Weekly Blog 11/6

Dear Wines Families,

It’s been a busy week this week. Thank you to all of our parents who attended parent/teacher conferences this week. If you missed your conference time, please contact your child’s teacher to reschedule. It is always our goal to meet with 100% of our parents.

Professional Development
While we understand that having a day off from school can be challenging for parents, I wanted to let everyone know that our teachers had a very productive day of professional development yesterday. During our morning together, Meri Tenney Muirhead and Michele Madden from the University of Michigan School of Education led a workshop on leading/facilitating math discussions.  The discussion-leading skills and techniques encourage students to verbalize their mathematical thinking, back up their ideas with evidence, and critically (and respectfully) incorporate and evaluate one another's ideas in the process of problem solving. These are important skills for students, and are of critical importance in the Common Core standards. Our teachers left with ideas on how to better facilitate math discussion that they can apply right away.

Directory Information
This is the final reminder that we will be producing our yearly Wines Directory next week and we will be using the information we have on file for your family including parent names, address, home phone, cell phones, and email addresses. If there is information that you DO NOT want included, you can let us know by clicking on the link below and filling out the form. It only takes a minute. The deadline to fill out the form is Friday.
Directory Information

Art Room Newsletter
Attached to today’s email is the latest newsletter from Ms. Hendrick in the Art Room. Please have a look!

Skyline Madness
Skyline Boys Basketball is hosting it's 5th annual "SKYLINE MADNESS" 3-on-3 basketball event on Saturday Dec 14. Attached to today’s email is an information/registration packet. The event is for 4th-8th grade boys and girls teams (or very experienced 3rd graders.) We have averaged about 20-25 teams a year and hope to eclipse the 30 team mark this year! You can visit our program website for more details as well www.aaskylinebasketball.com.

That’s all for today!

David