New Week New Blog

The Next Couple Weeks:

Monday, April 16:  8:00 Student Study Team
Wednesday, April 18: 8:35 - 9:00ish Assembly, Grades 3 - 5
Wednesday, April 18:  4th Grade Common Core Meeting
Thursday, April 19:  Mackinac Presentations for grades 3 and 4
                                  6:30 pm Board Meeting
Friday, April  20:  5th Grade Common Core Meeting
Sunday, April 22:  2:00pm Ice Cream Social and Book Fair
Monday, April 23:  Kindergarten Round Up begins

Your grade level should be scheduling Common Core meetings.

To Blog or Not to Blog:

It is my intention to begin doing our Parma Plan It through this blog.  I will update and post to it at least weekly and possibly more often as things come up or I have something amazing to share with you.  As this is my first attempt, hopefully, it will get better.

This week's Highlights:

I loved our conversation at staff meeting.  We have to make sure skills are solid.
If you taught it but they didn't learn it, whose problem is that?
Paul Wiley rocked it out at the Bruce Springsteen concert.
One of the students who won the bike for reading month literally jumped in the air on his way up to get his bike.
Dean Archer danced with kindergarten and first graders in the lunchroom on Friday.  Smiles were priceless.
Kindergarten Round Up parent meeting proved Western is still the School of Choice.

Our bike winners from reading month were drawn at Wednesday's assembly.  The winners were Amelia Walicki and Skyler Nauman.

Interesting Read:

I just began reading the book Mindset by Carol Dweck.  I have been hearing about and reading about this book on twitter and other blogs, and I heard enough that I knew it was a book I needed to read for myself.  The premise of the book is that there are two different mind states from which we operate:

• Fixed Mindset- you believe your intelligence, skills and abilities are carved in stone, or static.

• Growth Mindset - you believe that you can cultivate your basic qualities through your efforts.

You can count on hearing more about this book in future posts.  I would love to have you read it with me if you are interested.  I believe it has a great deal to say to educators and the way we teach and praise our students.

Inspirational Video:


*The video below is an old one that you may have seen before, but it is worth revisiting.  Remember, you have the ability to make an incredible impact on each and every student you come in contact with on a daily basis.  What you say and do has such a huge impact on your students.  You may never know how much you inspire your students, but please know that you do!  Take a moment to watch this video below and revisit it when needed.  What we have is a gift!

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Here is an interesting website found on pinterest for math charts and bulletin board ideas:

http://www.alyciazimmerman.com/math-charts.html