1-8-14

1) Discuss our writing curriculum for the second half of the year -- does the pen pal unit still fit into the grand scheme of things based on our meeting with Mr. Glover in Oct?
 * Yes we should still do the pen pal unit because students need to understand the basics of writing a letter. How to address and write a letter and how to fill out an envelope. We talked with 3rd grade and they talk and have a unit about letter writing...so it is still good to introduce the second graders on letter writing!
 * We worked on a letter to send home to parents

2) Talk about Report Cards...are all the skills correct...do we need to reword a couple of skills? We spent time cross-referencing our lists we created on our December early release day to what was entered into FAweb. We all worked on the checklists over winter break and noticed some inaccuracies and some things that sounded to similar. This is not what was in our notes. We made a short list for Sherry to hopefully update before the weekend. This took us almost our entire meeting. ;(

3) Where are we on the Native American Units? NOWHERE.... we just had two school cancellations. Claudia is going to try to schedule our culminating trip for this unit for Feb 11 or Feb 12. This trip is an all day trip to the Milwaukee Public Museum.

4) Share what we find useful on the Daily Five/CAFE website....Did everyone get renewed? (all)