The Principal Perspective
Elizabeth J. Abramowitz
Every room I visit is filled with highly engaged students demonstrating higher level thinking skills throughout the curriculum. Our faculty has been expanding their band-width to encompass various questioning strategies to actively engage students’ thinking processes.
I highly recommend utilizing the following questioning techniques when discussing books/TV/movies with your children:
1. Compare and contrast parts/relationships/ideas and elements of a story.
2. Discuss a new ending or changing an element to a story.
3. What would the world be like if………
4. What might have occurred if………
5. Discuss this story from a different perspective
Any thought-provoking question will challenge your child to refine and expand their critical thinking skills.
Let’s work together to increase our childrens’ proficiency in analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing information.
Every room I visit is filled with highly engaged students demonstrating higher level thinking skills throughout the curriculum. Our faculty has been expanding their band-width to encompass various questioning strategies to actively engage students’ thinking processes.
I highly recommend utilizing the following questioning techniques when discussing books/TV/movies with your children:
1. Compare and contrast parts/relationships/ideas and elements of a story.
2. Discuss a new ending or changing an element to a story.
3. What would the world be like if………
4. What might have occurred if………
5. Discuss this story from a different perspective
Any thought-provoking question will challenge your child to refine and expand their critical thinking skills.
Let’s work together to increase our childrens’ proficiency in analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing information.
DECEMBER
12/2/10 Parade of Characters 8:15 a.m.
12/2-8/10 Scholastic Book Fair
12/8/10 Winter Concert Grades K-1/Student of the
Month Awards 8:15 a.m.
12/9/10 Winter Concert Grades 2-3; Student of the
Month Awards 8:15 a.m.
12/10/10 School Site Council Meeting 7:15 a.m.
12/10/10 Winter Concert Grades 4-5 Student of the
Month Awards 8:15 a.m.
12/13/15,16,17 Parent/Teacher Conferences - Early Dismissal at 12:29 p.m. - MWTHFR
12/17/10 FYA/PTA Parent Meeting 8:00 a.m..
12/20/10-1/7/11 School Closed - Winter Break
JANUARY
1/12/11 Coffee with the Principal 8:15 a.m.
1/14/11 FYA/PTA Parent Meeting 8:00 a.m.
1/17/11 School Closed - Martin Luther King Day
1/21/11 School Site Council Meeting 7:15 a.m.
1/21/11 "Anti- Bully" Meeting 8:15 a.m.
FEBRUARY
2/2/11 Read-a-Thon Kickoff Yard
Assembly/Packets go home
2/10/11 5th Grade Panorama Picture
2/11/11 FYA/PTA Parent Meeting 8:00 a.m.
2/14/11 School Site Council Meeting 7:15 a.m.
2/21/11 School Closed - President's Day
2/23-25/11 Astro Camp
12/2/10 Parade of Characters 8:15 a.m.
12/2-8/10 Scholastic Book Fair
12/8/10 Winter Concert Grades K-1/Student of the
Month Awards 8:15 a.m.
12/9/10 Winter Concert Grades 2-3; Student of the
Month Awards 8:15 a.m.
12/10/10 School Site Council Meeting 7:15 a.m.
12/10/10 Winter Concert Grades 4-5 Student of the
Month Awards 8:15 a.m.
12/13/15,16,17 Parent/Teacher Conferences - Early Dismissal at 12:29 p.m. - MWTHFR
12/17/10 FYA/PTA Parent Meeting 8:00 a.m..
12/20/10-1/7/11 School Closed - Winter Break
JANUARY
1/12/11 Coffee with the Principal 8:15 a.m.
1/14/11 FYA/PTA Parent Meeting 8:00 a.m.
1/17/11 School Closed - Martin Luther King Day
1/21/11 School Site Council Meeting 7:15 a.m.
1/21/11 "Anti- Bully" Meeting 8:15 a.m.
FEBRUARY
2/2/11 Read-a-Thon Kickoff Yard
Assembly/Packets go home
2/10/11 5th Grade Panorama Picture
2/11/11 FYA/PTA Parent Meeting 8:00 a.m.
2/14/11 School Site Council Meeting 7:15 a.m.
2/21/11 School Closed - President's Day
2/23-25/11 Astro Camp
