Outdoor Ed Meeting

We had a great meeting tonight with our parents to address questions about this years Outdoor Ed week. Forms are due back on Friday, any questions can be left as a post and we will get back to you soon. Thank you to all those who came out tonight. I think this will be a good year.

2010-2011

Well we are off to another year. Students have hit the ground running. I had 68% of my student's parents show up for Back to School Night. Always fun to get to meet a few of the new faces.

It has been great having the Riverdale students join us, they add a lot and seem to be fitting in just fine.
Outdoor Ed is coming up quickly and I am really looking forward to seeing this group get up to the mountain.

Here We Go

Well last week we saw some of the best famous person reports ever. The problem was that the memory card fell out of my pocket somewhere on the playground. I hope that we can find it.

Friday was a fun day, we had PJ day and Ice Skating at night. Alayna, Cayley and Gabby all earned Platinum cards for their efforts, and taking place in the "Belly Slide."

This week we will transition into our regular work schedule and crank out some in class writing. Hopefully we will get a new printer cartridge.

Great First Day Back

Today was a great First day back. Students were awesome. It seemed like we were able to pick up where we left off. Students are working to gather 100 facts about their famous person, as well as get started reading about all their person. Looking forward to seeing the final projects.

This class has amazing potential, and seem to be moving along well. There seems to be a lot of interest in doing some Saturday prep days for the famous person report and State Testing. Wow!

Mery Christmas

Well the 6th Grade students pulled off a great Winter Program on very short notice. We learned a new song two days before the program. Our final performance was also our first dress rehearsal.

Some of our girls sang "Where Are You Christmas" and nailed it. The group K-4 (made up of 5 of our 6th grade boys) Did a great job and helped make it a great day.

Also the students of Area 13 were very generous, many thanks for the candy, cookies, mugs and gift cards.

I hope everyone had a great Holiday and is enjoying the break. Keep checking back for updates.

MOMS are everywhere

In order to help with our overall organization and homework we have recruited some MOMs. MOM stands for Motivational Organizational Managers. Students who are struggling to get their homework turned in or they are having difficulty managing their papers once they are returned will be assigned a MOM. So far we have two MOMs that have stepped up to make sure that everyone has what they need. MOMs will check their charges backpack to make sure that they have all that they need at the end of the day. They will also turn their homework in to their MOM in the morning and their MOM will make sure that they receive credit for it. Once a student has completed an entire week's work of homework and all papers are in place they will only have to check in with MOM twice a week. At that time they will regain their independence.

Star Gazing

Well it's hard to believe that we have been back from Outdoor Ed and trying to get back to normal routines. That part has been a little difficult. It didn't help that we came back to a week of minimum days for parent conferences.

We have had to put some of our fall themes aside :( for a while.

Thursday night Cerro Villa sponsored a "Star Gazing" night and it was a lot of fun. It was great to see so many former students doing well at the next level. Keep up the good work. I miss you guys.