Alec Baldwin gets the early bird...

If you have an Amazon Echo, you might understand the title of this post. If not, I apologize. Thanks to everyone who is adding activities to the Pineapple board. You could have popped in to see Team Geha students dominate a breakout. We were focusing on collaboration and persistence. They were impressive! 

Coming Soon: The MACH 
I'm transforming room 212 to our dedicated MakerSpace, the MACH (Makers, Artists, and Coders Hub). At some point, we'll start working up activities for each grade level. I will talk to you at your grade level meetings about scheduling.

Computer Labs
I changed up locations on the mobile labs. R2D2 is now housed at the end of the 3/4/5 hallway. C3PO is at the end of the 1/2 hallway. Hopefully the new locations make it easier for you to access. Leanna has been lobbying to get teacher access to add events to the lab calendar. I have trust issues, but I'm considering it...

A Book A Day
Keep tweeting out pictures of books you are reading to #CREreads. I'll continue to add those titles to the bulletin board outside the media center. 

Early Bird Time
We started Early Bird this week in the media center and mini-MACH. Starting at 8:00 on Wednesday, Thursday, and Fridays, students in a chosen class can come to the media center. There are games, crafts, electronics, puzzles, coloring, etc to work on. At the 8:15 bell, we clean up and head to class. Fifth grade is piloting it and we'll move to lower grades throughout the year. Here's the current schedule:

• Upton - this past week
• Hickcox - week of September 17
• Higgins - week of September 24
• Geha - week of October 1
• Kunkel - week of October 8
• Wall - week of October 15

New Books!

We got a shipment of nearly 500 titles on Thursday. Some were from the original order but a lot were special orders for students and teachers. Keep adding requests to the clipboard on the back counter and you might end up with a surprise book coming your way. 

#CREteach

Congrats to Lori Huhman for taking the #CREteach award of the week! That title will earn her an unsweetened ice tea. Because in her words, "I'm already sweet enough".

Have a great weekend!