Canned Food Drive

Canned Food Drive

Hello to parents and students. Our school is doing a monthly canned food drive to feed our community. This Friday, February 24^th please bring all the canned goods you can carry!!. The school is turning this into a good cause competition between houses. The house that collects the most canned foods will win a special treat depending on what the house votes on. The Treat can be anything from a house wide pizza party to a recess party. The drive is only one day a month. So please parents, help the food drive and help KAPPA!!!!

Please bring your canned foods on Friday only! Please allow your child to bring the canned foods to class, we will then send all of our canned good to the office to be counted and compared to the other houses. 

Help us feed our community!

TEST DAY!!!!!!

CURRICULUM ASSESSMENTS ARE HERE!

As you guys know our school participates in the Curriculum Assessments(CA) tests every six weeks to prepare them even more when the STARR comes in April. The CA tests are to help us understand more what content in reading, math, and writing that your child(ren) need to review again to better help them on the real test. The test is only two hours long with only about 20-25 questions per test. Each child will get to compare their last CA scores and create a score goal they wish to accomplish on these CA tests. If the goal is met or exceeded from expectation, we will win KAPPA house points!!

One test will be taken a day to ensure other instructional time is wasted. Our CA's will be TWO week from today. 

1. Math - Tuesday, February 21st
2. Reading - Wednesday, February 22nd
3. Writing - Thursday, February 23rd

We will start promptly at 8:45 am so we ask that you please get your child(ren) here on time so they can have a good breakfast before testing.I myself, like to get the bodies warm by stretching and doing a couple GoNoodles to get their blood pumping and brain working. 

The students are allowed to bring water if necessary but since we do have lunch after test, we ask that their be no food while testing. 

 GOOD LUCK TO ALL STUDENTS!!!

REACH THOSE GOALS AND GO KAPPA!!!!!

Education Technology_Flipped-Learning Toolkit: Flipping the Non-Flippable Classes

About this Article:

This article is about maximizing class time by using technology to give information and as a result, have more class time to spend actually doing the actual fun learning activities. This article gave different scenarios on how teachers used technology to help reduce the instructional time and increase activity hands on time. The method is called flipped learning. "Lower-level cognitive information should be moved out of the group space and into the individual space where students can consume data at their own pace and interact with the content in a manner that meets their individual needs." The method is basically transformed into a center of learning where students are applying, analyzing, and creating content, rather than simply acquiring information.

Reflection:

I personally loved this method. I thought it was very informative in a way that not only myself can benefit but my peer teachers as well. We are becoming a technology based generation so being able to use it for instructional time would help significantly. The only downfall about the flipped method is yes it does help lower level learners but typically the lower level are in lower socioeconomic families and the schools they attend cannot afford the high technology. So how can we help the lower income school? Any ideas?

Here is a link to the article:

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/flipping-the-non-flippable-classes-jon-bergmann

Spelling Bee on Friday February 17, 2017

THE SPELLING BEE IS HERE !!

• I am happy to announce that our school is hosting a campus-wide spelling bee. Every student is welcome to participate. The spelling bee is completely FREE! This is a great opportunity for our little bees to buzz with pride. So come join our us by watching your bees sting the spelling list on                               Friday, February 17, 2017, at 1:00 pm. 
• Light snacks and drinks will be sold at the concession stand. 

• If you or you child(ren) would like to participate, please fill out the form that will be in their take home folder today, and have it returned by Monday, February 6, 2017. 

I am so excited for this great opportunity for our students here at our school. I hope they enjoy it just as much as I did. 

GOOD LUCK TO ALL PARTICIPANTS 
AND 
MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOU FAVOR!

Below is the 2017 spelling bee list link that our school will be using(please use the third-grade list on pages 9-11):

https://www.parkhill.k12.mo.us/UserFiles/Servers/Server_62416/File/Academic%20Services/Spelling%20Bee/2017%20School%20List%20with%20definitions.pdf