Great Things I Noticed This Week:
- Lesson on Visualization as a comprehension strategy: students were all given a copied page from the teacher's read-aloud book to read and draw a picture on the back of what they visualized. They then had the chance to discuss with partners.
- Visual of a tube of toothpaste used to teach summarizing: "squeeze out just what you need and leave the rest."
- Integration of the current math unit skills into the science unit. This is what helps students make connections and see the relevance of the math problems they are learning to solve.
I know you're all doing amazing things in your classrooms each day and glad all of my training days are done so I can get into your classrooms more!!
Events Next Week (I'm here ALL week!)
Monday - Student Christmas Gift Donations due to Marie
Documentation Log training at 3:05 in the Media Center (if you didn't attend this week)
Tuesday - Grade Level Meetings (see notes below on our focus)
Friday - Staff Social Lunch
Mid-Quarter (Yes, Already!!!) Please send mid-quarter progress reports home
"Nuts & Bolts" Notes:
- Tuesday's Grade Level meetings will be literacy focused. Please bring your class reading profile charts (that list your students' F&P Benchmark levels) so we can discuss how you are meeting the needs of the variety of reading levels in your classroom. You will also find an additional handout in your mailboxes today to read prior to the meeting. As you read this, please think about how can we continue to create a culture of readers at Dodgeland?
- On Tuesday Joyce, Jenny and Sandy and I all attended a literacy workshop at CESA 6 on Creating Classrooms Where Readers Flourish, presented by Donalyn Miller. Miller is the author of The Book Whisperer, which I wrote about in this post. If you've read The Book Whisperer,then you know she is already amazing and full of great ideas to promote literacy. In real life, she was even better!! Here were Jenny's notes from the workshop if you would like to read them: Jenny's Notes You don't have to read them, but if you do and have any questions, feel free to ask any of us (but we might get really excited and talk at great length!)
Blogs, Pins, & Tweets...Oh My!
- Do you have students struggling with summarizing? Get some great ideas HERE in a podcast (the webpage also has the transcript to read) from Emily Kissner. 1 easy idea she shares is to give students pre-made cards with ideas from the text. First have students put them in sequential order from the text and then have them sort them by importance so they can practice weeding out less important ideas from a text.
- "If we have data let’s look at the data. If all we have is opinions, let’s go with mine"
and just for a laugh:
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