WKES Cares
Please keep Cathy Bryant's family in your prayers. The funeral for Cathy's mother in law is today in Tennessee.
Congratulations to Beth Banco in winning a Mid-Carolina Grant to support coding instruction with Lego purchase.
Learning Commons
Attention 3rd-5th grade teachers-If you would like to bring your class as a whole to check in and out books weekly or bi-weekly, please sign up on this form. (Be sure to write weekly or bi-weekly beside your name.)
SC Book Award Nominees-- Each year, the SC Book Award Committee creates a list of 20 of the BEST books! I have placed a bookmark in each teacher’s box of these books. There are many genres represented in this list.
Check out the SC Picture Book Award list for Kindergarten-3rd grades.
Check out the SC Children’s Book Award list for 3rd-6th grades.
All students 5K-2nd graders are being read aloud in the LLC the SCPB Nominees each week. They will vote on their favorite book at the end of February.
Third graders are encouraged to read on their own either SCPB Nominees or SCCB Nominees.
Fourth and Fifth grade students are encouraged to read the SCCB Nominees.
Students and teachers who read and review at least 5 of the 20 SC Children’s Book Nominees will be invited to our Book Voting Celebration in March and the SC Read In at the State House on April 2nd.
Need Assistance form-collaboration, read aloud, book talks, reader’s advisory, makerspace projects, extra set of hands, mental moment, etc.
WKES News Crew airs each day at 7:40 so tune in @ live.lexington1.net. Click on "Choose a stream"-"White Knoll Elementary." Click on the arrow that appears and you should see a picture of our school. If you have problems, please let me know or fill out a BOSS ticket.
BFF(Book Friends Fridays) Club-1st, 4th, and 5th grade teachers please remind and encourage your students to be part of the BFF Club on Friday mornings in the LLC. 1st graders are paired with the older students to read to become 100 Book Club Members. All of these students will benefit from this opportunity.
Counselors' Corner
Counselors Corner
Dear Teachers,
The school counselors wanted to reiterate the importance of referring students so that we can get them the most appropriate services. This especially hit home to us in our Collaborative Conversation and the scenarios we discussed.
Also, it's going to be a long week next week. DON'T FORGET ABOUT SELF-CARE! In fact, here are some great strategies and techniques to remember. JUST FOR YOU!!!
https://blissfullybrunette.com/self-care-challenge-week-1/
Also, please fill out this short google form so we can better serve you!
https://forms.gle/oEbbXQCi8EuxoCxd7
THANKS! Angela, Ruth, and Elizabeth
Helping Hands
Cafeteria:
Monday: Country Fried Steak with mushroom gravy, mashed potatoes and steamed cabbage
Tuesday: Beef Tostitos with Queso and Pico
Wednesday: Chili, baked potato and steamed broccoli
Thursday: Chicken Pot Pie, Roasted potatoes and Roasted Zucchini
Friday: Pizza Bar ( Supreme, Buffalo Chicken and Cheese) with side salad and pasta salad
Math
The "This or That?" strategy is an option you may consider using during your number sense routines. Here is a video you demonstrating the strategy:
This strategy can help you work on estimating and comparing. Students are also given the opportunity to reason about strategies they are using. Here are some examples you could use to get you started.
You can download this file and edit numbers to fit what you are doing in your class. It is just one more idea for changing around your number sense routine time and keeping those students discussing their mathematical thinking.
This idea was taken from the book, Daily Routines to Jump-Start Math Class by John Sangiovanni.
Literacy Corner
I am here to support your Literacy needs. Please let me know how I can assist and support you with lessons, small groups, conferring, matching books to kids, etc. Every small step forward is a celebration!!
RTI
Hello! We will have our first CONNECT meeting on Wednesday during your planning time in room 313. This is a time for classroom teachers to meet with interventionist to discuss our striving readers and their progress thus far in school. Please bring your conferring notes, latest reading record, etc. and be prepared to speak to the reading behaviors that you are seeing in your striving readers. Interventionist will not see our RTI friends on Wednesday. We are looking forward to our time together!
