Notes+from+Team+Meetings

PLT Notes Schedule: Specials right before lunch LEAP: One Day a week
 * 5/18/2010

4/6/2010 Date Night Notes In newsletter or mail. Tony will make a permission form for 4th grade volunteers. phone number/parent signature. 6:30-10:00.

Send out what to bring on Thursday. Breaking down reading tests.

Math review: Data vocabularly Transformation Equations problem of the day

3/16/2010 1/2 day meeting: April 8/9 Afternoon. Work on reading assessments ...

Progress Book discussion Question, does missing affect end of grade idea. How much leeway for missing assignments? Big question form parents about weighting, we have a variety of weighting. Breaking Down reading assessments, the next one ...

Next Tuesday meeting, bring reading type assessments.

3/9/2010 Update of kids needing 'support' --Forms passed out/updated for Allison to pass along Service Project --Need to 'triple check' date of May 7 with Mitch --No need to publicize until after break Golden Shamrock Form --Chris will complete for the team and pass along to Amy

3/1/2010 Mary's Share: TImeline Project: Iphoto sharing Keyonote Timeline: Linking within drawing a timeline with a table, turning off the cell borders, text boxes, you can drop a line on top of the table for the marks that are in between. Tony shared timetoast ... might use it. Mary would be willing to help out with this project. Service Project: Who is doing what: Pick a date May 7, 7:00 to 10:00 Ideas: Movie Night Confirmation of Activities: get at least 4 different activities.

2/26/2010: Ohio History Discussion Kelly reshared the "acting out history website" Legend of Ohio text in classroom libraries goes along with first. Review the assessment? 4 weeks for Ohio History two tests. First test done for sure before spring break, try to get as much done as possible before spring break .... Really look at the assessment to see what is going. 1) First assessment is early people to pre-statehood 2) Second Assessment is statehood to now

2/23/2010 Ag Day Service 1) Kiva project 2) Duty schedule for the project 3) Kelly Mid Ohio Food Bank 4) Mitch Form How can Mitch help us?** 1)

Lois Reminders ** 1) **

LA Council Share Tony shared the draft of the rubric for fall writing that may be made available to all 4th grade teachers in the district. The intent is that this rubric will be a 'revisable' rubric that will help teachers.
 * 2/2/2010

2nd trimester work: We need to compile a list of what we expect our kids to do with the Literary Essay and I need copies of rubrics or checklists used (send electronically). I will also need a copy of what you think is an AC sample and a PR sample. We will talk about these at a later team meeting.

**Science: Some of us need the final assessment before Friday morning. Please look over the draft of the revisions Tony made and respond by Thursday at 9:00, so that Tony can fix anything and modify the scoring rubric for.

Ohio History Conversation: Any other ideas: Tony will work on his room :) **
 * Agenda for next Tuesday:

Math Share Tony shared some websites bookmarked to the delicious account. As a reminder the links on login info is on the page titled Delicious Bookmarking.
 * 1/26/2010

Topic 10/11 by next Friday

Kelly thinks we should get definitely get into the Data unit before the OAT.

**Landforms:
 * Assessment will vary, Chris and Allison are a little ahead. Get the revisions done by next Tuesday.**

Emailing:
 * We all agreed to send messages to each other in our inboxes only. The 4th grade Conference Folder will be used by people trying to contact us.

Mastery Manager Math and Reading more

**Next Meeting
 * Continue Writing Discussion

1/19/2010** Try to get the target assessment completed by Feb 11. Kelli: Has landform articles from the Water, Wind and Ice books. She also has a resource about how Cause and Effect is tested. Go to her if you wan them. Beth and Allison both have books with short cause and effect lessons. Chris has both some short nf articles and a list of picture books that work well with Cause and Effect.
 * Landforms:**
 * Reading Discussion:**

We started a system for resource sharing: folder that will be housed in Kelli's room. Possibly leading

Allison shared: Fluency checks, check-ins - weekly, Kelli: Breaks down check-ins to the different standards for Progress Book, she also uses different parts of different project rubrics, so there will be more than one grade assigned to different projects. Tony: Echoed some of the things that Allison and Kelly shared, also the idea that 2-3 reading conferences per trimester count as a small grade. The once a trimester "book talk" where the kids share a book to their classmates is a big grade. Kelli: shared the idea of logging homework as *, √, + for parent communication Beth: shared Show What You Know OAT and some other resources she brought from Thomas.
 * Grading ideas for Reading:**

We wrapped up the conversation about trying to be to stressed out about the Progress Book "live" in the 3rd trimester.

Next meeting: Math: Tony Share: Writing discussion: