Monday, November 10, 2008

Updates from Innovations!

Innovations is into its 3rd month of school! It has been quite a ride to go from founding Innovations to becoming an integral part of a living organization.

Some triumphs have been:

Hearing how much the students are enjoying their math and language arts curriculum!
Having students work out their issues using Compassionate Communication.
Seeing how polite our students were during a ballet that we were invited to at the Kroc Center at the last minute (no time to prep about audience etiquette).
Creating the morning quote.

Some items that we're working on:

Obtaining 80 computers for the school! (Being a first year with no credit history makes this a challenge. Anyone have any ideas/leads?)
Giving more choice to students during their Friday partnerships.
Planning our Student Support Program nights (We've had one thus far on Compassionate Communication)

Reminders, and new calendar dates, for the coming month:

November 11th - No School - Veterans Day

November 14th - Picture Day Make-ups.

November 14th - Crazy Hair Day!

November 19th & 20th - Back to School Days - Come and see what your child(ren) is doing in school! Teachers will be sending out separate announcements about how they are running their Back to School Day. Both of these days will be 1/2 days and families can come in during the afternoon.

November 20th - Half Day - Due to scheduling with the Kroc Center, one of our Back to School Days will be on Thursday, November 20th, so we will have a 1/2 day ending at 1pm. Please plan accordingly.

November 24th - 28th - Thanksgiving Holiday - School is off. See you in December!

December 1st - No School - Staff inservicing.

Have a great day!

Danielle

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