Monday Memo Musings

Here are some cool outdoor classroom ideas. TO HAVE GROWN WISE  AND KIND IS REAL SUCCESS  Schedules Anne-  Monday- High Level am La Crete pm- Home School BBQ Tuesday- Fort Vermilion Am- La crete pm- bringing diplomas.  Wednesday- Zama School pick up of furniture by maintenance Thursday- High level Community Gardens BBQ Friday- High Level Darren is out Monday Eva is out Monday Petra is out Tuesday Eva is out Thursday Alex is out Friday If I've missed you please on this list please let me know.  Instruction and Programming CFS intervention checks are required by the diviison for each employee next year. Scot Leys will get back to me about the La Crete,Fort, and Rainbow times. High Level can just skip over to cfs at anytime in the day to get theirs done. That is on my list of things to do. It must be done this month. All you do is fill out a little form show ID and then it's done. Student contacts please keep up with your input of student contacts.

Sure enjoyed our little four day holiday where the sun shone, we spent all day outdoors and we felt that intense heat.. felt like summer holidays! I had to tell myself to get out of bed and get back into work mode this morning. Summer holidays are only 6 weeks away, I must be patient and not wish the time away. This is the best time of the year, when we get to celebrate with our grads and savor the results of our hounding, poking, prodding and encouraging. Enjoy the celebration of having assisted our students in getting to graduation. Summer is almost here.  Schedules: Please take note that this is a 3 day week. Today is Wednesday. These short weeks mess us up. Anne-  in Blue Hills all day today as Lisa is out. Alex will be here for the next two days. Thursday - Rainbow am High Level PM Friday- High Level- Ed Plan is due on Monday as well as Budget report, Amazing Race Alex is out today- Linda is in for him. Petra- is out today Thank yous Huge thanks go out to Janet

Happy Momma's day to all of you Mommies out there! Such a great day to touch base with your kids. marc called me and he had good news. My boy Marc, who couldn't spell " fix," ( he was 21 when he asked me how to spell fix) just received his second class power engineering designation. There were numerous teachers who wanted to repeat him because he was a terrible reader,  he still is, however that guy can work the numbers. He also does much better reading manuals that pertain to his area of interest than a novel. What Marc did have was family support and a Mom who wouldn't let people say he is cured of his dyslexia. He has learned coping mechanisms but a kid/adult with dyslexia will always have dyslexia, that is the way their brain is wired. It took him 4 tries for that very last test. He got discouraged,  angry and frustated yet he finally prevailed! I'm telling you this story because there are kids out there who learn the same way he does. Those kids are i

Some students come to us with no plan to graduate. When we sit with them and put that plan together, they realise that it can be accomplished. The road to graduation is never a straight forward one,( not for most kids), there are many twists and bends in that road. The end result is... the student graduates. They learn that hard work is okay, being inconvenienced is okay, getting frustrated is okay, waking up early is okay. I thank all of you for getting our students to graduation, it takes us all caring about them, to get them there.  This passed few weeks I have had two conversations with students re: an imbalance of energy. When we are putting more energy in than they are, we have a problem. I told both students that scenario is unacceptable. They must put their energy into their work, we are not doing the work for them.  Notes this week: Our schools have separate Pd days this week. La Crete's PD day is May 10th everywhere else is May 11th.  Several people ar