On Sep. 7, Rainwater Elementary hosted Grandparents Day. Students’ grandparents were invited to dine with their grandchildren for lunch at the campus cafeteria. Students in Kindergarten to 5th grade were able to enjoy visiting with their grandparents and meeting the grandparents of their friends. Grandparents were able to enjoy visiting with their grandchildren, taking photos, and meeting their grandchildren’s classmates.
Farmers Branch Elementary Mustangs were super excited to celebrate their Teacher of the Nine Weeks, Coach Cluley, at the Board meeting! Coach Cluley works tirelessly to ensure all of our Mustangs are exposed to fitness and nutrition in ways that make it easy for them to take these skills home and share healthy eating and exercise with their families.
Thank you for all you do Coach Cluley!
Students at Furneaux Elementary are using specialized language when they come home from school as they learn the elements of depth and complexity. There are icons associated with the different elements of depth and complexity that serve as visual prompts for students. These visual prompts are designed to help students go beyond a surface-level understanding of a concept and enhance their ability to think critically. These critical thinking tools help students dig deeper into a concept (depth) and understand that concept with greater complexity.
For a student to truly understand a topic of study, they must speak the language specific to that topic. Through the different elements of depth and complexity, students study the language of the discipline, details, patterns, rules, big ideas, ethical issues, and trends of a topic. They are able to find unanswered questions, view multiple perspectives, look how things/ideas change over time, and how things/ideas are connected through different disciplines.
In lieu of “learning to read,” these Furneaux students are “reading to learn.”
Furneaux first-grade students are learning to enhance their reading skills by using “whisper phones.” A whisper phone is a small, light-weight auditory feedback device, sometimes homemade by teachers out of PVC pipe. The whisper phones allow a student to speak softly into it while listening to the clarity and rhythm of their words as they read. This instant feedback encourages the student to make any necessary adjustments to their fluency or pronunciation as they speak.
The 2018-2019 Cougar News Network, is off to a great start! We have 9 eager 4th and 5th graders leading our daily live announcements sharing the weather, lunch, birthdays, and must know news items for the students at Thompson Elementary.
The students (who applied with teacher recommendation last year) had to agree to be a leader for our school, write a catchy announcement to keep the student population attention, and arrive early to be ready to go live at 7:35 A.M.. They are busy learning how to write scripts, work the camera, and will soon add the power of a green screen to their list of tricks!
Applications for the 2019-2020 news crew will be available to 3rd and 4th graders at the beginning of May!
This is a great opportunity for Thompson students!
On August 31, 4th & 1st grade dual language learners at Thompson Elementary engaged in collaborative exploration of bilingual texts. The dual language program, which students enter in kindergarten, contains a combination of English native speakers and Spanish native speakers learning both languages.
Reading and Language arts are taught in Spanish and Math/Science classes are taught in English. At Thompson, buddy reading is a time in which primary and intermediate students pair up to share a love of reading. One student exclaimed, “I look forward to buddy reading every week so I can practice my reading voices!”
In early November of 2017, the students of the Vivian Field karate program were chosen to be the face of Kickstart Kids’ 25th Anniversary campaign. Helping to raise awareness of the program, foundation and it’s effect on the students it reaches.
Today, almost one year later, the photographers returned to the Vivian Field Middle School for another opportunity for our students. The North Texas Giving Day fund raiser for Kickstart Kids is fast approaching and, once again, we were chosen to to be the the face of the day, alongside the students of Perry Middle School and their instructor, Jessica Hellman.
Kickstart so graciously gifted us with a canvas print of our Vivian Field students from the 2017 photo shoot. There are only great things in store for our program and the fabulous kids of our own VivNation Kickstart program!
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SÁBADO 6 DE OCTUBRE, 2018
10 A.M.-1 P.M
PREPARATORIA DE NEWMAN SMITH, SALÓN NW117
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Learn how to apply to College
Learn how to apply for Financial Aid
Guest Speakers from the University of Texas at Dallas and Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
Food will be provided and there will be door prizes! Parents are encouraged to attend and learn about how they can support their child’s academic journey!
Register & RSVP by September 29
Saturday, October 6, 2018
10:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M.
Newman Smith High School, Room NW117
Bush Middle School was honored at the September Board Meeting with the 2018 School Transforming Learning award. The award was presented by Danny Modisette from N2 Learning. This award is designed to honor and showcase the work of campuses that are Principal’s Institute campuses that are making exceptional strides in providing innovative learning opportunities for all students.
View more photos from this event in our Flickr gallery.
