October 11, 2024

 Hear Ye, Hear Ye

• There were so many parents coming through the doors on Wednesday ready to hear how their child is doing at school.  Thank you for all your hard work preparing for these conversations.

• 4K students have had a couple of really fun visitors lately, including this week's visit from firefighters with their truck.  Shout out to the team for organizing this for our students!

• 2nd Graders in Mrs. Zastrow's class used small mirrors to see what their mouth does to make each vowel sounds.  This is another way to help them learn the sounds for each letter by knowing what their mouth/jaw does.  This helps them say the right sound!  Way to go!

What's Happening at Dodgeland?

• Monday, October 14
• Bus Duty for the week: Schweitzer, Mosher, O'Toole, Ellefson (3K/4K playground)
• Lunch Duty for the week:
• 12:00 - Braunschweig
• 12:30 - Miller
• 1:00 - O'Toole
• ASQ-SE2 due for 3K/4K staff
• Jenny in meeting from 8:30-10am
• Community Briefing on Social Connectedness and Youth Mental Health in the Commons at 6pm

• Tuesday, October 15
• Social Media Posts due to Jessica: No one signed up, but feel free to send her a post! :-)

• Wednesday, October 16
• Workout Wednesday (Just be sure to have professional attire for conferences)
• Jenny in meeting from 8:30-10am
• Parent/Teacher Conferences from 4-7:30
• Jenny will be providing some food for staff that are here for conferences that night.  Stop in the lounge after 3:30 to grab something.
• Book Fair is open from 4-7:30pm

• Thursday, October 17
• 4K Field trip to Busy Barns from 8:15am-2:15pm

• Friday, October 18
• Happy Birthday Sophie Mosher!

Nitty-Gritty

• Parent Teacher Conferences
• After conferences this week, please email Trisha the number of conferences you held from each night of conferences.  This information gets reported to the school board so it is important that we collect this data.  Thank you in advance!
• EP Documents
• If you have any outstanding documents, please complete them soon.  The Rapid Cycle planning document was due at the end of Sept and for some of you, the survey document and the SLO/PPG documents are due in the next week or so.  For some of you on your summative year, I would like to meet with you about your goals for the school year.  Please watch for an email from me to sign up for a time to do this.

• Cox Campus
• For many of you, we will be meeting to go over lessons from Cox Campus.  The resources, including the study guides, are in Google Classroom.  We will be meeting during the October Early Release or PD day (10/24-10/25) to go over the highlights and answer any questions.  If you have questions, please let me know.

PD Spotlight

I can't remember if I put in the blog before that these weekly PD posts are from Jen Johnson.  She has one for each letter of the alphabet I believe.  We are on G.  I like them because it is always something thought provoking and helpful.  This week's post reminds me of the study I shared with you a few years ago about culture improvement in a hospital.  The one thing the staff committed to was to acknowledge everyone that you pass, meet or see as you move through your day with a wave, greeting, smile, or some other way to show them that they are seen as part of the community in their workplace.  Just changing this one thing, helped improve the workplace culture across the entire building. When we are under stress or have a lot on our minds, this is something that can easily be forgotten, but when someone is greeted, it feels good whether your a child or an adult.  This week's post is a great reminder of something that we previously committed to here at Dodgeland.  If you haven't heard me say it lately, I love working with you all and am proud to call you my colleagues.

Friday Funny

Sharing this that Gabrielle sent to me!  How true this might actually be!  Aaaand, I wonder how many of us and our students will grow up to have neck issues and humps on our back from looking down all the time!