The Road Runner

A Reference For The Montair Staff

If you are truly going to bring all your students to the ambitious standards of the CCSS, there needs to be vertical alignment in the curriculum so that people who teach at any one grade level can count on students entering classrooms with some foundational skills that can then be built upon. Lucy Calkins, A Guide to the Common Core Writing

This Week at Montair

All Week:
1st Grade Eats Lunch Outside Monday 10/28/13 All-Day Foundation Golf Tournament 9:00am Additional Computer Systems Assistant Interviews Noon Trait of the Month Luncheon Tuesday 10/29/13 8:45am Kindergarten Students to G&M Farms Livermore 3:15pm Instructional Leadership Team Meeting in Conference Room Wednesday 10/30/13 8:00am GATE Parent/Teacher Meeting

Upcoming Deadlines
November 1, 2013 Certificated Evaluation Goals

Upcoming Events
11/3/13 11/4/13 11/4/13 11/5/13 11/6/13 Daylight Savings Time Ends 2nd Grade Eats Lunch Outside Principal Meeting Staff Development Wheelchair Assembly School Site Council Veterans Day (No School) Staff Nuts & Bolts Meeting

Thursday 10/31/13
8:30am Halloween Parade 11/7/13 11/11/13 11/12/13

Friday 11/1/13 8:30am No School Staff Development

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Professional Reading
A friendly reminder to please read before Nov. 1, 2013: A Guide to the Common Core Writing Workshop by Lucy Calkins (Pg. 1-9)

Bulletin Boards in Front Office

Fourth grade will begin displaying student work starting November 12, 2013.

Weebly Site

Roadrunner(s) of the Week! Beep! Beep! Ven Ngyuen & Here is the link: http://montairstaff.weebly.com/ Khang Ngyuen! We are very fortunate to have two great Character Trait of the Month custodians. They are both October: Resourcefulness Literature: Literature: Zero by Kathryn very helpful and do so Otoshi much great work to ensure November/December: Sense of Humor our campus is clean and To laugh and be playful without harming others. well maintained. Ven even Literature: Good Night Opus by Berkeley Breathed came in on his day off to support the Fall Carnival. The Triple-Filter Test Author Unknown They are always doing In ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed to hold knowledge in high everything necessary for our esteem. One day an acquaintance met the great philosopher and said, "Do school to be successful. you know what I just heard about your friend?" Thank you Ven & Khang for being a special part of "Hold on a minute," Socrates replied. "Before you talk to me about my friend, it might be good idea to take a moment and filter what youre going Montair.
to say. Thats why I call it the triple filter test. The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?" "Well, no," the man said, "actually I just heard about it and" "All right," said Socrates. "So you dont really know if its true or not. Now, lets try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my friend something good?" "Umm, no, on the contrary" "So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about my friend, but youre not certain its true. You may still pass the test though, because theres one filter leftthe filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my friend going to be useful to me?" "No, not really." "Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither true, nor good, nor even useful, why tell it to me at all?"

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