Sunday, December 21, 2014

What's Happening at West Madison!

This week was a busy but exciting week.



This week began with a big surprise!  The faculty, staff and students had a wonderful presentation for Mrs Miller and I.  The character word for this month was Excellence.  Mrs.  Allen, Ms. Newsome, Ms. Brindley, Mrs. Tibbs, all the students and teachers participated in the  presentation below.  It was great!

Thank you everyone!




GottaFeeling from djah on Vimeo.

As you can see we both cried.  It was so beautiful.  It was the best present ever, one from the heart.  Children all week were giving us hugs and telling us "Dr. Jah, Mrs. Miller you are excellence."  It was so cute.

The words to the song are below.  They were written by Ms. Newsome.

I Gotta Feeling
I gotta feeling, That today's going to be a good day 
Celebrating you 2 today.
Yeah, today's gonna be a good, good, day.

All of your students, 
Have a something very special to say
We want to say thank you today
You both are awesome in every way

I gotta feeling, That today's going to be a good day 
Celebrating you 2 today.
Yeah, today's gonna be a good, good, day.

To Dr. Jah, Our Principal
We honor you,
We lift you up

And to Mrs. Miller,
Like oh my gosh
You're so fantastic
You're on the ball.

All year you both work so hard with your meetings
And papers
How do you do it all? 
We're so thankful
to have you,
the best in the land bask in this glory we give you a hand

You have bus duty and carline too
even in the lunchroom, you work there--to

IEP meetings,
and 504's PST meetings and then you check out our scores
You do it, you do it, you do it
Work through it, review it, re-glue it
you do it, redo it, do 
You do it, you do it, you do it

I gotta feeling, That today's going to be a good day 
Celebrating you 2 today.
Yeah, today's gonna be a good, good, day.

All of your students, 
Have a something very special to say
We want to say thank you today
You both are awesome in every way





6th Grade Bucket Drumming


We were also treated in Monday Morning Assembly to our 6th grade performing a rhythmic drum presentation on buckets.  They were lead by our music teacher, Ms. Newsome.  




Drums12-15-SM from djah on Vimeo.


Mrs. Tibbs and students learned about germs, diseases and microorganisms.  

Debra Terrell, from NASA, came in to talk with students about microorganisms, germs, diseases, and some of the processes NASA uses to filtrate water for the Space Station. Then the girls let several swabs “grow” in petri dishes and observed how microscopic germs really do grow into nasty samples! 


The students growing microorganisms in petri dishes


The students presented what they learned to a 3rd grade class
They taught the class their "hand washing" song.  Adapted from the song, "Let it go!" from the movie Frozen.   

Washing Your Hands
Washing your hands is an important task everyone must do several times a day.  Each day millions of tiny germs can get on your hands, Increasing your chance of getting sick.   Always remember to wash your hands before and after eating, after touching animals and using the restroom.   (Don't just run your hands In water either)
Always lather with soap far at least 20 seconds.   With flu season here its important to keep clean, and healthy


Wash With Soap
Wash with soap
Wash with soap
The germs can't get you anymore
Wash with soap
Wash with Soap
keep washing more and more
I don t care, about those evil germs
Let the faucet rain and
The soap doesn't bother me anyway



Mrs. Lindsey and Mrs. Mcknight's GEMs after school group looks like they are learning interesting things as well.  I believe that looks like owl pellets! 





Pictures from all the Holiday Parties

















Have a Great Holiday Season!

See you in 2015!

Be Safe!

I love you all!

Saturday, December 13, 2014

What's Happening at West Madison

We have had a lot going on at West Madison this week!

The beginning started with an Hour of Code with Bob Jones High School students!











Third Grade performed at the PTA Meeting!
They did an excellent job!  The Grinch even showed up.  



The Holiday Shop was open all week!  We had lots of excited kids leaving every day with loads of packages.  It was funny, one parent said that her child couldn't wait for her to open the  present he bought her.  
 (I remember those days!)  
It is hard for little ones to wait. :) 






Thank you so much to all the volunteers.  You truly made the Holiday Shop a success!








Fun in Spanish



We ended the week with a wonderful presentation from some very talented West Madison students.

Mrs. Claus 
(Look for her to be a Star one day)



The Juggling Rudolph's (Wow)



We have some talented singers!













Thank you Ms. Newsome and Ms. Brindley for all your hard work with the West Madison Choir and Jugglers.  Are students are awesome!

Remember we will dismiss on December 19 at 11:00.  There will be no Expanded day. 

Students return to school on January 6, 2015.  

I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year.  We have had an awesome 2014.  I look forward to an even better 2015.  

Thank you so much for being such wonderful families.  I look forward to coming to work every day because we have great students, great parents and great teachers and staff members!  

Sunday, December 7, 2014

What's Happening at West Madison

Sci -Quest This Week!
First Grade





First Grade learned about snowflakes.  They even got to make their own snowflakes!

Second Grade 

Second Grade learned about the Solar System.   



Fourth Grade and Sixth Grade wrote code for Computer Animation














On Friday, Second Grade students went to Elf University and now they are official Elf graduates!






The Choir went to two local nursing homes and performed.  They also had a performance at Bridgestreet!





Thank you Ms. Newsome and the students for all your hard work.  The choir will be performing for parents on Friday, December 12 at 5:00 in the Gym.  


Don't forget to come out to the PTA Meeting on Monday Night at 5:30 in the Gym.   After the PTA meeting stop by the Holiday Shop to get in some holiday shopping! 
  


Upcoming Events

December 8 -12      Holiday Shop
December 8             PTA Meeting  5:30   Third Grade Performs
December 8               Progress Reports  3-6
December 11             Sixth Grade Field Trip
December 12             Choir Performance   1:15 (school) 5:00 (Parents)
December 19             1/2 Day for Students   Dismissal at 11:00