January+9,+2013

Teddy Bears - Jill at Dollar Tree and saw teddy bears for a dollar each; we should look at each Dollar Tree

Reporting committee- Patti - shared ideas that will be discussed on Monday at division meeting

Science- Shadows- what should we do about recording - discussion with Pat about tying into Groundhog's Day and measuring our shadows. This year, we were trying to measure our shadows one time per month but ran into the problem that the shadows were much too long to graph. We have decided that we will go out to photograph the kids' shadows once per season. We will put the photographs into the science notebooks and make observations about what we see per season.

lets talk about Jill's unit she found - look at it on Wednesday focus on shadows around Groundhog's Day - see above

Math- Unit 4 test - really liked it will print unit 5 test soon feedback? How did everyone score it?

Daily 5- check-in - we checked in! CAFE menu - discussed new menu; will take to Language Arts next time we meet

Curriculum Writing- Wednesday, Jan. 16th- AM - discuss math secure skills and shadow unit. We will also look at Cafe/Daily 5 resource web-sites for mini-lessons. We need to map our skills with our stories.

Phone calls- great ideas on time? Jill and BethAnne have sent e-mails to the parents to figure out when phone calls can happen. Individual emails to remind parents of goals and figure out when people can be available to talk. choose a Wednesday meeting time to make calls? perhaps in the future we could have a shorter Wed. meeting and give us some time to do some phone calls.

Library lessons - Judy met with us to brainstorm ideas for library lessons. The children go to library right after a music class, and then we join Judy to read with the children and help them to choose Good Fit books.

Calendar pages from Margie - will look at on Wednesday

Grant writing - we are interested in doing this, but we are having trouble figure out something fun and interesting to do (iPad - Daily 5/Cafe?)

BethAnne - email Steve about RAZ Kids research!

Pat Z - Candlelight Hike; flyer is going into Friday folder, and we will collect permission slips and send them to Pat when they come in