Nov
6
Champions Assembly
November 6, 2009 | Tagged assembly | Leave a Comment
On Thursday of this week, we hosted the very talented Crevier Family from South Dakota. Bruce, Diane and their nine children spun basketballs on their fingers, road unicycles, trained our staff to do ball catching tricks, and fed applesauce to four very brave student! They entertained us for over an hour (two presentations back to back) and we were in awe of their skills. If you watch this slide show with your children, I am sure that they will be able to share more than these photos portray!
Many thanks to our PTC for funding this assembly. We appreciate ALL that you do for us.
Nov
5
Weekly Newsletter
November 5, 2009 | Tagged newsletter, picutres, reading, visualizing, writing | Leave a Comment
Enjoy your weekly update from Room 104 – November 6 Newsletter
In Readers’ Workshop this week, continued to work with visualizing. The students received their very own reading notebook to keep in their book boxes. We will use these notebooks all year for record our thoughts about reading. This week, we began the routine of writing the date and title of book/song that we are using to visualize and then recording the picture we made in our heads while reading/listening on the paper. We did a few as a group as we listened to the story The Napping House, and a few different songs. Then the students had a chance to try all on their own. They chose a song page from their book box and made their visualization entry in their notebook. It was fun to see them sharing and explaining them to their friends later. These notebooks are so great for tracking their thinking and growth throughout the year. I know they will love looking back through these later.
Nov
4
Time is Running Out
November 4, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
Dear Parents,
Time is running out to let your voices be heard in Lansing. Our Superintendent, Nicholas Ceglarek, is inviting parents to email, call and/or attend an event in Lansing on November 10. To find out more, please visit the school blog.
Nov
1
Report Cards
November 1, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
We were just informed by our Technology Department that the software responsible for our report card data base has crashed. The system will be down this weekend and likely into next week.
Our teachers want the most up to date marks on the report cards, and therefore, they use this weekend to finalize scores and add comments for each student. Within the last hour, they found out that they cannot access report cards—and will not be able to share the report card with you during conferences this coming week. As you can imagine, this has been a very stressful Saturday morning for them.
Once the Powerschool software is repaired, report cards will be completed and sent home. During conferences, teachers will be highlighting strengths and areas for growth and sharing work samples.
Thank you for understanding this technical difficult at a most unfortunate crunch time!
Oct
30
Education Reform!
October 30, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
Time is running out. Our Governor and legislative leaders in Lansing are proposing devastating cuts to public education. In addition to the $165 per pupil cut to all public schools, the State Budget Director has notified school leaders another $127 per pupil cut is coming in less than 30 days. The only way this will not happen is if our Governor and legislators can agree to a funding solution addressing the revenue shortfall. To find out how to help prevent this funding crisis, please listen to my message and visit the links here: FUNDING CRISIS
To find out more about the history of school funding, FIVE DAYS TO FIX SCHOOL FUNDING, GR PRESS
Nicholas Ceglarek, Superintendent
Oct
29
Weekly Newsletter
October 29, 2009 | Tagged calendar, newsletter, pictures, slideshow | Leave a Comment
Happy Halloween! Our week flew by and we were busy the entire time. Thanks for all of your support for our Halloween Party on Friday! The kids have been excited all week!
October 30 Newsletter – Enjoy our weekly update!
November Calendar – Our new specials’ schedule for the month of November.
…check back in after school on Friday for our weekly slideshow of photos!
