Making connections

Connecting Learning to Our Faith Life

Last week we focused on Catholic Identity in our rooms and in our Unit Plans.  This week focus on how students take what you have included in your unit plan and what they are learning in class, and connect it to their faith life.  Making connections is important.  Everything students learn should be connected.  Connected to prior knowledge, transferred to future learning, and connected to our daily lives through the lens of Catholic morals and values.  Be sure you are giving students the opportunities to make these connections.

Facebook and Marketing the School

Kathleen, Nicki, and Charles have been hard at work creating and adding to our new webpage.  We are also focusing on ways to promote our school as we look toward re-enrollment time.  One of the things we are using is Facebook.  If you have anything exciting happening in your class (which I know happens all the time) take pictures and write up a brief description and send it to Kathleen. She will post it on the school's Facebook page.  

Reminders

Please remember that Thursday will be a full day of school and Friday is a half day for students and a full day for teachers.  Jamie has iReady part 2 beginning at 2 p.m.  Prior to that Charles and I will be introducing the Google for educators certification process.  We both completed it in one intensive day of training.  We are going to spread it out over the school year and the expectation is that all teachers will be certified before the school year ends.