Week of December 14, 2020

Thank you for the #HourOfCode activities you planned and shared with your learners this week. I am blown away by the problem solving and skills of our children.  How about the incredible MiCocina lunch, dessert, and gifts from our PTO?!  Thank you for shouting them out the way you did on social media.  

Please have the BEST final week of school for 2020.  It has been such a treat to celebrate each of you during December to Remember, and we hope that you know how very much you mean to the school community and us!  

DID YOU KNOW:

• Ayesha updated her S'more?  Check it out here. 
• you might not know your peers as well as you think?  Check out this Kahoot game that was created in Onboarding.  I scored 8,000 points.  I probably should be worried that I believed so many "fictions"! HAVE FUN! 😄
• we had a great lockdown drill today?  You all are doing such a super job on the Navigate app.  SORRY PE- we have adjusted our document so we don't forget to "unlock" you.  Please only pull shades down during a lockdown drill.  Otherwise they should be up and we should have all spaces visible.  
• we need you to bring a single sock to school on Monday?  Maybe your dryer eats random socks like mine?  Please bring one that does not have a hole, any color, any style. 

FRIDAY'S SCHEDULE

PLEASE enjoy the extra time given by CISD to get some work done.  We are SO LUCKY to have this extra time!  I'll see some of you BRIEFLY to work through your 3rd 9 weeks plans as a grade level.

Don't forget to swing by and pick up lunches during the time the cafeteria scheduled.  

REMINDER

We would like to have the 3rd 9 weeks Face to Face planning document (shared with you through email today) updated as much as possible before you leave on Friday.  Please make sure your links are accessible to everyone so we do not need to request access.  This is an in house document that was only shared by invitation so you do not need to worry about confidentiality.  Thanks for your effort on this and doing what is best for KIDS when making decisions. 

LEEDERSHIP COUNCIL MEETING

We have a meeting on Tuesday at noon.  I sent the Zoom invite through email.  Please share it with your learners.  They were asked to get feedback from your learners about what is going WELL and what needs IMPROVED.  Please make sure you gave some time during morning meeting for your LEEders to get this information from their peers. 

DONATIONS FOR COPPELL LIONS CLUB

This is our LAST week to accept donations of canned and boxed food.  We also will collect new unwrapped toys/games.  Thank you for the generous contributions for those less fortunate.

(the donation box is inside our front doors)

HOLIDAY PARTIES

Please be planning as a grade what you will be doing for your face to face learners on FRIDAY from 2:00-3:00.  Please keep this information off of social media and your newsletters so that our virtual learners do not feel left out.  Can't wait to hear and see what you have planned.  There will not be Team Time on Friday, December 18.

[PRONOUNCING LEARNER NAMES CORRECTLY]

COACH'S CORNER

We seem to be getting new learners everyday and being part of the Culturally Responsive Teaching book club with Bright Ribbons, I thought I might share something about cultures and names. 

Great educators would never want to do anything that makes a learner feel ashamed or embarrassed. They would never want to do anything that leads learners to distance themselves from their backgrounds. But if educators don’t put in the necessary effort to pronounce learners’ names correctly, that might be exactly what they are doing.

Pronunciation matters! Research has found that learners’ socioemotional well-being and world view can be negatively impacted by educators’ failure to pronounce their names properly, and can even lead learners to shy away from their own cultures and families.

[VIRTUAL/IN-PERSON GAMES]

ESL STRATEGY OF THE WEEK

Looking for a morning meeting game? Play Odd One Out! Pre-select words or pictures of your choice and present them in a set of 2 -4. Then, have students call out which one is the odd one out (different). Challenge them to explain their reasoning. It’s a great way to practice or learn new vocabulary while speaking.

DATES TO REMEMBER:

Dec 14- Corinne's Birthday

     Secret Santa 

Dec 15- Ed Foundation Shirt and Jeans

     Secret Santa

     LEEdership Council Lunch and Learn (12:00)

     Safety Team Meeting (3:15)

Dec 16- Secret Santa

     Curbside Pick Up (11:00-1:00)

     Staff Holiday Party

Dec 18- Last Day of School

     Winter Parties (2:00-3:00)

Dec 19- Ayesha's Birthday

Dec 21- Jan 4- WINTER BREAK