Friday, November 13, 2009

Today is day 6 on the specials calendar.
Today is Hispanic food tasting festival. Please bring your students to the gym per the schedule sent on Thursday. Specials will still take place. If your class goes to the gym during specials, the specialist will take students to the gym.

Congratulations to Mrs. Hill's Kindergarten class. They recently won CiCi's Pledge challenge and recited the pledge of allegiance on WBFJ radio. See Mrs. Hill for the web address to see a slide show of the kids. Great job, Grizzly cubs.

The Winston-Salem Rescue mission annually provides boxes of food for needy families for Thanksgiving. That effort is remarkable considering the almost certain increase in needs in our community. It truly is much better to give than receive. Mr. Funderburk usually is our contact person to identify students who would benefit from these services, but with his absence, the needs have almost been missed. Long story short, I need the names of any students who you feel would benefit from receiving a a Thanksgiving box of food tomorrow(Friday). I know it's last minute but I just found out about the possibility Thursday. To submit a name doesn't mean the child will automatically get the food. I will need to work with the guidance counselors to make final determination. Please send any names via email as soon as possible Friday.

3-5 teachers and AIG teachers, please sign up for and plan to attend the small group training on Monday after school. The purpose of the training is to learn about the Foundations Literacy program which will be used in Word study component of Balanced Literacy.