Each day we have an opportunity to be great. It is a choice we face everyday. Will we come to work and go through the motions? Or will we be great and model greatness for our students? We are blessed to be in a profession where we get to make a difference and impact the lives of young people. We can teach them to strive for more in life and seek greatness in all they do. I personally have wrestled with this thought myself lately. In the midst of the challenges will I choose to be great. What an incredible responsibility to model and shape the lives of the next generation! Let's keep our expectations high for ourselves and our students. Let's seek to be great at all that we do!
Talent Show
Our school talent show will take place tomorrow at Powdersville High School from 6:00-8:00. We would love to have a large number of our faculty and staff there to support our students. Don't forget our own teachers will be performing a dance number as well. If you are able to assist with the event please let Mrs.Turner know.
SLO Mid Conference
Thank you to those of you who have signed up for a mid-conference. Please remember to bring your laptop with you when you come to the meeting. We will discuss student progress and address concerns you may have. If you team teach, you can sign up with your partner teacher. Anyone who missed their data meeting at the beginning of the year will make it up at this time as well.
Serving our Community
Student Service Council is collecting nonperishable food items and household items for the Piedmont Emergency Relief. Suggested items include peanut butter and jelly, canned meats, bath tissue, toothpaste and toothbrushes, baby diapers and wipes. We will be collecting items in our homerooms through February 2. The class who collects the most will receive a pizza party! Please be sure to share this information with your students' parents.
Read to Succeed PD
Next week are the Read to Succeed half day sessions. Make sure to sign up in PDExpress, because this is how the district office knows how much to order for lunch. The sessions are titled "Foundations in Reading". Please bring the following with you: Next Step in Guided Reading book and F&P Continuum.
Fourth Grade: January 31- 8:00-11:00
Fifth Grade: January 31- 12:00-3:00
Third Grade: February 3- 12:00-3:00
A glimpse at the great things happening at PVES...
A Huge Thank You
Thank you to Kelley Golden for donating her Scholastic bonus points and allowing the literacy committee to receive 55 books to give to students on literacy night.
Our curriculum committee from the Michelin Grant met last week to plan one morning. Thank so much to these folks who worked hard to prepare materials for our classrooms. We are excited to see this take place. Fourth grade followed up with planning their first PBL unit. This will be exciting for our students!
Speaking of our Michelin Grant, we are thrilled to see our grounds taking shape. Thank you again to Ms. Wilcox for her hard work to make our school better.
Powdersville High School sent students over with a delicious cookie cake to celebrate the 97.1% grade rate of the class of 2016. Remember that we have a part in this. Take pride in the investment you have made into the lives of each student.
Thank you to Mrs. Preisig for another wonderful math professional development session. Math teachers continue to grow and work hard to implement guided math in their classrooms.
ELA teachers had deep discussions during our vertical planning professional development. We focused on Text Dependent Analysis and how we can work together to prepare our students for success. We look forward to more vertical sessions like this one. Thank you teachers for your engagement and discussion.
We had a special visit from Mason Kallin and his mom! Mason had quite the captive audience. We look foward to Mrs. Kallin and Mrs. Carey's return on February 6th.
Thank you to our second nine week's patrols. They had some very chilly mornings but continued to serve our school well. We celebrated them with Krispy Kreme donuts and milk.
Our annual Battle of the Books competition has begun. Ms. Fowler met with students today to create teams. Teachers, please continue to support your students who are participating in this program. We have had great success in the past. Our school competition takes place on April 5th.
Tollison's Tidings
- Our school Spelling Bee will take place tomorrow morning beginning at 8:45. We hope to livestream this event so your class can view if you would like. A link will be sent out in an email for you to view the competition. We are proud of all of our classroom winners.
- Class Pictures will take place on Friday, January 27th. Please make sure to have your students line up tallest to shortest. You will want to bring your envelop with money recorded. Classes will be called to the Media Center when it is time.
- Please remember our expectations for hallway behavior and assist in enforcing this with students. Students should walk in the third block and with their voices off while in the hallways. This is to allow for traffic to flow smoothly. We also do not want to disturb other classes who are working. This will be especially important for our weeks of testing. We will want to make sure this is a norm and expectation that are students are used to before we begin testing. Make sure you are picking up or meeting your class in the hallway to supervise and monitor this behavior.
Mark Your Calendar
- Thursday, January 26th- Spelling Bee @ 8:45 am; Talent Show 6:00-8:00 pm @ PVHS
- Friday, January 27th- Class Pictures in the Media Center
- Tuesday, January 31st- Reading PD (4th and 5th grades)
- Friday, February 3rd- Reading PD (3rd grade); 3rd Grade LAUNCH field trip to Atlanta
Video of the Week:
This week's video is titled "The Heart of a Teacher." As you watch, I hope you feel both encouraged and challenged.
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