Celebrate all of your hard work!

Chalk for positive messages can be found in the HUB. Please use and return so we can all write positive messages!

This week is a great time to reflect on all of your hard work and the hard work of your students this year. You have put so much into your students' success this year. You have planned and problem solved with your PLTs and support personnel and parents to bring about the best outcomes for them. You should feel nothing but pure pride in all you have done. Engaging our students in this kind of positive reflection can actually improve their performance. 

Here is a link to a blog that talks about the power of positive thinking and how we can get students to reflect on the positive before the test. 

Have a fantastic and relaxing long weekend!

https://blog.innerdrive.co.uk/what-to-think-about-before-an-exam

Third graders read about the importance of water conservation

 

Celebrating the hardest working group of IAs and lunch coverage around!

First graders practice and perform plays for one another!

Kindergarteners say goodbye😢

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day! I hope everyone enjoyed celebrating with their moms or being celebrated as a mom. I echo Steve's sentiments in thanking Coach Williams and Coach Gursslin for another well planned, fun GHE Field Day!

Thank you Trish Gehrett for this beautiful gesture in honor or her mom.

As we enter this time of change, in the coming week, we will be calling upon some of you to be very flexible, perhaps more so then you have ever been. I wanted to offer this article about changing grade levels. Notice the link within it regarding teachers' favorite things about their respective grade levels.

https://applesandbananaseducation.com/how-to-switch-grade-levels-and-keep-your-sanity/

Thank you again for all of your hard work and dedication to your students!

Rocking the Red for Ed!

Thank you all for your efforts to support education at the state level.  This is leadership in the profession and I am grateful that wonderful teachers like yourself are willing to make signs and march and rally for all students in NC.
I am continuously proud of how cheerful and warm and nurturing you are to your students despite the fact that you are overworked and underpaid. You continue to find joy in your interactions with students and it shows. Rising above is what we do as educators. We keep fighting the good fight as advocates for education, without letting conditions diminish what we do in the classroom. Remember that whatever the politics of the day, what you do every day adds so much value to a child and to the world. Remember the student who brings you a bouquet of dandelions on the playground; the one who asks where babies come from at circle time; the one you couldn't get to write a sentence that now writes essays; the shy one who would not answer a question in class and had trouble making friends, that you now can't get to stop talking.  These are our artifacts.

Congratulations to Ms. McMahon for earning her Master in Reading at ECU! Thanks to the wonders of streaming technology, her students got to see her graduate. We are all so proud of her!!

Practicing skills in Sideline Soccer in the Gym!

 One of our parents who is certified yoga instructor for kids leads Ms. K. Wilson's class in moves connected to geometry!

Reminder:

Please read all of Tara's email regarding end of the year! Please note that Tuesday May 7th is now a staff meeting. CAs are invited, but not required.