Great Things I Noticed this Week:
- Mini lesson on comparing/contrasting 2 pieces of text that had been previously read for mini-lessons.
- Hands-on/Science inquiry collaborative engineering of catapults to learn about forces of motion.
- Students working on the "Shades of Meaning" activity for words in the categories for: beautiful (included pretty, gorgeous, glorious), happy, awful, walk, and silly.
- Author's Choice of Words Activity (from the Bootcamp strategies) being used in kidblog. The teacher posted a picture and students responded in kidblog with their written responses. Their responses included great word choices like:
- Preposterous because he has a towle and CUCUMBERS
- Relaxed
Because the cat is relaxing - Ludicrous because he has cucumber on his eyes.
Events Next Week:
Tuesday - Grade level PLC meetings (see agenda below in "nuts & bolts")
Thursday - P/T Conferences 4:00-7:30
Friday- I will be in Madison most of the day for additional training on the Badger exam (this is to learn how to manage the proctor side of it)
"Nuts & Bolts" Notes:
Blogs, Tweets & Pins...Oh My!!!
Tuesday - Grade level PLC meetings (see agenda below in "nuts & bolts")
Thursday - P/T Conferences 4:00-7:30
Friday- I will be in Madison most of the day for additional training on the Badger exam (this is to learn how to manage the proctor side of it)
"Nuts & Bolts" Notes:
- Staff are allowed to leave after school on Fridays, but please wait until the buses have left. We have had some issues with parents searching for a student and we are unable to find out from you how the student left the building if you beat the kids out of the building.
- March is coming up fast and that means Read Across America! It's a good time to start putting up your "What I'm Reading..." display on your door to show students who you are as a reader.
- Have hallway walls cleared by March 1st for Art Show artwork to be hung up
- Grade Level PLC meeting agenda:
- All-Bootcamp strategies we learned on Monday -what have you implemented, how did it go?, planning time for your next activity to for the classroom.
- 4/5 -Lucy Calkins
- 3-5 - Badger practice test-how's it going?
- K-3: Classroom interventions brainstorm for math
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