Sunday, October 23, 2011

October 23rd, 2011

WJPMS News will be brought to you by Ms. Kreider's 3rd graders this week. Thank you to Ms. J. Coleman's class for doing a wonderful job before our Fall Break! If you have any news to share, please let us know the afternoon prior to the day you would like it to air.

The Technology Inventory is due this Friday.  If you have not returned your forms to me, please do so as soon as possible!  Thank you for all of your help with this process.

The library will be closed on Friday for checkout and classes.  I will be attending a conference at the Nashville Public Library.

The Adult Book Club will be meeting on Thursday, November 17th at 6:00 PM in the library.  We are reading The Reading Promise by Alice Ozma.  It is not too late to join us!  Ms. Yandla Harris won a free copy of the book at our initial Meet and Greet.

Instructional Resources
Pumpkin Exploration
Autumn Leaves
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/autumn-leaves-curriculum-connections
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/red-leaf-yellow-leaf-extension-activities

Our Jones Paideia Online Library Catalog
http://www.youseemore.com/mnps/school.asp?schooltype=es&branch=485
Some of the "Autumn" books we have in our library include:
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Sunday, October 9, 2011

October 9th, 2011

WJPMS News will be brought to you by Ms. J. Coleman's 3rd graders this week. Thank you to Mr. Allen's class for doing a wonderful job last week! If you have any news to share, please let us know the afternoon prior to the day you would like it to air.

The Parent/Staff Book Club will have a "Meet and Greet" this Thursday at 6:00 PM in the library. I have notified all of the parents/staff who signed up by email. Light snacks will be provided.

There will be a PTO meeting this Tuesday in the library at 5:30 PM. I am not able to attend and would love to know if someone is willing to take my place? Please email me as soon as possible! Otherwise, we will not have any representation at the meeting. Thank you!

The Technology Inventory will be taking place during the month of October. I have placed "inventory check-off" sheets in your boxes. Please pay close attention to the IT number on the equipment in your room. If it does not match the form, please let me know. All forms are due back to me by Friday, October 14th. I have several more steps to complete the inventory and will need the time.

Our district has a trial account with NBC Learn and Atomic Learning. If you have the time check them out. I will send you the username and passwords in a separate email:)


NBC Learn
(http://www.nbclearn.com/portal/site/learn)
NBC Learn, the educational arm of NBC News, is dedicated to making these historic stories, images and primary source documents available on-demand to teachers, students, and parents. NBC Learn has already digitized more than 12,000 stories from the NBC News archives — one of the largest news archives in the world, dating back to the 1920s. Our original videos and archival news stories are correlated to state standards and the Common Core, and aligned to more than 25 K-12 and 30 Higher Ed collections. Videos are generally short — less than six minutes in length — enabling instructors to engage and enlighten their students without wasting precious class time.


Atomic Learning
(www.atomiclearning.com)
Atomic Learning is dedicated to providing a cost-effective teacher professional development, classroom technology integration and software support solution that empowers educators to utilize technology to engage students and positively impact achievement. As your ed tech training partner, Atomic Learning helps teachers develop college- and career-ready students with 21st century skills-based training.


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