PLC 10.30.12

Mountain Park Elementary – Professional Learning Community (PLC) Agenda

What to bring: science unit materials, curriculum binder, calendar
Attending:  Scales, Corson, Welch, Resudek, White, Hurley, Laney, L'Homm
Not Attending:  Brock (TAG meeting)

Review Norms:

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

AGENDA:

Unit/Lesson Planning –

Pacing- review curriculum map/update
Share ideas/activities with warm & cool feedback
Writing Assessments – CFAs- rocks and minerals

 

SEM- Regions of GA
Region Assignments:
Hurley-Swamp
Welch/White-ocean
Brock-Mountains
L'Homm-Lower Coastal Plain
Corson-Upper Coastal
Resudek-Marshes
Scales-Piedmont

Rotations:
Nov. 14 - teach your own class
Nov. 28:   2 class rotations
Dec. 5:  2 class rotations
Dec. 12:  Culminating project
Teachers will be the tour guides and will take their classes around to each habitat.
10:30-11:15pm
2nd grade/other visitors can come from 1:00-2:00pm

 

Math planning- depth of knowledge/rigor, resources

Sites to Look at:
Math Live - http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me5l/html/Math5.html
Thinking Blocks:  http://www.thinkingblocks.com
Harcourt e-lab:  http://harcourtschool.com/activity/elab2004/gr3/index_2004.html
Cursive with animations:  http://donnayoung.org/penmanship/cursive-animations.htm
Rocks/Minerals:  http://mineralogy4kids.com
Rocks/Minerals:  http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities/rockssoils.html
Rocks/Minerals:  http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/v1Z7aJLuVYOD/3rd-Grade-Rocks-and-Minerals#2

Reminders:
Mock Election:
We are really excited about the mock election on Friday!  You should have recieved a plastic bag which has voter registration cards for each of your students.  Please hand these out before you come to vote becaue we will only "allow" students with valid cards to vote.

Just in case you forgot, here is the voting schedule:

9:20-9:40 Brock

9:45-10:05 Hurley

10:10-10:30 Corson

10:35-10:55 L’Hommedieu

12:55-1:15 Scales

1:20-1:40 Welch

1:45-2:05 Resudek

**ACTION ITEMS – NEXT MEETING

 

Grade Level

Narrative writing scores due tomorrow. Put your scores into the form on the t drive.  Ask a neighbor to help you if you can't find it.
Science lab will be starting so check the schedule for your time.
Report cards go home today.

Discuss:
Study guide-create study guides with vocab and essential questions, what kids should know.

No worksheet Wednesday:

Soil lesson from the city of Roswell-Nov. 19 (30 kids at a time)

Geologist-will be here for one day. Emily will make a schedule.  More info coming.

Owl guy-

Academics for the Week of 10/29:

PLC 10.16.12

MountainPark Elementary – Professional Learning Community (PLC) Agenda
Attending:  Weikel, Scales, Resudek, Welch, White, Corson, L'Hommedieu, Laney, Brock, Hurley

Whatto bring: copies(9) of a child’s writing to practice grading with a rubric

ReviewNorms

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

AGENDA:

Looking atData –(checkpoints)

·        Protocols– ATLAS protocol

·        http://schoolreforminitiative.org/doc/atlas_looking_data.pdf

·        Planfor remediation and enrichment

Stacy - When could we reevaluate math placements?
We think we need to adjust some students.

 

 

Looking atStudent Work(Narrative Writings for Writing assessment)

·        Scoringwriting together with rubric to calibrate scoring

Writing lists for you to enter your writing on the T drive.
Due next Friday Oct. 26th to Rashidah.

 

Unit/LessonPLanning – lookat curriculum map

·        Pacing

·        Depthof Knowledge (DOK)/Rigor

·        Resources

 

Reminders:
Next Week Schedule -
10:30-11:15 Math
Review in the afternoon for ITBS

 

**ACTIONITEMS – NEXT MEETING

Planning common assessment for Rocks and Minerals.

PLC 10.9.12

Mountain Park Elementary – Professional Learning Community (PLC) Agenda

What to bring: math unit 3, Thurgood and LBJ activities/lessons/ideas

Attending:  Corson, White, Welch, Resudek, Laney, Hurley, L’Hommedieu

Not attending:  Scales, Brock

Review Norms

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

AGENDA:

Scheduling: ITBS schedule (math in the afternoon?)

Unit/Lesson Planning – Math unit 3

·         Review/Unpack standards

·         Backward design – what do we want students to know, understand and be able to do?

& how do we get there?

·         Pacing

Date	Standard	Assessments?
Oct. 16 (4 day week)	MCC3.OA.5 (properties) MCC3.OA.6 (unknown factor) MCC3.OA.9 (patterns on the + and x patterns—spiral)	Common formative assessment
Oct. 22	MCC3.OA.7 (facts/two 1 digit numbers—spiral) MCC4.NBT.5 (Advanced only-one digit x up to 4 digits/2x2 digits)	(ITBS)
Oct. 29	MCC3.OA.8 (2 step word problems/4 operations)	Common formative assessment
Nov. 5	MCC4.OA.2 (Advanced only-x or divide to solve word problems) On level math classes catch up/review.
Nov. 12	Unit Review	Summative Assessment

Unit/Lesson Planning- Social Studies- Thurgood over the next 4 days

·         Resources

·         Pacing

 Check the T drive for the updated curriculum map! :)

**ACTION ITEMS – NEXT MEETING : pacing for rocks and minerals unit, reading skills, writing-persuasive?

Reminder-Nov. 8/9 Tellus

PLC 10.2.12

Mountain Park Elementary – Professional Learning Community (PLC) Agenda

DON'T FORGET TO CHECK THE T: DRIVE FOR THE UPDATED CURRICULUM CALENDAR!

Attending:  Sarah Resudek, Heather Welch, Linda Weikel, Bethany Corson, Laura Brock, Jennifer L’Hommedieu

Not Attending:  Denise Scales, Meghan Hurley, Emily White

What to bring: performance assessment ideas for social studies, curriculum binder with standards and units, Reading/ELA common core 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:

*Something positive! J

Unit/Lesson Planning –

·          Pacing- look at curriculum map (look at calendar and discuss upcoming end of 9 weeks for writing and reading)

o   Writing- final narratives (topic- “The Magic of a Moment” )

o   Reading- stories and skills? (look at unit 2)

·         Share ideas/activities with warm & cool feedback- Our Government unit

·         Looking at teacher work- Performance assessment for social studies standard element b?

·         ELA – unit 2 informational texts (see curriculum map) We will use the readers during our reading groups.  Bethany has materials we can use for these.  The novel for this unit (And then What Happened Paul Revere) is on order for us and will arrive soon.  Look on pg. 1 of 5 on the Core Curriculum unit to see the non-fiction standards (on the right).

·         Math-we looked at Unit 2 post test options.  We added a few questions to meet the additional advanced standards.   We then checked on pacing and decided on common formative assessment for Friday and summative assessment.

 

• SS-We discussed branches of govt. assessment and came up with common performance assessment.

**ACTION ITEMS – NEXT MEETING:   Math non traditional study guide?