May 16, 2014

Curriculum Connections...

Happy Friday to everyone - we are officially midway through May! As exciting as this is for us, it also means we are full on in allergy season - I have been struggling for the last couple of weeks but hopefully things will improve moving forward. I, for one, am excited about the fact that we have two 4-day weeks coming up, which features the kick-off of our Cantiague ABC Countdown. With that in mind, this Fast Friday Focus will cover the next two weeks so please hold on to it. 

On another note thank you so much for the wonderful breakfast on Thursday morning. You all are the BEST! It is such an honor to work in the most amazing school on the planet. This award is just a reflection of all the awesomeness that unfolds at Cantiague each and every day - THANK YOU!!!

Here are some of the #eduwins that unfolded in our building over the course of this week...

• Our literacy planning meetings facilitated by Lisa D. Thank you Lisa for helping us reflect at a deeper level about our practice and kudos to all the classroom teachers for looking at literacy instruction through a critical lens. Although I only sat through portions of some of the grade level meetings I was blown away- WOW!

• The second graders are doing such awesome work within their fairy tale unit in writer's workshop where they are publishing their own fractured fairy tales - impressive!

• Listening to first graders dissecting musical notes with Clare in the Music Room was truly awesome! They knew the difference the various notes and were able to show how they different in sound - AMAZING!

• First graders were using safesearchkids.com (powered by Google) to surf the web and the results were pretty AWESOME! If we start teaching 

• A class of 4th graders were working in small groups using technological and non-technological resources to solidify their scientific understandings - one of the highlights was watching them play TRAIT BINGO!

• In case you missed them, here is the latest Video Update of the Week featuring students from Team Leverman - please show it to your class...

Tech Tip of the Week...

Check out this 2 minute video about Digital Citizenship, which is definitely something we should be thinking about for ourselves and our kids...

SCHEDULE OF THE WEEK... 

Monday, May 19

"B" Week
Planbooks due for all staff- LAST time for the year!
PTA Meeting at 9:45am- I will be doing an APPY HOUR!

Tuesday, May 20

F.E.O. at 3pm in the Library for all staff 
Laura Vaccaro Seeger visits with K in the Library!
1st Grade is on a trip today!
BUDGET VOTE is happening today!
Gr. 4 Math in Focus Training

Wednesday, May 21

Gr. 3 & 5 on trips today!
Happy Wednesday!

Thursday, May 22

CST @ 1:20pm
Principals for the Day - Zach and Chloe
School is CLOSED tomorrow (Friday) & Monday

Tuesday, May 27

"A" Week
F.E.O. Cancelled
SEPTA 7pm

Wednesday, May 28

Grade 2 Fairy Tale Gala - AM!
Gr. 4 Science State Testing - Hands on portion for IEP Students

Thursday, May 29

CST @ 1:20pm
Gr. 4 Science State Testing - Hands-On for all students
Gr. 5 Spring Concert - 7pm
Board Meeting - 7:30pm

Friday, May 30

Happy TGIF!
Adios to May!

Kids' Korner

During the morning announcements yesterday, one of the Kindergarten students doing the pledge saw me in my neon yellow shirt and without skipping a beat said, "Mr. Sinanis, you are so fat!" And then laughed hysterically. From the mouths of babes... LOL!          

Pics of the Week...

Check out Cantiague's Week in Tweets - click on the following link to see our Pics of the Week...

WEEK IN TWEETS