Thursday, February 13, 2020

Week of February 17, 2020

Thank you for a loveLEE Lunch and Learn yesterday.  I appreciate you sharing where you are with personalizing instruction and letting Rubin ask some thick questions. Enjoy feeling the love today from your learners and parents.  Don't forget we have an adjusted schedule today.  We hope you will enjoy your professional learning on Friday and  the LOOOONG weekend.  THANK YOU to the group of you that will help to present on Friday.  I'm so proud of the number of learner leaders that we have at Lee Elementary!




DID YOU KNOW:
  • some of our building is STILL having issues with wireless connectivity?  Please let me know, HERE, if you are still having issues so we can get them fixed!
  • that we have secured 1/2 day AM subs for House Design Days the last week of February? M- Blue, T- Green, W- Purple, TH- Red, and F- Yellow.
  • that we need two names from each grade emailed to CK by next Thursday?  These learners will get to be honored as a student of character at the new ballpark on April 24.
  • CISD has already planned June 24 and June 25 for summer professional learning days?  You will be able to earn flex credit for 2020-2021 by attending and content will be SEL and Technology.
  • CISD has asked for a minimum of 2 artifacts per content area to included in each learner's digital portfolio for the Spring?  Art, Music, and PE also have a minimum of 2 artifacts per grade level per content area in each learner's digital portfolio. 

FABULOUS FRIDAYS IN FEBRUARY
We will Fill the Fridge on Friday with healthy and unhealthy snacks (because CK eats like a teenager) and drinks.  Please stop by and help yourself to items in the fridge that is labeled.



RED AND BLACK SUPER STARS
Please nominate learners for our 3rd 9 weeks Education Foundation Super Star Awards.  We want to have at least one representtaive for each grade level.  Nominations are due by Feb 21.  Here is the nomination form.


YEARBOOKS
It is not too early to reserve this year's yearbook!  Don't miss out on all the events happening at Richard J. Lee Elementary.  Pre-order your yearbook today at ybpay.lifetouch.com using our school's Yearbook D Code 13015820.  Not sure if you have pre-ordered?  Click here to view your order history for the 2019-2020 school year.


PONYTAIL CLUB
Are you interested in making a difference by donating your hair?  Ponytails will be donated to Locks of Love.  Their mission is to return a sense of self confidence and normalcy to children suffering from hair loss by utilizing donated ponytails to provide the highest quality hair prosthetics to financially disadvantaged children free of charge.  If you would like to make a difference, please complete this form to register.

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1VPZN7nlz9oskWACqRg6gsp_tT6Grd0T8



DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP
It is the time of the year when learners are needing to be reminded about digital citizenship.  Feel free to get set up in the CISD Empowered Citizens Schoology course.  The course has mini lessons and resources for you that can be used in your classroom and implemented into lesson design as you create lessons.  The course code is: ZMRFK-SQ3P3 and you can find the lessons in the Discovery Library under the "Let's Get Started" folder.


CISD FOCUSED WALKTHROUGH
This week we start a new focus for our walkthroughs.  We will give feedback on Domain 2 Dimension 1:  Achieving Expectations.  We will be looking for evidence that your learners have mastered content and are held to high levels of accountability for their learning.  This looks like self-assessing, reflecting on menu work or assignments, posting to Schoology or SeeSaw, etc. 



ESL THIS WEEK
Chunk academic reading materials- No matter what subject you teach, there are probably reading materials that students must read. When text is lengthy, this can pose a comprehension problem for some ELs who are still processing and translating the English language. One way to alleviate this is to chunk the reading material. This means break it down into smaller pieces. ELs will still read the same text, but in between you might give stopping points to talk or sketch meaning.



DATES TO REMEMBER:
Feb 17- Bad Weather Day
Feb 18- Ed Foundation Shirt with Jeans
     TELPAS Calibration Retaks (3:30)
Feb 19- School Shirt and Jeans
     Leadership Meeting (3:30 Lounge)
Feb 20- Spurs Savings
Feb 21- Ed Foundation and Citizen Names Due
     LEEdership Mtg. (8:00)
     Tour (9:00)

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