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An amazing Specials Team!
DECEMBER
This Week
Monday
* Wear plaid
* Chick-Fil-A lunch
Tuesday
* Wear green, red or blue
* Mad Greens lunch
Wednesday
* Ugly sweater
* SD: Holiday Cheer
Thursday
* Sparkle, shimmer & shine
* EPRs due
* 4:30 Holiday party
Friday
* Winter break!
Reminders:
* Release EPRs between 2:00-3:00.
Click here for GRE expectations.
* Chloe Berge's family will be providing lunch from Chick-Fil-A on Monday.
* We will provide lunch from Mad Greens on Tuesday.
* Please remember to send in your family picture by Monday.
* We are having an influx of students coming to the office for snacks. Please remind your students to bring a snack from home. Please also remind them to not bring personal items out to recess.
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Our Holiday Party is right around the corner at Gail Golish's house - 8235 N. Sunburst Trail. There will be good food and great company! Don't miss it! And most importantly - the Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament finale will be at the party. If you have not been working on your bracket, get going!! We must be to the final round by next Thursday! That super cool shirt is waiting for you!
* Our PLC day is the morning of January 6th. Click here for the agenda. The afternoon is your workday.
* Access testing will be January 15-17 and January 21-24th
9:40-10:45 am
1:20-3:30 pm
Please do not schedule special events during these times.
The Douglas County School District launched its School Capacity and Boundary Analysis survey on Monday, December 9. The survey will remain open through Friday, January 3. This survey will provide DCSD with critical community input on potential strategies to optimize school facility space in DCSD. See additional information below.
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Calendar Clarification
* In April, we have students on the 16th. There is no school on the 17th as it is a conference comp day. Our PLC day is Monday, April 20th.
Happy Birthday
* Krista Hardin - December 16
* Amy Fugier - December 17
Go For the Gold
* Thank you Mandy Miller for allowing us to video tape you and share your expertise!
* Thank you Megan Fleet, Maren Bell, Kristi Barta and Jenny Brown for subbing!
* Thank you Kristi Barta for facilitating our Guided Reading class! You are amazing at what you do!
* Thank you Maya Bethea for giving up your sub! It was truly appreciated!
* Thank you Karen Warner for teaching two classes at a time! You saved us!
* Thank you Gail Golish for hosting our staff party!
Golden Nuggets
Morning Announcements: Rayens
Lounge Duty: Brown/Anderson
Technology Co-Teaching Rotation #2 Intermediate
3rd Grade Rotation #2
Content: Rocks & Informative Writing
Tech Tool: Google Slides & Screencastify
Third graders published their learning of rock content through a Google Slide. While building their slides they learned about organizing nonfiction information with boxes and bullets and how they can use their voice to expand upon a bulleted key idea. Students were introduced to Screencastify as a way to capture their voice and make their teaching movie come to life.
Student Sample #1Student Sample #2
4th Grade Rotation #2
Content: NonFiction Reading Synthesizing, making a claim & Defending with evidence
Tech Tool: Researching, digital annotating & Google Apps; documents & slides
Fourth graders solved a mystery! They were given a mystery scenario where they could only use six digital resources to make a claim and determine where the mystery fossil was found. They annotated their findings on a google document and then created a google slides presentation that outlined the clues from each resource and defended their claim of the specific continent and habitat the fossil was found in.
5th Grade Rotation #2
Content: Renewable/NonRenewable Energy Sources & Argumentative Essays
Tech Tool: Google Slides, Screencastify, & Abcya Animation
Renewable Energy sources guided our co teaching work together. Students utilized what they were learning in writing argumentative essays to make a claim on where they should place a new company and what renewable energy source would be utilized in that location. Students analyzed all of the energy sources and then created an animation showing the machinery and item requirements to harness and convert renewable energy into power.
