Highlight of the Week
We had our 2nd and final Professional Learning Community visit this Wednesday. Our visitors were a 6th grade team from Rock River Intermediate School in the Waupun Area School District in Wisconsin. They were excited about all the learning they gained when they were here. Several visitors shared that they could learn so much at Prairie and wished they could spend more time with us. Some other comments were:
Candace Fleming, Children's Author, Visiting Soon... Candace Fleming will be visiting Prairie on Thursday, April 26th. She is an Illinois children's author who has written picture and non-fiction books. She worked for several years writing and trying to get her work published. After three years of rejection letters, she found success in getting published. To learn more about Mrs. Fleming and her books, please visit her website.
Mrs. Fleming will be giving presentations to all our students. If you are interested in ordering any of her books, the can be purchased prior to her visit by completing and returning this order form. If you have any questions, please contact our librarian, Mr. Tim Vanderwerff.
Reading Resource for Parents
Building Readers, a resource that helps parents help their child become a better reader, will be available online. To read this valuable resource go to BUILDING READERS March 2012 Newsletter.
Girls on the Run
This Spring, Prairie is home to a program called "Girls on the Run". This international program combines social-emotional learning and physical fitness to help girls in grades 3rd-5th to believe in the power of themselves by belonging to a team. This program currently has 1100 coaches throughout Chicagoland, and nearly 6500 participants!! Two of our staff members, Nicole Nielsen and Erin Sauer, brought the program to Prairie and are working hard and having lots of fun with fourteen girls to prepare for the end-of-season 5K (that's 3.1 miles!) on June 9th. The girls do lessons, workouts, and team building activities two days each week for 12 weeks. We would LOVE to expand this program next year to include more girls. If you are interested in having your 3rd, 4th or 5th grade girl participate next year, check out www.girlsontherun.org to learn about the program or e-mail Erin Sauer at esauer@kcsd96.org.
We had our 2nd and final Professional Learning Community visit this Wednesday. Our visitors were a 6th grade team from Rock River Intermediate School in the Waupun Area School District in Wisconsin. They were excited about all the learning they gained when they were here. Several visitors shared that they could learn so much at Prairie and wished they could spend more time with us. Some other comments were:
- "Hearing the staff talk here, I want to stay and learn more."
- "Your knowledge base was outstanding."
- "I would love to spend a trimester here to truly learn your ways."
- "I am energized to try a few of your ideas."
- "You gave us lots of things to think about."
We thank the Rock River team for coming to Prairie as we learned so much from you as well.
Principal Coffee: Technology at Prairie School
Interactive whiteboards, iPods, document cameras and laptops! These are a few of the 21st century tools your students are using in their classrooms. We are very fortunate at Prairie to have so many great technologies to engage our students in learning. Please join us on Thursday, March 22nd at 9am to take a look at the programs, applications and various technology we use in our school. We will have a presentation and tour of how technology rolls at Prairie School!
Social Emotional Learning Community Event
Kildeer Countryside School District 96 welcomes you to a community event designed to increase awareness of social and emotional learning. This event will take place Tuesday, March 13th at 7pm at Ivy Hall School in the MAT Room, which is located on the lower level of the building. We hope to see you there.
Social Emotional Learning Community Event
Kildeer Countryside School District 96 welcomes you to a community event designed to increase awareness of social and emotional learning. This event will take place Tuesday, March 13th at 7pm at Ivy Hall School in the MAT Room, which is located on the lower level of the building. We hope to see you there.
PTO Highlight
The Art Auction is quickly approaching. Don't miss this great opportunity to get your hands on our wonderful Prairie students' artwork. Please go to the PTO Newsletter to learn more about this exciting adult evening out event.
Candace Fleming, Children's Author, Visiting Soon... Candace Fleming will be visiting Prairie on Thursday, April 26th. She is an Illinois children's author who has written picture and non-fiction books. She worked for several years writing and trying to get her work published. After three years of rejection letters, she found success in getting published. To learn more about Mrs. Fleming and her books, please visit her website.
Mrs. Fleming will be giving presentations to all our students. If you are interested in ordering any of her books, the can be purchased prior to her visit by completing and returning this order form. If you have any questions, please contact our librarian, Mr. Tim Vanderwerff.
Reading Resource for Parents
Building Readers, a resource that helps parents help their child become a better reader, will be available online. To read this valuable resource go to BUILDING READERS March 2012 Newsletter.
Girls on the Run
This Spring, Prairie is home to a program called "Girls on the Run". This international program combines social-emotional learning and physical fitness to help girls in grades 3rd-5th to believe in the power of themselves by belonging to a team. This program currently has 1100 coaches throughout Chicagoland, and nearly 6500 participants!! Two of our staff members, Nicole Nielsen and Erin Sauer, brought the program to Prairie and are working hard and having lots of fun with fourteen girls to prepare for the end-of-season 5K (that's 3.1 miles!) on June 9th. The girls do lessons, workouts, and team building activities two days each week for 12 weeks. We would LOVE to expand this program next year to include more girls. If you are interested in having your 3rd, 4th or 5th grade girl participate next year, check out www.girlsontherun.org to learn about the program or e-mail Erin Sauer at esauer@kcsd96.org.
Positively Prairie
Thank you for your feedback on our recent Positively Prairie survey. The feedback was very positive and also had very good suggestions for consideration. The Positively Prairie Committee will continue to review the data, along with teacher and student input, as we plan our next steps for the upcoming school year. One immediate change that we will implement to keep parents more informed about the Positively Prairie Program, is our new monthly "Positively Prairie" segment in the Principal's Message.
We recently updated the look of our WOW slips. In an effort to save paper and storage space, we have reduced the size of the WOW slip to a quarter page. We we thrilled to learn through the survey results that WOW slips find a prominent place on the refrigerator. We couldn't think of a better place for displaying them at home!
The Positively Prairie Student Leadership Team (PPSLT) has put into place a "Fill the Bucket" reward program. If you've been at school lately you may have seen this on display in the multi-purpose room. The PPSLT created the idea of the student body earning a reward based upon the number of school-wide WOW slips received. Once the number hits the "meets" level, all Prairie students earn a reward. We have nearly 900 WOW slips earned building-wide and do have a fun reward activity planned for April. More information to come on that soon.
Finally, we will be having a PP all-school assembly on April 13th. The PPSLT is working hard on planning and preparing for this assembly. We look forward to sharing more about this after the event.
Thank you for your feedback on our recent Positively Prairie survey. The feedback was very positive and also had very good suggestions for consideration. The Positively Prairie Committee will continue to review the data, along with teacher and student input, as we plan our next steps for the upcoming school year. One immediate change that we will implement to keep parents more informed about the Positively Prairie Program, is our new monthly "Positively Prairie" segment in the Principal's Message.
We recently updated the look of our WOW slips. In an effort to save paper and storage space, we have reduced the size of the WOW slip to a quarter page. We we thrilled to learn through the survey results that WOW slips find a prominent place on the refrigerator. We couldn't think of a better place for displaying them at home!
The Positively Prairie Student Leadership Team (PPSLT) has put into place a "Fill the Bucket" reward program. If you've been at school lately you may have seen this on display in the multi-purpose room. The PPSLT created the idea of the student body earning a reward based upon the number of school-wide WOW slips received. Once the number hits the "meets" level, all Prairie students earn a reward. We have nearly 900 WOW slips earned building-wide and do have a fun reward activity planned for April. More information to come on that soon.
Finally, we will be having a PP all-school assembly on April 13th. The PPSLT is working hard on planning and preparing for this assembly. We look forward to sharing more about this after the event.
