March 3, 2017

Many of us are reading The Energy Bus (YAY!) so we have decided to dedicate the next few blogs to the 11 steps and great quotes that are coming from this super easy read =) and can be very positive and up-lifting....

Rule 1: You are the driver of your bus!  Think of your vision for your life, your work, and your family.  Write it down.  Commit it to memory.  Don't wait until a crisis for some of us to change.  Our thoughts are powerful because they are loaded with energy.  If they are positive, our energy is positive.  And it spreads!  It's contagious and spreads to our colleagues and definitely to our students!  Drive the positive bus!

I know that not everyone is on Twitter and we would LOVE for everyone to use it, share it and show off their classrooms!  Look at the pic above.  More and more of our staff are reaching out and sharing other ways to collaborate ideas, share practices, laugh, hug, and encourage each other!  There are more and more of our teachers inviting other teachers into our classrooms to share feedback and help everyone grow!  Share your hashtag!  Share your handle name!  Follow US on Twitter @gvmsvikings

I cannot seem to stress this enough:  We are GOING to become a 1:1 device school (yes, we are working on faster Internet as well!)!  Therefore, PLEASE take a few minutes out of your day to CLICK HERE enter to win a COMPLETE set of Chrome Books for your class.  It is Due MARCH 31, so don't waste time!!

PTC is working to see if they can cover the ENTIRE cost of the projects (along with the matching efforts of Google.org) for those that have put them on Donor's Choose.  We are using funds from the Spring Fling!

We have been taking care of the storage for all of the ones that we are getting from Donor's Choose and covering the licensing cost for all of these.  DO IT!  It's SO easy!!

Did you know?  We have 1114 Good News Referrals for this school year!  So Awesome!

Did you know?  We have 14 projects going on Donor's Choose right now to SUPPORT student learning!  Make one too!

Did you know?  That while sometimes it's VERY challenging to focus on the positive, it IS there.  Just look a little harder and we can ALL see the positive!  Yep.  That is our school!  Isn't it a GREAT time to be a Viking!!

SUPER HERO SHOUT OUTS!

• SUPER shout out to Olvera, Pozzesi, Aida, Booker, Toll, Mary Jane, Walker, Cherry, Laffey, and Love for already writing GNRs!
• SUPER shout out to Dan Peckham for an awesome choir performance at RHS on Wednesday!
• We have had 251 Good News Referrals for February! We already have 24 for March! Keep them coming!  **We had TWO referrals in March so far... =( 
• What to nominate a fellow SUPER HERO to be recognized at our next faculty meeting?  Click HERE!!  

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!

*March 7- Faculty Meeting in Library
*March 8- NAEP Testing for 50 8th graders
*March 8- 6th Grade Orientation @ 5:30
*March 9- Robotics Presentation and Student of the Year Board Meeting
*March 10- Staff Social at Sticky Rice!  JOIN US!!
*March 14- Open Forum with Superintendent after school!
*March- REU Band here from RHS!  Assembly schedule coming!!
*March 17- LAST DAY TO SUBMIT PTC RECEIPTS!!
*March 29- Dine and Donate at Mary's Pizza Shack

*April 24-May 12- Block Schedule for CAASPP test!

*May 23- Nightmare on Puberty Street Assembly- Assembly schedule!