Friday Focus - February 10, 2012

• Saturday Camp begins tomorrow for select 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students. 
• Falcon Express articles are due to Mrs. Olstein next Thursday.  I am emailing the newsletter to parents so more of them are now reading it.  It would be wonderful if they were to find out information from each of the grade levels (I'm trying to be subtle here).
• PLCs are scheduled to meet next Thursday afternoon.  It is OK if your PLC agrees to meet on another day as long as you are documenting your meeting and having everyone sign in.  
• Oakland Park Kiwanis will be here next Friday afternoon to honor the Terrific Kids that teachers chose for the 2nd marking period.  We will call for you to send your Terrific Kids to the cafeteria at 1:00.

Quote of the week - "When a teacher tries to teach something to the entire class at the same time, chances are, 1/3 of the kids already know it, 1/3 of the kids will understand it, 1/3 of the kids won’t understand.  This means that 2/3 of the kids are wasting their time." - Lilian Katz.  It's always a good time to consider how/if we are reaching our students.  An article to ponder regarding differentiating instruction - Differentiation Success