8th Grade Meeting

There will be a meeting for 8th graders who would like to come and help pick out quotes for the 8th grade quote wall. Come to Mr. Kaltman's tomorrow at 8:15 am.

End of the Year Party

The student council/WEB end of the year party is this Tuesday after school from 3:30-4:30. Spread the word about it to other WEB/Student Council members. Bring a drink or snack to share.

Tuesday is also dunk day so wear your bathing suit and spread the word to everyone that it is dunk day.

Meeting Today

This is our last meeting. Next tuesday is Dunk Day, the Student Council and WEB celebration fter school. If you want more information on how to help, talk to Ms. Bechert or Mr. Kaltman.

Circle of Courage Day

Thank you to everyone in and out of Student Council who helped make last Friday a successful event! I hope everyone enjoyed it.

COC- Awards Planning Meeting

This afternoon (Monday) after school we had a planning meeting with Ms. Boynton for what the Circle Of Courage awards will look like, who they will be written by, and when they will be presented (among other things).

Written by...

• regular home base teacher 
• mixed home base teacher 
• students are assigned to another student in their grade
• students within regular home base (with guidance of home base teacher)

What they'll look like...

• Category (Generosity, Belonging, Independence, Mastery) and ONE SENTENCE about student 

When/by who the award will be put together...

• Send electronic copies out to all teachers and have them fill in student name, category, and sentence 
• Have teachers email back completed awards 
• Proofread emailed awards 
• Check that every student has an award that has been accounted for 
• Print out awards 

When awards are given out...

• Awards for all students are going to be given out during mixed home bases

Big Assembly...

• One student nominated by mixed home base to be recognized 
• Speakers on circle of courage
• Students nominated work bring puzzle piece and put puzzle together- puzzle is picture of circle of courage
• Cloth pieces decorated and put together as one big quilt
• Mixed home base chooses one word that they feel sums up the circle of courage and has a nominated student present it 
• Cee Cee's rap about COC 
• Band performance 
• 4 people out of whole school get awards-Generosity, Independence, Mastery, Belonging
• Students vote for teachers/staff for 4 big awards- Generosity, Independence, Mastery, Belonging 

NEXT MEETINGS: 

• Tuesday: Logistics Panning for COC Assembly- 3:30 to 4:30 after school  
• Thursday: Advertising/Activities Planning for COC Assembly- 3:30 to 4:30 after school
• Friday: Student Council Meeting- 8:15 AM 

Meeting- May 6th

We are having plaques made for all of the teachers on the staff to show our appreciation. Diego Lopez-Crane is making them on the Laser Engraver and charging us either a dollar fifty or two dollars for them as a fundraiser for TSA.

The Awards Assembly is very important to talk about. It's on May 27nd, and after the assembly in the morning all of the 8th graders will go to the highschool.
In the morning, the students would go to homebase.
Next they would all move into the gym, where there would be some sort of entertainment (band, dancers, etc.)
Then the Awards.

Penny Boynton's idea was slightly different than ours. Instead of going straight from homebase to the assembly, students would be sorted into their groups, where they would choose which of them receives the award.

We decided that this idea was a good one, but instead of choosing one person per group, each student would get one while in the group. They would not be overly personalized, but it would be nice to get everyone an award. The assembly will be more for the specialty awards, and teacher awards.

For lunch, we could have a mixed up lunch or a normal lunch. If it was mixed, it would be outside (if the weather is nice) and if not we would eat in the cafeteria, in shifts, while the other people wait in the gym. If we didn't have mixed lunch, and it was normal, we would go to our normal class period 4th.

We were talking about how we're doing lunch. We could do it by group (homebase mixed groups), by grade, or just normal. We want an opportunity for all of the grades to socialize, but organizing this would be hard.

Organizing meetings will be next Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
Monday: Anna, Caitlin, Jacy, Cee Cee
Tuesday: Gabrielle, Difa, Garret, Cee Cee
Thursday: Anna, Ben, Owen, Gabriella, Cee Cee

Meeting 5.4.11

Today we talked about having the Circle Of Courage Assembly for a half day in the
morning.
We came up with an agenda for the day: 
1) Students go to homebase
2) Students report to the gym where they are welcomed with music (band/orchestra/choir)
3) Awards handed out (Maybe we can talk to the Armstrong school of dance for some dancers?) 
4) Students will go back to homebase and play team building games


For teacher appreciation we will make plaques for $2.00. 


NEXT MEETING: This Friday, May 5th. 

Meeting

Today we talked about multiple things.

We talked about Teacher Appreciation Day, and how we're going to give them plaques that we're buying from the TSA.

Circle of Courage Day:

We're thinking May 27th, the day before memorial day.
We think it's going to be a two hour assembly, or a full day of Circle of Courage events. If it was a full day of Circle of Courage, we would take the afternoon to do team building activities.

So, it's going to either be a half day or a full day. We're asking the homebases for a vote, and we're meeting next Wednesday to discuss this more.

Next Meeting

Our next meeting will be the Friday after we get back from break- Friday, April 29th. Enjoy your week off!

4.13.11

Circle of Courage Awards Day:

• Awards given to each students during their group by teacher
• Assembly at end of day with special awards and band performance, etc.
• Lunches 4, 5, and 6 period by group

Activities:

• Two truths and a lie 
• Card about yourself...guessing who had what card 
• Circle Of Courage sorting game 

Assemblies:

• All school with performance of band, etc.