PLC+Minutes+2012-2013

PLC Minutes for the 2012-2013 School Year - Wiki Keeper - Sevelovitz All other roles: We rotate and share responsibilities

Plans for last week - Monday after lunch and after recess finish biomes 12:50-2:40 - Tuesday after recess final biome tests 2:00 - 2:45 - Engineering Centers 10:30 -12:00 and Monday and 11:00 -12:00 Tuesday - Fred and Whilma - Hawkins - Spagetti Tower - Hawkins - Paper Rockets - Sevelovitz - Pattern Block Challenge - Terri - Puff Mobile - Sevelovitz - Catapault - Terri will take charge of this

8:30 - 10:30 - Make two groups

Meeting 5/7 Mock Relay for Life - 5/24 Next STEM training 8/21 & 1/22 May 23rd - Step up night - 3 sessions 25min each, each grade level has 1 person help with childcare, Show STEM video at end of each session

Ideas for STEM activities for last week of school: Marshmellow tower; Fred & Wilma; Straw Rocket; Puff mobile, tangram puzzle

Book suggestions: Family Engineering An Activity Event Planning Guide; Free site - Grand Challenges for Engineering site - EGFI (magazine expensive) NCSU Engineering - Bookmarked on webpage Teach engineering.com Design Squad - pbs.org

Meeting April EOG project idea - Biome house project; Research May 20th - 24th; Construct May 28th - 31st Beginning May 6th: Reading groups: Mon/Tues EOG review, Wed/Thurs Science EOG review June 6th - 5th grade dance 1:00-2:30; Start April 25th, Letter home 4/22

DPI testing items to be covered in groups - Sevelovitz printing math; practice new answer sheet ClassScape whole group - use prepackaged quizzes in reading groups

4/18 - May 14 - EOG training 3:30 -5:30 - May 16 - Dr. B coming to talk with classes - May 17 Visit Pollard - May 23 Step up night - 6:00-7:30 - May 31 - Relay for Life

Starting May 6 - Begin M/T Reading, W/Th Science review - In this time talk about how to do the test (griding) - Use Released Test items in groups

EiE Kit - Sevelovitz - with Erin Next week starting Tuesday

House Project - Do research the week before testing - Week of and after testing construction and testing - Biome assignment - Grassland - Terri - Wetlands - Hawkins, Desert - Sevelovitz Begin to gather material list - by next week to create a master list of needs - Let students list order of preference

End of Year - Fifth Grade recognition - June 7 Honor Roll, Attendance for year, 5th grade only Media Recognition, Deckhands/Ambassadors, Video, 5th grade recognition certificates

Reception following ceremony on our hallway

Dance - Last Thursday (June 6) 1- 2:30 Begin Dance point system on April 25. Letter home Monday.

4/4 Groups - Reading Groups will focus on testing and poetry (narrative, lyric, cinquains) also compose it  Switch groups on Monday - Fannin to Sevelovitz, Sevelovitz to Hawkins, Hakwins to Fannin Moves to make - Dylan to Fannin, Emily to me,

Math Groups - Number sense, decimals, and fractions - High groups need to go back and be able to show with pictures Fannin and Sevelovitz groups switch Emily and Henry to Fannin

Mapping out Math - Numbers and operations base ten - 22-27% Fractions - 47-52% Geometry - 2-7% Measurement - 10-15% Algebra - 5-10%

Poetry -

4/2 - Planning for rest of year Assessments for End of 3rd nine weeks -Classscape - Reading - whenever you can do it - Math - Thursday and Friday during math time. - Science - next week

2/7 Human Body System Split- Nervous System - Stephanie Circulatory - Jennifer Respiratory - Terri Skeletal - Jennifer Muscular System - Stephanie Digestive - Terri

Aim to have centers started on 3/4 Centers run from 3/4-3/7 and 3/11 and 3/12 Evolution - 3/14 - 3/22

Meet week of 2/28 to discuss activities and identify essential questions. On Tuesdays and Thursdays we will do the rotation after lunch.

Be on the look out for cool evolution activities.

Force and Motion Slow the ball activity - week of 2/18

1/25 Reading Group ideas - - CARS -Point of View / Compare arguments -Poetry -How text is structured -chronological order - problem solution - cause and effect - Current Events -

1/22 No Groups Due to Classscape assessments. 1/23 -8:00 -9:00 Terri Math 1/24 - 8:00 -9:00 Jennifer Computer Lab 1/24 - 8:00 - 10:00 Stephanie 3rd nine weeks math -measurement - done in math groups (number worlds group will be done in homeroom) -fractions continued -volume (can be tied in with multiplying fractions and geometry) -co-ordinate planes - geometry (triangles and quadrilaterals)

Measurement - starting with customary in groups Elapsed Time done in groups

CARS schedule - In reading groups Pretest 1-2, Benchmark 1-2 - Done in groups in January and February Post Test 1-2 done in groups next rotation All rest done in homeroom

10/16 Science Fair Give students abstracts and objectives. Have students list their top 3 then put them into groups. Have groups decided by 10/19 and start planning 10/22-11/2 run experiments 11/5-11/20 type information and set up boards

9/18 - Day Time PLC AIG Schedule - 8:00 - 9:00 Tuesdays - Fannin and Hawkins - Reading 8:00 - 9:00 Thursdays - Sevelovitz - Reading 11:15 - 12:00 Tuesdays - Fannin and Hawkins - Math 11:15 - 12:00 Thursdays - Sevelovitz - Math

Math Group Assignments - Fannin - Math Group 1 Hawkins - Math Group 2 Sevelovitz - Math Group 3

Reading Group Assignments - Fannin - Reading Group 3 Hawkins - Reading Group 1 Sevelovitz - Reading Group 2

9/13 Math Group planning - dates we will switch math groups Begin 9/17 9/17 - 10/19 10/22 - 11/30  12/3 - 1/18  8:55-9:30 -

8/31 Plan For F&P assessments in Multipurpose Room - All About Me - Lesson 1&2 in Social Studies Book - Water Cycle video and diagram - Read to Self - Problem Solving Activity