second/third multiage curriculum night september 21, 2011 ab combs leadership magnet elementary...
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Second/Third Multiage Curriculum Night
September 21, 2011AB Combs Leadership Magnet Elementary
Kayla EdwardsJodie Spencer
Quality Process• Agenda
• Issue Bin
• Plus/Delta
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Wildly Important Goals
(W.I.G.s)• Student Achievement• Leadership
Opportunities–Lead–Learn–Serve
Why Multiage?• Why should children work in multi-age groups?• • Removing traditional grade-level grouping reduces the yearly time constraints placed on children,
allowing them to work to mastery of high standards at their individual rates.• Flexible use of multi-age groups provides children with many good role models.• Advanced learners across all levels have the opportunity to be challenged and accelerated in their
learning.• The amount of support and help available to all children is increased through teaming and
collaboration.• Children learn social responsibility as they learn to work cooperatively.• Leadership qualities of students are enhanced through group work.• Children deepen their learning and grow academically as they explain their work to others.• • What are the benefits of continuous progress?• • Providing a family atmosphere for learning for both children and adults. • Enabling teachers to build a long term relationship with each student.• Student progress is effectively monitored over time.• Increasing meaningful learning experiences for all children.• Strengthening student’s positive attitudes about school.• Meeting the individual needs of every student through appropriate instruction.• Fostering self-esteem, leadership skills and sensitivity to others.• Developing a stronger relationship between home and school over time.• Reducing stress in children as they continue learning at appropriate rates in a familiar atmosphere.
Second/Third Multiage
Mission Statement• We are here to accept challenges and set goals to accomplish. We will work together to make the world a better place.
3rd Grade Curriculum Resources
http://www.wcpss.net/parents_students.html
Handbooks, Planning Guides & Program
Information
K-8 Connections
A Day in the Life of Your Multiage Child
Math Workshop • Math Expressions
– Building concepts– Math Talk– Quick Practice– Student Leaders– Helping Community
– Multi-digit Addition & Subtraction, Multiplication, Geometry, Algebra, Fractions, Measurement & Problem Solving
Quarter 1 Reading Objectives-Please see handoutBlended Objectives (objectives that are the same for both grades)Listed 2nd/3rd
*means essential objectives assessed by observing student behaviors throughout the quarter without teacher support
Balanced Literacy Framework
Daily 5• Reader’s Workshop• Guided Reading & Conferring• Writer’s Workshop• Word Study & Vocabulary
Reader’s Workshop
• Workshop Cycle Learning & Instruction
• Mini-lesson• Student Application
• read, respond, confer • Reflection
• Primary focus • Creating a community of readers &
thinkers• Vocabulary Instruction• Flexible Reading Strategies
• Decoding & Comprehension Skills• Increase Fluency & Reading Stamina
Word Study & Vocabulary
• Words, words and more words! • Learning spelling patterns• Bi-weekly developmental feature
tests• Differentiated student lists• Improves
– student decoding abilities– spelling and writing
• Vocabulary Instruction– Prefixes & Suffixes
Writer’s Workshop
Genres• Lists and
Instructions
• Poetry
• Letter writing
• Personal Narrative
• Informational Writing
Continuous CyclePlanning
Drafting
Revising
Editing
Publishing
First Quarter Expectations
I used complete
sentences.
I used correction
punctuation &
capitalization.
I wrote a focused
story on one topic.
My story has a beginning, middle and
end.
First Quarter Writing
Expectations
I indented the
paragraphs.
I used descriptive
words.
I re-read my story and made any changes needed.
I spelled the first 200
sight words correctly.
Science1. Soils
2. Objects in the Sky
3. Plants
4. The Human Body
Social Studies• Change over time
– Native Americans– Colonists– Video Conferencing– Visit from Raleigh City Museum– Wake Ed Partnership Grant
• Artifacts and hands-on connections
• Economy– Needs & Wants– Supply & Demand
LEGO Serious Play Education
• Integrated into the curriculum
• 3 Rules of LSP
• LEGO Theory– Play – Constructionism– Imagination
Classroom Economy Create list of classroom careers
Rank jobs and identify salaries
Establish how to earn credits & debits
Generate credit/debit logs, wallets and Combs cash
Homework
• Hallmarks of Good Homework
• Agendas
– Weekly Reading
– Math Expressions
– Word Study
Volunteers
We love to have volunteers in our classroom. Please make sure you have signed up to be a volunteer using the volunteer registration (it is always available in the media center). We sent out a Google document for you to sign up to volunteer. The link is: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqAjYo3FFVEOdHMzNS03QmwtUjdFR2tydDZmWGhCYlE&hl=en_US#gid=0
If you can only volunteer once or twice a month, that is great. We need volunteers to run and organize our classroom store once a month starting at the end of September. Please let us know if you are interested.
Field Trips & Events
• Historic Oak View County Park (Oct)• Night Under the Stars/Starlab
–Dec 6th at AB Combs• TBD (Spring)
Communication
• We will send out a newsletter every other Friday and special announcements.
• Agendas are our main source of communication; homework, specials, notes, etc. Please feel free to write notes as well.
• Friday folders
Quality Process
• Issue Bin
• Plus/Delta
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Build a model of what you expect your child to learn in the Multiage
classroom. This can be social, emotional or academic.
3rd Grade Expectations
• Meet quarterly benchmarks – Standards based grading (3 or
higher)• Achieve a reading level of
31-32• Achieve a level 3 or 4 on
EOG’s