Fourth+Grade


 * Fourth Grade PLC Notes

Meeting Date: May 5, 2010 Attendees: Tanya Friesen, Deanna Hathorne, Meredith Gettel; Melissa Culver; Gloria Scharton

Topics Discussed:

1) We discussed who would do each committee for next year

2) We looked at and discussed student achievement for the 3rd trimester common writing assessment.

3) We worked out logistics for end-of-the-year activities such as: slide show, state fair, and class picnic and scrapbook pages for the kids.

4) We discussed our blogs and decided the topic that students would write about next.

Action Plans for Next Meeting:

We plan to meet on the Monday after school gets out to plan back to school night, the first weeks of school and work on our year-long plan.

Meeting Date: April 7, 2010 Attendees: Tanya Friesen, Deanna Hathorne, Meredith Gettel; Melissa Culver; Gloria Scharton, Chris Chittick

Topics Discussed:

1) Pros and Cons of Enrichment Day - We really like the idea of enrichment day. We feel that it could be condensed into a half day and the other half day could be things done by the classroom teacher. For example, for the other part of the day, kids could do a read and feed, clean out desks, or decorate the black top with chalk. With the exception of the fire department, the sessions could possibly be shortened to 30 minutes. We really liked the Kaiser presentation and fire presentation. Chris said the hip hop was terrific and would be great for intermediate.

2) 4,3,2,1 Reporting for 4th Grade - We were trying to figure out how we can make tis work so that parents and students are able to truly understand how their children are progressing since the majority of our students would just receive 3's across the board.

3) We discussed the space research project and the realistic fiction units, both of which we teamed with Chris for. It will be interesting to see how the space project turns out. We used netbooks for some of our research and will use the flip cameras to tape the students doing a newscast.

Action Plans for Next Meeting:

Evaluate space research projects Share how we are using our new technology**