Fabulous Friday!

Sunday Scoop 10.8.17

Sunday Scoop 10.1.17

Terrific Thursday!

Sunday Scoop 9.24.17

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for an AWESOME day of growing and learning on Friday.  We had a lot of courageous conversations and new learning in our efforts to support our students.  

Picture Day: Wednesday, September 27th.  The schedule can be found here.  

Grades 3-5 Data Team meetings:  We will be meeting on Thursday in the creation station.  Please bring your laptops and all specialists are encouraged to attend (ELL, Math, Reading, etc)

PTG Request Form:   Please feel free to complete form found on our Concord Resource Page (found under Concord Forms) for any items you would like to request.  Our parents are SO excited to help fund your projects and requests.

Curriculum Guides and Priority Standards: As you are beginning your work with your SLO’s, please be sure to use the updated curriculum guides that can also be found on our Concord Resource Page (found under Curricular Information).  All of the current priority standards are listed on page 2 of the curriculum guides.  

Fall Lindbergh U courses are now available for you to sign up in MLP.  Here are some of the courses that support our building and personal PGP goals.

Registration will close on 9/29/17 at 3:30 p.m.

MANDATORY PD REMINDER...LAST WEEK!!!!  All emails from SafeSchools went out last week.  If you have not received an email with your mandatory PD modules from SafeSchools, please try the following steps:

1.  Check your spam, promotions, social folders.  It would come from Lindbergh R-VIII School.  Looks like this:

2.  If you still cannot locate the email, please contact Rachel Slunaker through email at rachelslunaker@lindberghschools.ws  She will send you the information you need to get going.  

Thank you for your patience with our new program.  Reminder:  All mandatory PD is required to be completed no later than September 30th.

Sunday Night Lights, September 24:  Sunday Night Lights is a fantastic program that allows kids battling cancer and serious childhood illnesses to participate as athletes, cheerleaders, and band members under the lights at Lindbergh High School in a typical high school football.  Our Concord Choir is performing before the game and during half time.  Pregame starts at 6:30.   I hope to see you tonight!

• The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
• Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
• Click, Clack, Moo by Doreen Cronin
• Pancakes, Pancakes by Eric Carle
• Galimoto by Karen Williams
• Bobby Baseball by Robert K. Smith (chapter book)
• The School Story by Andrew Clements (chapter book

• Special thanks to Teri, Valerie, and Gina for attending the PTG meeting this week.
• Hats off to Adrienne, Mindy, and Tammy for sharing your STEAM knowledge with the group on Friday.

Please share the following links on your social media sites this week.  At our PTG meeting this week, we had 2 presentations.  Here are the links to both:

Bullying Presentation-This is the link to the bullying presentation by Ms. Gina Poeppel.

Concord Parent Resource Guide-  Save this link as we will continually update it with important tools and resources for Concord parents.

Angie will be out Wednesday-Friday October 4th-6th at Leadership Academy.  

Wednesday, Sept. 27	School Picture Day and BE THERE DAY!!	All Day	Concord
Wednesday, Sept. 27	Concord Night at Grant’s Farm	5:00 - 9:00 pm	Grant’s Farm
Thursday, Sept. 28	3-5 Data Team Meeting	8:45 a.m. to 12:10 pm	Creation Station

Tuesday, Oct. 3	Leadership Committee	7:45 am	Creation Station
Tuesday, Oct. 3	PTG Board Meeting	9:00 – 11:00 am	Creation Station
Thursday, Oct. 5	K-2 Data Team	10:50 am to 2:30 pm	Creation Station
Friday, Oct. 6	Family Trivia Night	6:30 – 8:30 pm	Truman Cafeteria

Sunday Scoop 9.17.17

PTG Meeting, Tuesday, September 20, 7:00 p.m.:  We would love to see one person representing your team at the meeting.  Gina will be sharing information on bullying and then we will be sharing information about the digital parent handbook we are creating.

Learning Labs, Thursday, September 22: Here is the agenda for our first learning lab.  We can’t wait to see you during your block time in the creation station.  

PD Day, Friday, September 22: Here is the agenda for Friday’s PD day.  It is going to be an AWESOME day of learning!

Sunday Night Lights, September 24:  Sunday Night Lights is a fantastic program that allows kids battling cancer and serious childhood illnesses to participate as athletes, cheerleaders, and band members under the lights at Lindbergh High School in a typical high school football.  Our Concord Choir is performing before the game and during half time.  Pregame starts at 6:30.  

Mandatory PD: All staff, classified and certified, are required to complete this training. An email from SafeSchools went out the first week of school. It came from Lindbergh R-VIII School. All mandatory PD is required to be completed no later than September 30th.

#lindberghlearns:  Please be sure to use this hashtag to highlight the awesome things happening in your class.

This week we will focus our Flyervision announcements on being proactive.  Here are some great books you might want to use during your read alouds to support this habit.

• Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
• The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
• King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood
• The Very Lonely Firefly by Eric Carle
• The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
• Salt in His Shoes by Michael Jordan
• Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville (chapter book)
• On My Honor by Marion Bauer (chapter book)

Did you know our students have that exact same ability when it comes to Google Docs? Just talk and it will type! Check out our blog post that shows you how to get it up and running on a laptop. Don't worry, devices are covered in this post.

Worried that it isn't 100% accurate? Have you ever known someone who was 100% accurate when they used paper and pencil? Paper and pencil is good enough to get your ideas down to then start editing, just like using your voice to type.

BONUS:

Use this simple process for connecting personal devices to the new LindberghBYOD network.

Movie Night: Thanks to TK,  Becky, Valerie, and Sharon for working the snack bar.  The students had a blast!

Character committee for planning the Buddy Assembly and activity: Thanks to Marikate, Jessica, Lindsay, Ashley, Valerie, Brooke, and our speaker/media leaders for a great day!

Angie will be out Thursday, September 21st @ 1:00 to Moore for district data meeting

Tuesday, Sept. 19	Instructional Leadership Committee Meeting (PD)	8:00 am	Creation Station
Tuesday, Sept. 19	PTG General Meeting Party Planning	7:00 – 9:00 pm 6:15 pm	Library
Thursday, Sept. 21	K-5 Learning Lab	8:55 -  2:30	Creation Station
Friday, Sept. 22	PD Day - No school	ALL DAY
Wednesday, Sept. 27	School Picture Day and BE THERE DAY!!	All Day	Concord
Wednesday, Sept. 27	Concord Night at Grant’s Farm	5:00 - 9:00 pm	Grant’s Farm
Thursday, Sept. 28	3-5 Data Team Meeting	8:45 a.m. to 12:10 pm	Creation Station

Terrific Thursday: Novel Engineering Activities

What is Novel Engineering? (From the Novel Engineering Website)

Novel Engineering is an integrated approach to teaching engineering and literacy. As part of Novel Engineering, students develop projects based on texts they read in English Language Arts or other content classes, such as history. The characters become their clients and students pull from the text to scope problems and set constraints as they engage in engineering design.

Teachers play a pivotal role in supporting their students' engagement by providing a supportive, responsive environment that will allow students to build on their ideas as they work on complex problems. Instead of prescribing a particular solution or process for students, we believe that teaching engineering involves listening to, understanding, and responding to student thinking. Design is about realizing the ideas of individuals and Novel Engineering gives students the space to explore their ideas through design projects.

In a read aloud for the Reading Units of Study, second grade students used the book Those Darn Squirrels.   In Mrs. Martin's class, students brainstormed the problem in the story.  They then designed a plan for how they could solve the problem of Old Man Fookwire with the squirrels stealing the bird food from the birds.  Before they could begin designing their structures, they had to get their plan approved. Some students built traps for the squirrels, some designed intricate bird feeders, and others created food sources for the squirrels so they wouldn't eat others' food.  This is yet another way to engage your students in the engineering process.