Thursday, December 15, 2011

Integrating Academics Into Holiday Crafts



Look at these great examples of using holiday crafts to teach core academic areas like writing, nonfiction reading, social studies, science and math!
Gingerbread, geography and culture

Patterning and calendar awareness

Making connections and looking for details in expository writing



Penguin facts


PD the First Two Weeks After Break

Here are the PD activities coming up right after break. As always, there is a lot going on, so be sure to let me know if you have questions.

Math Opportunities
Grades 2 and 3 have a Nancy Norman training day on Thurs., Jan. 5
2nd year balanced math people have a Nancy Norman training day on Weds., Jan 4
Nancy will be here at GV on Tues., Jan. 10 from 11-1 (Ellen and Natasha)

Reading Opportunities
Ashlock Big 5, kindergarten day 4 will be Tues., Jan. 10 at MD
Ashlock Big 5, 1st grade day 5 will be Thurs., Jan 12 at MD

Job Alike Workshop for Special Ed Staff will be Weds., Jan. 11 from 12:20-2:30 in Missy's room




The Weekly for the Week of Dec. 12


Monday 12th

-       Special Education and Student Study Team Meeting (Newton, Bellagh, Stolarik, Fochs, McMillan, Scott, Hopkins, Antaya), 7:30 a.m., Conference Room
-       Eval Meetings 8-12
-       Second Grade Dance Celebration, 8:15 a.m.
-       Early Release (Math Essentials and Assessment), 1:30 p.m., Library
                 

Tuesday 13th

-       First Grade Meets, 7:30 a.m., Room 110
-       Ted at District IT Interview, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
-       Skill Clinic (Kinder Google Calendar), 11:30 to 12:30
-       CIT Meeting, 2:30 p.m., Conference Room
                 

Wednesday 14th

-       Second Grade Meets, 7:30 a.m., Conference Room
-       Fourth/Fifth and Third Grades Meet
                 

Thursday 15th

-       SST 8:15 a.m., Conference Room
-       Eval Meetings 9:30-11:30, Office
-       IEP 12 p.m., Conference Room
-       Staff Meeting, 2:40 p.m., Library
-       Family Library Night, 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
                 

Friday 16th

-       Treasure Store, 8 to 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday January 3rd

-       First Grade Meets, 7:30 a.m., Room 110
-       Walk Through with Administrators, 8 to 10 a.m. Let me know if you DON’T want to have principals from other buildings to visit your room for 5 to 10 minutes.
-       Ted, Missy, Alex and Sarah in an RTI planning meeting, noon to 2:30 p.m.
-       CIT Meeting, 2:30 p.m., Conference Room
                 

Monday January 9th

-       SST Meetings 8 a.m.- 1 p.m., conference room

Coming Soon

-       GeoBee, Jan. 11, 2012: Spelling Bee Jan. 20: Battle of the Books Jan. 27 for fifth grade at 8:15 a.m., and Jan. 27 for third/fourth grade at 12:45.
-       SST Meetings 1.23.12
-       SST Meetings 2.6.12

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Welcome!

Welcome to the new GV Professional Development blog. I hope I can use this site to communicate with staff about all the great things we are doing here at GV and the things we hope to do soon. Soon I will have an interactive calendar set up where you can register for different offerings right from the page. Wish me luck on that!

I hope to post regularly on topics like Ashlock, Storytown, Balanced Math, assessment, intervention and whatever else people would like to read about. I also hope to post regular videos of things happening related to PD around the school.

Please let me know what you would like on the blog, along with cool things you would like me to share.