Saturday, October 9, 2010
Math Carnival
Our Annual Math Carnival is almost here! The carnival is taking place on Tuesday, Oct. 19 from 6:30-8:00. We have games, a cupcake walk, graphs, painted pumpkins, FOOD, trail mix, ring toss, a book table, face painting and lots of fun planned. Please try to attend and support our students!
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Vocabulary Parade
It's almost time for a "dress-up" day at WT...exciting. The 2nd annual vocab parade will be on Friday, October 29th. The assembly will begin at 2:00 and will last an hour. Have room parents set up a treat for your kids after the assembly. Remember that the vocab dress-up, treat and assembly are in lieu of Halloween parties and costumes; be sure to stress this with the kids and room parents. You will have a letter in your mailbox by Monday 10/11 to send home. This is also the day to read the book, Miss Alaineus. Help your students to come up with a great word that is appropriate for your grade level and they should work on their costume at home. Also, teachers should start thinking of words too. The kids love to see what we come up with and how we're going to dress-up.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
First Buddy Meeting
Our first buddy meeting is next THURSDAY, September 23 at 9:15. Please check your calendar to to see the adjusted "Special Area" schedule. If you have questions please contact Dan, Judy, or Joe!
Saturday, September 4, 2010
math committee notes
So, I think I may have finally figured this out! Actually created my own blog and posted everything there and didn't realize it!
Math Night will be Tuesday, Oct. 19 from 6:30-8:00. This is a fun time for our students and families, so please try to set aside the date. We need everyone's help to make this a great night.
Our committee will be meeting again on Sept. 22 at 8 in Mary Wright's room (105) to discuss the details of this night. Your grade levels reps will be getting in contact with you!
New this year.....math every month! We will be working on getting math activities for our students to do each month. These will be in the cafeteria, one week each month. We will have one activity for k-2 and 3-5. The activities will be available on a Monday and due on Friday of the same week. Each month will have a different focus. Look for more information to come. Here are the dates for each month and the name of the responsible committee rep.
October week of 11-15 Number Sense Mary Ann
November week of 8-12 Data Analysis Tracey
December week of 13-17 Algebra Chrissy
January week of 10-14 Geometry Mary Ann
February week of 7-11 Measurement Rachel
March week of 14-18 Probability Ambera
April week of 11-15 Patterns Molly
May week of 9-13 Number Sense Mary
Math Night will be Tuesday, Oct. 19 from 6:30-8:00. This is a fun time for our students and families, so please try to set aside the date. We need everyone's help to make this a great night.
Our committee will be meeting again on Sept. 22 at 8 in Mary Wright's room (105) to discuss the details of this night. Your grade levels reps will be getting in contact with you!
New this year.....math every month! We will be working on getting math activities for our students to do each month. These will be in the cafeteria, one week each month. We will have one activity for k-2 and 3-5. The activities will be available on a Monday and due on Friday of the same week. Each month will have a different focus. Look for more information to come. Here are the dates for each month and the name of the responsible committee rep.
October week of 11-15 Number Sense Mary Ann
November week of 8-12 Data Analysis Tracey
December week of 13-17 Algebra Chrissy
January week of 10-14 Geometry Mary Ann
February week of 7-11 Measurement Rachel
March week of 14-18 Probability Ambera
April week of 11-15 Patterns Molly
May week of 9-13 Number Sense Mary
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Community Plans
I hope I'm blogging correctly...this is new to me. We will continue our community lesson plans for the upcoming school year. All grade levels will complete two weeks worth of community lessons given to them by theirliteracy grade level rep. The plans can be worked into schedules as you see fit. Please be sure to complete the classroom promise and the grade level mission statement by the end of the 2nd week (9/17). We will also continue our One School, One Book lesson with The Golden Rule. If you have any questions, please ask your grade level rep.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
School Cultures Update and Information...
On Sept. 8 Tonya will be coming around to read to each of our classes one of our "bully free" books to the class. Here is the schedule she will use on this day...
9:30 - Reno
9:45 - Wright
10:00 - Walsh
10:15 - Bruns
10:30 - Sweeney
10:45 - Coleman
11:00 - Hollatz
11:15 - Matheny
1:15 - Birrer
1:30 - Shreve
1:45 - Sunderman
2:00 - Beatty
2:15 - Welp
2:30 - Coyne
2:45 - Washington
3:00 - Boedker
3:15 - Robinson
On Sept. 10 we all will watch as a school Dr. Brooks read " How Full is your Bucket?" on our Smartboard at 9:15! Information on how to retrieve the file will come at a later time once the video is on the share drive.
On Sept 17 we have a Bully Free assembly at the following times location is EITHER the cafetorium or the gymnasium.
K-2 9:30 - 10:15
3-5 10:30 - 11:15
9:30 - Reno
9:45 - Wright
10:00 - Walsh
10:15 - Bruns
10:30 - Sweeney
10:45 - Coleman
11:00 - Hollatz
11:15 - Matheny
1:15 - Birrer
1:30 - Shreve
1:45 - Sunderman
2:00 - Beatty
2:15 - Welp
2:30 - Coyne
2:45 - Washington
3:00 - Boedker
3:15 - Robinson
On Sept. 10 we all will watch as a school Dr. Brooks read " How Full is your Bucket?" on our Smartboard at 9:15! Information on how to retrieve the file will come at a later time once the video is on the share drive.
On Sept 17 we have a Bully Free assembly at the following times location is EITHER the cafetorium or the gymnasium.
K-2 9:30 - 10:15
3-5 10:30 - 11:15
Monday, June 28, 2010
A peek into our new Conference Room
The school cultures committee took advantage of the new conference room to make plans for the upcoming school year.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
School Cultures Update...
Hello "Excellent" W-T Friends -
A few of the school cutlures committee members met today up at school in the conference room (it is fantastic)! I wanted to give you all an update on what was discussed and some pieces of information.
First, we will no longer be using the links. We will be using cotton pom-poms and we will fill the jars from last year with those. The children will earn the pom-poms by following the bobcat pledge. Once the jar is filled we will have rewards for the classroom. We are working on figuring out the specifics of this and we will let you know once decisions have been made.
One of the new things we will do this year is have "Bucket Buddies." Each classroom will have another grade level classroom to meet with monthly to discuss a specific topic. We wanted to get out the Bucket Buddy list to everyone and the weeks we will be meeting so we can get that onto our calendars.
Stahl - Hollatz (AM) & Coleman (PM)
Todd - Matheny (AM)
Reno - Robinson
Walsh - Washington
Wright - Boedker
Sweeney - Sunderman
Birrer - Beatty
Bruns - Coyne
Shreve - Welp
You will meet with your Bucket Buddy during the weeks of and complete and activity/discussion/read aloud/etc for the topic of the month:
9/27 - Friendship / Bully
10/25 - Review Rules & Procedures
11/22 - Respect / STAR
12/20 - Kindness / Consideration
1/24 - Characteristics of a Good Bobcat
2/21 - Bystander Role
3/28 - Responsibility
4/25 - Cooperation
5/16 - Pride
We will have four assemblies throughout the year and we are going to rotate them in the morning and the afternoon; therefore, the same class is not missed for grade levels. Judy is checking into some great options for us.
The refocus forms will be staying the same for Grades 2-5; however, we are working on changing the forms for grades K and 1. We are also working on the consequence piece to refocuses. We will have that for everyone too once we finalize it.
I am sure I will post more throughout the summer as we finalize other pieces as we get ready for the big opening of our EXCELLENT building!
I hope everyone is having an EXCELLENT summer...
Joe
A few of the school cutlures committee members met today up at school in the conference room (it is fantastic)! I wanted to give you all an update on what was discussed and some pieces of information.
First, we will no longer be using the links. We will be using cotton pom-poms and we will fill the jars from last year with those. The children will earn the pom-poms by following the bobcat pledge. Once the jar is filled we will have rewards for the classroom. We are working on figuring out the specifics of this and we will let you know once decisions have been made.
One of the new things we will do this year is have "Bucket Buddies." Each classroom will have another grade level classroom to meet with monthly to discuss a specific topic. We wanted to get out the Bucket Buddy list to everyone and the weeks we will be meeting so we can get that onto our calendars.
Stahl - Hollatz (AM) & Coleman (PM)
Todd - Matheny (AM)
Reno - Robinson
Walsh - Washington
Wright - Boedker
Sweeney - Sunderman
Birrer - Beatty
Bruns - Coyne
Shreve - Welp
You will meet with your Bucket Buddy during the weeks of and complete and activity/discussion/read aloud/etc for the topic of the month:
9/27 - Friendship / Bully
10/25 - Review Rules & Procedures
11/22 - Respect / STAR
12/20 - Kindness / Consideration
1/24 - Characteristics of a Good Bobcat
2/21 - Bystander Role
3/28 - Responsibility
4/25 - Cooperation
5/16 - Pride
We will have four assemblies throughout the year and we are going to rotate them in the morning and the afternoon; therefore, the same class is not missed for grade levels. Judy is checking into some great options for us.
The refocus forms will be staying the same for Grades 2-5; however, we are working on changing the forms for grades K and 1. We are also working on the consequence piece to refocuses. We will have that for everyone too once we finalize it.
I am sure I will post more throughout the summer as we finalize other pieces as we get ready for the big opening of our EXCELLENT building!
I hope everyone is having an EXCELLENT summer...
Joe
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Welcome staff!
Please feel free to check in by leaving a message when you add yourself. I know the School Cultures Committee is hard at work. A meeting is set for their committee co-chairs on June 23rd at the new WT site.
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