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.