Nuts+and+Bolts+Agendas+-+Day+6

__**August 19, Day 6**__

Grade 4 Duties/Recess Doors Next week Indoor Recess Agendas - Meeting Minutes birthdays norms contact person for grade 4 What do we sign up for next??? Jeff Dungan / Book Talks???? Team Dinner?? Date and Location No library Books in cafeteria near food

__**August 29**__

Google Docs and Chrome Wisdom from Steve

__**Monday 9/9/13**__ Project Now committee update (project area space, garden) Decide on a solution to bring back acceptable behavior in the cafeteria and walking back Discuss Open House and power point

**__Friday 10/25/13__** Garden, Seeds, etc. Jeff Technology and Social Studies Conferences Character Talk Unit Planning time off

Character Talk and Paragraph Thursday Nov. 7th 11:20 Launch Due Nov. 18th Parent Teacher conferences Report Card Comments Sharing Lunch - Thanksgiving Day! What's next in our curriculum? Realistic fiction- Pronouns, adverbs, dialogue Tech/Google Maps/Locations
 * __ Tuesday 11/5/13 __**

__**Friday** **11/15/13**__ Ms. Caty to share MAP math data (10 Min.) Bus Duty (1 Minute) Shanghai Japanesse School Exchange? (5 Minutes) Giving Tree Bags - Jenn (5 Minutes) Report Cards (25 Minutes) Handwriting - Jenn (5 Minutes)

__**Tuesday, 11/26/13**__ MAP Math Data Dig at 10:15 with Mr. D. Diane update Social Studies and Science Timeline

__**Friday, ** 12/6/13 __ **discuss 7 classes in 4th grade next year-** look through the fifth grade classes library, and admin should support the team to make sure the classroom is left for only fourth grade too go through. Make sure appropriate supplies are in the class for math, reading, writing, SS, Science. Specialists will be affected, and Academic and AS support. This should reflect classes in 4th grade that are the same size of all upper elementary classes. Scheduling with tech and counseling.

__**Tuesday, 1/7/14**__ SJS- share a game or art activity with Chinese/American in mind, Stefan will come and meet the SJS teachers, Travis will arrange busses for the 29th and make permission slips.

Kindles- 4th graders can check out Kindles and we meet with Beth on Thursday 1/9 @11:20-11:55.

__**Thursday, **__** 1/16/14 ** -SJS- new scheduled date and plan -Chinese New Year 4th grade celebration and activities-//Assembly is in the AM In the afternoon 12:40) of Jan. 29th we will make lanterns, have parents bring in "Chinese" snacks (or anything- up to you) and a couple of parents in for assistants with lanterns.// -Ken Nesbitt 30 min lesson with Beth before Feb. 28th -Stefan and Wessie Unit 6 math -booking subs 1/2 day for DRA correction (...too be continued)

__Friday, 2/14/14__ Allen & Wessie - Trimester 1 service learning curriculum outline Michael - High functioning teams survey results Jeff - Note taking template

__Michael__: Team discussion on Allen and &Wessie's proposal. Agreements on consensus and non-negotiables. Topics included:
 * Aligning migrant school project with standard 4th grade schedule.
 * Possible ways to tie project with as many units and standards as possible.
 * Possibility of accommodating changes in curriculum depending on questions that emerge during the teaching-learning process.
 * Strategies for building highly functional team.
 * Reader's/ writers - seeing the big picture and how it will into fit into project. Especially aligning grades 3-4-5 goals with project. What are the skills the students are learning within this? Strategies, skills standards and how they will be aligned with curriculum.
 * Making connections with bigger picture.
 * Strategies & ways to build on each others strength to build team projects.
 * Concerns about interpersonal relations & trust. How can project progress without this in place?
 * Can you get through curriculum given span of proposal and what it intends to cover?
 * How are we going to manage to enrich the curriculum as a team if we shift to this approach?
 * In addition to the team piece, parent community, front loading project to parents entails proactive action.
 * Closure: final feedback to Michael in person or writing.
 * Possibility of having team dinners to get to know people. Building relationships that are non school related. Team dinner tentatively planned two weeks from now.

__Diane:__ Non-fiction units of study
 * work with Jeff on text structure (internet searching)
 * Text features (align with social studies)
 * Summarizing

__Jeff__ Note taking template, google docs.

__**Feb. 25th.**__

Celebrations as a team. Share successes. Revisit our norms and maybe tweak Distribution of work - create an action items list at the end of **__every__** meeting that is equitable. Student Led Conferences- science assessments, portfolios, artifacts, Terra-cotta warriors, ?...

__Celebrations__: Google doc., constructive feedback, kids enjoyed using it. Science project ideal for independent work & problem solving. SJS trip provided a better perspective of "migrant project."

__Norms:__ Need for time to check in and celebrate the things we've done well as a team, our accomplishments etc.

- Being accountable for our roles for specific tasks and prepare to present at our next meeting. -Document our roles after each meeting. Distribute responsibilities to each team member (create a living document), revisit responsibilities on an ongoing basis (use google doc.). - Pick our strengths and work in areas that we can contribute to. Develop a visual outline of curriculum on one document and units that we'll take responsibility. - Stefan will set up google doc for team

__Report Cards & Student Led Conferences:__

- Use science models to parents as part of student led conferences along with portfolio and artifact museum - Conference starts Apr. 3rd after school, 4th is a day off.

__Museum Visit__: - Planning sheet due date Monday the 10th - Museum set up & project due date March 31st


 * March 14th grade 5 musical - grades 2-5 invited to see performance @ 1:30

//**- Essential Agreements - Michael**// - Conferences - Assembly (Wessie)
 * __March 14__**

__**April 2**__ (Team Common Agreements to be posted) 1. Team Celebrations 2. Agenda Adoption - Any additions/deletions to make to today's agenda? (Jenn to take minutes.) 3. Accountability Check In (Individual Tasks) Nazli: Jen: Wessie: Travis: Steve: Stefan: 4. 5. 6. **Individual Tasks to be Done for Next Meeting:** Nazli: Unit 8 -math menu, UOS on folktales ( Unit will start on April 8) Jen: UOS on folktales (unit will start on April 8) Wessie: UOS Modern China ( unit will start May 19th) Travis: UOS on Structure of life ( Unit will start April 14) Steve: Unit 8 ( Unit will start May 5th), UOS Modern China ( May 5th) Stefan:UOS on structure of life (unit will start April 14) Caty : Unit 8 - AS things. 7. How did we do? Review Team Common Essential Agreements (on homepage of this wiki)
 * Review SLC procedures, stations, and packets
 * Update from leadership meeting (China Alive May 7th and Classroom Placement Forms)
 * Music Form Procedures
 * Map Testing April 14th
 * Date With Dad Procedures
 * Team Outing (What do we want to do?)
 * Artifact Museum (Inviting Mueller etc.)

__**April 24**__ (Team Common Agreements to be posted) 1. Team Celebrations- Team Dinner Tomorrow 2. Agenda Adoption - Any additions/deletions to make to today's agenda? (Jen to take minutes.)

3. Accountability Check In (Individual Tasks) Nazli: Jen: Wessie: Travis: Steve: Stefan: 4. **Individual Tasks to be Done for Next Meeting:** Nazli: Unit 8 -math menu, UOS on folktales ( Unit will start on April 8) Jen: UOS on folktales (unit will start on April 8) Wessie: UOS Modern China ( unit will start May 19th) Travis: UOS on Structure of life ( Unit will start April 14) Steve: Unit 8 ( Unit will start May 5th), UOS Modern China ( May 5th) Stefan:UOS on structure of life (unit will start April 14) Caty : Unit 8 - AS things. 5. How did we do? Review Team Common Essential Agreements (on homepage of this wiki)
 * Update from leadership meeting
 * Student Placement Due May 5th and we need to pick a day to do the placement May 19th- 27th
 * Classrooms for next year
 * Door Duty Procedure
 * Returning from Chinese
 * Rainbow Loom Rules
 * End of year party- Pizza/Pool/Popsicles/ Date?
 * Planning Meeting/Choosing a Date/Items to do
 * Google Calendar for 4th only/Important Dates
 * Following team decisions
 * Microscopes for computers
 * Round Robin

__**May 6th**__ (Team Common Agreements to be posted) 1. Team Celebrations- Team Dinner Tomorrow 2. Agenda Adoption - Any additions/deletions to make to today's agenda? (Jen to take minutes.) 3. Accountability Check In (Individual Tasks) Nazli: Spelling inventory for everyone to be copied and handed out before june 4 email Michael Martin for vege scraps for class pets Create a schedule that would work better for our team next year. Jen: Wessie: Travis: Steve: Stefan:
 * Eye doctor schedule for today 4SF, 4NI, 4TB at 12:45 and 4JE, 4SR, and 4WM at 1:10
 * China Alive Update
 * PEP Update- Schedule your meeting
 * Soccer Day May 15th
 * On- Demand Writing and Spelling Inventory- When are we doing this? Dates?
 * Planning Day May 21st- What is the focus of the day?
 * Science Resources Needed?
 * Folktales Starting now
 * Modern China Update- When is the start date?

May 26th Blog Migration- Jeff Dungan 15 minutes

June 4th -3rd grade wants to know if next week we can do a quick question and answer "What is fourth grade like" Match a class up with a class.