Monday, October 22, 2012

Meeting in Kim's Room-all team members present.  Introduced Kristen as a student teacher. We created a matrix for ELA. Christy emailed it to the team. We all agreed that our children did not do well overall. The format of the test and types of questions were challenging for all students. 
SIT Update from Kim-Supporting the Middle Learner survey on 2 students from our class. Complete and return it to Kim at our next meeting on 10/31. 
Instead of meeting on Monday the 29th, we are going to meet in Theresa's room on 10/31 right after early dismissal. We will work on the SLOs organizer (that we will receive at our Staff Meeting on Weds) and set common goals all together. 
Are we going to dress up all together for Halloween?
Our next CC Non-Fiction unit is going to be on The Deadliest Predators from National Geographic Explorer.  We will all need to read the article before next Weds. Come to the meeting with Tier 2 & 3 vocabulary identified to share out. Then, we can decide on a unit focus. Gail Palmer is getting the password to use for the NGE app.  
Christy will copy the Web of Life from Superintendent's Day file to our Grade 3 file. Create a CC file folder in our Grade 3 folder in the W:Drive. Most of us are starting the unit on Lightening this week and will go to the Web of Life next. 

Monday, October 15, 2012

Meeting in Christy & Katie's Room (all team members present)-
*Discussed Pre-assessments and developed a template for Math. Christy sent this out. As a group, we went through and identified what kind of question each one on the test is. There is a total of 22 points for math. We identified what type of question each one on ELA was. We did not yet create an ELA template. 
*CC Units-some are starting the CC Unit on lightening next week. Others will start within a month. 
Next Monday, we will look at choosing a new unit to create from National Geographic to use. 

Monday, October 1st, 2012

Meeting in Casey's Room-Casey, Kim, Amy, Joe, Christy, Katie, Kelly
*Shared Open House Handouts for Parents-Casey is sending math strategies, and turning reluctant readers into enthusiasm and Christy will send quick reference chart of what 3rd graders will learn and the DRA benchmarks.
*Open House-picture with job (Amy, Kelly & Kim in color 4x6) and the rest of us in black and white. One big piece of black paper should be outside of the Multi purpose room and we will all place their 4x6 pictures on it. Our writing pieces will be back in the classroom. Casey will make the notes and Amy will put up the black paper.
*Caine's Challenge-Kim will type up letter for home and materials and will add our event to the on-line website. *Katie will make a sign about Caine's Challenge for Open House display. There will be a total of 28 homes/businesses in our "Village"
*What are the times for Open House?? We are not sure of what hour is for 3rd grade.