What Inspires You?
* Kindergarten students singing and dancing...
* Teachers and student playing guitars & drum while students sing...
* Teachers running with students...
* Exchanging smiles with colleagues at the adorable things kids do...
* 4th grade boy singing a solo
* 4th grade girl singing a solo
I looked back over my blog posts for the last couple of years and noticed a trend. It's about this time of year that stress goes way up and lists of 'to do's' grow long. I have had posts about managing busy times every year at this time. Hmmm.
I also noticed that the posts at the end of May are full of celebrations and joy. I'm going to stay focused on that.
My new mantra..."Here comes the joy!"
Where do you go when you seek inspiration?
What is it you desire most? (Thai commercial)
If you haven't checked out Soul Pancake,
it's where I go sometimes when I need to hit the 'reset' button...
Check out a few below
Take a Seat Make a Friend
(I want to do this one as a service project! I want to build a ball pit in the lobby...)
What holiday is the world missing?
(What would kids say?)
Street Compliments
Say Something Nice
(Could we have this outside?)
What is your biggest mistake?
(How would you answer this?)
Calendar
April 21- 25th:
Tuesday:
* RTI meeting 7:30 a.m.
Wednesday:
* PD - planning
Friday:
No school - teacher comp day
April 28 - May 2nd:
Tuesday:
* RTI meeting 7:30 a.m.
Wednesday:
* Fourth grade leaves for Sand Dunes
* All School Meeting
* PD - planning
Additions to our staff in the coming year!
It is a pleasure to announce that we have hired Debbie Rabideau as our Professional Learning Specialist! It will be so wonderful to have Debbie back at Renaissance! Noreene will be supporting Debbie transitioning into this role.
It is also a pleasure to announce that we have hired Lonnie McKenzie for the 5th grade Discovery teacher next year!
While most of you probably don't know her, Allison Armour, will be our social worker next year. Allison comes to us from Fox Creek Elementary. Prior to being assigned to Renaissance, Allison had open enrolled her daughter to kindergarten and been accepted in the lottery drawing. Allison will be a wonderful fit for our community.
I'll keep you posted as positions are filled.
Makes Me Smile...
While we were working on creating fractions on our geoboards, I happen
to overhear two boys talking. One boy said, "You really have to tell the
teacher. It is the right thing to do." The other boy said, "I don't
want to. She won't like it." The first boy said, "No, you really have
to. It is the right thing to do." I started to ease my way towards them
for several reasons: 1) Curiosity, 2) Worry about what might be going
on, and 3) Making myself available so that they could "do the right
thing".
In a few minutes one of the boys came up to me and said,
"Ms. Jill, while I was building a shape on the geoboard, this rubber
band broke."
Suppressing, a smile and a huge
sigh of relief, I said, "Oh, that happens sometimes. Thanks for letting
me know. We can just throw it away."
The boy walked back to his desk and said to his friend, "Phew, that went way better than I expected."
This time I could not suppress my smile and a giggle so I had to turn my back and walk away.
I thought you might enjoy this from our math class: (from Brittany)
My kids are working with analyzing data that has some initials related
to it, and they're labeling points on coordinate graphs. I was asking
some of the kids about their graphs and the relationships between the 2
sets of data. One of the points has the initials "DB."
One of my students pointed to that point, labeled "DB" (an outlier) and said, "This one's an outlier. David Bowie's an outlier."
I definitely laughed.
Have a great weekend!
Deborah
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