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 * Agenda Grade 5 – Monday, May 24, 2010**

//Year Long Plan Changes//


 * Lit Circles** – May/June will be science social studies instead of fantasy

Reader’s Workshop – rearranged units, spaced throughout year

Word Study – added Noreen’s activities (sensory store, sentence city…..)

Math – mathletics will be aligned next year

Health – added puberty talks

Reading Olympics – All Reads/Read Alouds updated list Think about what titles we should add over summer Need to look at ordering

Student Book List looked at adding/deleting titles Student Activities updated based on reflections we need to think about what we need to teach before tackling projects
 * keynote
 * inserting media
 * venn diagram
 * diagram
 * cartoon life
 * discussion threads
 * excel
 * catagorize pages on blogs
 * Shelfari
 * making moves
 * iphoto
 * imovie
 * KerPoof
 * Tunedo
 * podcasting
 * delicious
 * bookmarking

Highlighting Topics on Student Activity Lists Discuss number of books and activities expected Follow up with Jeff regarding tech experts Spread out tech lessons throughout year Discuss rotations with new teachers
 * To Do** Label Reading Olympic books by level in fall

Tech Standards and Benchmarks (Jeff) would like to improve on consistency among all the grade 5 classrooms so kids are getting equal opportunities to be on laptops teachers are expected to give up one of their planning periods every to individually plan with tech. integrator asked Jeff if students could have their own passwords to log onto computer asked Jeff if we could have 2 tech experts from each class who meet with Jeff on a weekly basis

Beginning of Year proposed doing AUP, Gmail and Shelfari in one lesson with Jeff right away Out of Box Training iLife new typing program

Jeff is happy to do lessons as stand alone Team will look at spreading out lessons throughout year

Atlas

Checked off standards under social studies units that are assessed

Rotations

assigned teachers to rotations

Composed Letter to Debra Lane