ELEMENTARY WEEKLY BULLETIN

 

 FOR  WEEK 21--- JANUARY 15,  2007               

QUOTE  OF  THE  WEEK:

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt, in National Enquirer

 

BIRTHDAYS

Mon., Jan. 15: Natalie Dirksen (Half)

Wed., Jan. 17: Audry Flatan (Half)

Thurs., Jan. 18: Megan Henn, Ellie Schley, Garrett Schley

Fri., Jan. 19: Megan Davis, Anthony Weringa (Half)

Sun., Jan. 21: Kendall Melz (Half), Noah Melz (Half), Jessica Westrum (Half)

 

WORKERS

Tues., Jan. 16: Sell: Cheri Mayland, Take: Linda Friesenborg, Sue Peake

 

RECESS DUTY

Mon.-Leerar, Jacobson, Tues.-Huntington, Keil, Wed.-Twait, Hagedorn, Thurs.-Lockrem, Brooks, Fri.-Sime, Oldenkamp

 

DATES TO REMEMBER

MONDAY,  JANUARY 15 (Day 3)

a) “Alboroda” Assembly 8:30 Auditorium K-Prep-12th grade

b) 7th G BB @ FC-4:15

c) 8th G BB (H) FC-4:15

d) JV G/B BB (H) GH-6:30

e) Martin Luther King Day

f) This is the first day of the second semester. 

g) Staffing in the late p.m.

h) Little Bison Childcare Center board meeting in the evening.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 16 (Day 4)

a) 7th G BB @ Garner-4:15

b) 8th G BB (H) Garner-4:15

c) JV/V Wr. @ Garner-6:00

d) V G/B BB (H) Newman-6:30

e) Clover Kids

f) Hearing Follow-Ups with Marlys Ebaugh in Nurse’s office-9:00

g) Elementary Faculty Meeting --- 3:40 --- Elem. Media Center

h) We will have visitors in the building in the a.m.

i) School Board Retreat --- 5:00-6:30

 

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17 (Day 5)

a Mr. Hill meets with a high school curriculum team --- 7:15 a.m.

b)Administrative Cabinet meeting ---- middle school --- 9:40

c) Elementary Report Cards due to Rena

THURSDAY, JANUARY 18 (Day 6)

a) JV G/B BB (H) LM-6:30

b) 7/8 Wr. @ Garner-4:15

c) JV/V Wr. @ Nora Springs-6:00

d) Mr. Hill is out of district

FRIDAY, JANUARY 19 (Day 1)  

a) V G/B BB @ Britt-6:30

b) 11th-ASVAB Test

SATURDAY, JANUARY 20

a) District Large Group Contest

b) Karl King MS Honor Band

c) School Board meeting in Mason City with the Iowa Association of School Boards training officer.

 

 

GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

A) OUR EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY

*We believe the school should actively develop a partnership involving parents and the community.  The purpose of the partnership is to help insure the learner achieve success.                                       

 

B) ANNUAL PROGRESS GOALS

Math

Long Term Goal: All K-12 students will achieve at high levels in mathematics, prepared for success beyond high school.

 

Annual Goal: The percent of students scoring proficient (70%) on the district Computation Test (grades 2-8) and the district Algebra Test (grade 10) will increase using two-year averaging.

 

C) Ag Week Schedule

Tuesday, Jan. 30

1:00 – 1:30    Kindergarten (Lockrem)                   19                                Sheep

1:35 – 2:05    Kindergarten (Sime)                         17                                Sheep

2:15 – 2:45    1st Grade (Twait)                               14                                Food & Nutrition

2:45 – 3:15    1st Grade (Huntington)                      15                                Food & Nutrition

Wednesday, Jan. 31

9:30 -10:00    Pre-school                                         26 (4 adults)               Animals/corn

10:00-10:30   Kindergarten Prep                            16                                Food & Nutrition

Thursday, Feb. 1

12:50 – 1:20  3rd Grade (Keil)                                17                                Iowa Food Production Web

 1:30 – 2:00   3rd Grade (Jacobson)                      15                                Iowa Food Production Web

 2:00 – 2:30   2nd Grade (Eichenberger)                17                             Food & Nutrition         

 2:30 – 3:00   2nd Grade (Leerar)                            17                                Food & Nutrition

Friday, Feb. 2

12:45 – 1:15  4th Grade (Brooks)                            19                                Pizza From to Table

 1:30 – 2:00   4th Grade (Hagedorn)                       17                                Pizza From farm to Table

 

D)   “ The eyes might be the window to the soul but your facial expression is a window to your attitude.”   Murray Banks,  October 11, 2006

 

E)  January 15 is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday.   Take a moment to read a portion of Dr. King’s “I Have A Dream” speech (at the end of this week’s bulletin)

Ask students to think about their family --- brothers, sisters, parents, grandparents.

If you could make one wish for your family what would it be?

Dr. King was talking about his dream for our nation. 

If you had a wish for the United States of America what would that dream be?

 

F) Thank you for your professional conversation during our Faculty Forum last week. It is stimulating to hear such commitment to doing the right thing for all children.  You are true professionals.

 

G) ALL elementary teachers are required to have lesson plans posted electronically every week.  

 

H) Monday, January 15 we will host ALBORADA in an all-school assembly --- 8:30 a.m.  Take roll in your class and move to the auditorium at the assigned time.

 

I)  January  22  and  23

    This will be half days spent with curriculum teams.   We are using the “POWER  OF  ATTORNEY” approach. By working on one team you are entrusting all other curriculum content to your colleagues. The decisions they make will be presented to the whole group BUT we will all honor their work and support it.

     The Elementary Curriculum Teams are:

            MATH:  L.Hagedorn, G. Eichenberger, C. Lockrem, J. Jutting, L. Huntington

            SCIENCE:  D. Jacobson,  C. Blodgett,  M. Leerar
        SOCIAL STUDIES:   A. Twait,   S. Keil,   S. Sime
        LANGUAGE  ARTS/READING:   L. Oldenkamp, C. Brooks,  D. Hobbs,  M. Giesking

     You will want to bring with your materials so you are ready to make decisions regarding K-Prep-Grade 4 benchmark decisions in your specific content area.  This is an awesome responsibility. 

 

J)  Thank you to our  SPECIAL  EDUCATION  teachers for all their work as we prepare for our special education audit later this winter.

 

K) LITTLE   KNOWN  FACT:

            Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.   

 

L) PHONICS ---- PHONICS ----- PHONICS

 

M) Personal leave is dependent on the availability of  a substitute.  Plan ahead.

 

N)TIMES  TO  BE  AWARE  OF:

A.M. RECESS:  15 minutes in length …. K-2 = 9:45-10:00 …. Grades 3-4 = 10:05-10:20

NOON  RECESS: 30 minutes in length

END OF THE DAY:   Thompson shuttle students dismissed at 3:25 (no sooner)departure at 3:33 ------Rural Route and town students released to go home or the playground at 3:28 (no sooner) ---- After school recess supervisors will blow the whistle to line up at 3:44 (set your watch by the atomic clocks) departure at 3:48.

 

O)  North Iowa Community School District All District—All School Reunion will take place July 8, 2007.  This is the 110th anniversary of the First Consolidation of a school district west of the Mississippi River and only the second in the nation. All fundraising will be forwarded to the Auditorium Renovation Project. If you have a name, e-mail, and/or address for an alumni member or former faculty member of Lakota, Thompson, Rake, or Buffalo Center please pass that information on to Barb Weaver.  Are you willing to serve on one of the committees?   Visit with Pam Angstman, Charlie Smith, Fairy Florence, or Barb Weaver.

P)I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

 I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling

discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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