Sunday, March 30, 2014

March 31st-April 4th

Food for thought... Family blogging takes on a life of its own!
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In early January, we kicked off our very first Family Blogging month in an effort to get our families excited about our newly created classroom blogs. Awesome teachers and students posted throughout the month, and learned the art of quality commenting. Student bloggers wrote posts at home and emailed them to their teachers via their Gmail accounts and the topics ranged from writing about yoga, Skype, vocabulary words, and even Minecraft. We also had Andra Goodwin , a parent, post on our school blog during that first month about the learning going on in her daughter's first grade class. During the month of January, our school wrote 66 blog posts and 356 comments, with over half by students. 

Almost three months later, student blogging has taken on a life of its own and the posts keep coming. Something that surprised me, though, was the excitement about blogging that has spread to our families. Last week, two of our first grade parents approached me about the possibility of doing some blogging about autism to coincide with April and Autism Awareness month. We met last week, and they walked into my office with books to share and a plan to share their story and information through a seven blog series on autism! Amazing! I am so excited to have them posting as guest bloggers for our school. Today, I received the first post that is scheduled for April 2nd, World Autism Day. I seriously get chills thinking about the power of writing and sharing and how our little Family Blogging month has turned into a vehicle for sharing thoughts, ideas, and feelings for everyone in our school community. 

Our school will be helping to raise autism awareness this month! We'll begin by wearing blue on Wednesday April 2nd in celebration of World Autism Day 2014. Caroline and I will also be coming to read to your classes and share an art project for our front display. 
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Dates and Details
No minimum day in April
April 1st- Minecraft Class 3:30
April 2nd- Staff meeting and wear blue spirit day- World Autism Day
April 2nd and 3rd Talent Show tryouts 3:30
April 3rd- no official tech time- finish up those amazing yearbook pages :)
April 7-10 Project GLAD demo in Tammy's room
April 12th-27th Spring Break
May 2nd minimum day- planning
May 7th, 13th and 14th Talent Show rehearsals
May 15th Open House and minimum day
May 21st Talent Show 10:30 and 7 pm
May 23rd & May 26th No school
May 27-30th GLAD Demo in Hope's room
May 30th Minimum Day and PIP Presentations at main campus, Ice Cream Social

Tech Tip
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