The Giver
Just finished that book. It is a must read. It speaks to, the idea of," Sameness." Read the book and you'll understand. Luckily, our five schools celebrate our differences and realize we can be the same. Kudos to differences!!
Thank yous
Thanks you to Dani and Julie who ordered some books for us including, Far North, Fatty Legs and The Giver. I am bringing a copy around to each school.
Thanks to The High level crew who welcomed parents to their parent Wing Ding. We have thirteen-sixteen people come through our doors. Thanks to Holly who brought Christmas to The Learning Store.
Thanks to all our Custodians , Martha, Sue, Landon and Tristan and the mystery lady in Fort. I have to meet this lady! They do a fantastic job in our buildings each day and are only thanked when I catch up with them every month or so. We appreciate all they do.
Staffing
Anne
Monday am High Level- pm Zama- Two girls will be relocating for 6 weeks. Having a little celebration.
Tuesday adventure Camp organizational meeting. Central office.
Wednesday LTM meeting.
Thursday - High Level-
Friday- Learning Store staff meeting in La Crete.
Nicole is out the 6 and the 8th.
Events / Programming
Learning Store staff meeting La Crete. Friday at 10:00. Please post signs up in your stores if you are closing that day.
Students who require accommodations need to sign up for their diploma right away they may not receive their accommodation if it is not done.
All IPP's are due in to me signed by the student or parent. centrals deadline was last week.
My evaluation- Please hand in your evaluations as soon as you are able. It says direct report on the top. I appreciate you giving me feedback. No way to grow without feedback.
Phones are here. I will be dropping them off this week. They are to be
kept close to you. We are using it as our school camera as well. We can put these pics on the website.
Fort hours are changing this week. They will be open three days in a row. Tues, Wed, Thursday.
Zama - celebration for two students today. I'll bring the cake and hot chocolate.
Student contact- When we call they come. We are keeping contact notes both written and on the computer. Please update them when you make contact with a student. INAC and Alberta ED require this data.
Data sharing- We will go over data at our meeting on Friday. Our accountability survey data and other survey data.
This is a video from the book The Giving Tree. So cool!
I have probably read Fifth Business by Robertson Davies seven or eight times over a span of 30 years. It's one of those books that you'll get something new out of each time you read it, and it's the first book in a trilogy, so if it piques your interest, you can read all three. The fact that he is a Canadian author makes it even better!
ReplyDeleteThere's a movie available online, FREE in Canada, that documents the experiences of two children in residential schools. One boy, one girl. The movie is called We Were Children. There is also a reference guide in PDF available to teachers for classroom use.
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The Bible; many interesting stories in there
ReplyDeleteIf you've got some time on your hands, the Dark Tower series by Stephen King is an awesome read. There are seven books in total, and they contain allusions to much of his other work. I'm going to try to re-read them before the movies come out.
ReplyDeleteI don't read as much now as I did growing up. But of the books I have read in school, I still remember a few as being my favorite to this day. One is The Cay by Theodore Taylor, which is both a WWII story and a classic desert-island tale of survival. Another is Lost in the Barrens by Canada's own Farley Mowat, another tale of survival in the wild. Racism is a major theme in both novels. Finally, I absolutely loved the American classic The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. The fact that it was the most frequently banned book in schools is reason enough to read it.
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