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=PLC Fifth Grade 2010 -2011= The purpose of this page is to allow fifth grade team members to collaborate more efficiently as well as maintain a centralized location for shared documents.

PLC 5/24 - Get first and last name of tier plan people to Jennifer by ASAP... - we need to get two parents from 5th grade to help with Family Fitness Night on 6/7 and parents to help with field day - Before 6/6 we need to make a list of school considerations and feedback (no math in pm) -wish list examination for 2011-12 - Work on information for Dance and reception - DJ name TBD

Meeting 5/9 - War Project - Start on 5/17 (5/19 begin science cars) - create powerpoint or prezis or poster - between now and Friday get class choices - Due 6/1 and start presentations - groups cannot exceed three - Do science kit cars as well - During testing - we want to change recess to 12:50-1:20

Song Ideas for presentation. -Good Riddance - Green Day -Unwritten - Natsha Bendingfield -We're going to be friends - Jack Johnson

-Terry is ordering versitiles and cars books - Yay! Go Terri!!

PLC Agenda for 4/19 - Easy CBM - next passages - Recognition Ceremony - Thursday 4/21 first thing in the am.

-Use the dance to encourage HW - Give point a day for HW, Classwork, and Behavior -0-45 points you get 30 mins -46 - 55 points 45 mins -56 -65 points 60 mins -66 - 79 points 75 mins (1 hr and 15 mins) - 80-90 points can go to dance for whole 1.5 hours - We need to draft a letter to send home to parents to explain what our plan is and how this will work.

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PLC 4/12 -Analyze staff survey -Analyze SMI

PLC Mtg 4/5 Homework Check-in Check-in! - Move location to Tammie's room so they don't dilly dally - Organization is a big part of the problem - Two weeks of checking in every day with HW complete then done with check-in for awhile -If make no attempt to do any HW for two weeks then it becomes a different type of check-in - Goal of check-in to see if work is done and that the answers are reasonable-don't have to go over answers - Getting ones who are habitual about not doing work possibly getting them a staff mentor -Start in Tammie's room Thursday. Prior to Club Fit, can bring breakfast, - Teachers put folders with stuff in it in Eddins or Denniston box

May 3 - EOG test training May 6 - AIMS web

Tier Plans before break

SMI Tesing - Erin will pull kids over the course of the three days we are reading blitz M, T, W 4/11-13 Time Frame - 9:00-10:00 - Erin will still meet with her group - Reading Blitz will be done in the band room (DRA's)

Start 8:15 -10:20 Simple Machines - United Streaming -project on wall Friction activity - tile floor, carpet, grass, floor mat, yoga mat, side walk

PLC Mtg 3/29 Special Guest - Mrs. Farbauch (helpful with Data analysis)

Agenda - math swap, poetry, reading blitz, math assessment time, and PTA money

Math Assessment Time - first thing in the morning of 4/1 (band visits 4/1) when everyone gets back from groups Poetry - Start Poetry next week sometime - Do we want to do poetry project? - Start Poetry project 4/4 - See email with schedule and rubric Math Swap - T/H 1:25 - 1:55 Lockers - 1:55 Double Check times we can steal third assistants.S will check with Bearman.

PLC Mtg 3/15 Schedule for 9 week assessments... Easycbm.com test on Friday 3/18. - 5 -Stormy Round Lake 6th - Grass Monster 7th - Mary's Secrets - Math assessment 4/1 - Reading assessment 3/24 - Science assessment 3/30

We need to do some classscape stuff... One on simple machines, one on math, and one on reading. 10-20 questions per subject. Jennifer will do simple machines and motion, Terri reading, Stephanie math.Simple machines pretest. Math (data and probability)and place value and geometry (first objectives from each topic). Target date: Science week of 3/28. Math week of 3/21, and reading 3/21. Possibility to use classscape once a week to help with review.

April Anchor Groups - Test Review -Paper Airplanes - 1:00 -2:20. Terri will take shift with kids who need to catch up on work.

Homework Check with Tammie and Erin... Starting Monday 3/21 (suggestion to use folder and put extra sheet in it and put in folders) - Hawkins - Dalton, Daycen, Brittany B. - Fannin- Al  -Sevelovitz - Zander, Makenna, Gabe, Ronan(Probation)

Math Plan - Maybe use classscape -ability groups two days a week - focus needs to be on place value and geometry.

PLC Meeting 3/8 - Mean Girls - What do we do? Still having issues. Keep a close on eye on them at recess. - Solutions for kids who don't do any work --- Silent lunch not working - we need a homework check in but can't come up with a consequence -- ideas - once a week instead of guided reading monitor group who doesn't do homework. People who are caught up in in HW and CW can participate in fun activity. We might have to eat in the caf. on Tues. and Thurs. Can we use the table next to Sevelovitz class for silent lunch. We will start this Friday with fun Friday. Terri will email Janice to talk about our ideas.

PLC Meeting 3/1 -Discussion of how to spend remaining PTA Money - CARS books and Versitiles if we can do both -CARS price is - $39.90 for 10 of just book E (we have one 10 pack...we need 8 more) $320 approx price... (email Pete Rubinas for how much money we have...Terri may have it) - Versitiles - Looking for more trays... Look through Erin's versitiles books to see how we can use them...look for other subjects to use versitiles with, WE WILL REVISIT THIS!!! -EOG passages - Jennifer will have copied. How do we want to do these this year? We will do one a week in swap groups...AIGers will do it on the days they stay in homeroom or on Fridays. -We will start 3/7... Tell Seed and Eddins. Terri will mention it to Erin. Terri will ask Rebecca about reading strategies.... because she instigated that meeting. - Terri has a suggestion - in addition to using the Coach books as reviews that we need to come up with a way to review key concepts regularly. Suggestion - sending home something once a week as review like puzzles or vocab. Talk with Janette about games and such... - 5th grade - looking for pictures for promotion -- I'll email staff and Terri about collection -Field Day - is June 6 and 7...our students can help with the k-2 field day. - No bowling fieldtrip!!! :-) - Back to official business after our short off topic discussion ... we have a beginning of the year check list to review.  - PD - 3/14 --- math quinttiles 3/16 --- differentiation with an offering of 3 sessions

PLC meeting 2/15/10 Math - When do we get into mixed numbers? - Use fraction bar worksheets for materials Reading Groups - Can this really be the half way point of the nine weeks? - Poetry, conclusions, inference, figurative language, word in context - move groups new teacher but don't shuffle kids - Terri's group to Jennifer, Jennifer to Stephanie, Stephanie to Terri Giver novel study with Jennifer, Phonics with Stephanie, Fluency with Terri - No groups tomorrow (except Dennistion, Eddins, Seed) ---Don't forget quiz bowl -Start groups Monday, 2/21

Weather ---blah - construction paper and powder experiment to demonstrate air temp causes wind - Essential Skills - Parts and definition of water cycle - ingredients of weather how they change and how they measure (air pressure, temperature, wind...) - ID air pressure, temperature, wind, clouds, precipitation, and high and low pressure (global pressure) - fronts

Math - Fractions and standard measurement - conversions between metric and standard

Social Studies - Government

Fifth Grade has a wish list....

January 20,2010 - Discussed Tier-1 and potential move up to Tier-2 - Fluency - Repeated readings...start teaching with fourth grade passages - Terri will coordinate volunteers -

December 14, 2010...Last meeting before break!!! Whoo hoo!!! - Discussed New teacher handbook.... - Schedule for Rest of week and first week in January 12/15 - Masterminds at 8:00 all three classes, Masterminds student survey right after (students can't do it go to media center) - 9:15 Masterminds celebration (snack time) ---we need a table -->Jennifer and Terri are in charge - 1:50 Multipurpose room for 3rd grade show 12/16 - Masterminds comes at 8:00 to begin computer survey. One class out of time...we will go in reverse ABC order (Sevelovitz, Hawkins, Fannin) - In hall and ready to dismiss at 2:15 for middle school to say good bye 12/17 - Holiday Trivia Split class into thirds, each teacher does same trivia game. Begin at 9:00. Clean out lockers between 8:00-and 9:00. -Masterminds teacher part....11:15 on Friday - January 3-5 Water Cycle - January 5 Start Air Pressure - January 10 Start wind, fronts, global patterns

easycbm.com - move those who average a score of 17 up one grade level

December 7, 2010 Planning out last Mastermind lesson and celebration - December 15 move minds up to 8:15 - Fannin 8:30 - Sevelovitz 8:45 - Hawkins Followed by celebration snack at 9:00. Survey to follow...bam!! they are done! We will ask to see if the mm people can do the teacher survey on 1/5.

Aims Web Email Erin for passwords...we examined data... We will examine data when we get passwords and look at copies of the tests and then plan effective instruction and interventions.

Discussion of effectiveness of the master mind program and how we intend to use it in years to come. Possible ideas: to teach one weeks lessons in a month and spread out the skills.

No spelling week before winter break. We need to ask our anchor people to meet next week so we can be up and running January 3. Terry will email anchor groups to send holiday questions to us so we can create our holiday trivia event.

We are having problems transitioning between lunch and math. The kids come back crazed. We think that giving a "morning work" for math ma help...fingers crossed.

November 22, 2010 Spelling issues All students who are in either phonics group (in the morning or during anchor with Sev.) begin spelling with Level C Lesson 1.

Spelling HW activities: Monday - Sort Tuesday - ABC order Wednesday - Vowel/Consonant diff. colors Thursday - Write in cursive or choose 5 hardest words and write an acrostic for each word.

Organized Holiday Anchor groups and sent email with all info.

November 16, 2010 Special Guest - Mr. Davis

Use easycbm to measure fluency

We used this meeting to try to figure out reading groups and anchor groups.

PD November 2, 2010

Differentiation

Second nine weeks –

Ecosystems - build ecocolumns and observe, discuss life cycles, producers, consumers, and decomposers

Weather - water cycle - measure parts of weather (air pressure, temperature, wind, precipitation, humidity) - Fronts and global patterns - Clouds - AIMS weather allows you to be able to look and examine ingredients of weather individually – you can set pace and hit on topics before weather kit comes

Planning: Week of Nov. 1 - 12 building eco-columns and producers, consumers, decomposers Week of Nov. 15 - Begin Weather (Temperature by 19th Hawkins and Sevelovitz) Week of Nov. 29 - Air pressure (look for center ideas -look in AIMS weather book) Week of Dec. 6 - Wind (baby powder and lamp activity) Week of Jan. 3 - water cycle Week of Jan 10 - 30 Fronts and Global pattern

February and March - Biomes, food chains, and food webs

10/26/10 Discussed Tier 1 questions. Lots of questions about behavior Tier 1 plans. Writing ESL students and TIER 1??

10/11/10 EC TIER Plans Anchor: Sipe and Watson are doing Reader's Theater and math We will go watch presentations on Thursday. Terri will give center materials to Jennifer related to decimals/percent, etc. Measurement Perhaps talk with Laurie Walker to get ideas for enrichment. Oct. 25 swap anchor groups Minor's and Watson's group

10/5/10 Worked on creating a 5th grade Tier 1 to use as our example page Jennifer will get clarification on our goals and objectives Prescriptive learning: Where & When are we going to do this? Jennifer will ask Ginny came in and will begin social skills lessons with 5th grade. She will meet with Stephanie's class at 11:50; Hawkins' class at 2:05, Fannin's class at 2:20 This will run for 4 weeks and be called The Navigators. Starts 10/8/10 during Anchor time. There will be no regular anchor classes during this time. Terri will email our anchor partners and invite them to sit in during this time so we are all using the same language.

Update: Reading Tier 1 comp. complete; Prescriptive learning is up to us at this time until middle school leaves - discuss a plan at next PLC.

9/22/22010 When creating our curriculum map Formative assessments needed that guide our instruction not just final assessment. We could use Study Island, Classscape, quarterly assessment.

9/8/10 math assessment 80% of each skill % correct for each assessment. Math skills phonics fluency-Reader's Theater Connecting w/text; build background knowledge Research Vocab dev.

PLC Notes: Math Give assessment on Tuesday. Terri will run copies for everyone

Thursday Reading Assessment Friday Spelling assessment Stephanie will run copies

Anchor Math and science(reading focus)