Monday, November 26, 2012

Meeting in Kelly's Room
*No Evening Story Fest
*Cynthia DeFelice is coming on February 11th-Kelly has picture books and chapter books to share
*OSOB-Kelly, Katie & Christy are on the committee that meets tomorrow
*Joy Day for Kelly is 11/30 and everyone else is doing it on 12/7
*Joy Day is on our own-we will be doing our things in our room & have decided that we are going to make our parent gifts on this day
*SIT update-bring in books for Book Swap
*Testing shifts for NYS ELA-no listening, 4 books in 3 days (Day 1 30 MC questions, Day 2 has books 2 & 3-MC & short responses, Day 3 all short & extended response questions), 70 mins each day, rubrics have been provided for extended responses. All passages are 500-600 words
*NYS Math-Book 1-30 MC, Book 2-31 MC, Book 3-5 short response, 3 extended response

Monday, November 19, 2012

Our team had previously set a goal to partner up and develop an ELA unit on a complex text based on a concept from our S.S. curriculum. However, we all determined that the type of resources that we were looking for, were not readily available. We also came across important information related to "ELA CC modules" and therefore, decided to explore engageny.com at our grade level meeting, rather than work on a unit. We felt a bit lost, but after looking at the modules as a team, we felt like we had a slightly better idea as to where to go with a CC unit. Our first focus is going to on Module 2A.  
Happy Thanksgiving!

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Happy Halloween! We met as a team and identified the need for non-fiction complex texts that align with our 3rd grade curriculum. We split up and research the different parts of our SS & Science curriculum. We found excellent resources that are part of archived editions of National Geographic Pioneer issues (On Thin Ice, Living with Lions, Fantastic Feathers, etc). We emailed administration about how we can access these archived issues with an access code (which we need). Administration followed up with a staff email about how often we use the issues and in what way.
Our team chose specific content areas and buddied up with someone. We will not meet as a group next Monday, November 5th. Instead, we will meet with our buddy to create a new Common Core unit. This unit will be shared at our next group meeting on November 19th in Joe's room.