ELEMENTARY WEEKLY BULLETIN

 

 FOR  WEEK 12—NOVEMBER 5,  2007               

QUOTE  OF  THE  WEEK:

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine

 

BIRTHDAYS

Mon., Nov. 5: Kameron Rohwedder

 

RECESS DUTY

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

 

DATES TO REMEMBER

MONDAY,  Nov. 5 (Day 2)

a)NCICDA Choral Festival

b)Mr. Hill makes classroom visits

TUESDAY, Nov. 6 (Day 3)

a)ELECTION  DAY ---- do you civic duty and vote !!!

b)Elementary Faculty Meeting --- 3:45 --- Elem. Media Center

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 7 (Day 4)  

a) District FCCLA @ Garner

b) Mr. Hill attends AEA Superintendent Meeting --- Cedar Falls

c) Mr. Hill attends Blood Center of Iowa meeting in the evening

THURSDAY, Nov. 8 (Day 5

a)Administrative Team meeting --- 2:00 --- Mr. Embrock’s office

FRIDAY, Nov. 9 (Day 6)

a) Fall Play-7:00

b)Mr. Hill attends meetings at the Department of Education in Des Moines

SATURDAY, Nov. 10

a) NCIBA MS Honor Band

b) Fall Play 7:00

 

GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

A) ESSENTIAL LEARNINGS

North Iowa students will be life-long learners.  Life-long learners:

            *demonstrate self-sufficiency/self-directed learning,

            *demonstrate appropriate use of resources,

            *demonstrate adaptability to various situations,

            *demonstrate perserverance.

 

B) ANNUAL PROGRESS GOAL

Reading

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

Annual Goal: To increase percent of students in grades 3-8 and 10 scoring at or above grade level on the vocabulary subtest of the Gates MacGinitie Reading Assessment.

 

C)  You will be asked in the next couple of weeks to administer a survey of your students regarding respect.   This is a pre-test.   The post-test survey will take place next spring.

 

D)  Super  Job  with Parent-Teacher Conferences----- we want 100% participation---- if a parent did not come in for conference be sure to contact them by phone.

 

E) Remember to complete your Rachel’s Challenge assignment  AND  your Bullying/Harassment Training assignment.

 

F) Parenting Fair ---- November 13 ---- tentative agenda will be out later this week --- thank you to everyone who signed up to help.

 

G)  Grandparent’s Day --- November 16 ----8:30  a.m. --- COMMONS ---- light breakfast with grandparents and program.  The morning ends in the individual Kindergarten or First grade classroom with the reading of a book.

 

H)  The Bullying/Harassment Training ---- what impact has it had in your classroom?

 

I) Be at the recess door to walk your class back to your room. 

Recess supervisors need to hold the students until the teacher arrives to lead them.

 

J)  Super job to the Book Fair team !!!

 

K)  Line Basics when in the hallway.

 

L)  No School November 21 ---- Teacher Inservice.

 

M)  ZERO  TOLERANCE  on the playground for fighting, arguing, teasing, or rough play.

 

 N) Character Education lessons ---- implement one lesson every two weeks in your classroom.   Be sure to document which lessons you have used in the binder in the Elem. Media Center.

 

O)Department of Education Site Visit ----- November 27 – 29.

 

P)   "Ode to the Spell Checker!"

 

 Eye halve a spelling chequer

It came with my pea sea

 It plainly marques four my revue

 Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

 Ê

 Eye strike a key and type a word

 And weight four it two say

 Weather eye am wrong oar write

 It shows me strait a weigh.

 Ê

 As soon as a mist ache is maid

 It nose bee fore two long

 And eye can put the error rite

 Its rare lea ever wrong.

 Ê

 Eye have run this poem threw it

 I am shore your pleased two no

 Its letter perfect awl the weigh

 My chequer tolled me sew

 

 

BREAD ROLLS

 

3 ½ Cups strong white bread flour                                    1 cup water

1 tsp. salt                                                                               2 tbls. Olive or vegetable oil

2 tsps. (1 pkg.) dried rapid-rise yeast                                milk, for glazing

2 tsps. sugar                                                                         poppy, sesame or sunflower seeds for topping

A greased baking tray

 

Heat your oven to 425 deg. F in step 8.

 

1. Sift the flour and salt into a large bowl.  Add the yeast and sugar and stir them in.  Then, make a hollow in the middle.

2.  Pour the warm water and oil into a container.  Pour them into the hollow, then stir everything well, to make a soft dough.

3. Put the dough onto a floury surface.  Knead it by pressing your knuckles into the dough, then firmly pushing it away.

4. Fold the dough, turn it around, then push it away again.  Kneed the dough for 10 minutes, until it is smooth and springy.

5. Put the dough into a clean bowl and cover it with plastic foodwrap.  Put the bowl in a warm place for 1 ½ hours.

6. Sprinkle more flour on the work surface.  Knead the dough for a minute to squeeze out any bubbles that have formed.

7. Break the dough into 12 pieces, then roll them into balls.  Put the balls onto a baking tray, that has been greased with oil, with spaces between them.

8. Put the rolls in a warm place and leave them for about 40 minutes, turn on your oven.

9. Brush the rolls with a little milk.  Sprinkle them with a topping, then bake them for 12-15 minutes.  Cool them on a wire rack.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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