Thought

I thought we would get a full week, but Iowa winter winds are cruel. I will be traveling to get Melissa and Rhapsody tomorrow night so I hope the roads are good. We have finally finished ITED testing, but still have a few make ups. I also had some great thoughts from the last staff meeting that I will share tomorrow. I hope we can have a full week of school sometime in the near future.

Healthy Kids

Today was very interesting learning more about the Healthy Kids Act. The majority of the day was spent talking about the nutrition part. I do see a need to create a committee of Teachers, Parents, and Community members. We will have an opportunity to review the wellness policy and discuss the impact on fundraisers and other things we do. We will talk about this in further staff meetings and devise a small committee to start then have that committee grow. I think we will finally have a full day of school tomorrow.

This Week

It has been a hectic week. I had a conversation the other day and I can not remember the last time we had a full week of school with no late starts. We have one more day of ITED testing, but we will now wait until next week due to state wrestling. Next week is FFA week and we will have some activities. I hope next week brings good weather and a chance to have school on time and a full week of school.

Finally

We have finally made it back to school. The recent weather events have set back the ITED testing for grades 9-12. We will be testing as of know Thursday, Friday, and Tuesday. Basketball girls will be playing Thursday at Harris Lake Park, the boys team still has games with Bode and West Bend and will start sectional play the following week. The wrestling team has state dual qualification tonight with district at Souix Center Saturday. Have a great day.

GT Board

I would like to announce that the GT board made a motion and approved the motion to add 1 to 1 learning environment for next year. The motion will of course need to have attorney approval and the final approval from the board. I would like to thank everyone for their time and effort on this project. A lot of you need thanking and I do not mean to leave you out, but want to thank Mrs. Farnum and Mrs. Alesch for the time put into the video. This is a big step for the community and what lies ahead is going to be interesting.

Exciting Things

Today the teachers were instructed on using a wikispace for PD and the teachers have created blogs that can be found at the Graettinger Library Site. To locate the site use the gtschools.org home page and click on links. After clicking the links look for the library site. If you look on the left hand side towards the bottom you will see a link for blogs. By clicking the link you will be taken to the site where the teachers have active blogs running. I hope you enjoy this new experience that we are creating at Graettinger/Terril Community School District.

Attempt at Video

Dear Readers:

I have finally posted myself to YouTube. I am attempting to link the video here.