PLC-August 29, 2012

Mountain Park Elementary – Professional Learning Community (PLC) Agenda

Thursday August 29, 2012

What to bring: science and math ideas, curriculum calendars, laptops for planning

Review Norms

Be Respectful, Be punctual and prepared, Assume goodwill and be positive, Be fully present, Don’t be “pollution” be a solutionJ

AGENDA:

-chart of PLC (from Venables book)

-eat lunch together on Fridays? Yes, we will try to do this.

-Quiet lunch- kids meet in room 111, bring a friend/book- ideas?

-Academic assistance- what do we need help with from special areas teachers?

-vocab list- we need to send a list to Stacy with words AND definitions ASAP (take off too easy words) Laura will email your word list to you and define the words (relating to our curriculum).

-Benchmark writing- change genres? Set 4 dates (see below)

Writing:

Oct. 19- "Narrative" writing needs to be finished.

Dec. 14 - "How To" writing needs to be finished.

Feb. 14 - Informational Persuasive writing needs to be finished.

March 29 - Persuasive Writing (and all the others-if they don't pass the other genres have them redo the others and submit score)

Looking at Data

Plan for remediation and enrichment- Extended Day kids! (be thoughtful about who you send, mainly reading)

Unit/Lesson Planning –

Curriculum map- check on language arts/writing and reading?

ELA-nouns, subjects (simple and complete)

Writing - narrative, writing process

Science- Regions of GA unit

·         Pacing for science (see the curriculum planner page here.......LINK)

·         Share ideas/activities with warm & cool feedback

·         Technology Integration?

·         Resources?

Math (in leveled groups)

·         Pacing

·         Share ideas/activities

·         Common assessments? (We pulled up the test from the T drive-should our final assessment say "Checkpoints"???) We feel the sample assessment questions are better geared to evaluate unit 1.  Could we use this instead?

·         Technology Integration?

·         Resources?

**ACTION ITEMS – NEXT MEETING

In 2 weeks- meeting with April Hardy, and on Sep 10^th, 11^th, 12^th Venables will meet with us to do common formative assessments

PLC-8.23.12

Grade Level Agenda
Thursday August 23, 2012

Please Bring: any resources you’d like to share for curriculum night, something for note taking!
Agenda:
​Reminders- green writing folders, headphones, sub folders and pr’s
​Random tidbits- Friday notes (happy notes to Stacy!), Scholastic news and no $ L,
​Upcoming events-
​​Tomorrow- Taco Mac outing!
​​Tuesday Aug 28th- curriculum night
​​Wednesday Aug 29th- tech training
• Do we want to reschedule PLC???
Planning- (look at curriculum map!)
​Reading- novel not in! Harcourt Story?
​Language Arts- Nouns/Subjects
​Math- mental math, adding 2 and 3 digit numbers
​Social Studies- Paul Revere

Secret Pal info-Denise

Hey there…it’s me (late as usual)…

FYI, these are a few of my favorite things:

Chocolate with almonds
Gift cards (anywhere)
Bath and Body works (anything except vanilla fragrance)
Jewelry (costume of course) only clip-on earrings
Journal books
Michelle McGregor’s cookies
Anything from “A Piece of Cake” it is on Crabapple / 92.

PLC-August 13, 2012

Mountain Park Elementary – Professional Learning Community (PLC) Agenda

What to bring: laptops for planning, SEM ideas for first two weeks, SS ideas/lesson activities for roots of democracy, formative assessment ideas for first unit

Review Norms

Be Respectful, Be punctual and prepared, Assume goodwill and be positive, Be fully present, Don’t be “pollution” be a solutionJ

AGENDA:

What is a PLC? (Look at template for agenda)
We discussed format for PLC and how it's different than CP.

Protocol- Strengths!
We wrote down a few strength about ourselves and discussed.

Unit/Lesson Planning –

SEM- planning for tomorrow
http://www.london2012.com
Choose a sport and find out information about the sports.
Write a paragraph from the information gathered.
Did the USA win any medals?
Has a Jargon buster, link to make your own mascot.

http://greece.mrdonn.org

Discovery Education Videos:
Time Warp Trio:  My Big Fat Greek Olympics
creaghk/barefoot

Bethany has a Olympic idea book if you want to look at it.
Make a bar graph of countries' medals.

Social Studies:
We talked about our plan for SS.
Gather SS assessments for this unit and copy for everyone so we can decide what assessment to give.

SS- Roots of Democracy- share activity ideas with warm and cool feedback

Math Pre and post assessments-

            *develop common formative assessments? (decide with math levels)

**ACTION ITEMS – NEXT MEETING: Look at data from math pre-assessments, common summative ss assessment?

Pledge Schedule

Teachers:
Please divide your class and assign a day during your week for each small group (no more than 6 children) to come to the WMPE studio in the media center by 7:40 to recite the pledge for the morning announcements. This is also a great opportunity for your students to share something special that they are learning in the classroom. Here is the proposed schedule:

October 29 - November 2
Brock

November 5-9
Corson

November 12-16
Hurley

*November 19-20
Welch (Will also do 12/17 -12/19)

November 26-30
L’Hommedieu

December 3-7
Resudek\Weikel

December 10-14
Scales

*December 17-19
Welch

Secret Pal Info-Bethany

Secret pal info below!! My bday is June 29th...just celebrated my 29th AGAIN, too, Sarah! What a coincidence. : )

Favorite places to shop? The Body Shop, TJMaxx, Kohls, Target
Hobbies…Reading, when I have time, and ditto for exercising.
Teams that you root for…Steelers, by marriage; not because I'm interested (fun to go along with the family, though!)
Favorite colors…purple, green, orange
Favorite animal…owl, turtle; love them all and anything to do with nature, for that matter
Items that you have too much of  pens and stationery;
Favorite candy…interesting dark chocolate in all forms(with orange, blueberry, chili, sea salt, coffee, caramel, etc., no nuts). Mmmmmm....
Favorite scent…sandalwood, peppermint
Favorite restaurant….Starbucks (if you can call it a restaurant),Lucia's, Rice

Favorite beverage…nonfat latte in almost any flavor (vanilla, hazelnut, green tea, mocha, etc.); unsweetened iced tea by the gallon!, and red, red wine (yes, two reds on that one!)

Secret Pal Info-Laura

Hey Secret pal!!! Here are my answers :)
Oh and my birthday is March 20th!

Secret Pal Questions
Favorite places to shop? Target
Hobbies… tennis, running with my dogs
Teams that you root for… Alabama...roll tide
Favorite colors… blue and green just like heather
Favorite animal… dogs (but I like dragonflies and bees for decorating)
Items that you have too much of  holiday socks, mugs, decorative plaques and apple themed décor, little notepads
Favorite candy… dark chocolate...thats all a woman needs
Favorite scent… fresh and herbal scented things
Favorite restaurant…. Any restaurants in historic roswell :) and otherwise chick fil a and Mexican food- muy delicioso
Favorite beverage… coffee (from ANYwhere!) flavored sparkling waters and tea

Secret Pal Info-Meghan

Birthday: October 19th~! (I am a Libra in case you were interested haha!)

Favorite places to shop?
~Target, TJ Maxx, Express, GAP, Hobby Lobby, and Michaels

Hobbies…
~ Working out, tumbling, making jewelry with my mom, shopping (is that a hobby?!?)

Teams that you root for…
~Alabama ROLL TIDE!!!! Braves!! Falcons and Giants!!

Favorite colors…
~Black, White, Red, and Pink

Favorite animal…
~ELEPHANTS!! ~dogs ~monkeys

Items that you have too much of 
~ socks, teacher décor, stationary, ya know…the norm!

Favorite candy…
~ dark chocolate, gummy sour candy, Swedish fish!

Favorite scent…
~ fresh herbal scents, nothing too fruity…but basically I like anything that smells good!

Favorite restaurant….
~ I love all the restaurants in Historic Roswell (Roux, Inc., Ceviche, but other restaurants I like: Panera, Atlanta Bread Co.

Favorite beverage…
I loved iced coffee from Starbucks or Dunkin! Diet Coke is my preference when it comes to soda! I like tea and flavored sparkling water, and lemonade from Chic-fil-a!

Secret Pal Info-Heather

Secret Pal Questions:
Birthday: May 20 - Taurus/Gemini Cusp

Favorite places to shop? Target, Bath and Body Works, Amazon.com, JoAnn, Michael's

Hobbies...sewing bags, reading books, DIY, redecorating (is that a hobby?)

Teams that you root for: none, although I follow some of my friends' teams.

Favorite colors...Green, blue, turquoise

Favorite animal...turtle and Chihuahuas (I have 3 Chis)

Items that you have too much of: teacher mugs, apple stuff

Favorite candy...I've given this up! If I were to splurge though, I would love something chocolate. I love Reese cups or Hersheys.

Favorite scent...vanilla, mint (I love the Stress Relief/Aromatherapy line at Bath and Body called "Eucalyptus Spearamint").

Favorite restaurant...I don't eat out a lot anymore because of my diet but I could splurge once or twice...Olive Garden, Mexican, Hibachi

Favorite beverage...I've given up a lot of these but if I were going to cheat, I might drink Diet Barq's rootbeer, Sweet Tea, Starbuck's Café Vanilla Frappachinos, or White Wine-Riesling.

Secret Pal Info-Jennifer

Favorite places to shop? I hate shopping but when I do - LOFT, Target, Lakeshore Learning
Hobbies… - hmmmm..... my kids, gardening, reading
Teams that you root for… Ohio State
Favorite colors… Red (has to be a blue red), Black, White
Favorite animal… Dog
Items that you have too much of  - (my own) kid's crap. Books
Favorite candy… twizzlers
Favorite scent… ? clean and crisp scents
Favorite restaurant…. Any place I don't have to cook is great by me, preferably something in the 1 mile radius, Allessios, Taco Mac, Lucia's, Nine
Favorite beverage… can I answer that on school email?

Secret Pal Info-Sarah

My info!!!! Birthday! August 30th- 29 and holding!!! :) Thanks! Sarah

Favorite places to shop? Ann Taylor Loft, TJMaxx, Target
Hobbies. Reading, exercising, painting if I had time! Ha!
Teams that you root for. My college was small, so I really do not follow a team.
Favorite colors.Golds, reds( cranberry), green (-like green apple and pale green ) Specific enough? :)

Favorite animal.
Items that you have too much of - Stationary
Favorite candy...Chocolate- Finally...not picky! :)
Favorite scent.vanilla, pumpkin spice, lime, cranberry, sugar cookie
Favorite restaurant..Mexican
Favorite beverage. Sprite, Water, Coffee, and Cabs (Wine)

Planning Calendar

https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=5ab8ab8nlj2isbe503jttdojt8%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York

PLC - August 9, 2012

Grade level Agenda- August 9, 2012

Please Bring:

-         Lang Arts TE

-         Reading TE (changing patterns Theme 2)

-          Mathcurriculum/Standards

-         Any ideas/resources for math unit and ELA

-         Tentative class list (to get green folders andheadphones out of my room!)

-         Laptop for planbook

AGENDA:            

*Note- Clean up T-drive!!! If you see anythingold/irrelevant/can be combined please do so! J

Spelling:

-         Spell and Write?

-         Sitton Spelling- “no excuse words” list?

-         Harcourt Spelling?

Most of us are going to do the spelling words in the Harcourt reading book.  Some may add in the Spell and Write and make different lists for advanced/on spellers.

ELA-(curriculummap calendar on t drive under “grade level”)

                Story- Olympic Games
https://sites.google.com/site/welchsclass/blog/reading-centers-9-12-11

                Skill- What is a sentence? p. 24

                LangArts Skill- What is a sentence?       

                Writing- Research writing

SS - Look at the curriculum guide.  Start with a basic introduction.  Where is Athen

Don't focus on branches of government yet.

We will focus/plan SS on Tuesday at CP.

Math: Plan Unit 1

-         Determine how the content topics, standards, andskills will be organized within the unit for the first weeks of school. 

-         Determine which standards for mathematicalpractice will be most appropriately integrated to support this content and theskills you have identified

-         Look for resources and activities that alsosupport the integration of the standards for mathematical practice. 

-         As you evaluate the standards addressed and theactivities identified, will the transitional standards be needed to supportstudents in their learning?  Identify anytransitional standards to be addressed and add them to your instructional planfor this unit.  Identify  resources that will support student learningof the transitional standards identified and also articulate well with theinstruction planned.

*BEFORE WE BREAK UP- Next meeting on Tuesday- SS ideas/resources, ELA planning, Math planning?

PLC-August 6, 2012

Grade level meeting-August 6, 2012

Sitting spelling
We will review and discuss later.

We discussed and updated as needed.
-grading policy
-Recovery policy
We discussed having common recovery assessments and creating a bank for tests so that we aren't all making tests.

Daily Schedule:
We discussed how we've done scheduling in the past and how to break up subjects.

Dismissal
We partnered up. One person will do first bell and one second bell. Hurley will do 3rd bell.

8:30am - Thursday morning lets meet to plan language arts and then break apart to plan math. Advanced meet in Laura's room and On level meet in. Denise's room.

We chose secret pals.
Complete the survey and reply to all 3rd teachers on the email so that your secret pal can know about you.

Friday outing: We will go out for team building after open house on Friday.

PLC-August 3, 2012

3rd Grade Team Planning
August 3, 2012
Week 1-August 13
Short Story: Rosie (Skills: narrative elements)
ELA: Sentences p. 24
Writing: Rosie prompts:
Can a dog really be a person’s best friend? Why or Why not? What is another way in which dogs/animals help people?
What is the most unusual pet you have ever heard of? What do you think would be most fun and least fun about having this animal as a pet?

Week 2-August 20
Short Story: Leah’s Pony
ELA: Types of Sentences p. 26
Writing: Research paragraph
Week 3-August 27
Short Story: none
ELA: Punctuation p.28
Writing: research writing Olympics
Start a novel this week

Homework consistency:
We discussed streamlining homework to be more consistent.
Reading 20 minutes per night
Math: 20 minutes (paper/ ixl time for both)
ELA 15-20 min.


Book List:
Magic Tree House-Hour of the Olympics
Maybe purchase other Magic Tree House/Magic school bus books to help integrate

Questions about ELA CCC with Rashidah:
-novels? Not sure if we have the money...

-DRA? We will remove the regular fluency and use DRA
kits will be shared among the grade level


Parking Lot:
Spelling lists? Harcourt? Sitton spelling?