Each day's morning announcement has had a focus on a month long or daily celebration. I've been using these web sites to find out all the holidays/special occasions:
Since our school is broken into two separate buildings on one campus, the other assistant principal and I make the morning announcements in Google Drive so we can play the same opening music and have the same announcements. As long as the wi-fi and servers are working, it has gone very smoothly.
We've decided to add in the day's weather, staff/student shout-outs, and quotes of the day. Staff is telling us that we have made these announcements personable.
In honor of Library Card Sign-up month, we had teams submit the names of two students who have exhibited the 3R's (respect, readiness, responsibility) since the start of school. These twenty-eight students made a mouse bookmark out of pom-poms, chenille stems, wiggly eyes, and fast tack glue.
We had just as much fun getting to know the students as they did making them. Some were quite impressed that they could even make it.
On September 8th we honored International Literacy Day by pledging to give 60 seconds of reading for 60 days. We decided to do this during our morning announcements and turn it into a contest. We are starting with giving a description about authors for students to guess. Next we will read passages from popular books for students to guess. Then we will have Book Tweets and ask students to submit their own. If theirs is chosen, then they will win.
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