Kindergarten

Estimation: Showcase difference jars in the display case.
 * || **Berry** || **Mayo** || **Haddock** || **Vick** || **McNeill** ||
 * 8:45 - 9:15 || Break || Haddock || Vick || McNeill || Break ||
 * 9:20 - 9:50 || Haddock || Vick || McNeill || Break || Break ||
 * 9:55 - 10:25 || Vick || McNeill || Break || Break || Haddock ||
 * 10:30 - 11:00 || McNeill || Break || Break || Haddock || Vick ||
 * 12:00 - 12:30 || Break || Break || Haddock || Vick || McNeill ||

Monday - Look at the jars Wednesday - Make your guess Friday - Announce winner

May 2011 (2 Jars each; one is an example) Week 1 - McNeill (less than 30) Week 2 - Haddock (less than 30) Week 3 - Vick (less than 30) Entire Month - Mayo/Berry up to 100)

Author's Celebration Each teacher will bring their own celebration.

Insect research with Ms. Berry

Deans Farm - May 20th - Sunset Park Train -

Ornament Shapes Rotations

Williams - Cone (Tree) Vick - Pyramid (Santa) McNeill - Sphere (Christmas Balls) Mayo - Cylinder (Nutcracker) Berry - Cube (gift)

December 16th Ornaments Ms. Newton will create nametags for students.
 * || 8:45 - 9:15 || 9:20 - 9:50 || 9:55 - 10:25 || 12:30 - 1 || 1:05 - 1:35 ||
 * Williams || A || B || C || D || E ||
 * Vick || B || C || D || E || A ||
 * McNeill || C || D || E || A || B ||
 * Mayo || D || E || A || B || C ||
 * Berry || E || A || B || C || D ||

March 2010

Reviewed Weather Rotations and Schedule. Scheduled below. Seperate items by teachers names. Reviewed Career Week (April 19th - 23rd) Williams - Police Vick - Ben Houston (call) Alvarez - Doctor

Auditorium - Career Week Monday Police & Fire Day Tuesday Doctor & Dentist Day Wednesday Chicken Day - Christy Proctor (Alvarez call) Thursday Dress up like your favorite Career (Videotape and interviews of career) - Mayo Friday Mayor? Newspaper?

Prep Night April 22nd, 7 - 8:30, Earth Day

April 30th - Dean's Strawberry Farm Field Trip

Strawberries - 1. My favorite uses of strawberries 2. If you were the mouse, how would you hide the strawberry? 3. I f you were the bear, explain how you you would find the strawberry? 4. What are some things that strawberries need to grow ? 5. Picture & sentence

CPS remotes with Vick - CPS remotes Gunther Series... lesson.


 * January 2010**

Ms. Evans spoke with K teachers about Career Week. She explained the themes for the week.

Monday - Intro Day (BNN) Tuesday - Parent Presentation - Ask for parents to come in and talk. Wednesday - Dress Up like your Career Thursday - Career Parade (Meet and Greet different Career) Friday - Careers & Athletics Day (possible guests from Barton)

Words to watch out for "more, same, and **fewer, less**"

Glyph Activity for Valentines Get Non-standard unit smartboard lesson to K teachers

Wants/Needs Week 1. Food 2. Clothing 3. Shelter 4. Wants 5. A visit from Grandma

Letter to be read by Ms. Evans. Students will write back to her and let them her know what they want and need for their birthday (assess).

Mayo - will covert to Smartboard Software

Need Willy Wonka movie (Gene Wilder edition) - Mayo will get it. Compare movie to the play.

Weather - Snowy Day - Graph their favorite thing to do in the snow. Draw their favorite thing. Graph

M & M Graphing with Graph Club

//Weather Rotations Schedule for March 12th// Vick-Clouds Williams-Wind Berry - Rain Mayo - Seasons & weather changes Alvarez/Viverette - Taste the Seasons
 * || 8:45 || 9:15 || 9:45 || 10:15 || 10:45 ||
 * Vick || A || B || C || D || E ||
 * Alvarez || B || C || D || E || A ||
 * Williams || C || D || E || A || B ||
 * Mayo

Seasons Kidspiration || D || E || A || B || C || Ms. Howard - Group A Ms. Tyre - Group B Ms. Isom - Group C Ms. Alvarez - Group D Ms. Vick's Sub - Group E
 * Berry || E || A || B || C || D ||

Plus Good Activities from planning

Delta Entire Team Here


 * October 2009**

What Should the Bear Wear? [|**http://www.fossweb.com/modulesK-2/AirandWeather/activities/whatstheweather.html**] Interactive Weather Journal (Whole Group) [] Print afterwards Get Another Bear Dressed [] Elmo & Weather [] Several Different weather based learning activities

Don't forget about Graph Club and Ready made lessons in the program Great Map videos on [|www.learn360.com] see groupwise for password info.

See Ms. Johnson for information on how to get Orchard started.

Word Family Sort - []

Cool Project - []

Farm podcast

10 picturess from each class from pumpkin farm. 5 students from each class

November 10th 8:30 Farm podcasting

3.04 spatial reasoning - puzzles with no lines - difficult at this time of the year. 2.02 Calendars assessment - ongoing

Can Mayo plug in Vick's data with the exception of objective 3.04?

Data: Can we review data at the end of each nine weeks?? Review after report cards are issued???

Shape book - everyone onboard with making them. Will get pics to Mayo.

Discussed webpages and resources.

Idea from K - Kidspiration to make word families. Perhaps in groups of 3.

Kidspiration lessons are having trouble opening.....check versions.

Christmas CD's

Brainstorm traditional songs for each family. Vote on favorite Christmas song. Graph Club - graph the classes songs

Pick top two songs for each class. 6 songs reccorded on a CD to be given to local nursing home.

Vick will plan with Tucker to get songs practiced the week before recording.

Record week of Dec 7th - record songs during music times:

Vick - Monday Alvarez - Tuesday Williams - Wednesday

1:30 - 2:00

September 2009

Data Discussion: Report Card Discussion: For tasks not started in class, teachers will leave grades blank and give a comment as to why. "We are not asessing Language Arts goals at this time."

Scott Foresman "Baseline Group Test" suggested.

BOY - data to Mr. Mayo Monday, October 26th - Data due.

Math Data - Envision will help with keeping evidence of student progress.

Math: Sorting & Classifying Smartboard Activity on the Common Drive under K folder

LA: Pointing, left page, right page, back, front, title, illustrator, author, first word on page, last word on page, Smartboard lesson - Fall Story - Background and characters, objects, "Apple Pie Tree" Get book from Williams

Recreate Positional Words Smartboard Activity...

Families: [|www.wordle.net] with their families.

__Plus__ Pre-planning sheet Data was not stressful

Great Activities to take back to the classroom

__Delta__

April, 2009

Will be learning about plants, insects, & life changes Mrs. Putney will plant the strawberry pot Classes are scheduled in the Media Center for a Mother's Day activity & our end of the year "Fishing Trip" Deans Farm trip on May 28 In math, students will be studying estimation, sets & numbers to 10, and reading & writing numbers to 30

Language arts: Segmenting & blending 3 letter words

Mr. Mayo will film "life changes" & discuss functions of technology

REVIEW

Plus: Good resources. Good compromises.

Delta: work on data dates

February 2009

Fly a Kite Day! - Students will fly kites and observe the changes in the wind and weather in Spring. Teachers will take pictures during the time outside and students will create a sentence for each picture and record a podcast "Let's Go Fly a Kite!"

World's Largest Concert - March 12th at 1:30 in the gym

K teachers will enter in their students into Orchard to use weekly. Vick - Monday - 2-245 Battle - Friday - 930-1015 McNeill - Friday - 1045-1130 Renfrow - Thursday - 915-10 Williams - Wednesday - 1015-11

Dr. Seuss Parade on March 2nd for the entire school. Classes will sit outside of their classroom to watch the parade at 845am. Ms. Putney will prerecord reading Dr. Seuss for the BNN.

Mr. Mayo will make a nonstandard unit of measurement smartboard activity for the kids to complete in the lab. Teachers will sign up. //__Item / Measure With__// Pencil/paperclips Hand/pennies desk/toothpicks book/cubes boy/feet

Students can create a egg with wordle.net with words that express spring or easter.

Vick - podcast with activity in class.

November 2008

Discussion about possible change in the way planning is scheduled. Mr. Tucker (Music) - Project in music class. Pictionary with instruments in the classroom

Math: Set 1 - 10, Geometric shape rotations, LA: SS: Families and how they change over time, Science:

Media Center: fantasy vs. reality (fiction vs. nonfiction) Impossible vs. Possible, different types of family, "The Doorbell Rang."

Geometric shapes: spheres and cubes - describing the difference of geometric shapes. students will go through rotations and create christmas ornaments with the different shapes.

October 2008

Please set your ground rules for the year in planning. Be POSITIVE Come orgainized and prepared No sidebars Participate actively Proactive Work as a team to accomplish goals

What are your goals out of planning this year will be? Team project More unified instruction * **Make more of an effort to sign up for comp. and library time**

What you want from Mr. Mayo / Ms. Putney? Undying support Instruction in keyboard skills and computer skills (space bar, Shift, Mouse manipulation, computer parts) from Mayo WE ARE MISSING OUT ON IMPORTANT TWENTY FIRST CENTURY COMPUTER SKILLS BY NOT TEACHING THE BASICS more time expecially library We want a rotating collaborative planning session so that all spots are not already taken

How you want to handle the first hour of planning? Start with two positive statements from every person on the team, one professional and one personal Analyze student growth from each nine weeks and focus on strategies to improve each area Sharing exceptional instructional ideas from all areas

Members Present: Ms. Williams, Ms. Renfrow, Ms. Battle, Ms. Vick, Ms. McNeill, Ms. Putney, Mr. Mayo

**Start fabulous Fridays with five different areas including study hall as an incentive for behavior (singing club (finger plays and songs), arts and crafts, games) 2:00-2:30 Ms. Battle will be in charge of a unified letter to send to parents and the orgainization. Start on October 24.**

**Ask Mr. Walker to go over with assistants how to effectively perform reading groups, and teachers meet with all K assistant to discuss what to do when, Ms. McNeill go over an overview of Writer's Workshop and their role.**

**__Reading:__ Checking pictures on unknown words, book/print awareness 1-13, oral and graphic directions,**

**__Math:__ Connecting models and numbers - 10. count objects in sets of 10, goes to 20 in the second nine weeks, share equally, compare atrributes to 2 things, spheres and cubes, geometric shapes, graphing tools,**

**__Science__ Tools and measurement, describe how tools can make comparisons, how tools are useful, non-standard measurements of unit, farm animals, seasons, senses,**

**__Social Studies:__ How individuals grow and change, how things are different from the past, observe change in the communities and school, celebrations and cultures, famous people, wants/needs, Columbus Day,**

**__Art:__ Art to Remember** __Music:__ Steady beats, playing music with beanbags,

Halloween Cards in the lab, Voting (2 Choices for voting: Pig and Duck)

March 2008


 * Weather Rotations: Schedule, Vick pics, bottles,**


 * LA: looking at blends, middle sounds, endings of words - s - ing - er -ed, early developing writing stage,**


 * Math: Graphing, addition, counting, reading, writing 0-30, solve problems - share solutions, connecting numbers to models, using a variety of methods, estimate quanities, equilvalents and sets,**


 * Science: weather, properties of common objects (soil, plants), Earth Day,**


 * SS: Easter, wants, needs, how natural resources change from seasons,**


 * Field Trip: Rocky Mount Science Museum**


 * April 4th - Weather Man visit at 1 pm**

Taste the Seasons; April 23rd** 8:45 - 9:15 - Alvarez to Putney 9:15 - 9:45 - Alvarez to Mayo; Williams to Putney 9:45 - 10:15 - Williams to Mayo; Vick to Putney 10:15 - 10:45 - Vick to Mayo; Renfrow to Putney 10:45 - 11:15 - Renfrow to Mayo

Members Present: Alvarez, Renfrow, Williams, Vick, Putney, Mayo, Tucker Goals: Reading Strategies: applying, checking picture, rereading sentences, first sounds, fluency

Upcoming Events:

LA: reading familiar text, use final letter sounds for unknown words, writing (emergent level): relation to picture and text. focus on theme or topic in writing.

Math: connecting number word and number (variety of representation, counting objects in a set of 20, reading and writing to 20, ordinals 1 - 10th, solving problems and sharing in groups, display data with pictorial graphs and describing everything.

Science: weather: observing daily weather changes, weather features, precipitation, wind, temp, cloud cover, types of precip., changes in wind forces,

Social Studies: Groundhog, Black History Month, Valentine's Day, Dental Heatlh Month, Presidents Day, Recognizing seasonal changes in the environment, identify how natural and human resources are used in the community.

100th Day of School Rotations in Classes:

Alvarez needs MIDI files for Black History Month Podcast. (Share with other teachers when finished). Podcast includes students picking out one adjective word to describe the person. Students will read the sentence and record a podcast with picture. A music file will be playing in the background (Aretha Franklin: RESPECT).

Weather Project:

Activity One: Collect the number of days sunny, cloudy, rainy, snow for the month of February. (Mr. Mayo) Students will collect data in the classroom and bring data to the computer lab.

Activity Two: Wind Tunnel: take pictures (observe), (Renfrow)

Activity Three: Four Seasons: Tree in each picture: apply leaves to the tree in the seasons. (Williams)

Activity Four: Clouds: (students will take pictures of various clouds and showcase), Students make their own clouds with cotton balls. (Vick)

Activity Five: Rainbows: (rain and sun): story books (rain plus light = rainbow) (Alvarez)

Activity Six: Pictures and Books together: literacy (Putney) Relations to pictures and words.

Rotations will be April. Mr. Jeremy C. Tucker will be helping the K grade by doing weather tools.