COURAGE
Primary : (song about courage)
Upper: (motivation for students to relate to)
Please devote at least 15 minutes during your specials block to teach MARCH'S character trait: COURAGE
"Courage is maintaining strength in your own decisions"
"Courage is maintaining strength in your own decisions"
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 7- SPICE Recruitment Meeting at 6pm
- March 7-10 Conferences
- March 8- Reclassification Forms Due
- March 9-Picture Day
- March 11- Super Saturday
- March 13- Fiesta Days Assembly/ Retention Forms Due Get your forms HERE
Upcoming Events:
- PLC July 19-21 Complete form here to specify if you want to attend: HERE
- Mandatory Bandwidth Test: 3/10 10:40-11:15
- K-2: I-station
- 3-6: SBAC ELA Practice Test
- Checklist due 4/15
The purpose of the bandwidth test is to do the following:
- Identify dead zones
- Determine if SBAC dates can be pushed back
- Headphones are working
- All students have mice
- All technology is working and is not damaged
- Lighting is appropriate in classrooms
- There are no environmental distractions.
This is MANDATORY FOR
ALL CLASSES FROM 10:40-11:15
K-2 will sign in and
complete I-station activities whole class
3-6 will sign in and
complete ELA Practice Test
Admin in coaches will be
checking in to classrooms to assist/support and ensure your class is
participating.
Technology will be on
campus to monitor technology use.
Teacher's Corner:
5 Ways to Give Students Free Choice on Essay Topics, and Still Save Your Sanity (Read the entire article here)
1. Have them focus in. Really focus.
Don’t have students tell the story of the whole game—or worse, the whole season. Invite them to write about what the goalkeeper is thinking in the last few minutes. About how she knows she needs to concentrate, but she can’t stop thinking about the way the light cuts across the field. Write about what it’s like to put on a uniform for the first time, or to shake hands with the team that’s just crushed you. Take two minutes—and only two minutes—of that exciting game and write the heck out of it.
2. Switch perspectives.
When you talk with students about different points of view, oftentimes they go straight for the inanimate objects—I’m going to write about the game from the point of view of the ball! Or the scoreboard! And while those could be interesting to read, simpler switches in perspective can go a long way not only toward deepening students’ writing, but also nurturing empathy. Can they tell the story of the game from a parent of an opposing team member? From the kid sitting in the stands who didn’t make the team?
When you talk with students about different points of view, oftentimes they go straight for the inanimate objects—I’m going to write about the game from the point of view of the ball! Or the scoreboard! And while those could be interesting to read, simpler switches in perspective can go a long way not only toward deepening students’ writing, but also nurturing empathy. Can they tell the story of the game from a parent of an opposing team member? From the kid sitting in the stands who didn’t make the team?
3. Add sensory detail.
The next time you get a totally flat essay on the big game, start by inviting the writer to add 25 sensory details to the piece. It might seem like a lot, but many novelists accomplish this in a single page. Beginning writers often focus on visual details alone, so be sure to challenge the writer to include taste, smell, touch, and hearing as well.
The next time you get a totally flat essay on the big game, start by inviting the writer to add 25 sensory details to the piece. It might seem like a lot, but many novelists accomplish this in a single page. Beginning writers often focus on visual details alone, so be sure to challenge the writer to include taste, smell, touch, and hearing as well.
4. Get personal.
Ask your writers: Why are you the one telling this story? Could this same essay have been turned in by anyone else on your team? If so, what perspective can you bring to it to make it yours? If one of your great-grandchildren found this essay in a trunk in the attic, what would you want them to come away knowing about you?
Ask your writers: Why are you the one telling this story? Could this same essay have been turned in by anyone else on your team? If so, what perspective can you bring to it to make it yours? If one of your great-grandchildren found this essay in a trunk in the attic, what would you want them to come away knowing about you?
5. Switch genres or forms.
Can your student take his boring essay on the big game and turn it into a heart-thumping mystery? A piece of alien-snatching science fiction? Or perhaps they could write a big game sonnet or pantoum. The trick isn’t just randomly choosing one of these alternatives, but thinking about how a different format could deepen the story the student wants to tell.
BAW teachers: Thank you to all of our BAW teachers for being so accommodating and welcoming us into your classroom.
Fourth Grade Teammates: We survived! I am grateful for all your support, dedication, and time this week to make both the UC Davis field trip and Thursday's testing a success! Our students enjoyed both experiences! :)
Let out a happy "howl" here - Markham's Staff is HOWLing....
Can your student take his boring essay on the big game and turn it into a heart-thumping mystery? A piece of alien-snatching science fiction? Or perhaps they could write a big game sonnet or pantoum. The trick isn’t just randomly choosing one of these alternatives, but thinking about how a different format could deepen the story the student wants to tell.
Timberwolf Tips...
Markham Shout Outs....
Fourth Grade Teammates: We survived! I am grateful for all your support, dedication, and time this week to make both the UC Davis field trip and Thursday's testing a success! Our students enjoyed both experiences! :)
Let out a happy "howl" here - Markham's Staff is HOWLing....
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