GLM+10-19-11


 * SK Grade Level Minutes **
 * October 19, 2011 **

We made added three skills under Personal Development that Sue said was left off T1. We added: We all signed the sheet and Bonnie will give it to Sherry to add for this report card
 * Report Cards: **
 * 1) Completes teacher-initiated activities independently
 * 2) Sustains attention during teacher-initiated activities for more than 5 minutes and/or until completion
 * 3) Works productively during group activities

We decided that we would all wear costumes next Thursday. Since the parade starts early, we are able to start the SK Carnival at 9:00. We will head up to our classrooms at approximately 9:45 for our classroom parties. This will allow us to eat lunch in the dining room at our regular time. Bonnie will email Tony and let him know we changed our minds about eating in our classrooms. Bonnie will also make the agreed upon changes to the Halloween note and email it to everyone to run off for this week’s Friday Folders.
 * Halloween: **

Bonnie raised the questions to Kathy (grips) and Janelle (books) we had about the grips and decodable books being taken out of our budget instead of the supply budget. According to them, the grips and decodable books charges were taken out appropriately. It’s going to make for a tight budget this year. Bonnie will ask Kathy what budget the decodable books were taken out of last year, because they definitely were not applied to our SK budget. Sue raised the issue of the Book Boxes we buy on sale in June for the following school year and being told it was too late to submit her receipt in September. Apparently, receipts now have to be turned in within 30 days of purchase. This poses a problem for us since we are out of school when the sale happens. Judy thinks they may also go on sale during the school year, but we don’t want to wait because we start our decodable books right away. Bonnie will talk to Choren to see if we can purchase the boxes for next year during the current school year or continue to buy them in June and then submit our receipts right after we purchase them even though school is out.
 * Budget ** :

At next Curriculum Writing on November 30th, we will be looking up science benchmarks and tying up loose ends in our Science Curriculum. So please remember to **bring your computers.** We are also going to start working on our Math Curriculum and how to differentiate instruction. Sue is going to talk to Gina to see if she can help us with that. We also need to **bring our math workbooks** to document how we supplement activities instead of using workbook pages.
 * Curriculum Writing ** :

Sue is going to email additional insect cards to add to the ones she already sent us. We will use the same 10 cards during our assessments. Thanks Sue! We felt unfortunate to have lost the printer outside our classroom that Bonnie and Judy used, as well as all of JK, After School, and Marlene. It would have been nice to have been asked how we use the printer and how often before having it taken away from us. Bonnie stressed how she sent an email to her parents indicating that everything would now be located on the Portal for download. This did not affect Sue as she uses the Library printer near her classroom.
 * Assessments ** :
 * Printer ** :

Bonnie brought up the topic of when we start guided reading and felt that we should all be starting at be same time. Judy doesn’t think it matters and is ready to begin now. Bonnie and Sue won’t begin until after conferences. So we came up with a schedule as to when we administer assessments and running records for next year so that we all begin at the same time.
 * Guided Reading ** :

2nd/3rd week – Baseline Assessment 4th/5th week – Phonemic Awareness Assessment 6th/7th week – Running Records 8th/9th week – SK Assessment
 * Schedule is as follows ** : (we don’t count the first half week)

We talked about having the children stand or sit when they come into the dining room and we all felt it was best they sit right away. With the tables being so close together, there is a lot of tussling and touching going on. Bonnie will let the specials teachers now of our decision.
 * Lunch: Sit or stand? **

We discovered that we don’t all follow the same rules downstairs during indoor recess and decided to have a conversation about it. Some of us let the children play with all of the toys on the platform and some of us don’t. We decided that since indoor recess is taking place of outdoor recess that they should be using their gross motor skills and the toys will be off limits. Also the schedule for indoor recess will be: 11:30-12:00 McMinn & Pierson/Karrels 12:00-12:30 Jeffers/Hardwick
 * Indoor Recess ** :