Feb+Team+Min

** Members Present:Noreen, Karen, Loralee, Steve, Jenn, Dena, Michelle, Molly ** ** Meeting Recorder (please remember to post to Atlas): Jenn ** ** Agenda: **
 * 5th Grade Housekeeping/Planning Meeting Date: Feb 7th **
 * Lit Maggie Moon Share Out-10 minutes each session

** Discussion and Decisions: **

** Curriculum/Assessment Points: ** Guided Reading // Michelle & Molly (see video) //
 * see handouts provided
 * "In most 3-5 classrooms, only your lowest level readers need GR on a somewhat regular basis"
 * Grade 5 students are receiving GR opportunities if necessary during leveled book clubs, pull-out, push-in and individual conferencing

Accountable Read Alouds // Noreen & Loralee // Reading Conferring // Michelle (see video) //
 * MM modeled 4 strategies to use: turn & talk, stop & jot, 4 square and dramatic reading (see video)
 * // went over scenarios //
 * // Karen C. shared rubric to use from Teachers College //

Using Mentor Texts // Molly & Michelle (see video) //
 * // see handout of mentor texts from MM if interested //
 * // MM shared mentor text in which they discussed teaching points //
 * // Mentor texts should be read before from start to finish before using for mini-lessons //
 * // folder for mentor texts in idrive for writing //

Break 9:50-10:00

(45 minutes) 10:00-10:45 Revise unit for either RW or WW // Karen //

Ideal
 * 1/2 of year big picture plans are made
 * then have different parts assigned to people
 * 30-1 hr before the unit to bang out a unit-even if someone doesn’t go back and follow it in their rooms
 * post-unit-reflections
 * Don’t teach the same way each year-new texts or tweaks
 * Don’t want to feel that you don’t know where you are going with your unit-need to have the plan.
 * Unit Basics (See handout)-try to have a 1 page summary
 * set start and finish dates-share with students
 * do some of your own reading and writing
 * set overarching goals (should feel like there are links from one unit to another)
 * plan weeks (bends in the road)-strings of mini-lessons
 * think of specific teaching point
 * think read aloud text and support work (1 or 2)
 * What talk work do you want them to focus on
 * shorter texts, you can get more texts done
 * plan how to assess on a regular basis and/or end of unit
 * What data?
 * post-its
 * writing
 * think of predictable conferences and small group work

(30 minutes) 10:45-11:15 Writing Conferring Took Kits //Dena & Molly (see handouts)//
 * recommended having copies of anchor charts to give to students
 * recommended using an overhead transparency to use to edit piece of writing
 * suggested having mentor texts
 * Loralee suggested having copies of pages from mentor texts to use
 * recommended to have your own writer's nb and pieces that you are still working on

(20 minutes) 11:15-11:35 Review grade 5 year long plan //Jenn// 1. Is there anything missing that we wish we could add? 2. Is there anything we wish we could change?
 * ** We are pleased with the pace and direction we are taking and we wish to continue on this path. **

** Action Items and Person Responsible: **

** Support/Action Needed from Admin: **

** Resources: **

** 5th Grade Housekeeping/Planning Meeting Date: Feb 9th ** ** Members Present:Noreen, Karen, Loralee, Steve, Jenn, Dena, Michelle, Molly, Jeff, Rosemary, Michelle ** ** Meeting Recorder (please remember to post to Atlas):Karen ** ** Agenda: **
 * Celebrations (5 min)
 * Bio Book Clubs Feb 21st (15 min)
 * Dates
 * Choice Sheets
 * Expectations/Preparation
 * Phase II-Launch Dates (10 min)

** Discussion and Decisions: **

** Curriculum/Assessment Points: **
 * Bio Book Clubs Feb 21st (15 min)
 * Dates
 * Monday, Feb 21 planning day.
 * Choice Sheets
 * Expectations/Preparation
 * Loralee will work on expectations, options sheet
 * Karen will do Bio Bookmarks for all kids
 * Phase II-Launch Dates (10 min)
 * keep for Feb 21
 * Tues-go over Goldberg for each homeroom teacher to
 * Rotations
 * Monday Feb 14 double rotations,
 * Thursday-Feb 17regular rotations

** Action Items and Person Responsible: **

** Support/Action Needed from Admin: **

** Resources: **

** 5th Grade Housekeeping/Planning Meeting Date: Feb 15 and 16 ** ** Members Present:Noreen, Karen, Loralee, Steve, Jenn, Dena, Michelle, Molly ** ** Meeting Recorder (please remember to post to Atlas): Steve ** ** Agenda: **
 * ** Invention Convention Phase II **
 * ** Goldberg **
 * ** Bio Book Clubs **

** Discussion and Decisions: **

Tues-Housekeeping Wed-Curriculum Maps to review
 * **Invention Convention Phase II -Launch agenda**
 * Noreen's Invention Convention Log Post from Jeff Dungan on January 27th.
 * Jeff will help students set up categories. - For categories to work, students must post an item in their categories. Then the teacher can click on the link to see the students work.
 * There are examples of exemplary log entries on the I drive in Invention Convention phase II.
 * Karen will forward blog post information about phase II
 * Karen has organized the agenda for Invention Convention Phase II Launch. It is now posted on the calendar.
 * **Prepare homerooms for Goldberg**
 * Have the students do the Mousetrap Goldberg machine worksheet.
 * View the videos in your classroom.
 * Goldberg Junkyard War is this Friday after morning recess. The fifth grade teachers need to meet in the project area at 8:30 to organize the junkyard.
 * Goldberg Junkyard War is this Friday after morning recess. The fifth grade teachers need to meet in the project area at 8:30 to organize the junkyard.
 * **Bio Book Club expectations**
 * Karen and Loralee shared posters of new book club expectations.
 * **Assign Books to teachers-everything looks good.**
 * Bookmarks will be here on Friday.
 * Karen passed out the group lists. Teachers looked over the lists to check for optimal matches.
 * **Assign Books to teachers-everything looks good.**
 * Bookmarks will be here on Friday.
 * Karen passed out the group lists. Teachers looked over the lists to check for optimal matches.

** Curriculum/Assessment Points: **

** Action Items and Person Responsible: **

** Support/Action Needed from Admin: **

** Resources: **

** 5th Grade Housekeeping/Planning Meeting Date: 22 and 23 ** ** Members Present:Noreen, Karen, Loralee, Steve, Jenn, Dena, Michelle, Molly ** ** Meeting Recorder (please remember to post to Atlas): ** ** Agenda: **
 * Phase II Logistics and Lessons
 * Logging like an inventor-Look at Bell's notebooks http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/invent-convent/6698
 * World Maths Day March 1 and 2-reserve computers-Noreen
 * Wed. Free planning day-Stay tuned for Atlas plans after school

** Discussion and Decisions: ** ** Curriculum/Assessment Points: ** *Maggie Moon gave a great workshop on Book Clubs - watch the video that is posted. Karen's notes: Maggie Moon notes-Lit Circles vs Book Clubs Feb
 * World Math Day - spend time on Mathletics Live throughout the day as there are 100 games online for this special day.
 * 1st half of the year should focus on building stamina and book choice.
 * 2nd half of the year, your class should focus on partnership reading. Some same book reading is ideal.
 * 3rd phase is to merge into book clubs.
 * Book clubs should just be a "talk structure" overlaying your units of study. Can be any time during the unit.
 * Forming of groups, management, materials, structure, teaching kids how to talk vs. assigning roles (see handout)
 * Groups should work towards 1 or 2 ideas that they want to stick with as they are reading as they get further along in the book clubs. "I want to teach you that your job in a book club is, out of all the great ideas you've had, to figure out what 1 or 2 ideas you might want to focus on." You can model in your read aloud.
 * Preparation should go from students post-it noting their thought as they are reading to post-it note what you think you'll want to talk about-over post it noters vs no-noters.
 * Assessing-anecdotal conferring sheets just like in conferencing.
 * Meeting time-students should work towards independence with book clubs-students will start to make up their own schedule about when and how much they need to talk. Watch out that students are still getting enough time for independent talk.
 * After mini-lesson, if you have talked about the genre-have students go out to independently read, if you have given a mini-lesson about talking have students go off to book clubs first to practice the mini-lesson you have given.
 * Record at least 1 conversation and do some self-reflection.

** Action Items and Person Responsible: ** ** Support/Action Needed from Admin: **
 * Fantastic website for Invention-Convention Phase II - http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/invent-convent/6698
 * Outlining various parts of Invention-Convention Phase II on Atlas
 * Book computers for March 1

** Resources: **