I want to remind my rabid followers -- all three of you -- that if the weather does not cooperate with us on Thursday, Janaury 27th, we will have the spelling bee the very next day. The time and location will stay the same.
Another interesting weather pattern will be heading our way, and to my surprise the weathermen do not know what will happen! I am shocked! We will just have to wait and see what we are handed over the next few days.
Next week we are starting our Mo Jo' meetings on Tuesday February 1. We sent home written notice of the meetings so that parents could look over the schedule and see what meeting(s) they might wish to attend. The meetings will run every Tuesday and be held in our Library from 9:30 am to 10:15 am.
Till next time...
Monday, January 24, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Spelling Bee
The Spelling Bee Finals are coming up next week! We will be holding our annual event on Thursday, January 27th at 1:15 pm in the gym. I really love the spelling bee! The skill of spelling is such a wonderful skill to have. Being able to spell things correctly is also a skill that provides a leg up on standardized tests, be it the NJASK series, the HSPA, SAT, or even the GRE's and other graduate level tests. As you get older, spelling does not become less of an important ability, it becomes more important! So keep the nose to the grindstone and keep practicing your spelling... it will come in handee!
Till next time...
Till next time...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
AAAGGGHH!! Snow days!
Well, when I was writing my last blog entry, I thought to myself--if you write about the snow days, then the snow will come! Kind of a warped Field of Dreams scenario! It happened. I wrote about it and it came.... and it looks like it might keep on coming. As I write this blurb, the National Weather Service is tracking another storm that may bring a load of snow for Friday morning, or it might not. Gotta love being a weatherman!
Anyway, we are in a winter weather pattern and the only thing that might get us out of that pattern is called Spring!! I am going to hold my breath in protest of the storms. That will make them stop!
Because of our snow day events, we are going to be in school for half days on Friday, February 18 and March 11.
Who knows how many more beyond that.... I am sure the weathermen doesn't!
Till next time....
Anyway, we are in a winter weather pattern and the only thing that might get us out of that pattern is called Spring!! I am going to hold my breath in protest of the storms. That will make them stop!
Because of our snow day events, we are going to be in school for half days on Friday, February 18 and March 11.
Who knows how many more beyond that.... I am sure the weathermen doesn't!
Till next time....
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Snow Days
Invariably, whenever we have the threat of inclement weather, there are many decisions that need to be made. The variables that go into the decision to delay, close, or send students home early is never an easy one and is a process I take very seriously.
With the threat of bad weather that could affect the opening of school, I get up at 4:45 am and look outside. Then I get on the Weather Channel, Channel 69-WFMZ and the Internet. I start making calls to the Oxford DPW, the Warren Hills Cluster schools, the WTPD and, as in the case of the last storm Friday, the county DPW. I also get phone alerts from the NJ Office of Emergency Management and the NJ State Police that provide further information. I try to come to a decision that will allow for the greatest level of safety for our students and their parents, and of course our staff as well. This is all done with a number of phone calls, and then quite possibly, a sprinkling of luck that the decision was the right one. Had we opened last Friday at 10:30, staff would have been on the roads in the worst of the storm. The website, Weather Underground estimates Warren County got about 2.5 inches from 8:30-10:30 am. I spoke to a number of school leaders in our area and they reported that they only had 30-40% of their students in the building and had to double and triple up on rooms, since staff could not get to work safely.
This time I got it right again!
Till next time...
With the threat of bad weather that could affect the opening of school, I get up at 4:45 am and look outside. Then I get on the Weather Channel, Channel 69-WFMZ and the Internet. I start making calls to the Oxford DPW, the Warren Hills Cluster schools, the WTPD and, as in the case of the last storm Friday, the county DPW. I also get phone alerts from the NJ Office of Emergency Management and the NJ State Police that provide further information. I try to come to a decision that will allow for the greatest level of safety for our students and their parents, and of course our staff as well. This is all done with a number of phone calls, and then quite possibly, a sprinkling of luck that the decision was the right one. Had we opened last Friday at 10:30, staff would have been on the roads in the worst of the storm. The website, Weather Underground estimates Warren County got about 2.5 inches from 8:30-10:30 am. I spoke to a number of school leaders in our area and they reported that they only had 30-40% of their students in the building and had to double and triple up on rooms, since staff could not get to work safely.
This time I got it right again!
Till next time...
Monday, January 3, 2011
Happy New Year!
I hope everyone had a great vacation over the past two weeks. Looks like we dodged quite a snowfall back on 12/26.... the snowfall totals were huge in towns at the NJ shore!
This week we are continuing our Child Assault Prevention program with our good friends at Catholic Charities. They have been assisting us in delivering this program for many years and I look forward to another productive round of presentations this January 4, 5, and 6. Once again the program is being offered in grades 1, 3, 5 and 7.
This Friday will also be the deadline for the January Market Day orders. If the PTA can meet their goal, they will be able to donate $250.00 worth of new books to the school library.
Welcome back...
Till next time.
This week we are continuing our Child Assault Prevention program with our good friends at Catholic Charities. They have been assisting us in delivering this program for many years and I look forward to another productive round of presentations this January 4, 5, and 6. Once again the program is being offered in grades 1, 3, 5 and 7.
This Friday will also be the deadline for the January Market Day orders. If the PTA can meet their goal, they will be able to donate $250.00 worth of new books to the school library.
Welcome back...
Till next time.
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