October 2019

This Week
Monday
* 7:30 Lockdown training in the Gold Mine room
* 1:20 Lockdown drill

Tuesday

Wednesday
* No staff development
* 8:00-1:00 picture retakes

Thursday
* Jenny admin meeting
* 9:30-1:30 3rd grade Plains Conservation Center
* 9:30-1:30 Kindie Pumpkin Patch
* Parent/teacher conferences

Friday
* 1st Grade plan day
* iReady progress monitor
* 2:45 Digger Dash assembly on the blacktop

Reminders

* Click here for a planning doc for workshops.  See below.




* Conferences are October 3rd and 9th. Click here for conference reminders and forms.  Please let Jenny or Libby know if you would like them to attend any conference.

* Lifetouch will be here on Wednesday for picture retakes from 8:00-1:00. They will come to your classroom to get students who want a redo.

* If you would be available to help with car loop Friday afternoon after Jenny and Libby have been slimed with spaghetti, it would be much appreciated!

* Please Take the Library Survey for the library collection alignment data.

Lockdown
Lockdown: There is danger inside the building.

• Lock all doors
• Keep all students silent and out of the line of sight of windows
• Do NOT put green/red cards outside doors
• Grab any student out of the hallway and into your locked classroom
• You may not answer ANY knock at the door (student or teacher)
• All classified and certified staff must remain in lockdown
• There is a possibility that an alarm with an automated voice may announce the lockdown.   This is a true lockdown.

Lockdown Reminders

• Please make sure your classroom door is locked every day. If you need a blocker, please let Libby know.

• If the fire alarm is pulled during a lockdown, stay put in lockdown position unless you see/smell smoke.

• In the event of a real lockdown, Parker police will evacuate students from your classroom. 

• Never prop open any doors. 

• You do not need to keep track of missing students or email any students you know are missing. Your focus is with the students in your classroom.

• Know your classroom number.

* Our lockdown training will be Monday morning at 7:30 in the Gold Mine room. Our drill will be Monday at 1:20.

Happy Birthday
Heather Burggraff - October 3rd
Kim Gopsill - October 3rd
Christy Dismang - October 4th
Jen Dale - October 6th

Go For the Gold
* Thank you Betsy Zankey, Michelle Wright, Jenn Poli, Kathryn Kramer & Lauren Rayens for sharing your expertise! You are amazing!
* Thank you Kristi Barta for organizing the lab visits!
* Thank you Fat Friday team for the delicious soups and potato bar!
* Thank you Karen Warner for setting up the Digger Dash track!
* Thank you teachers for taking attendance accurately!
* Thank you Megan Fleet for helping with a student!
* Thank you Jenny Brown and Rochelle Evans for covering a class!

Golden Nuggets
Morning Announcements: Hagerty
Lounge Duty: Leuschner/Russell

Highlights from Technology CoTeaching with 3rd, 4th & 5th Graders

5th Grade

Content: Creating Reading Goals with action steps (Lucy Calkins connections)

Tech Tools: Piktochart & Screencastify

Student Sample #1

Student Sample #2

Fifth graders made their reading goals come to life. Each student created an infographic in Piktochart that outlined their reading goal, identified three specific action steps to complete their goal, and how they would know when they had completed their goals. In addition, they are monitoring their progress towards the goal on a google document with monthly check ins.

4th Grade

Content: Constructing Math Arguments (Envision structure/terminology)

Tech Tools: Google Slides & Screencastify

Student Sample #1

Student Sample #2

Fourth graders have been asked to construct math arguments often in their current Envision unit. We wanted to see if students could transfer what they had learned about constructing math arguments when responding to a specific 2020 state standard inquiry question regarding comparing numbers with missing digits. Students used Google Slides to visually see each step of constructing a math argument. Screencastify was then used for students to describe the thinking they used to solve the differentiated inquiry questions.

3rd Grade

Content: Crafting Personal Narrative Leads (Lucy Calkins structure) & Peer Revising 

Tech Tools: Google Document & Google Comments

Using personal narrative leads that third graders have been developing in class, we are diving in and learning all of the elements that a good digital writer would include. Skills include navigating inside their Digital Desk, Google Drive, by creating and sharing a Google Document and finding their own document and their writing partners document within Drive. As they typed on their document they learned how to unlock the powers of the keys, tab=indent, shift=reveals the hidden/mystery key linked to that key like 1!, the trackpad helps them scroll, highlight, and spell check. Students also learned how to leave each other writing feedback on an electronic sticky note. After our work together, students transferred the skills and independently created a google document and reflected on the process of collaborating digitally.