March 13-17

COURAGE

      Please devote at least 15 minutes during your specials block to teach MARCH'S character trait: COURAGE

Poetry Activity
Help children understand courage through poetry. Read Maya Angelou's "Life Doesn't Frighten Me" poem to children. Then ask them to write their own poem. They can use Angelou's poem and simply change some of the words to fit their own lives, or they can write a new poem on the subject.

Another way to use poetry to discuss courage is to have children illustrate a poem, such as "Life Doesn't Frighten Me," with drawings or by cutting out pictures from magazines

Life Doesn't Frighten Me by Maya Angelou

Important Dates... check out more dates by clicking HERE

• First week of March:  Begin SBAC Practice/Training Tests  
  http://sbac.portal.airast.org/practice-test/    Ask Stephanie if you need help!
• March 13- Fiesta Days Assembly/ Retention Forms Due  Get your forms HERE/Leadership
• March 14 Muffins with Mom/ Rock Steady Assembly/ Lockdown
• March 15- Staff Meeting- Jane Shamieh and PD/ Turn in SBAC Accommodation Forms
• March 16- Zun Zun Assembly
• March 21- ELD Professional Development- REACcH 2, all 3-6, RSP, SDC 3:00-5:00 paid
• March 22- Program Meetings- rooms TBD
• March 29- Staff Meeting- SPED Review

Upcoming Events:

• PLC  July 19-21  Complete form here to specify if you want to attend:  HERE
• Monday 3/13- Second and Sixth Grade Data Meetings
• Wednesday 3/15; 3/220 Kinder Data Meetings
• Friday 3/17- Fourth, Fifth, First Grade Data Meetings

	Monday- Fiesta Days	Tuesday- Rock Steady	Thursday- Zun Zun
K-3	10:00	9:00-10:00	1:45
4-6	10:30	10:00-11:00	2:15

Timberwolf Tips...

Markham Shout Outs....

• Mrs. Burns: ...for letting me talk through my thoughts and wonderings about one of her student's speech and language skills and for helping collect language samples in the classroom! 
• Heather Parrish-Salinas: Heather is always pleasant and kind to work with. She always makes me feel like my question or request is important.
• Linda Molina: We are so lucky to have Linda Molina on staff. She gives so much! Thanks for being a Markham Angel Linda!!!!
• Shannon and Becky: You did a great job at the kick off for Kindergarten registration!
• Bobbie & Luisa: Great team work taking care of the front office on the first day of Kindergarten registration!
• Rafael: Thank you for participating in the office fun!
• 4th Grade Team!: Just want to shout out to my team how awesome you are! We had a crazy week back to school and working together, we got it done! Thanks for all your hard work, and thank you for loving ALL our kiddos! - Rosie
• Heather Salinas-Parrish: Thank you for having the parent information and sign in sheets copied and ready for the SPICE Parent Information Night. So prepared! It was a little thing but a huge help!
• Rafael: Rafael, thanks for reading Dr. Seuss books to the afternoon classes. Since the other visitors could not stay, we appreciate you stepping in!
• Rosie: Thank you for supporting our students this week and last.
• Markham teachers: Great job getting the reclassification paperwork filled out and back to Bobbie! AND it looks like we are reclassifying 47 students!! Way more than last year! Thanks for your great teaching.
• The office staff: Thank you to our office staff for not only running kindergarten registration but also helping sign up our incoming students for our new pre-kinder assessments. We appreciate all of your help!
• Gina Herrera: Thank you Gina for knowing what to do in our classroom. Thank you also for going above and beyond and really caring for our students and their families. Finally, thank you for encouraging me when I am really down about something. We could not achieve the results in this class without you!

Let out a happy "howl" here -  Markham's Staff is HOWLing....