Dept.+3-5+Minutes

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

 * 1) Grade 3 & 5 discussed their musical //A Kid's Life//
 * 2) Official Waupaca Meet sign-up?
 * 3) Awards - last afternoon
 * 4) attendance
 * 5) AR


 * 1) Forensics - next year
 * 2) Sunday, May 22
 * 9:00 St. Paul, Dale -- Educational Sunday
 * 1) gr 3-5 will think about it


 * 1) The CC is looking to cut 2 teachers.
 * 2) Not replacing Jenny
 * 3) and cutting someone else

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

 * 1) FVL Play - Wednesday, April 13
 * 2) Lunch time schedule is set.
 * 3) Bus seating groups have been set.


 * 1) Tornado Drill
 * 2) Will be on Thursday, April 14.
 * 3) We will head to the church basement.
 * 4) First group in goes next to the "inside" church wall.
 * 5) Groups file in, in single file, into spots between the chairs.


 * 1) April 18 - St. Joe's
 * 2) Lynn will call Linda S. to finalize what we're doing there that morning.
 * 3) Service is 9:15
 * 4) 2 songs
 * 5) We plan to walk.
 * 6) We won't go if it's raining.
 * 7) We will leave about 8:30.


 * 1) Showcase
 * 2) 4L has not done anything yet.
 * 3) 3S and 5S is still deciding on their musical.


 * 1) Christa McAuliffe Academy
 * 2) Lynn is considering.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

 * 1) Cris wants Lynn to come and practice "Seek Ye First" 8:45 AM
 * 2) World Spelling Day discussion
 * 3) Try Level 1, if too easy, try a harder level.
 * 4) Time was tough to get in because of the 1:35 dismissal.


 * 1) Meds training
 * 2) needs to be done by 3/11/11
 * 3) turn in certificate to office
 * 4) It takes about an hour
 * 5) 4L finished


 * 1) Linda Schlavensky is looking for a school group(s) to sing at St. Joe's on April 18 for their Monday morning worship service.
 * 2) Lynn is thinking about taking her 3rd graders.
 * 3) Service is at 9:15.
 * 4) Is that a communion service?


 * 1) Lynn is accompanying gr 5-6 singing on Ash Wednesday.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

 * 1) Fang
 * 2) 3S - 140 minutes for the two-week period (10 min/day) Starting on Feb. 6. Two weeks on, one week off, two weeks one week off, etc.
 * 3) 4L - 120 minutes for the two-week period (a bit under 10 min/day) Starts Feb. 1. It will always be 1 -14 of the months.
 * 4) 5S - 120 minutes and students need to be on their AR Goal track.
 * 5) Will parents be annoyed that the classrooms are not consistent?
 * 6) Valentine Party
 * 7) 3S is having a party on Feb. 14 (short)
 * 8) 4L is having a party on Feb. 14 during the very last part of the day.
 * 9) 5S is having a valentine exchange at 2:30 on Feb. 14.


 * 1) AR Movie/snack discussion

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

 * 1) Spelling Bee Discussion
 * 2) We suggest that each classroom (5-8) send the top 3? 4? 5? to the school bee.
 * 3) What are the Scripp's rules?
 * 4) January 21
 * 5) What's supposed to happen on that day?

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

 * 1) Christmas
 * 2) Rehearsal set for next Monday, December 13.
 * 3) Seating arrangement should be ready by this Friday.
 * 4) There are no Bible references in the program. The grades will not say, "Luke etc" because they'll be on the big screens.
 * 5) Songs need a bit of work.
 * 6) Who's in charge of the rehearsals? Lynn will talk with Dan.
 * 7) Who's playing the piano for what songs? Lynn will talk with Dan.
 * 8) Who's directing the songs? Lynn will talk with Dan.
 * 9) Who's the organist for the congregational hymns? We vote for the student teachers. Lynn will talk with Dan.
 * 10) Testing - Terra Novas
 * 11) Discussion of groups of "high mastery", moderate mastery", and "low mastery".
 * 12) Can give a direction of where to "go" with certain students.

**Tuesday, November 2, 2010**

 * 1) SPAC
 * 2) How do we supplement "things" into Saxon to make the program more acceptable to parents?
 * 3) 3S, 4L, 5S will each work on a list of implementations that are currently used in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classrooms.
 * 4) These lists will be ready by the November 23 meeting.
 * 5) If the Saxon program is such a problem…should the whole thing be scrapped and just start over.
 * 6) Can we take a look at the new Saxon copyright?
 * 7) General discussion about implementation of Saxon throughout the school.
 * 8) Does everyone need to teach math the same way?
 * 9) Should all teachers work within the same procedures?
 * 10) ELS seems to get "scolded" because we don't challenge the more advanced students. Saxon seems to challenge those upper kids, and yet we're being criticized for it.

**Tuesday, October 5, 2010**
a. Discussion on the purpose and reason for visiting other schools/teachers. b. SS mapping c. Technology
 * When we do this, there needs to be a specific purpose to make it more meaningful.
 * 3rd grade book is basically communities
 * Lynn does a project with the three branches of government. They draw a tree and puts labels on the branches so that they can visually see the parts of government. It's a very basic model of government. If it were to be duplicated in a higher grade, it would be easy to expound upon.
 * Lynn does a postcard exchange to interact with people in other states via postcards.
 * Lynn has her students do reports on famous Americans.
 * Does a Jamestown unit with the 3rd graders.
 * 4th grade
 * Lynn plans to use her postcard exchange with VoiceThread.
 * Cris has started a tech project in digital storytelling using Keynote

d. Dan will start his fall visits next week.
 * Friday, October 15 in Cris's
 * Monday, October 18 in Lynn's
 * Tuesday, October 19 in Ruth's

e. WLSTC
 * Lynn and Cris are registered.
 * Ruth will not be at teachers' convention.

f. Discussion about Ruth's "challenging student"

**Tuesday, September 7, 2010**
a. We discussed what each of us plans to talk about in tonight's "Parent Night" meetings. b. Forms are coming from FVL for observing in classrooms of other schools. c. CESA Handout d. Discussion of Ruth's diabetic student e. Math Meet for grade 5 from MLC f. We need to work on SS curriculum mapping. (projects...)
 * Lynn is going to ask if her 3rd grade parents would be interested in a "3rd Grade Family Gathering"
 * Once per quarter. Perhaps a "board game" night.
 * A visit to another WELS school.
 * A visit to a public school.
 * Reaching New Heights w/Nonfiction Writing
 * Would be paid for
 * Where should her testing supplies be?
 * Discussion will be held with the parents as to the best place.
 * Monthly math contest