8.14.08+Agenda+and+Minutes

1. **Professional learning week update**

2. **Intervention lab question: Do we want to use MCLASS and textbook preassessment to determine who attends Math Lab?** Third grade would like to work on math fluency for a couple of weeks to determine who struggles with math fluency. We would also like to use the textbook preassessment. If MCLASS data is used at the beginning of the year, most of the class would need to be in the intervention lab.

3. **Curriculum Collaboration:** a. Social Studies: Broyles will place lesson ideas in our boxes. The first week, we will discuss citizenship. We will tie that into our social contract and will make social contracts on Friday.

b. Science: Watkins gave an overview of Science for the next three weeks. word wall words, PowerPoints, and lessons are in CP+. We will focus on matter for the next three weeks: play matching game, set up science journals, make magic books for chemical/physical changes, and analyze united streaming videos.

c. Math: Maynard and Horne discussed Place Value. Week 1: writing/reading/making #s. Begin using crackers, pretzels, and cheerios to simulate base 10 blocks. Move into using base 10 blocks during the first week. Several games from Kim Sutton's "Place Value with Pizzazz" will be used. Daily drill practice will be incorporated from Mad Minutes. Daily Problem solving will be implemented from new math adoption. Week 2: expanded #s...understand how they're built, comparing/ordering, gather small city populations...each student receives a population and will stand in order in a human number line. Week 3: problem solving process using tools, review place value.

d. ELA: Week 1: ficion/nonfiction attributes, construct anchor chart throughout the week. Introduce visualization. Also partake in mini-lessons on "choosing the right book". Weeks 2-3: story elements: picture books and graphic organizers will test students' knowledge of story elements. Write Traits (Ideas) will be introduced in week 2. Students will assemble and personalize reader's response journals and writer's notebooks during the first week of school. Watkins shared TPRI word wall words and "Month by Month Phonics" to drive word work instruction. We discussed how fluency will be addressed. Maynard and Horne shared how they track fluency in their classrooms.