minutes_12192011

December 19-22 Reading: Continue review comprehension strategies using leveled readers and gingerbread stories -narrative elements -compare/contrast -mental images -inferencing -predictions -sequencing
 * complete venn diagram or Kidspiration chart comparing 2 versions of gingerbread stories
 * have students create a paper gingerbread person then write a paragraph describing it/meet with a partner to read descriptive paragraph and have partner draw mental image of the gingerbread person/compare the original gingerbread person to the mental image

**Intervention time: ** Math: use excel sheet to find skills that need to be reviewed

Spelling:

Math: 5.7 I can construct and explore pyramids. 5.8 I can find lines of symmetry. Wednesday: Review Thursday: Test

Writing: Continue Letter Writing -First Year Letters (Danneberg), NIce Try Tooth Fairy (Olson), Plantzilla (Nolen), Dear Mr. Henshaw (Cleary), I Wanna Iguana (Orloff), The Jolly Postman (Ahlberg), Don't Forget to Write (Selway) -generate purposees and audiences for letter writing -choose who to write a friendly letter to and begin planning (Flat Stanley letters?)
 * Read materials that include letters
 * Flat Stanley introduction
 * Close Study/Generating/Select & Plan)
 * Draft/revise/publis

Writer's Workshop

Social Studies:
 * Junior Acheivement

Science: Activity 1: I can build background and observe meal worms. Activity 2: (2 days) I can develop questions about mealworms. I can identify body parts of meal worms. Activity 3: I can compare mealworm length to other objects. I can identify the stages of a mealworms life cycle. Activity 4: I can classify and illustrate life cycle stages. Activity 5: (2-3 lessons) I can test, observe and record mealworm experiments. Activity 6: I can review the life cycle of a mealworm. SEL Targets:
 * Continue meal worm unit
 * I can listen to other people’s ideas
 * I can make positive choices when working with others.
 * I can identify ways to work and play well with others.
 * I can follow directions
 * I can manage my behavior.

Notes: *4 hours of "summer hours" to revamp unit adding 21st century and SEL
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Goal books used as a piece of parent communication will be changed to a **quarterly** self-reflective piece. Teams will be responsible for determining what will work best for their students/team. How do we want this to look?

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">LMC: Can we have a bin of "Gingerbread" books to use with our literacy targets?1