November
Monday
* 8:30-3:30 3rd grade Gemologist in Gold Mine room
Tuesday
* PLC Day
Wednesday
* 7:45 Preliminary spelling test in the Gold Mine room
* No Staff Development
Thursday
* Kindie Plan Day
Friday
Reminders
* Please make sure you complete setting all of your targets for your students for CITE 6 in InspirED.
* Click here for the agenda for our PLC day. Please bring the following:
• Math Journals
• Student examples of open ended and/or parallel tasks
• Computers
* The spelling bee preliminary test will be given November 8th at 7:45 in the Gold Mine room. Any 4th or 5th grader who is interested in being in this year's spelling bee needs to take the preliminary test. Please see Lauren Rayens if you have any questions.
* Please remember to update your blogs for November. Please make sure your daily schedule is included.
* We moved our 'Feedback on Goals' to November 30th, December 1st & 4th. We will provide a sub for you. More info to follow.
Opportunities
• Douglas County is looking fro tutors to support struggling students in all content areas. The compensation is $45 an hour. Please let Libby know if you are interested.
• Students in the EDGE program at Legend High School are looking to do community service hours on November 17th. If you would like a high school volunteer on this day, please let Libby know.
• Kristi is still in need of volunteers to be on the Gifted and Talented Identification team. Please let her know if you would be willing to be on this team.
Debbie Blair, the incredible Technology Specialist at Prairie Crossing, is hosting a Seesaw Social on November 29th at the Rio Grande in Lone Tree. This is open to anyone who uses Seesaw in the Denver metro area (not just for DCSD staff).
If you attend you can expect to:
* Meet passionate teachers
* Share tips & tricks through casual conversation
* Make face to face connections
* Collaborate with other teachers who use Seesaw to promote a student driven classroom.
For all of the details and to join in, click on the below link. Please make sure you RSVP if you are planning to attend.
Welcome
* Please help us welcome Mariela to our staff. She will be working with SSN on Mondays and Tuesdays, and taking over for Christy Schwalick Wed. - Fri.
Thanksgiving Feast
Our annual Thanksgiving Feast and Celebration of Learning will be on Wednesday, November 15th. The schedule is as follows:
Last week in 4th grade, students explored digital literacy. They built schema about different groups of people in Colorado through digital resources and a digital version of Stephanie Harvey's Fact, Question, and Responses. Students annotated video clips in Discovery Education, articles, maps, and interactive websites.
Please take a few minutes to watch the incredible synopsis of our work by two 4th graders. The video is too large to imbed in Blogger, so you may have to download it in order to view it.
Video Synopsis Click Here
3rd Grade Technology CoTeaching
This week in 3rd grade we connected their study of data collection to the creation and analysis of Google Forms. Third grade teams crafted different question types to gather lots of information about their topic. Once they looked at their results, groups had to revise the way their question was asked in order to get the specific type of data they were hoping for. In addition, when looking at their results, students analyzed how the data could be represented in different graph types and how to interpret/draw conclusions about the data once it is collected.
The sample below is a video recording, so you can press the play button to hear the audio and press the arrows to navigate through the pictures she is describing.
Intermediate Share Shop Resources
Primary Share Shop Resources (work in progress)
*Conferring with Readers and Writers
*Strategies That Work
* The Next Steps in Guided Reading
Happy Birthday
Kelly Broecker - November 3rd (Happy Belated!)
Cindy Bell - November 7th
Kylee Lauterbach - November 11th
Go For the Gold
• Thank you everyone for participating in our Halloween festivities!
• Thank you Bev Holtzer and all who participated in Walktober!
• Thank you Kristi Barta and Bev Holtzer for covering classes last week!
Golden Nuggets
Morning Announcements: Rayens
Lounge Duty: Meredith/Russell
