Good Afternoon TCEA Staff!!!
I hope everyone has has an amazing weekend and that you're looking forward to an amazing week at TCEA. I know that you are reflecting on our 8 strategic areas for success at TCEA. Last week, I shared the hash tags and images that our teams believe reflect out goals in each of the areas. This week, your homework (due by Friday, January 26th) is to share a piece of art (visual, musical, dance, theater piece, or STEAM) that reflects the strategic goal. I want to see how you connect the focus to everyday life and the arts. This activity will take us back to the Thinking Palette. Here is the concept of Creative Comparisons:
Creative Comparisons
What do you see in the artwork? / What do you know about the topic?
Compare: Choose a category from the list below or identify your own category.
Imagine: If this topic/artwork was a kind of _____________ (category), what would it be?
Explain three ways that it compares.
Good bet categories: Things that have a wide variety of parts or types. For example:
Musical instruments, Plants, Toys, Cities, Parts of the body, Artworks of all kinds (for topics that aren’t artworks), Music (for any topic or artwork that isn’t music)
Musical instruments, Plants, Toys, Cities, Parts of the body, Artworks of all kinds (for topics that aren’t artworks), Music (for any topic or artwork that isn’t music)
WHAT KIND OF THINKING DOES THIS ROUTINE ENCOURAGE? The routine encourages metaphorical thinking – central to the work of any artist and to creative thinking in any discipline. Metaphors provoke our imaginations to create comparisons between dissimilar things, often leading to deeper and richer understanding of each.
WHEN AND WHERE CAN IT BE USED? Creating metaphors help students understand unfamiliar subjects by linking it to what they already know. Use the routine when you want to help students make connections between disparate elements or ideas, or to stimulate new insights and solutions.
So, now it is your turn. Please click on link, below, and add your metaphorical thinking.
Thanks for participating and I look forward to seeing you tomorrow! - Angela
🖌✎Message from Mrs. Brownlee ✏🎨
We still need submissions for the 4 I's Cafe Mural Contest and the Yearbook Cover! Both due Jan 30th! Be a part of Chameleon History!
Video about the Yearbook Cover Contest
Video about the Cafe Mural Contest:
Themes to submit mural ideas by grade level:
K-1 - Imagine
2-3 - Inquire
4-5 - Innovate
6-8 - Inspire
Open to all - one space for a mural about all four I's
Also: On-going call for art for our Gallery and next edition: March 30th - deadline for the next issue.We want your art! Submit your work to the Chameleon Collective box in the art wing. Art should be neat, on black paper (no lined paper) with your name, grade and homeroom teacher. Submit your art, photography, poetry and writing for publication in our next issue.There is a chameleon collective box in the art wing for submissions.
Week of Monday, January 22- Friday, January 26
Monday, January 22
- PROGRESS REPORT GRADS DUE
- National School Choice Week Begins
- I have some cool promo items that I'll be handing out and will be asking you for some feedback to share on FB. Please make sure you're dropping artifacts into the the Photo-Video 2017-2018 Folder. I will be pulling some things from there to post. Want to learn more about National School Choice Week? Click HERE
- Troops to Teachers Job Shadow Opportunity: James Boyd- I have shared his schedule with the classes he'll be shadowing (he's only interested in certain grades). He'll have a Visitor Pass so if you see him, please welcome him to TCEA.
- 5th Grade Planning at 12:50-1:50
- SIT Meeting in Theater at 3:30-4:30
Tuesday, January 23
- National School Choice Week Continues
- Arts Integration Team Meetings (Kline will facilitate)
- 1st Grade (8-9): Johnson- Lanham, Person- Strimel, Brown- Pond
- 4th Grade (9:05-10:05)- Majka- Carr, McLaughlin- Bullington
- Hill at ESSA Meeting 9-4 at Ft. Bragg
- 1st Grade Library Trip: 9:45-11:00
- 3rd Grade Planning at 10:10-11:10
Wednesday, January 24
- PLCs (SST Focus: Lanham Facilitates and you will need to BRING data with you for students you are discussing)
- Kindergarten: 8-9
- 1st Grade: 9:05-10:05
- 2nd Grade: 10:10-11:10
- 4th/5th Grades: 12:50-1:50
- Middle Grades: 1:55-2:55
- Progress Reports Go Home
- 2nd Grade Planning at 10:10-11:10; please leave 10 minutes EBLI Work at beginning of Planning
- Kindergarten Planning at 8:00-9:00; please leave 10 minutes EBLI Work at beginning of Planning
- 1st Grade at 9:10-10:10: Please come together and meet in one or your room's for 10 minutes to complete EBLI Work with Mrs. Pond
- PLC (SST Focus: Lanham Facilitates and you will need to BRING data with you for students you are discussing)
- 3rd Grade at 10:10-11:10
- Arts PLC at 11:30
- MTSS Team Meeting at 12:30-2:45
Friday, January 26
- Teacher Workday: Math Foundation Training (Day 3) 8 am- 3 pm
- Lanham Training: 3:00-3:30 pm
******************************* Please Remember***********************************
- Observations continue
- If you are not teaching according to the Master Schedule, you need to get permission from Mrs. Hill.
- Please make sure you are reading communication regarding iReady and mClass from Mr. Thomas.
- No one plan on being out on 1.30.18
- Have mid year PDP completed by 1.31.18
- Haven't read the latest Weekly Teacher Strategy Newsletter? Please review so your pink card can be punched.
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