"THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK"

"Our influence may last a lifetime with our students."

Week of December 11, 2006

Monday - Foundation meeting here at 12:00 noon!
Board Meeting at Ellis at 5:30
BLT Meeting at 2:45 in Library

Tuesday - BBSST Meeting at 2:45 in Library

Wednesday - DIBELS Testing grades 1 and 3.

Thursday - There will be guests in the library from 10:30-12:00

Friday - Early release/Recycle/End 3rd Six Weeks

HAVE A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

January 2 Professional Development Schedule

Here is the schedule for our January 2, 2007 Professional Development Day:

8:00-10:30 - Math Workshop for Grades K-3 - R.L. Young Auditorium

8:00-11:00 - Makes Sense Strategies Workshop for selected teachers
THS Career Tech Building - Room 907
(1) Berry (2) Clay (3) Mann (4) Williams (5)

10:30-12:00 - Follow-up from New Teacher Orientation
(1) Young (2) Capers (3) Gooden (4) Smith (5) Goodwin (6) Barksdale
R.L. Young Auditorium
Take "Positive Behavior Supports" critical question responses and assessment
pages that were given out at new-teacher orientation.

12:30-3:00 - Math Workshop for Grades 3-6 - R.L. Young Auditorium
(1) Horn (2) Gooden (3) Williams (4) Clay
Teachers in 4-6 not teaching math are not required to attend!

1:00-3:00 - Monitoring and various aspects of SETS - Kemp Only!!!!!

There is more detailed information on www.teachtalladega.blogspot.com regarding the scheduled professional development. You may click on this site to get the information. Sandy and I will also attempt to schedule data meetings for this day. We are working around many different schedules so we will send data meeting information to you by e-mail.

While looking at this site, please look at the title "Letters to Santa." The deadline is December 14, 2006, so if you are interested in this creative writing assignment, please get started today.

Please take a look at the schedule and plan your lunch hour on your own. If you have questions or comments, please let me know.

Also, The STI classroom problems have been FIXED!! You should be able to access STIClassroom from home again.

"THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK"

"What the mind cannot believe is difficult to achieve."

Please remember to encourage your students to log on to the Sportsmanship website. Our school could use the money and it's actually a great site and a wonderful learning experience for our children. It's also another wonderful opportunity to encourage the use of technology. According to our students, we aren't doing a very good job of implementing technology. If you have a chance, take a look at the site yourself. You can use the same code to log in. If you need assistance, please let me know.

Thanks again for all you do for our students and KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!

Week of December 4, 2006

Monday - DIBELS testing in kindergarten and 2nd grade.

Tuesday - Christmas Parade - 6:00 p.m.

Thursday - School Christmas Dance - 6-8:00 p.m. - 4th-6th grade.

Friday - FIRE DRILL

A LOOK AHEAD!

Week of December 11, 2006

Monday - Board Meeting - Ellis
BLT Meeting - 2:45 (Library)

Tuesday - BBSST - 2:45 (Library)

Wednesday - DIBELS Testing in grades 1 and 3

Friday - End 3rd Six Weeks/Early Dismissal/RECYCLE
If possible, post ALL grades before you leave today!
Don't forget about our faculty/staff Christmas Party and Dirty Santa gift.

When posting grades, please don't forget to put handwriting grades in as S-N-U. Do not use any + or - signs. Handwriting is put in under manual entry. All other grades, including conduct, should be done weekly. If you do not post grades today, you will need to post on or before January 2, 2007.

Tentative schedule for January 2, 2007, will appear on this blog soon. If you want to see what's being offered system wide, visit teachtalladega.blogspot.com. There is a lot of information on this system blog. Use it as a resource. If you've never taken a look at this site, please take time over the holidays to "check it out!"