November Principal Corner

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1 November th Ave. No., Brooklyn Center, MN Phone: , fax: Principal Corner Greetings Garden City Families, Our School Improvement Plan for the school year is now available to view on the Garden City webpage. This year s School Improvement Plan is aggressive. We are raising expectations for everyone so we grow student learning and achievement at our school. The plan focuses on Reading, Math, and Climate/Behavior. We are adding a few new ideas to our plan but we are truly focused on improving our teaching practice; doing what we do better. Here are few focus areas of our School Improvement Plan that are new: Creating a balanced approach to math; with more small group teaching and learning opportunities in the classroom. Culturally Responsive Teaching; add ways for students to see themselves and their cultures in the classroom and within the lesson. Thinking Maps; a new way to create critical and visual thinking opportunities for our students. In the next couple of weeks, you will be able to see examples of student Thinking Maps posted in the atrium of the school. Families continue to be a center piece of our School Improvement Plan. This year we will have a number of family events and we will also continue our Families to Families workshops. I think of student success as a three legged chair; with family, school, and community helping to keep the chair of student learning upright and strong. Without each leg doing its part, the chair would tip over. Your participation in conferences, events, and asking your child what did you learn about today? makes a difference and helps keep all three of the chair legs upright and strong. Thanks to those of you that attended your learner s Fall Conferences. I look forward to seeing you at one or all of the upcoming November events. Principal Branch

2 Garden City Points of Pride At Garden City, we recognize and celebrate the goodness we see in children each day! As part of our Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) program, we recognize students who display the BLUE expectations: Be respectful Learn responsibly Use self-control, so Everyone achieves! Each day, when staff members see students showing positive behaviors, they give the students a blue slip as recognition. One student from the classroom takes these slips to a special jar in the office where they are collected for the week. At the end of each week, two students slips are drawn from the jar. These students take the traveling plaques to their rooms for the week as special recognition. Their photos are taken and are mounted on the Garden City Dolphins Making A Splash display in the front hall. The following students received the traveling plaques during October: Junior Zamorano (Mrs. Montero) Evelyn Her (Mrs. Thompson) Dhavindra Ali (Mrs. Knutson) Ethel Cooper (Ms. Erdman) Jennifer Jimenez Arroyo (Mr. Holtz) Danook Thongvathsa (Ms. Huggett)

3 SEPTEMBER WALL OF FAME In addition to recognizing students daily and weekly, we have created a monthly Wall of Fame that highlights one student from each classroom who has shown outstanding effort, consistency, quality work, academic or behavioral improvement, or utstanding character. Teachers write several sentences about the students, and these tributes are on display with the students photos. The following students are recognized for their outstanding character during September. Their tributes were on display on the Wall of Fame throughout October: September Wall of Fame Teacher Room Student Booke 7 Sabrina Vang Bottolene 8 Gao Her Erdman 47 Natalie Yang Fix 44 Brandon Velez Holtz 34 Lala Yang Huggett 46 Tsaag Xiong Jedinak 5 Aunesti Fullilove Jeffcoat 28 Ken Chang Knutson 30 Joshua Vu Lundy 3 Ether Mason Montero 38 Jasmin Higginbotham Mueller 42 Val Huerta Savitski 6 Sherlyn Popoca Pena Thompson 2 Grace Kaspar Wieser 45 Shuahla Xiong Wiinanen 9 Nae Nae Holmes Williams 4 Mariam Kamara Independent School District 279 does not discriminate on the basis of disability. If you need auxiliary aids or services in order to participate in or attend a District activity, please provide the school district with seventy-two (72) hours advanced notice. You can call 763/ or TDD763/ Examples of auxiliary aids or services may include: sign language, interpreter, assistive listening kit, accessible meeting location, etc.

4 OCTOBER WALL OF FAME In addition to recognizing students daily and weekly, we have created a monthly Wall of Fame that highlights one student from each classroom who has shown outstanding effort, consistency, quality work, academic or behavioral improvement, or utstanding character. Teachers write several sentences about the students, and these tributes are on display with the students photos. The following students are recognized for their outstanding character during October. Their tributes will be on display on the Wall of Fame throughout November. October Wall of Fame Teacher Room Student Booke 7 Ladondre Hubbard-Rivera Bottolene 8 Chengleng Xiong Erdman 47 Keeley Xiong Fix 44 Ally Dawodu Holtz 34 Ajibola Ogunbanwo Huggett 46 Arlene Pinos Jedinak 5 Hayden Kabana Jeffcoat 28 Promiss Gustafson Knutson 30 Juanita McCabe Lundy 3 Devon Xiong Montero 38 Azeem Holmes Mueller 42 Chinuj Vang Savitski 6 James Sam-Viko Thompson 2 Jonathan Dawodu Wieser 45 Neveah Farley Wiinanen 9 Jhaedien Lor Williams 4 Hadi Albatushi

5 Thank you to all our families for participating in the Club s Choice fundraiser. A special thanks to parents Katelyn Stauffeneker and Mai See Lee for processing all the orders! We are in need of parent volunteers to help out in the cafeteria during the school day with both breakfast and lunch. If you are available during the school day occasionally or on a regular basis, please contact me. Garden City welcomes volunteers no matter how much time you have to give! If you are interested in volunteering, please contact: Julie Linder (763) or linderj@district279.org NOVEMBER EVENTS 7 3:30-6:00 Club s Choice Fundraiser Pickup 8 Election Day USA 10 5:00-6:30 Families to Families 11 Picture Day 17 3:30-6:00 Meals for Minds 5:30-8:00 p.m. Harvest Fest & Bingo Night No school-thanksgiving Fundraiser Pick Up Day November 7th Harvest Fest & Bingo Night Mark your calendars! Coming Nov 17th! If you have insufficient accidental injury insurance coverage for your students, ISD 279 Osseo Area Schools does not provide any type of health or accident insurance for injuries incurred by your child at school. Supplemental accident insurance can be purchase through Student Assurance Services, Inc. Online enrollment through the website is: Please note: There is a $5 processing fee to enroll online. Contact the Garden City office if you need hard copies of the application.

6 BLUE Crew are positive leaders who demonstrate the BLUE qualities: Be Respectful Learn responsibility Use self-control, so Everyone achieves! BLUE Crew will meet monthly to discuss qualities of a leader and decide what activities they feel would benefit the school. Some of the activities the BLUE Crew will help with are Pennies for Patients, the Cookie Cart, and school celebrations. Students will be receiving T-shirts which say Lead by Example, and we will ask that they wear them on certain days. Blue Crew members: 5 th Grade Mr. Holtz Mrs. Montero Mrs. Frame Patric Oyegade Chris Baker Melika Skeho Ajibola Ogunbanwo Jerwehe Cooper Kalyjah Willis Lala Yang Jerome Smith Samuel Sherman Emily Thao Azeem Holmes Stephanie Xiong Dave Kargbo Breyelle Miller Lucy Xiong 4 th Grade Mrs. Bottolene Ms. Wiinanen Mrs. Booke Dominic Taveras John Burgos Shynika Chatman Kamara Smith Christopher Martinez Venegas Keimarieya Garner Brittany Vargas-Sanchez Aolani Xiong Sanaiah Milton Absence Line We encourage you to call Nurse Tran, the School Nurse s direct line to report an absence. It is available any time, day or night. Nyob zoo Ib Tsoom Niam Txiv thiab Cov Saib Xyuas, Kuv lub npe hu ua Kou Vang, yog tus pab txhawb rau peb cov tub thiab ntxhais Hmoob kawm ntawv thiab cov Niam Txiv/cov Saib xyuas nyob rau tom tsev kawm ntawv Garden City xyoo no. Kuv lub sij hawm tuaj ua dej num rau hauv tsev kawm ntawv Garden City no yog txhua txhua hnub Friday thaum 9-3:30 teev tav su. Yog nej cov Niam Txiv/cov Saib Xyuas muaj lus nug txog nej cov menyuam kev kawm ntawv lossi kev tshwm sim hauv tsev kawm ntawv, thov hu xov tooj tuaj rau kuv ntawm tus xov tooj lossi tiv toj tau rau kuv ntawm kuv tus vangk@district279.org. Kuv vam thiab cia siab tias nej yuav tiv toj lossi tuaj nrog kuv tham txog nej cov menyuam lossi tej yam uas nej muaj kev txhawj xeeb txog. Ua tsaug ntau, Kou Vang Dear Parents and Guardians, My name is Kou Vang, I was hired by the Department of Equity to support your sons and daughters who are Hmong and you as parent and guardians at the Garden City school year I m here at Garden City every Friday from 9-3: 30 pm. If you should have questions about your child's education or any event that is coming up at the school, please feel free to call me at the phone number or me at vangk@district279.org. I hope that you will contact me if you have any question about your children or anything that you are concerned about. Thank you very much. Sincerely, Kou Vang Picture Day: Friday November 11 Daylight Saving Time ends 2:00 a.m. On Sunday November 6th Don t forget to change your clocks back one hour.

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8 Music Notes from Mrs. Sagmoe N - ovember is the time for songs of gratitude and sharing. O ver the river and through the wood. We discuss & add instruments to this traditional song. V ocal exploration in Kindergarten: sing, speak, whisper and shout. E xperiencing harmony with voices and with instruments. M - aintaining a steady beat through movement, games and instruments. B uilding our music vocabulary as we learn music symbols and terms. E xtending our vocal range as we focus on singing in tune. R ecorder playing starts in grade four. P.E. NEWS November will find the student s finishing up their fitness testing. The student s will also be beginning a tumbling, balance beam and rope climbing unit. Garden City is participating in a program called Fuel Up To Play 60 (FUTP 60). The program is designed to encourage students to eat healthy and be physically active for 60 minutes every day. The program is sponsored by The Midwest Dairy Council and the National Football League. Please be on the lookout for more information regarding FUTP 60 throughout the school year. With the cooler temperatures it won t be long until we will be wearing boots. Please remember to send tennis shoes to school with your child (ren) so he/she will be able to safely and fully participate in their PE class.

9 Grade Level News Subject Area Kindergarten First Grade Second Grade Language Arts Letter Identification Letter Sounds Analyze characters New high frequency words and word sorts Analyzing and visualizing characters Main Idea and Details Visualize Analyze character Math Numbers 6-10 Repeating patterns One more, one less Solve addition & subtraction stories with unknown partners Solve subtraction stories Solve stories with mixed unknowns Solve stories with nickels and pennies Math homework on Wednesday Understanding addition and subtraction Story problems Social Studies Thanksgiving Voting Communities Now and Long Ago Thanksgiving Communities Science/ Health Insects continued Balance and motion Art Colors Tints and shades Computer Literacy Keyboarding skills Logging on and off of the computer Electronic books (ebooks)

10 Grade Level News Subject Area Third Grade Fourth Grade Fifth Grade Language Arts Comprehension Strategy: Analyze Character Metacognitive Strategy: Visualize Students will: Be able to visualize the tests they read. Students should be reading at home each night for at least 20 minutes. Unit 2: Determine text importance and sequencing of events Math Rounding Numbers Making Change Adding & Subtracting Multi-digit numbers in Real World Problems Students will: Be able to multiply multi-digit numbers.. Students should be practicing multiplication and division facts at home. Unit 2: Geometry Social Studies Citizenship/Government Students will: Learn regions, state locations and capital cities of the United States. Early Indigenous Peoples Science/ Health Structures of Life Students will: be able to use Second Step lessons to navigate social situations more effectively. Students will also continue their study of Earth Levers and Pulleys Art Elements of Art Book Elements of Art Computer Literacy Using the Card Catalogue, Google Apps, and Students will continue to use the Ipad as an effective learning tool. Proper use and care of ipads. Exploring Literacy and Math Apps for the ipad