We are completing another great week of learning at McKinley! What a great place to be.
Thank you to everyone for helping in my absence lately. In the last few weeks, I have been out of the building for various meetings. As much as I hate being gone, I appreciate everyone who has helped "cover" in my absence. A special thanks to Lorri, Justin, and Annette for your extra responsibilities! I can honestly say we (McKinley) work with some of the best people in the state!
Joining our 2nd Grade Team!
Welcome to Dan Tinaglia as a 2nd Grade Long-Term Sub for Katie Demmer. Dan will be here doing some observing; however, he officially begins March 14. Dan is no stranger to McKinley, having completed his student teaching with Mark Langlois. Welcome, Dan!
Reading Corp, K-3:
I was notified this week that McKinley was accepted to be a K-3 Reading Corp site for next year. Reading Corp is an organization that works with students, grades K-3, on specific reading interventions. What does this mean? More support for our early readers! More information will come on this....
Door Duty:
Don't forget about door duty! First, if you are assigned before or after school, please make sure you show up. Second, don't forget to get into the halls when the bells ring. I love this about McKinley- however, I'm seeing it go away more and more.
Announcements from Libby:
Below is some information that Libby compiled regarding finding books in the guided library.
Finding Leveled Library Books
Did you know that there is a quick and easy way to search
for books in the guided (leveled) library? In order to do this, you need
to log in to destiny by:1. Go to the Media Center webpage.
2. Click on “Find a book in destiny.”
3. It will bring you to a log in page (The username is your normal username (mine is ezeman) and the password is mckstaff for everyone.).
4. Now you are logged in and can search for library books and leveled library books (there is a green arrow next to the leveled library books).
I will plan to quickly show how to search only in the
leveled library (by changing the material type to “kit”) at our next staff
meeting. This is also the way you can search for books from other schools
(to have them send over if you are trying to round up multiple copies of a
specific text or a copy that our library does not have).
A few teachers have had difficulty logging in to this
system. Teachers, if you have not logged into this system this year, please
do so by the end of the day March 7th. If you are unable
to log in, please send Libby an email.
Leveled Library Usage Reminders
We have noticed several books and book bags out of place in the guided library. A big thank you to Denise and to Nancy Kennon (who volunteers) for all of your work with our books! Please help us keep the library usable for everyone by following these guidelines:
1. While browsing, if you take a bag out, put it back in the box you took it from (bags are labeled with box numbers to help with this).
2. Check out all bags of books that you remove from the library from Denise.
3. Be sure to keep the whole bag together (we can’t take individual books out of these bags).
4. When you are done with the bag, check it back in with Denise.
Thank you for your help with keeping our guided library organized and useful.
A Snapshot of Learning:
Rachael Eickhoff and her 3rd graders created a hologram of the moon to observe the changes in moon phases. How cool!
Kindergarten extended their learning into the outdoors to look for real-world shapes in math.
We had some great thinking last night at our Science Fair. A huge thanks to Rachael Eickhoff , Lori Huisenga, and Lorri Harrison for all their work with this!
Building Weekly Newsletter:
Click here to access the weekly building newsletter.
Valet Parking for the Week:
The Valet Parking for the week goes to Sonya David! Sonya wears many different "hats" throughout her day- and does it extremely well! Sonya is extremely positive, focused, and dedicated. Sonya will do "whatever it takes" to make sure our McKinley team is serving our students. Sonya, we love having you on our team- thanks for all you do!
Have an amazing weekend and enjoy the 50 degree weather tomorrow!
-Justin
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