Inservice

Day 1 - Teacher Handbook, Thinking Maps with Writing
Day 2 - Compliance, Health, Procedures, Dismissal, Teams

You can be assured that Ethridge teachers are learning, working very hard and planning for a very exciting and fantastic year for all of our students!  It has been great to be back with all of my coworkers and to see all of the new things they have planned for their classrooms.

Our Fine Arts Team is made up of four classes:  Music, Art, PE, and Science Discovery.  Since we use Thinking Maps as a way for students to organize their ideas and put together information, our rotation is four days long and all teachers follow it as "MAPS" (Music Art PE Science).  We see our classes on a continuous four day rotation and have each class for 50 minutes.  This is a new change as we have always had students for 45 minutes.  It will be great to have a little more time with them each day.

I'm still putting details into the classroom.  Getting closer to being done!!  I am planning out roles for my students in my classroom.  Really excited about the "Rock Star" Leaders in class as well as videographer and guest writer for the blog about music.  Other jobs will include Orff Managers (students who are in charge of making sure the instruments are clean, have the bars in the right places, and take care of mallets), Lighting Director (in charge of light switches in our room for when we need different ambience for seeing the Smartboard), Conductor (in charge of leading warmups in class) and others.

Tomorrow night is School Supply Drop Off and I can't wait to see all our former and new students as they come to prepare for a fun filled year!