*Comprehension Connection book- discussed what we are teaching out of it and how other grades are using it as well. Next year we are wanting to start using metacognition earlier in the year and the rest of the book. Using this book we have been pleased with the affects so far.
*Guided Reading: We really want to attempt to divide our students into reading groups next year. If we had our schedules early enough in the summer we would be able to decide when we all could have guided reading. We our now discussing maybe just combining for our higher flyers and lower students so that we had more then one or two students in a group at a time. We'd like to really consider these options and decide which is the best way to go.
Also, discussed Daily 5 and Cafe. We are wanting to decide the best way to integrate this into our classrooms as well. Sue and Tara will be taking the class this summer, Karol and Jamie have already done so.
*Phonics: We will continue to use Visual Phonics. We know that they are using them in Kindergarten and hopefully next year will then be a review.
We feel as though we've had a great year and accomplished a lot with excellent discussions!
Monday, April 25, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
March 28
*Intervention Kit-
-Jamie wrote up all the skills for Level G with the kit. We discussed how that would be very helpful to do for all the levels and that way we can use that as a guide to help us prepare and meet needs of our students.
-Discussed making the best use of our time to do whole grade guided reading.
*Dividing the kids based on needs into three groups, then breaking them into guided reading groups within that group. We would each have these groups for a couple of months, or decide when the best time to switch would be. Something we would like to try.
-PHONICS- discussed the way we are currently teaching phonics. We teach in isolation as a whole group, however, the kids are coming in more prepared and we are wondering if should change our delivery system. The change we all agree on is to teach both sounds of the vowels at the same time (long and short)
-During this discussion we discussed wanting to ask for a second computer just for Mimio so we could use computers for mimio and still have our teacher computer free.
*Metacognition:
-We are planning to begin using the Schema and we discussed.
-Jamie wrote up all the skills for Level G with the kit. We discussed how that would be very helpful to do for all the levels and that way we can use that as a guide to help us prepare and meet needs of our students.
-Discussed making the best use of our time to do whole grade guided reading.
*Dividing the kids based on needs into three groups, then breaking them into guided reading groups within that group. We would each have these groups for a couple of months, or decide when the best time to switch would be. Something we would like to try.
-PHONICS- discussed the way we are currently teaching phonics. We teach in isolation as a whole group, however, the kids are coming in more prepared and we are wondering if should change our delivery system. The change we all agree on is to teach both sounds of the vowels at the same time (long and short)
-During this discussion we discussed wanting to ask for a second computer just for Mimio so we could use computers for mimio and still have our teacher computer free.
*Metacognition:
-We are planning to begin using the Schema and we discussed.
Monday, February 28, 2011
February 28
We're back! Finally have our BLOG working due to technical issues with the email change!
*Discuss Qwest grant and finalized the last copy. We have been working very hard to prepare this grant for Color Nooks for all four of our classrooms. This has taken lots of extra time from each of us!
*Visual Phonics: Using mostly with our struggling readers. Discussed trying to review letters a couple times a week.
*Intervention Kit: Continuing to use with our students.
*Metacognition:
-We all have introduced and used the graphic organizer and used the talking bubbles.
-We are going to review all the pieces of metacognition with our class. Using whichever method was best for each class.
-Next PLC we would like to plan our next moves with the metacognition piece.
*Discuss Qwest grant and finalized the last copy. We have been working very hard to prepare this grant for Color Nooks for all four of our classrooms. This has taken lots of extra time from each of us!
*Visual Phonics: Using mostly with our struggling readers. Discussed trying to review letters a couple times a week.
*Intervention Kit: Continuing to use with our students.
*Metacognition:
-We all have introduced and used the graphic organizer and used the talking bubbles.
-We are going to review all the pieces of metacognition with our class. Using whichever method was best for each class.
-Next PLC we would like to plan our next moves with the metacognition piece.
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