Pow Wow Principals Press
October 5, 2017
URGENT!!!
Every single student will need to have the Crayola Media Release signed.
Please do not submit this to your grade chair until you have every one.
Use conferences tonight to get some of the signatures while you have them in person.
I'm sorry, as I know tracking down paperwork can be cumbersome, but this will be incredible for our school. The grant winners are featured in the Crayola Education magazine that goes all over the country!!!
Extra copies can be found in the teacher workroom.
TUESDAY NEWSDAY!!!
Shout out to Ms. Yvette for another PERFECT audit!!
October 9th Data Day!
Instead of meeting during planning formally, we would like to give each member the gift of TIME! Take this time to reflect on your student data and create your action plan for how you will do daily monitoring of student learning.
Great job TRiBE!
Daily Demonstration of Learning
Here is a great explanation of the demonstrations of learning.
As you are planning and rolling out your lessons, think of the following?
Where do I want the students to go?
How am I explaining the learning target so they not only understand it, but can articulate what they need to do in the task/activity to PROVE they have mastered it?
How am I monitoring their learning?
What am I doing if they GOT it? ENRICHMENT?
What am I doing if they DIDN'T GET IT YET? Remediation.
How are you monitoring your daily learning target?
Awesome Strategies for Managing Response Rates
Reminders
- Sign the roster by the sign-in sheets stating that you reviewed the Tools for Working with Parents and Families powerpoint.
ESOL Aides Training
ESOL
ALL ESOL Teacher Assistants will participate in a three-day professional development series. Each session will focus on evidence-based strategies that support comprehensible instruction for English Language Learners. The ESOL Teacher Assistant PD Series will take place on the three District PD days - 10/18/2017, 1/24/2018, and 4/25/2018 - from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM at the Alternative Center for Education.
The District ESOL Teacher Assistants will be receiving a detailed email regarding the professional development. If you have any questions, contact Karen Malits.
PD Calendar Link
PD Calendar Link - updated frequently
Please join us next Saturday!
Please let us know if you will be able to join us.
Kagan Structure of the Week - Sage-n-Scribe (page S.42)
Updates from Ms. Van Brimmer
Celebrating the joy of reading: VBE started a strong tradition of using Halloween to celebrate the joy of reading and engage our families. We have two important events coming up. Please promote these to your kiddos and participate with us!
2nd Annual Literacy Lantern Contest: We invite our students, families, and staff to decorate a pumpkin based on a favorite book or story. We display these in the media center and award prizes for the Top 3 pumpkins. Please no carving and make sure your pumpkin is labeled with your name and the book it is based on. We are advertising this through FB, morning announcements, and we will be doing a ConnectEd message to our families as Halloween gets closer.
2nd Annual Storybook Parade: Last year we had a great turnout for our Storybook Parade on Halloween. Students can dress up as a favorite character, vocabulary word, or future career that they've read about. We encourage kids to bring the book so that they can display it during the parade. Grade levels can choose a favorite author or theme to coordinate their costumes if they choose. Our parade starts at 9:15 on Halloween.
Updates from Ms. Keeley
Please make sure to turn in your form 1 to me so that we can keep to our timeline.
Shout outs to the following teachers for turning in forms or meeting with me for ideas:
Ms. Martin
Ms. Henson
Ms. E. Gonzalez
Ms. Norwood
Ms. Berwick
Ms. Swink
Ms. Fiori
Ms. Benson
Once forms are approved you may start.
BEFORE you even start the actual experiment you should begin with the following in log book. Use a different page for each section. Make sure to have a table of contents in the beginning.
You do not have to use a composition book, you can just put paper in a construction paper folder.
DO NOT FORGET TO DO THE LOG BOOK AS THIS IS ONE AREA THAT STUDENTS GET MARKED DOWN ON!!
Primary Science Fair Template
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1Nqou3fOm91ODUxNmMxM2QtMjU1NS00ZWQ0LTlkZGUtNDk1ODE5Y2Y0MzFm/view
Upper grades may use the same format as the above link, but write on regular lined paper, rather than printing it out for students to use. Remember to use a different page for each section.
Question
This is what is approved on your form 1 paper.
Research - VERY IMPORTANT!
Background knowledge - articles, online, books - what questions do you have about the subject matter? Do not google your question. If students or teachers just google the question then there is no purpose for the experiment.
Example - If the question is about dissolving, students can research mixtures and solutions, what substances dissolve, what happens to the molecules in stirring?
Further clarification to come about use of bibliography at elementary level.
Hypothesis
If what you are changing , then this will happen
Example: If I increase the rate of stirring, then substances will dissolve faster.
Materials
Be specific
How many of each item, what amount, use metric in science example 100ml of water
Include enough materials for three trials.
Procedure
Step by Step CLEAR directions
Verb first
Include repeating of trials (Gets accurate, valid data) For example - Repeat steps 1-9 for trial two and trial three.
Next Week - Performing the experiment and Collecting Data
Updates from Ms. Ragley
Charting a Flight Plan for Change...Empowering Students to Use Math and Think Mathematically.
Mathematical Practice #6 Attend to Precision
What it means to Teachers?
· Modeling precision in communication and in mathematical solutions
· Identifying incomplete responses and asking students to revise their responses
· Encouraging students to identify when others are not addressing the question completely
What are students doing?
· Using and clarifying mathematical definitions in discussion and in their own reasoning (orally and in writing
· Using, understanding and stating the meanings of symbols
· Expressing numerical answers with a degree of precision
Open Ended Questions to use in classroom
· How might you explain the problem in another way?
· What math words have you learned that might help explain your thinking?
· How would you describe the problem in your own words?
· What words from your vocabulary journal, anchor chart, or word wall might be helpful to help you describe your thinking?
Daily Mathematical Routines
· Math Talk – 5 minutes a day
· Spiral Review – 4 Square – 10-12 minutes
· Xtra Math – approximately 5 minutes a day
· IReady Math – 45 minutes of instruction a week
· RTi –targeted small group Tier 2 intervention and enrichment
· Whole Group Instruction – embedding Kagan structures, Accountable Talk and Mathematical Practices
Upcoming District Unit Assessments Windows
3rd grade – Unit 3 – 9/25- 10/13 – Place Value/Rounding, Add/Subtract, Multitep + and –
4th grade – Unit 3 – 10/2 – 10/13 – Factors, Multiples, prime/composite, multiplying multidigit numbers, divide 4 digit by 1 digit
5th grade – Unit 2 – 10/2 -10/20 – Multiply multidigit whole numbers, divide multidigit whole numbers, multiply and divide problem solving
Crayola pre-survey
This is for All staff!
(Pre-Survey link) Crayola creatED PRE-Survey for entire staff to complete