Celebrations!
- The Arts Team for such an intentional, thorough and powerful upcoming Artspleasure event centered around the theme of "Happy Dreamer"
- A captive Professional Development session on Friday with great sharing, collaboration and focus on learning for all students!
- Seven our classroom teachers are registered to attend the DIG Conference in March to explore how urban agriculture, community gardens, and edible gardens in schools and child care settings grow a healthier Wake County.
Communication Survey for parents: Underwood Leadership team would like to get some feedback about how best to community with our families. If you are willing, please fill out this four question survey to provide feedback as we continue to reflect on how best to communicate with our families about school events. Survey can be found at - Communication Survey.
4th Grade Performance Task: 4th grade students will be participating in a countywide performance task on March 27. We do not have a ton of details, but as we get them we will keep you all posted.
Love the Bus: This week (February 12-16) is Love the Bus week. We will be offering our bus drivers a few small trinkets of appreciation. Buses will be called one at a time on Tuesday afternoon to complete cards for their bus driver. We will celebrate the bus drivers more during teacher appreciation.
Collaboration
EDCAMP Wake -- Our Carroll Magnet Middle School community is proud to host the biannual EdCamp Wake the morning of Saturday, March 24. I hope you will be able to attend this fantastic event which always provides ample learning, sharing and collaboration opportunities. Everything is free and the here is the link. We hope to see you in a few months!
Critical Thinking
Instructional Learning Teams (ILT) - We will be completing some walk throughs in 3-5 classrooms to gather knowledge of the district (national) tool. Christine will be emailing the people that we will plan to visit. The walkthrough tool helps us to identify practices in our classrooms that reflect the Shifts in the ELA common core curriculum.
3 Shifts in ELA
- Regular Practice with complex text.
- Reading, writing and speaking grounded by evidence from the text, both literal and informational.
- Building knowledge through content rich nonfiction
Creativity
Stop Action Notes --: Link (example) of Stop motion digital note taking can be created in about 10-15 minutes with the free Stop Motion iPad app!
Student and Staff Awesomeness -- Check out what our team is doing in their classrooms -- via Twitter - @underwoodgtm -- #weareunderwood Keep up the great work!
Happy Dreamer --: What kind of dreamer are you? Lauren has a wonderful project that all staff and students will be able to participate in. Objective- Decorate your purple circle with the kind of dreamer you perceive yourself. STAY TUNED FOR MORE ARTPLEASURE INFORMATION!
Student and Staff Awesomeness -- Check out what our team is doing in their classrooms -- via Twitter - @underwoodgtm -- #weareunderwood Keep up the great work!
Happy Dreamer --: What kind of dreamer are you? Lauren has a wonderful project that all staff and students will be able to participate in. Objective- Decorate your purple circle with the kind of dreamer you perceive yourself. STAY TUNED FOR MORE ARTPLEASURE INFORMATION!
Calendar:
February 15th-CD Cohort; 7:45am
February 22nd-Spotlight on Students Breakfast; 8am
February 27th-Interims go homeMarch 2nd-Early Release; 1:15pm
March 3rd-Grounds Day
March 13th-SIP/Leadership Meeting; 7:45am
March 15th-CD Cohort; 7:45am
March 23rd-Foundation Gala at CAM; 7pm
March 27th-SIP/Leadership Meeting; 7:45am
March 27th-Artspleasure; 5-8pm
March 29-Q3 electives end
