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putting the ELEMENTARY back into elementary school Oct 26
Major Announcement for Novemember copying
Word Study November:
To assist teachers in preparing word study materials, each teacher will be assigned 1,300 copies (instead of 1000) to their Ricoh copy account for November. You should see 1,300 on November 1.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Oct 29 MP1 Posting window opens
Oct 31 Book Character Day
Nov 1 PBIS Committee Meeting 315
Nov 2 Citizen of the Month #2 200
Nov 5 MP1 Ends
Nov 6 Teacher Workday
Nov 7 MP1 Report cards due (email Brian when Marked Complete)
Nov 7 CRC due (see emails from Barbara for more information)
Nov 7 Lead Team Meeting 310
Nov 8 Fall picture retakes
Nov 8 PD Day #sanfordbookpushers
Nov 14 Report cards go home
Nov 15 Grade 4 Performance 530
Frontline Professional Development--first 3 steps due by October 31
This week I held our Frontline PD workshops.
All teachers must complete the first three components by October 31:
1. Goal Setting for Student Progress Form
2. Professional Development Plan
3. Teacher Reflection and Self Assessment
If you need any support or have any questions, please let me know.
Twitter Tuesday Teacher
Kristie McCray meeting with her Intervention group during IE.
A Word Splash of science vocabulary and directions for a Science provocation are presented as part of Melene Skeeter's fifth grade Science Provocation
Morning Experiences and Provocations and Book Reviews
Please review the pictures from this week's blog and previous week's blog to identify ideas for Morning Experiences that you can include in your room. Morning Experiences should be engaging and exciting for your students. The engagement and excitement should be increasing and improving in your classroom as we proceed through the year because there are so many good ideas we are highlighting that you can include in your classroom. If you would like to meet with me to plan some ideas, I would be more than happy to do so.
And here is a Morning meeting suggestion: Do you provide circle time for students to share a book they are reading. Perhaps you can prompt this by saying: Has anyone read a good book this week? Remember, once you have evidence that a student has read a book on their level, you can submit their name to do a youtube book review. All we need is a name and we will take it from there.
Students create this in Tammy McFarland morning provocation.
Students are playing a math card game as part of this morning experience in Tulsa Silver's room
Great idea Melene Skeeter!
Part of Alex Hilton's K Morning Experience is that students write their name on the Who's Here board
How are you feeling, make an Emoji in Heather Hudgins K class
Students in Rachel Letchworth's first grade class decorate their classroom fall tree in the morning
Book Pusher Displays from my walk through in classrooms this week
Reflective Questions about your book pusher display:
Is your Book Pusher display clearly labeled as these examples are?
Is you Book Pusher display active. Are you adding books or student work products regularly?
Colorful reading rainbow from K Brittany Hudnall's room
Adding books (sprinkles) to the donut is Heather Hudgins theme
Tweeting is the theme in Holly McElveen's book pusher display
Adding books to the book marks and student work products (book reviews) are part of Sharlene James 4th grade display
Student work products are posted in Lindsay Child's second grade room. She also has a Hall of Fame to indicate favorite books that have been read.
Observational Look For
Are all students engaged in academic work? Every activity that a student is working on in your classroom should be intentional and planned. Every contact moment we have with our students is precious and it requires this focus on well planned intentional work for our students.
Formative data during math instruction. Formative data is to be determined as part of your grade level planning and indicated on your lesson plan on google docs. The formative component of your lesson should be present and observable.
Action Item: Watch the Video on small group reading instruction
Please view the Small Group Reading Instruction video: The 3 Essential Components to Small Group Reading by Barbara Brinker.
We ask that everyone views video. The video is on our YouTube page(#sanfordbookpushers) p(see below). It is currently posted on the Sanford SharePoint and it is the kind of video that you may find going back and watching additional times proves valuable.
We will discuss this video at grade level team planning on Wednesday so please take the time to watch it by then.