April Fool's?
All right - whichever one of you out there thought it would be a great April Fools Day joke to play on me by sending snow yesterday - IN APRIL - you are officially off of the Lunden Christmas card list! Hopefully we have now seen the end of it and things will start to warm up heading into an exciting and busy spring. This month for my Gator Bait blog entry I would like to share information on three related to three different areas: Instruction: Looking closer at the 'Workshop model' Finance: Talking about the district budget process School Community: Sharing and explaining Race For Education Instruction: To keep you informed as a parent about some of the things we do in the classroom, I thought it might be beneficial to briefly share about what we refer to as the workshop model. In our district, we are seeing an huge increase in the number of teachers using this model for writing, reading, and most recently math instruction. The workshop model is a framew