Spring Fever

This is Gizmo! I do believe he has "spring fever"! At Neuse Charter School we all had a little bit of that with the great weather we had throughout the week last week.

Please come to the PTO Auction at our new gym on Booker Dairy Road, Tuesday night at 6:30,
March 1st. The baskets that will be auctioned are full of so many great items.

Dr. Seuss' birthday celebration will be March 2nd, starting with a green eggs and ham breakfast in the Media Center. Be sure to turn in your original illustration with caption to me in the Media Center by this Thursday! Prizes will be awarded!

The seventh grade is doing a great study for Black History month, this month, with the book Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson. For students with reading disabilities this may be difficult to comprehend. Look around the internet on YouTube and SchoolTube for videos. I found one by a young man who did a rap song all about the book. He gave a great summary which I will use in my class. Also http://www.audible.com/ has this book on audio which can be downloaded directly to your PC or phone or IPod.

Some of my students are implementing the tool http://www.spellingcity.com/ where their spelling and vocabulary words are spoken back to them for auditory learners and games are created with their words for those who are primarily visual learners. I am a visual and auditory learner so I need both.

The high school students have been creating games as part of their study on The Odyssey.
The games they have made in teams, are of sections of the story and they are great learning toolare s because they include questions that the students ask each other and have to answer in order to proceed in the games.

The third graders have been working so hard on reading comprehension in Language Arts, and on learning to count change back in math. Progress is being made in both classes.

The fifth graders are doing a study on Black History and they are making quilts that have material dyed using herbs and berries.

I have mentioned just a few classes of amazing work that is going on with our EC students as well as all of our students at Neuse Charter School. Thank you, parents, for all that you do for and with your children.

Have a great week.

Mrs. Peele

Spring Is Coming Soon!

The groundhog showed that spring will be early this year- we all hope! Sometimes you need to stop and create something to get you through the winter and express yourself! Try making this door decoration that my husband and I made last weekend. Take apart 3 coat hangers, wrap them together into one long piece of wire, shape into a heart for your door. Take a string of red lights from your Christmas collection of lights and wrap them over and over the wire. Take a wreath hanger and hang it on the outside of your door. Hang the heart on the door and tape it all to the door so that the wind doesn't blow it off. Attach an extention cord and plug in your heart. You may add a red bow to the middle of your heart to show it off during the day as well.

I am doing some research into the I-Pad for students with disabilities to use in the classroom.

Check out the article iHelp for Autism at http://www.sfweekly.com/content/printVersion/20290215/

A few of my students use I-Pods and I have learned so much from them about the device.

It is going to be a useful tool in my classroom and I hope to one day have at least one I-Pad for my students to use. It can do so many things to inhance their education.

Our lessons are being coordinated in the Resource Room setting with the regular classroom curriculum. This teacher collaboration is necessary in order to have our students meet their goals. Many parents are also in this collaborative triangle which increases each student's chance of meeting their goals and passing their End of Grade tests . As Mrs. Beaumont and I continue working in many of the classrooms, we continually see improvements in our students' classwork.

Much work needs to be done to help each student keep up with their studies and assignments.

They need encouragement everyday by us, as well as , the rest of those on campus and those at home to be successful, as does any student. It is great to see that collaboration on our campus.

Thank you to everyone as we press on to work together to help each student have success.

Success

by Nancy Peele

Smiles

Handshakes

Confirmation

Laughing---

Working

Overcoming

Hope

Endurance

Perseverence

Completion

Acceptance

Love

Success

Have an awesome week!

Mrs. Peele