Colorado FREE days!

Denver Museum of Nature and Science

2001 Colorado Boulevard
Denver
(303) 322-7009
http://www.dmns.org/

January 9
January 31
February 14
February 27
Apri 17
August 22
August 28
September 18
September 26
October 31
November 13
December 5

Denver Botanic Gardens

1007 York Street, Denver
(720) 865-3500
http://www.botanicgardens.org/

January 17
February 21
March 20
April 22
July 19
August 29
September 26
October 10


Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield

8500 Deer Creek Canyon Road, Littleton
(303) 973-3705
http://www.botanicgardens.org/

January 7
February 4
March 4
April 22
June 3
July 1
August 5
November 4


Denver Art Museum

100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver
(720) 865-5000
http://www.denverartmuseum.org/

January 1
February 5
March 5
April 2
April 24
May 7
June 4
July 2
August 6
September 3
September 10
October 1
November 5
December 3

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts

SCFD 10 for $10
Each Tuesday at 10am, The Denver Center for the Performing Arts will release a limited number of $10 tickets. Ten seats for every Denver Center Theatre Company performance in the coming week will qualify (up to 25 shows per week). Use code SCFD.

Tonight! Retro Night!!

As always EVERYONE IS WELCOME (online & cottage –both levels)

Monday Jan. 31:

Last chance to donate to the baskets they will auction off at the Retro Night

Silent Action Basket donation Ideas:

§ Bath products

§ Chocolates

§ Sports items

§ Tools

§ Candles

§ Kitchen items

§ Snacks

§ Coffee/Tea items

§ ????

Kids’ Raffle Basket donation Ideas:

§ Games

§ Candy

§ Sports items

§ Craft items

§ Stuffed animals

§ Books

§ Toys

Thursday Feb. 3:

Chinese New Year Parade @ 2:15 p.m. Don’t be late if you are coming in for it as it is briefJ

Gung Hay Fa Choy (sp)! Wear RED and BLACK. Our older cottage class will be in the parade.

Friday Feb. 4:

Retro Day! Dress –up in 5o’s, 60’s, 70’s or 80’s styles--all day and for the carnival/dance at night !!!

Mrs. Becker’s Health Class will be presenting their annual Health Fair in the gym during specials time(11:30-12:15) Retro Fun!!!

Retro Night - Friday, February 4th, 2011 (5:30 – 8:30)



5:30 – Dinner

Hot Dog Meal - $4

Hamburger Meal - $5

(Meals include chips, cookie and drink)



6:30 – 8:30 – Games, Contests & Special Guest DJ



Parking and Entrance: @ The Back Door of Gateway by Bus Loop ONLY

(There will be No Entry through the front doors of school)



Admission is FREE but you will need tickets to play the games or purchase snacks.



BUY EARLY AND SAVE!



5 Tickets for $1.00

Retro Case w/25 Tickets for $5.00



Advance Tickets will be on sale in the hallway in front of the library or outside, weather permitting:



Jan 31 – Feb 4 (2:30 – 3:15)



Tickets will be 4 for $1.00 night of event



Retro Night Volunteer Needs:

Food Service: Help will be needed with Food Set-Up (5:30 - 6:00), Food Service(6:00 - 7:30 w/30 min shifts) and Food Clean-Up(7:30 - 8:00). Coordinator: Nancy Lecky, nancy.lecky@leckyconsulting.com, 332-8562



Games: Help is needed to run the games (6:30 - 7:30 & 7:30 - 8:30). Coordinator: Amy Thorpe, thorpefamily@mywdo.com, 686-0784


Decorations: Help is needed to organize and decorate the Cafe and Gym prior to event. Coordinator: Stacy Schubloom, bsjsch@msn.com, 687-0261



Theme Baskets: Help is needed to create/manage Baskets for our Silent Auction and Raffle prior to and during the event. Coordinator: Paula Levy, palbunch@hotmail.com, 331-3640

Assesment Meeting follow-up

Thank you for coming to our first writing assessment meeting. I’d love feedback.

I hope it was somewhat useful. My goal was to make a connection between what you are teaching (the curriculum) and what assessments ask the children to do. Also, I wanted to emphasize the teaching of writing.


Writing does take time. Students in second grade and up can fit a plan, a writing, and an edited writing into your schooling once a week or more.

It probably is within their work somewhere already.

They can start doing this independently and like anything else it takes practice. So let them practice.

I meant to have Pippi Howard, my assistant, share her success. Within ONE week of the same discussion we all had, she saw HUGE growth in her second grader’s independent writing ability. Your kids will amaze you. She just gave a prompt, suggested a plan, gave time to write, and is yet to edit the writing. It was easy and had great results. Hope it wasn’t overwhelming.


Do remember to mention to your student that a “plan” can be a web, cluster, brainstorm list, pro/cons type list, alike/different list, OUTLINE (especially in older grades), or pre-writing. I really want the students to know that what they are doing may be referred to as a plan or planning their writing.


The site Eve suggested for CSAP examples and info.
Colorado Department of Education: http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeassess/released_items.html



The books she mentioned:
· "Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!" by Dr. Suess, Jack Prelutsky, and Lane Smith, 1998, Scholastic Inc.

· "Testing Miss Malarkey" by Judy Finchler, 2000, Scholastic Inc.

Her info:

Eve Owen,
Gateway IRT
686-2053
ecowen@wpsdk12.org