Sept+8,+2010

Understanding = U Informing = I  Recommending = R  Deciding = D ||
 * =**Grade 4 Team Meeting**= || Date: Wednesday, 08 September 2010 || Starting/ Ending Time: 7:45 - 8:45 || Place: Paul's Room ||
 * Facilitator/Timekeeper: Ralph || Recorder: ? || Purpose:


 * < 5 Minute Share ||< I ||< What did you eat for breakfast? How long were you on the van last night? Or, when was your last mental breakdown? ||< Round Robin ||< Ralph/5 Min ||
 * Mystery Reading Unit || **U**
 * R**
 * D** || Essential Questions and Enduring Understandings || Pair Share.

We will break into pairs, with each partnership looking at an essential question for the unit. We will develop enduring understandings and share back with the group. If time, we will look at skills and knowledge. Needed revamping to ensure we were building on what was done in Grade 3. Important ideas- debating back and forth Entertaining more than one possible prediction Whole class conversations- recording/transcribing. Discussion groups Explicit teaching of specific strategies- predicting and confirming predictions, questioning, inference Synthesizing and monitoring- revising (adding/eliminating) Backing up reasoning with evidence Mysteries outside of books- real life examples Looking at things from multiple perspectives Essential questions- focus on suspense, inference, focusing on key information. Each group focused on one essential questions and identified skills/strategies and enduring understandings for each. Mary will synthesize information from each group to put together skills/strategies and enduring understandings for the unit. || Mary/30 min || We will "see" the unit, "think" about how we will work with the unit, and "wonder" about any adjustments we might make. Groups work on 2nd and 3rd essential questions to create enduring understandings and skills/strategies || Mary/15 min || We will look at GRADE results. Look at percentile rankings SS- standard scores (distance from mean) 90-109 is in the average range Listening- RS- raw score out of 17 Stanine score- av range is 4,5,6 || Jen/5 min ||
 * Narrative Writing Unit || **U**
 * I** || Taking a look || See/Think/Wonder "ish"
 * GRADE results || **I** || Sharing results || Share.
 * See Ya! ||  || Bye Bye! || We are adjourned. || Ralph/10 seconds ||
 * PARKING LOT ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 1. ||  ||   || Chao Praya Barge Cruise || [[image:http://c1.wikicdn.com/i/editor/insert_table.gif]]Kristen/someday for some time ||
 * 2. ||  ||   ||   ||