The Cornelius Chronicle
November 6, 2015
Monday - Don’t forget to wear your uniform.
Book Fair - Nov. 30 - Dec. 4
Please promote this in your classrooms!!!! If you have parents who would be good volunteers, please send me their names & contact info ASAP! We were thinking of doing a staff stunt if we meet our Book Fair goal, which is $2,200 (minimum amount needed to get 40% profit - if we don’t reach it, we don’t get any profit!).....What do you think about having a staff crazy hair day or mismatch day or fun spirit day if we hit our goal? We will put our student leaders to work helping monitor at the book fair during lunchtime, as well as making/holding up posters to advertise the week of the book fair during pick up/drop off!
After School Program
We had a great first week in our after school program! Thank you to all of our teachers and instructional assistants who are spending their outside-of-school time helping our students improve in reading and math! I know that the efforts by students and teachers in this after school program, in addition to classroom instruction and intentional interventions during the school day will make an enormous difference to the learning of our students!
Math Adoption Committee
After attending the Math Caravan on Monday to preview the state-approved materials, I am soooooooo excited by the quality of math materials that are available now! All of the publishers have colored consumable workbooks, as well as those workbooks available online. They all have online resources like math games, math “coaches” for students, homework videos for parents/students, etc. The online resources work for both Apple products and PCs/Chromebooks. The quality is OUTSTANDING! All of the student pages exist in Spanish too, as do any parent letters that are available. The Math Steering Committee (on which I represent elementary principals) will be reviewing our top picks by having the publishers present to us directly and then we will bring our top picks to the Math Adoption Committee for review. Trust me when I say any of the top picks would be a great replacement of our current math curriculum!
Math Observations-Nov. 3
High-Leverage Practices in Mathematics Observation Rubric
November 3, 2015 10:00 am -12:30 pm
Strategy
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Definition
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Evidence
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Teacher reviews & posts Clear Objectives (including vocab)
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Identify and post goals that clearly define what students will understand better at the end of the lesson than they do at the start. Key vocabulary is posted to and referred to throughout the lesson.
Example:
Objective posted and reviewed - students repeat chorally:
I can find the product using a variety of different multiplication strategies.
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9/9
100%
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Teacher models thinking aloud and solving problems
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I do/We do/You do strategy:
Example:
Teacher modeled a struggle problem with measurement at the beginning of the lesson.
I love how your students chorally read the problem together!
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9/9
100%
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Teacher Presses for Justification
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Press students to explain why, rather than how.
Example:
Students are encouraged to tell a partner why / explain/ justify which strategy they are looking at.
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3/9
33%
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Teacher Promotes Rich and Engaging Discourse about Mathematics
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Provide opportunities for all students to engage in content-rich conversation, using mathematical vocabulary.
Example:
Sentence frames for partner sharing:
I think we should ________ because __________________.
I agree/disagree because ___________________________.
Students have to share with a partner how to solve the problem without pencils. You modeled how to do this in front of the class.
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7/9
78%
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Teacher demonstrates Use of Public Records
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Public records provide students with valuable resources as they are developing new skills, vocabulary, and processes. In addition, they provide access for struggling learners.
Example: Student posters of math models on math focus wall (below).
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6/9
67%
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Teacher promotes Journal Writes and/or use of Math Journal
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Examples:
Using iPads as journals.
Using spiral journals to take notes and complete problems.
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5/9
56%
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Teacher demonstrates Use of Exit Tasks to inform instruction
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Example:
Today’s exit task:
Using the Avery page protectors to have students practice the math and then take the page out of the protector to use it as an exit task.
I wasn’t there for the end of the lesson, for the most part.
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1/9
11%
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Concrete to Representational to Abstract
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Abstract - students were asked to round numbers up/down today without any visual clues or concrete manipulatives.
Example:
Concrete to representational to abstract: Students are measuring yarn - estimate how many inches in your long string and short string using parts of your hand that you know are an inch - record the lengths in your journal.
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8/9
89%
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Fun Friday - Pride Tickets
We gave out our Myon and ST Math awards today at Fun Friday and also had our first Fun Friday spin!
Pride Tickets given out in the last week:
4th grade 224
3rd grade 160
2nd grade 139
1st grade 65
Kinder 84
Grand total: 672
October 2015 MyOn Reports
Congratulations to Top MyON users for October 2015!
Chelsea Aillon’s 4th Grade Class read 108.99 hours! MyON trophy goes to this class!
Jacob Bustamante’s 4th Grade Class read 105.24 hours!
Congratulations to your top MyON students for each grade, October 2015!
Kindergarten: David Chacon Villafana read for 2.11 hours
1st Grade: Peter Keanaaina read for 6.21 hours
2nd Grade: David Sanchez read for 2.91 hours
3rd Grade: Texitli Vargas-Medina read for 3.97 hours
4th Grade: Austyn Keady read for 8.17 hours
Pizza Certificates!
Teachers are pulling Student Activity Report to recognize students for reading!
Literacy/Technology Event
Congratulations on a successful event!
October 2015 ST Math Reports
Congratulations to Top two ST Math classes!
Merry Hansen’s 2nd Grade Class has 19% Syllabus Progress! This classroom will receive the Jiji traveling trophy and ST Math prizes (rubber bracelets for the class)!
Jacob Bustamante’s 4th Grade Class has 16% Syllabus Progress!
Reminders:
Climate Surveys - Nov. 2 - 13
All staff should complete this survey -Below are the two web links for the Classified and Certified Staff.
3rd & 4th grade teachers - please block out time for your students to take the survey online during class time by Nov. 13 - might take 20 minutes.
The student links (3rd and 4th grades) are on our website - click on:
- Staff
- Student Climate Surveys
- Choose appropriate grade level survey
Bus Duty: 2nd & 4th grade teachers, and the “regulars”!
Calendar:
11/9 11:00 am Fire Drill
11/10 Angella gone at a training
11/11 Veteran’s Day Holiday - No School
11/12 8 am - 12 pm Admin Council (Angella)
11/13 Sue’s Birthday!
11/13 Angella gone at a training
11/13 8 am 1st Grade Cougar Team Meeting (TRC)
Looking ahead:
11/16-11/20 Angella gone at G & G training
11/18 8:00-9:45 am IDEL training on progress monitoring/understanding the program
11/19 1:15-4:15 pm Camino al Exito training (Janelly, Elizabeth, Alejandra, Ana) *library TRC
11/21 4-8 pm Community Dinner @ Cornelius for our families
11/23-11/27 Thanksgiving Break
11/30-12/4 Scholastic Book Fair
12/3 6:30 pm City of Cornelius Holiday Singalong and Meet Santa
12/4 End of 1st Trimester/Report Card Day - No School
12/16 8:00 am Staff Holiday Gathering (TRC)
12/18 2-3 pm Cornelius Holiday Art
12/8 4 pm Winter Break Begins!
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