| Be Happy Every Single Day |
Discover something daily that makes you happy and become witness to your life transforming.
Our lives are rich with potential sources of happiness, but sometimes we become victims of negative thinking because we believe that focusing on all that has gone wrong will provide us with the motivation we need to face the challenges of survival. When we choose to focus on what makes us happy, however, a shift occurs in the fabric of our existence. Finding something to be happy about every single day can help this shift take place. The vantage points from which we view the world are brought into balance, and we can see that being alive truly is a gift to be savored. There is always something we can be happy about--it is simply up to us to identify it.
On one day, we may find happiness in a momentous, life-changing event such as a marriage or the birth of a child. On another day, the happiness we experience may be a product of our appreciation of a particularly well-brewed cup of a tea or the way the sun shines on a leaf. If we discover that we literally cannot call to mind a single joyful element of existence, we should examine the cause of the blockage standing between us and experiencing happiness. Keeping a happiness journal is a wonderful way to catalog the happiness unfolding all around us so that joy has myriad opportunities to manifest itself in our lives. Writing about the emotions we experience while contemplating joy may give us insight into the factors compelling us to resist it.
Happiness may not always come easily into your life. You have likely been conditioned to believe that the proper response to unmet expectations is one of sadness, anger, guilt, or fear. To make joy a fixture in your existence, you must first accept that it is within your power to choose happiness over unhappiness every single day. Then, each time you discover some new source of happiness, the notion that the world is a happy place will find its way more deeply into your heart. On this day, find one thing to be happy about and let it fill your heart.
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Week at a Glance
Monday - Nesloney, Short, Argueta off campus at Training
Start of National School Lunch Week
Staff Meeting - 3:45pm - Gym
School Board Meeting - 6:30pm - Central Office
Tuesday - Nesloney, Short, Argueta off campus at Training
Textbook Adoption Meeting #1 - HMCHO - 3:30pm - Central Office
UIL Practice - 3:30pm
Thursday - Prayer Time - 7am - TP Room
Fire Drill
Friday - House Meetings at 7:45am
Saturday - TCCA
Admin off Campus
On Monday and Tuesday myself, Short, and Argueta will be at a training. Geralyn and Cewilla will be your go-tos. Just call the front office if you need assistance.
Kevin Bradford will also be available to help as needed.
Staff Meeting
There will still be a Staff Meeting on Monday at 3:45pm. Please be on time.
There will be a brief TRTA Membership Info presentation and then Jeannie Robertson will present a tool at this week's staff meeting.
House Meetings
We will have a House Meeting on Friday at 7:45am to practice cheers. 5th Graders will be designing cheers this week and will come prepared to the House Games on Friday to present the cheers to your house to practice.
There will be a 5th grader in each house who will record the cheer for me to share out in case you need to practice in class.
Birthdays
Courtney Moore - Oct 16
TCCA
TCCA is this Saturday. It is a fantastic conference that is FREE and comes with a free lunch. If you're attending please let me know! If you want to carpool let me know as well because I have a parking pass to park close!
PLC
During PLC time this week you will plan with your grade level cluster in the TP room. Please bring supplies to discuss your upcoming lessons and how they align with your standards so that other grade levels can see the continuity. We are tasking YOU with leading the PLC this week.
T-Shirts
Monday is our final day for Creating the Magic additional orders. If you want to order, you can HERE.
COMING SOON: Parent/Teacher Conferences
October 23 - November 2 will be our 4th annual Fall Parent/Teacher Conferences. This year you will have a two week period to meet with parents.
This is a part of our Targeted Improvement Plan, so here are the expectations this year.
1. You must meet with every parent.
2. The excuse of "I couldn't get ahold of them" will not be accepted. If we need to make home visits, make home visits.
3. Admin can sit in on any meeting you need them to sit in on (as well as make home visits with you)
3. We understand this may seem like a big task (it is!) but this is one of the most important pieces to getting families involved in the process.
4. There must be a sign in sheet that needs to be turned into Cindy Puentes.
5. Our 3rd-5th graders especially need to begin to lead parts of the meetings because the SPRING Parent/Teacher Conferences will be led by students 1st-5th Grade.
6. Students need to be present at their family meeting.
7. Find something positive to celebrate about EVERY child with their families. Talk GROWTH.
October 23 - November 2 will be our 4th annual Fall Parent/Teacher Conferences. This year you will have a two week period to meet with parents.
This is a part of our Targeted Improvement Plan, so here are the expectations this year.
1. You must meet with every parent.
2. The excuse of "I couldn't get ahold of them" will not be accepted. If we need to make home visits, make home visits.
3. Admin can sit in on any meeting you need them to sit in on (as well as make home visits with you)
3. We understand this may seem like a big task (it is!) but this is one of the most important pieces to getting families involved in the process.
4. There must be a sign in sheet that needs to be turned into Cindy Puentes.
5. Our 3rd-5th graders especially need to begin to lead parts of the meetings because the SPRING Parent/Teacher Conferences will be led by students 1st-5th Grade.
6. Students need to be present at their family meeting.
7. Find something positive to celebrate about EVERY child with their families. Talk GROWTH.
Book Study
Please make sure that you are making time to read something 20 minutes every night. Schedule it if you have to. We want to be asking our kids to read, we must also.
As far as our Book Study book, please make sure you have Chapters 4 and 5 read, with questions/discussion topics written down, to discuss. Please be prepared. You have several weeks advance notice, so the expectation is that you come with your written down questions/discussion points, and the chapters read.
Instead of discussing at this week's Faculty Meeting, you will have until FRIDAY to submit your reflection and answer the following two questions on FlipGrid
Submit your answers HERE.
1. What is something you learned that you didn't think about before?
2. What is something that is pushing/challenging/frustrating your thinking about these two chapters?
Instead of discussing at this week's Faculty Meeting, you will have until FRIDAY to submit your reflection and answer the following two questions on FlipGrid
Submit your answers HERE.
1. What is something you learned that you didn't think about before?
2. What is something that is pushing/challenging/frustrating your thinking about these two chapters?
Morning Duty
On your PLC day....PLEASE keep in mind that you are on duty until 7:40am. We need you to stay at your duty station until then. Your PLC starts at 7:45am. Be on time to both your duty and PLC time. You should come prepared on your day.
Please also remember that 2nd-5th should be placing sticks in their cones either the morning of on the WAY to duty, or the afternoon before during Bus Duty.
Kinder - Cafeteria (need someone by cafeteria door)
1st - Gym
2nd - Car
3rd - Cafeteria (need someone by cafeteria door)
4th - Gym
5th - Car
House Points
This week we will be putting up some "House Points" signs around school so kids can continually keep up with house points.
Also, this year we want to give out House Points for academic reasons too!! So, before any exam, meet with your students and have them set goals for themselves. The goals should be lofty, but not out of reach.
If a child reaches their goal, let's give their house some points!
Hopefully this will be another opportunity for students to take their exams seriously and provide a little competitiveness.
Tell Your Story
Here is this week's interview with Chris Ruden as he discusses his disability, diabetes, bullying, and overcoming obstacles.
Blogs/Articles
What Does Childhood Anxiety Look Like?
Gifted, But Still Learning English, Many Bright Students Get Overlooked
Why Graphic Novels Belong in All Of Our Libraries
What Are We Teaching Boys When We Discourage Them From Reading Books About Girls
In Closing....
As a campus we either rise together, or we fall. We know that in the end, what matters is our kids. Their lives are at stake here. When we get upset about adult things, and then those things bleed into our school day, we affect our kids.
When I say WE rise together, I mean it takes ALL of us, When we're short handed we all step in. Yes even Jennifer Short (in 5th) and I (in 4th) had to sub in a classroom all day in the last two weeks because we were short handed.
When we need extra help in the office, we pull IAs and they help. When our students are having a rough day yes us in the office give up hours of our workload to help those kids and provide consequences. When we need supplies from Wal-Mart someone is always ready to jump up and go! When teams have that have to combine classes and they do it.
When we bring a joyful spirit to work and know that "Today I'm going to help these kids however I'm asked. Even if my cheese is moved. Even if what I'm being asked to do isn't what I thought I'd be doing today" then things become a little easier.
Why? Because our kids need us to take our own emotions out of the equation and show up, for THEM!
This is a campus filled with people who step up at a moments notice. Even on Friday when I sent out the Remind text for help in the morning, we had over 20 teachers show up to help. THANK YOU!
None of you get paid what you're worth, or for the work you're putting in, but TOGETHER we're going to make it work for these kids. Because in the end, they are the reason why we're here.
I love this video because I think it exemplifies team work. It shows how even the opposite team sometimes sacrifices to do what's best, to do what's right.
House Points
This week we will be putting up some "House Points" signs around school so kids can continually keep up with house points.
Also, this year we want to give out House Points for academic reasons too!! So, before any exam, meet with your students and have them set goals for themselves. The goals should be lofty, but not out of reach.
If a child reaches their goal, let's give their house some points!
Hopefully this will be another opportunity for students to take their exams seriously and provide a little competitiveness.
Tell Your Story
Here is this week's interview with Chris Ruden as he discusses his disability, diabetes, bullying, and overcoming obstacles.
Blogs/Articles
What Does Childhood Anxiety Look Like?
Gifted, But Still Learning English, Many Bright Students Get Overlooked
Why Graphic Novels Belong in All Of Our Libraries
What Are We Teaching Boys When We Discourage Them From Reading Books About Girls
In Closing....
As a campus we either rise together, or we fall. We know that in the end, what matters is our kids. Their lives are at stake here. When we get upset about adult things, and then those things bleed into our school day, we affect our kids.
When I say WE rise together, I mean it takes ALL of us, When we're short handed we all step in. Yes even Jennifer Short (in 5th) and I (in 4th) had to sub in a classroom all day in the last two weeks because we were short handed.
When we need extra help in the office, we pull IAs and they help. When our students are having a rough day yes us in the office give up hours of our workload to help those kids and provide consequences. When we need supplies from Wal-Mart someone is always ready to jump up and go! When teams have that have to combine classes and they do it.
When we bring a joyful spirit to work and know that "Today I'm going to help these kids however I'm asked. Even if my cheese is moved. Even if what I'm being asked to do isn't what I thought I'd be doing today" then things become a little easier.
Why? Because our kids need us to take our own emotions out of the equation and show up, for THEM!
This is a campus filled with people who step up at a moments notice. Even on Friday when I sent out the Remind text for help in the morning, we had over 20 teachers show up to help. THANK YOU!
None of you get paid what you're worth, or for the work you're putting in, but TOGETHER we're going to make it work for these kids. Because in the end, they are the reason why we're here.
I love this video because I think it exemplifies team work. It shows how even the opposite team sometimes sacrifices to do what's best, to do what's right.
good post!!!
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