate in a parade.) Downstairs will stay in spaces and watch until it is their turn to go. Make a full loop back to your space, then line the railings of your house to cheer the others on. Don't forget to pass out your Kindness checklists and encourage your famiLEEs to sign up for The Great Kindness Challenge App to be able to participate at home. Class Kindness Banners need to be ready for Monday morning.
LEEDERSHIP COUNCIL
LEEdership Council will have their last week of hot chocolate sales on Friday. Thank you for supporting them! Stay tuned for their February fundraiser.
WEEKLY WALKTHROUGH FOCUS
For our focused walkthroughs the next four weeks we will be focusing on Domain 2 Dimension 2 Content Knowledge and Expertise. We will be looking for things like cross curricular connections, strategies to avoid learning pitfalls, learners analyzing, creating and evaluating, and learner-directed learning.
The order of the parade will be: Green House -> Purple House -> Blue House -> Red House -> Yellow House. Go right after the house in front of you with a couple of learners carrying the class banner. (Talk to learners about how to participate in a parade.) Downstairs will stay in spaces and watch until it is their turn to go. Make a full loop back to your space, then line the railings of your house to cheer the others on. Don't forget to pass out your Kindness checklists and encourage your famiLEEs to sign up for The Great Kindness Challenge App to be able to participate at home. Class Kindness Banners need to be ready for Monday morning.
SPREADING KINDNESS
We will support Metrocrest Services as we give back during Kindness week. Please consider sending in some of the following items with your children.
LEEDERSHIP COUNCIL
LEEdership Council will have their last week of hot chocolate sales on Friday. Thank you for supporting them! Stay tuned for their February fundraiser.
SPRING BOOK FAIR
Parents can sign up to volunteer at our Spring Book Fair here.
WEEKLY WALKTHROUGH FOCUS
For our focused walkthroughs the next four weeks we will be focusing on Domain 2 Dimension 2 Content Knowledge and Expertise. We will be looking for things like cross curricular connections, strategies to avoid learning pitfalls, learners analyzing, creating and evaluating, and learner-directed learning.
ESL THIS WEEK
PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLLABORATIVE WORK: Learning is social. ELs especially benefit from collaborating with other students and not just other ELs. They need to discuss, communicate, listen to, read with, negotiate, problem solve with students of all types. Groups should be fluid and flexible. Sometimes partners and other times groups. This type of setting also lowers the affective filter for ELs while allowing everyone an opportunity to participate. The old, traditional way of the classroom was that the teacher stood in front, lectured while students listened, and then the teacher asked a few questions and called on a couple of students. Only those few students who were called on actually participated, everyone else zoned out.
MAP Window
Kids Heart Challenge
Great Kindness Challenge Week
Jan 27- 100th Day of School
Kindness KickOff Parade (8:10 am)
Jan 28- Guest Principal for 1/2 Day (Elvina)
Jan 29- House Shirt with Jeans
5th Grade Elly Swartz Author Visit (1:00)
Staff Mtg. (3:30 - 5:00) Flex Space / Melissa's Shower
Jan 30- Maddie's Birthday
School Geo Bee Day
Spur Savings (7:20-7:40- Cafe)
Lee Learning Walk (8:00)
Parent Book Study (6:00 pm Cafe)
Jan 31- LEEdership Hot Cocoa Sale
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