April 10th- April 14th

PERSEVERANCE

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

For the lower grades in English (Fast forward to 1:20)

For the lower grades in Spanish (Fast forward to 1:20)

For the upper grades:

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

• April 10- Leadership Meeting CANCELLED
• April 12- Staff Meeting by Program
• April 13- Donuts with Dad 8- 8:30 AM
• April 14-  No School :)
• April 24- School resumes
• April 24- 3rd grade Writing Rubric Calibration @ ESC
• April 25- 4th and 5th grade Writing Rubric Calibration @ ESC
• April 26- Admin professionals Day, scoring writing during collab, Staff Meeting (Mission/vision)
• April 27- 2nd grade Writing Rubric Calibration @ ESC

Happening Things:
Keep practicing SBAC! http://sbac.portal.airast.org/practice-test/  Ask Stephanie if you need help!
Girls On the Run- T/Th 3-4:30
Markham Choir- Second Grade Hallway on Wednesdays before school
Exploring Biotechnology- Grades 3/4 Room 6 on Wednesdays for 5 weeks
Ballet Folklorico- Thursdays After school
Parent Institute Quality Education (PIQE)- Thursdays from 6-7 in MPR
2017-2018 Registration has begun
Art Smart- Tuesdays After school

• African Drumming- rm 16
• Clay- rm 15
• Theatre/Movement- MPR

The SPICE parent Board and PTO have decided to change the 5 de Mayo evening to a Multicultural Evening this year. The idea is to feature countries from around the world. We will get more information later, but I wanted to give you a head’s up early on.

        Briefly, teachers will be able to pick a country for their class to represent in the evening of May 5th. SPICE Board has Mexico and SPICE classes will have 1st bids on Latin American countries. REACCH can chose a country from anywhere around the world. That’s the basic idea for the evening, in a nutshell. Next Meeting is April 5th at 5:00.

Timberwolf Tips...

Remember to keep up your positive statements! Strive for 4 positives for every 1 negative.

Don't think about a pink elephant...

Markham Shout Outs...

• Everyone: Thank you everyone for the cards, flowers, gift cards to Starbucks, letter, posters from students, letters from students, text messages, emails, well wishes, and food. You all have showered me with so much love and appreciation. I truly believe in giving flowers when one can smell them but my goodness you all have given so much more. I thank you genuinely from the bottom of my heart <3
• Everyone: Thanks everyone for helping me collect water bottles for Science Saturday! I love how our school rallies to help each other.
• Michelle from PTO: Thank you for a wonderful AR breakfast for our students.  They were so happy and excited.  That was a lot of work and organization but so worth it!!! Thank you.
  
  

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