Monday Morning Memo

10/29-11/2

If you missed your chance to throw pies at me I am sorry.  The Trunk or Treat Halloween event was a great success and I wanted to say thank you to all the volunteers.  Without you it would be difficult to coordinate the tremendous event.

Observational Focus-

This week when I come into your classrooms, I observe with the lens of….

·      Clarity of purpose (The why we are teaching the lesson clearly articulated to students)

·      Learning Targets (objectives) clearly articulated multiple times in the lesson and posted on your daily schedule

·      Students being able to clearly articulate what they are learning (can they restate the learning target?)

Leisure Reading Room-

Our opening ceremony was a tremendous success.  Once again, thank you to all that helped out in the process.  On another note, this room will need to be a room that needs to be taken care of and maintained by all teachers and students.  Please understand that when you leave, you and your class will need to take some time to ensure that it looks tidy and organized.  Also, please make sure that you are monitoring your students in the Leisure Reading Room.  We do not want any of our books or materials getting mistreated by students.  We have already had one incident on the second day that could have been avoided.

PLAY PE-

I wanted to be clear about our status of PLAY PE.  We will be having PLAY PE this year.  We are waiting for the contracts to be run through the district.  We are hoping to start Monday, November 5^th.  I will come around to all teachers to start scheduling by referring to your schedule from last year.

Recess Schedule-

Week A

Week of 10/29-11/2

M 10/29- Full day release PD/PLC  4th-5th

T 10/30- Make-up Picture Day

W 10/31-

Th 11/1- MB Cluster Meeting

F 11/2- PTO Dine Out