Ms. Alex Edinger
First Grade Teacher
Thank you for your dedication!
It's #TechTipTuesday Claremore is a Google School, and the Google Workspaces Suite offers many useful tools to complete homework assignments and teach students. One of the most useful options is the Google Chrome Sync feature which keeps all bookmarks, links, and a user’s account information synced across all the devices. This week’s #TechTipTuesday will show users how to turn on Chrome Sync, so everything follows the user across all devices!
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Jens Jenson has a message for everyone! Mask up! Even Monkeys need to mask up! Every day when you come to school, please make sure your child has a clean mask! Cloth masks do need to be washed! Don't forget your bottled water and your device too! Remember those big 3 (Mask, Water bottle, and device) every day!
Parents and girls are invited to join us via Zoom to participate in a fun activity and learn about Girl Scouts! You can RSVP at gseok.org/claremore.
Marla O’Fallon
Membership Development Manager
918-745-5232
mofallon@gseok.org
What is WIN time? WIN time stands for “What I Need” time. This is the time of the day when every child gets into a small group and gets exactly what they need! The entire school does this. This group is working on Pear Deck, an application for k-12 students on their wonderful iPads and chrome books given to students by Claremore Public Schools.
Substitute teaching is a remarkably rewarding and worthwhile career path for people from many different walks of life. As a sub, you get to work with children, set your schedule, and experience many different educational opportunities.
Are you thinking of teaching? Substitutes can acquire experience, develop transferable skills, and improve your chances of landing a full-time job.
Of course, it’s is also a way to give back to your community and make a difference in the lives of children.
Join the ZEBRA family by applying to be a substitute teacher.
Contact 💻 www.kellyeducatinoalstaffing.us or call 📱 918.461.0357.
Minimum Requirements:
✅ Must be at least 18 years old
✅ Have a High School Diploma
✅ Must pass the OSBI background check
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Charge your devices every day! They should come to school fully charged daily!
Mrs. Ashton Palmer is a 3rd grade teacher, however she is teaching Virtually this year for our online Claremore Virtual School. That didn't stop her from sharing her love of teaching and her love of her Native American Heritage. Mrs. Palmer came dressed the part in her Osage attire. What a great thing to share with your students! They just finished a whole grade project on Native American tribes. This was great for their lesson! Wow! These 3rd graders were part of a great experience!
Mrs. Edinger's First Grade students have been working on antonyms. Two words that mean the opposite of each other. They created these "Antonym Turkeys" to work on this task and to make it fun! How cute!
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It's Monday. Only two days of school this week due to Thanksgiving Break. What do you think 5th grade is doing? Playing outside? No way! Our 5th grade students are hard at work! Mrs. Frost's class and Mrs. McGill's class are hard at work!
This year has been filled with chatter of how hard 2020 has been. And, that is undoubtedly true.
But, as we observe Thanksgiving today, let's remember there have been moments of wonder, beauty, and celebration in 2020 as well.
We have met new people and learned new skills. We experienced new ways of seeing the world, impacting lives, and helping others. Let's not forget the cherished time spent with family. And, maybe, just maybe, these tough times have allowed us the sacred opportunity of growing.
One of the most beautiful things is how people have come together to support each other. Drive-by birthday parties, companies sharing resources for free or at discounts to help educators do great work even though they were facing the unknown. Parents sending extra hand sanitizer, tissues, and gift cards to show their support and love for teachers. Restaurants feeding first responders and healthcare workers. These moments have been inspiring.
Yes, there have been some gruesome moments in our world this year, but there are moments that are worth holding onto with a very tight grip.
Let's be great curators of the moments deserving our attention.
We may not be sitting around the table together, but we do hold each other in our hearts and consider each of you a blessing in our lives.
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Do you remember being in elementary school and painting with a watercolor set? How much fun was that? These kids are making memories right here. This is Mrs. Edinger's First grade class. They are creating colorful turkeys for Thanksgiving. I hope this reaches you over your Thanksgiving break and brings a smile to your face.
These Kindergarten turkeys want to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving! Aren't these coffee filter turkeys beautiful? Wow! Great job Kindergarten!
Mrs. Stones and Mrs. Nickses classes created projects to represent their Native American Tribe that they were given. They did a fabulous job!
November is PTA Healthy Lifestyles Month. We call our Parent Organization the PTO. I asked the PTO to send pictures of them with their families outside being active! I got the perfect photo back! This is Austin Lyons out hunting with his dad. What a great way to be active in the outdoors!
Back in the day, it wasn’t hard to lure children outdoors to play. But with cellphones, social media, video games and the like, more children are turning into couch potatoes — and at earlier ages. PTA Healthy Lifestyles Month takes place every November. This year’s theme is “Get Off Your Apps.” Let’s encourage children to turn off their devices and connect with family and friends through constructive play, family exercise, and physical education programs at school and at home.
Take a picture of your family this weekend outdoors being active! Upload it to our Facebook page! We'd love to see what you all are up to this weekend!
🦃 No school November 25th - 27th for Thanksgiving Break. 🦃
As you celebrate, please make safe decisions to help reduce the spread of COVID-19:
👐 wash your hands,
↔ watch your socially distancing, and
😷 wear a mask when you are around others.
💖 Particularly during this holiday season, we are thankful for the opportunity to serve you, your family, and our community.
#StaySafeStayInSchool - we look forward to seeing students again on Monday, November 30.
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Claremore Public Schools is continually committed to developing an atmosphere of trust among parents and the community in our ability to provide not only a positive and enriching educational experience but a safe place for students to thrive.
That is why we have partnered with @FamilyZoneUSA, a leading provider of cyber safety products and education, to ensure your kids are cyber safe while at school. Claremore Public Schools is already using Family Zone to block inappropriate content and to identify red flag search terms from students. However, students do need access to sites like youtube for institutional purposes. Once on those sites students can be exposed to content that may be questionable. It is important that caregivers monitor students when they are on their devices.
As a parent or caregiver of our school district, you receive free access to the Family Zone Cyber Safety Hub, which includes articles, videos, courses, and more to help monitor and educate on various cyber threats, apps, etc.
This week's #TechTipTuesday is access to this free service. Click “sign up” below to get ongoing materials and education from the platform we trust to manage cyber safety across our entire district.
https://claremorek12.familyzone.com/
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Traditional students that would like Holiday Weekend Meals please place your order by Tuesday (11/24/20).
Pick up will be Wednesday 11/25/2020 from 10:30 AM -12:30 PM at the Enrollment Center located at 101 W 11th St.
https://forms.gle/qx3XdeRL6E4VTZ529
Janna Ragland
Child Nutrition
Claremore Public Schools
Westside's Library Media Center is holding an Online Book Fair! Order while you can!! 📕📗📘📙
https://www.scholastic.com/bf/westsideelementaryschool13
Miss Peighton Barnes models her beautiful freckles for us today for "Love your Freckles Day" celebrated around the world!
Love Your Freckles Day, on November 22, is all about celebrating and flaunting freckles. Commonly found in redheads or those whose parents are respectively dark and fair, freckles are cute, sunkissed spots that make most of those blessed with them look wonderfully unique and natural! Synonymous with youth, and sported by beauties including model Adwoa Aboah, ‘Big Little Lies’ star Zoë Kravitz, and the actor Lily Newmark, the freckled face offers an idiosyncratic alternative to those flawless Instagram selfies where make-up is applied in thick, opaque layers. On this day, make sure to appreciate freckled faces all over the world.
HISTORY OF LOVE YOUR FRECKLES DAY
It’s time to celebrate sunkissed marks on Love Your Freckles Day. Even though freckles are considered to be ‘trend’ recently, it wasn’t always that way, even historically. Freckles — dermatologically called ephelides — are small, brownish, well-circumscribed, spots on the skin occurring most frequently in red or sandy-haired individuals.
The variants of the MC1R gene that are linked with freckles started to emerge in the human genotype when humans started to leave Africa. The variant Val92Met arose somewhere between 250,000 and 100,000 years ago, long enough for this gene to be carried by humans into central Asia. Freckles occur in people with heritage from around the world. While it’s true that such a mutation in people of Celtic heritage causes the stereotypical dot-dot-dots in fair redheads, variations of the MC1R gene lead to freckles in Chinese, Japanese, French, Mediterranean, Israeli, and certain African ethnic groups as well.
By the ’90s, freckles were beloved as a more youthful appearance, an association that continues over 20 years later. In fact, Chanel was the first company to market a product designed to create faux freckles in 1995. Now, freckles are widely seen as unique and beautiful, which is why they should be celebrated not just on Love Your Freckles Day, but every day! We hope all our "freckle faced" students at Westside love their freckles as much as we do! :)
