Friday Focus - August 17, 2012

• How exciting!  The first day of school is Monday and our children will be arriving with their new backpacks, lunch boxes and school clothes.  Imagine how thrilled they are to meet their new teachers and to begin the journey we will take this school year.  Let's make this school year their best year ever!
• What do you wish to accomplish in the first five days?  I hope that it includes building relationships with your students.  Please remember that we want our students to do well, be safe and feel love.  It really is that simple.  
• Please remember that my expectation is that by next Friday every teacher must know each student's name, something unique about them, and their reading level.  We should know who our at-risk students are by the end of next week.
• Here's a short article with a few tips on classroom management - Simple Management Tips
• 1st day count - we will be coming before 9:00 to get a head count for the District.  You will still need to complete your attendance in Pinnacle.
•  Please review our school Safety Plan which is located in the CAB Conference.  We will be conducting a fire drill next Wednesday, August 22.  A tornado drill will immediately follow that drill.  A second fire drill will take place on Wednesday, August 29.
• As always, I want to thank all of you for making Floranada a wonderful place to learn.  I could not be happier than to work with such an amazing group of people. 

Quote of the Week -  “The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance.  The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life.  You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.” - Arnold Bennett. 
We have been granted a year of each of our student's lives.  Let's not waste a moment.