February 12, 2010

Happy SNOW DAY
Lila Wooten from Scott Foresman paid a visit to the site. Very nice. She is the one that will be conducting the content building training provided by the ACHE grant. Date is not set. Waiting on the SDE for a definite date.  I gave her a business card from Sandra, Kay and Donna and she left one for each of  you. She was very interested in the results of the data meetings and will attend a data meeting next year. 

I will attend the Calhoun County Roundtable on Tuesday, February 16.  Please let me know what I can report to them based on our sustainability plans at their schools. Maybe I will get a date for the inservice K-5 math is going to present for them.
Making the blog come to your email is a little more complicated than one setting. I have the directions but haven't had time to subscribe to another service to make it available by email. I'll get to it, but this week has been one big ACHE week.

We will resume watching the FISH video on Monday, February 15.  We will resume our discussion of the book on March 1st so please complete the reading of  the book.  The book and videos operate independently. 

I think we need to revisit offering FITH for summer workshops.  Here's my reason ...  we are offering Alphabet Soup for only  5th and 7th grade science. It would be great to offer something at every grade level and reminding the teachers that FITH is something they can always use and should use since it activities based on the COS.  3rd - 5th grade lessons are already written in 5 E format.

Literacy Strategies are also another offering that should be considered. 

These things can also be offered to schools as In-Services.  Once they are developed we will have a
We need to have agendas, outline and material list for the sessions for this summer by the May 3 staff meeting.