Thursday, September 27, 2012

Amy's Room-Those who are present today include: Kelly Fede, Amy Conte, Christy Neu, Casey Charles, Katie Caprino, Kim Hart, Theresa DuPont, Joe Kuhn, Kim Hart

We talked about our fear of the unknown concerning new requirements, but agreed that we feel better about it this year than last.

Christy is going to copy ccls math book and give copies to team to use to support math units.

Habits of Mind
Continue with journal and read aloud
The Giving Tree- Joe and Kim cried

Gap Analysis

Split and looked at ELA and Math

Gap Analysis for ELA
Author's purpose
Locate info in text to solve a problem
Summarizing a conclusion from main idea
Read unfamiliar text to understand data
Writing organized responses
Make predictions, draw conclusions and make inferences about events and characters


Math Gap-
<, >, =
Terminology and shapes 90 degree angle
Strategies to add/ subtract with 3 digit #  and regrouping
Estimating # up to 500
Single digit mult & division in word problems





Unit 1 Investigation
Discussed how to grade investigations assessments
Casey shared handout about addition strategies that she shared with at open house
-Challenging students in math because Unit 1 can be easy for some students. We shared brain teasers and other extension ideas
-Different ways to get to 100 and sharing student thinking

-Caine's Challenge- signed out the Multi Purpose Room
Kim will scan in The Big Orange Splot which we will read to prep kids for the project
At the Cardboard Village- Kim has a book to share about a cardboard village with statistics that ties in community around the world.
Each class will be in groups of 6 to work on a project and create something
Students will create house or business
Casey discussed planning sheet- plan what they want it to look like, materials they think they will need, if they get permission they can bring in materials from home

We are providing cardboard, masking/ duck tape, construction paper, markers, piper cleaners.
Students may not bring in paint and glitter- what they bring they have to be able to carry in- parents
may not bring supplies in for students

Conference Forms
- form with behaviors and goals
- strengths/ improvement
- Math, ELA, Work Habits, behaviors
- update form with HoM
- report card example
- extra copy of  beginning of year letters for parents if needed

ELA gaps
- authors purpose
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Next meeting- bring conference form and open house parent handbook

3rd Meeting-September 24th, 2012

Grade Level Meeting-Kelly's Room
   *SLOs-not sure what we are expected to do-hoping that we will be given more information at the Staff Meeting on Wednesday.  We will meet on Thursday at 11:45 in Amy's Room.
  *Dictionary Assembly is tomorrow at 9am. Be sure to tell kids about Rotary.
  *SIT Announcements-Mike needs a list for science supplies to be reordered. We need 7 of everything. (Butterfly Coupons, Magnet Cardboard Cars, Wisconsin Fast Growing Plant Seeds-NO RADISHES, soil, fertilizer, plant quads, petri dishes, 4 butterfly nets, .  Caine's Challenge needs to go on VE Cal. Thursday, November 8th is Parent University-PBIS is looking for volunteers.  Report card dates are on VE Cal.
  *Caine's Arcade Challenge- 4 CardBoard Homes per classroom to be displayed in 3rd grade hallway through Open House week. Eric Neu is working on cardboard collections to be delivered. Kim will scan in The Big Orange Spot for each classroom to introduce the projects. Groups should plan ahead.
*We will meet again on Thursday.

Monday, September 17th, 2012

Joe's Room (with Kim, Kelly, Amy, Theresa, Katie, Casey, Christy & Deb L.)

*Casey shared first part of Interactive Read Aloud Resource-should we all start with the Genre section of interactive read alouds since we haven't done pre-assessments. All 3rd grade members will be attending the Grounds for Thought on IRAs (except for Katie & Christy who took it last year)

*Math & ELA assessments should be completed between Oct. 1-5 (includes DRAs), assessments are then scored _____? and then SLOs are developed based on assessment scores.  There is some confusion on dates, as it states that pre-assessments are scored on 11/11 (a Sunday) but goal meetings are on 11/1.  The team has emailed Tracie about this.  **Tracie returned email and said she thought it's 10/11/12. Will we be given time off to score? How does this work?

*Everyone on the team will be starting DRAs the week of September 24th. 

*Group discussed questions related to contract that did not pass.

*Open House is October 10th. Grade level ideas-Wordle with words from classmates about each student, student heads (all will do this), HOM careers-a picture of each student holding what they want to be when they grow up and then choosing a HOM that they will focus on this year to help them choose a goal for the year. Deb said that we can make a Grade 3 collage outside of the library. This will part of our scavenger hunt. *Let staff know that we will be using the space outside of the library until Oct. 11. *Slideshow of class pictures can be on the Smart Board. 

*Everyone has started reviewing HOM with their classes.  We have done 2-6 lessons each so far. Joe shared a fun idea about creating, imagining, innovating to hand out a blank piece of paper to each student to create something from within 12 minutes. Most have started daily reflections in the journal. Deb L. is starting to pull together HOM books to help us teach each one (based on Casey's list she shared with us last week). 

Next Meeting is in Kelly's Room!

9.10.12 Meeting

Theresa’s Room 9/10/12

*Shared Daily ELA with the team

*Casey shared Daily Math AM work & are both will be used as morning work 

HOM Journal was created by Casey and shared with the team. There is a list of books that go with each Habit of Mind. Casey emailed this to the team. We are asking Deb L. to pull some books to support our team. Many people introduced the journal to the kids today. Kids will choose 3 at the end of each day that they are most proud of using and check that off. Joe is having the kids include a written response to two questions related to HOM.

*Start with Nutrition unit-exploring the food groups-Need DROP in resources to Village-->3rd Grade-->Science  and use choosemyplate.gov

GRADE LEVEL TO DOS:

        *Book Logs were recreated from the resource, Teaching Reading in Small Groups.  We are going to have the kids track their reading the week of DRA assessments (last week of Sept/first week of Oct).  The logs should be used to help us better understand the reading patterns and habits of students. We will then share out successes/challenges with the book logs at a mid-October meeting. 

*Interactive Read Alouds will begin mid-September (first unit is Activating Prior Knowledge) which is when we will implement the Complex Text unit on Lightening. All teachers will do this except for Kelly, as she is going to take the session on Interactive Read Alouds being offered in October by Tracie.