Pie Time!

On Thursday afternoon, I had 17 students in 2nd-5th grades do something they have probably been wanting to do all year...put a pie in my face!
Our school participates in an online math program, First in Math, with other schools in the state of South Carolina - as well as around the nation. We challenged our students to solve half a million math problems by the 1st of May. The result of meeting the challenge was that the top point earner in each class was able to put a pie in my face at an afternoon assembly. The students solved over 515,000 problems by the date and on Thursday, I made good on my end of the challenge. We brought all 500 students into the multi-purpose room and let the fun begin! The kids did a great job and earned their reward!
Good luck as we continue to try to earn more points than any other school in the state. Mr. Greene's 5th grade students are currently the top class in the state...keep up the good work!!!

Family Night - 4th Edition

Tonight we had our 4th and final Family Night event. We made the choice at the beginning of the year to combine PTO meetings, Kid's Club (1st-5th grades) and Sand Dollar club (PreK and 5K) into one quarterly event. Overall, I believe that it has gone really well. Attendance has been pretty steady and we had over 150 in attendance tonight. The theme tonight was "Literacy". This is the 2nd time we used this theme this year, but it is so important that I felt like it was a worthwhile venture. We had our 4th and 5th grade Strings perform as well as some K5 students. Breakout sessions included Pat Wilson - creator of Alphabet Junction, a children's storyteller, cybersafety, and family math, reading, science and art activities. We even managed to serve pizza following the meeting.
I would say that the Family Night format has been successful as our goal was to get families to come to school to learn and play together. Thanks to all of our great staff for organizing these events and doing all of the work to make sure that each one was successful!

Teacher Appreciation Week

This week is Teacher Appreciation Week. We had a great start to our week for this event. A local church, The Link (www.thelinkbeaufort.com), provided breakfast for all of our staff members. The church staff bought bagels and coffee, loaded it all up on a couple of rolling carts and took it all around the building. They toasted bagels, spread cream cheese and poured coffee for each staff member. They thanked all of the teachers for their work and moved around to each classroom. A big thank you to Mike, Lynn, Chad and Chris for taking time to show their appreciation to the staff members of our school!
I am very appreciative of all of the efforts of our staff this year!

Donuts for Dads

We had a great time at school this morning with our annual Donuts for Dads event. We had a large number of dads (granddads and uncles, too) to come and eat breakfast with their kids! We changed the time to right before school, instead of during the school day as had been done in the past. This allowed us to accommodate many working dad's schedules as well as minimizing disruption to the learning process.
All the dads that attended were eager to spend time with their kids. Many walked their kids down to the classrooms (some making their first visit to the school this year) and were able to interact with teachers. We may move this event to fall to get the dads in here earlier in order to encourage them to come more often! Thanks to all the office staff and media center staff for making this event successful!