December 18, 2015

HAPPY LAST WEEK OF DECEMBER!

Special shout out for those that helped with Challenge Day and for the teachers that helped with allowing 8th graders to attend Science Camp! Your hearts were so supportive and I truly appreciate what you did for our kids to make this happen for them! Some of our 6th graders had never even been out of Solano County, much less to the Santa Cruz mountains!

Have you checked out the PD OPPORTUNITIES for School City training to administer the benchmarks online? Be sure to register as all benchmarks in February will be administered using our Chrome Books! We are going to need to borrow them from History and Science so a schedule will be coming soon!

Have you seen these 35 Digital Tools to Create Simple Tests? Check out these useful links and apps to make your life EASIER! Don't we all need some of that?

Want some heartfelt inspiration (even more after Challenge Day?- YES!) Take a look at THIS VIDEO and smile along with me!

Do you work at night when you get home? I know I am a horrible one to talk, AND here are some very helpful tools to help students AND TEACHERS work smarter not harder. Take a look at THIS ARTICLE and maybe I will start to follow these too =)

Have you checked out our Fish Moments?

BE THERE: THANK YOU to ALL of the teachers that participated in Challenge Day....It was emotional and hard and WORTH it for our kiddos! Dates are already being scheduled for next year to include more kids, though the program doesn't include 6th grade yet, we are looking at ways to modify it...THANK YOU to ELIZABETH for making it happen. You are a ROCK STAR! Thank you for welcoming ANITA as our AP as Christine goes on maternity leave! Sue Lucas will be here for her, so please reach out and say hi! Kristen Cloud will be here as our English/Spanish teacher, so please reach out and welcome her as well!

PLAY: The doors looked great and we loved to see all the hands on labs and experiments this past week! It was SO fun!

MAKE THEIR DAY: Thanks to LYNN for the countless hours to make Science Camp happen for 162 6th graders! What an amazing experience! Thank you for helping to make the potluck get together FUN! We are doing these WAY more often!!

CHOOSE YOUR ATTITUDE: LET'S STAY POSITIVE PEEPS! KEEP ON SMILING! 

Have you?

*planned a FABULOUS, safe, relaxing, email free two weeks? Yes, I will do my best to follow that...:)

*planned to read a good book? ;) give me some suggestions!