August
K-6 C&I Celebrations, Shout-Outs and Highlights
2019-20
Our K-6 Team is STICKING together & GROWING together
| Melanie Stewart 3rd Grade |
| Kim Harryman 1st Grade |
| Jennifer Weir 2nd Grade |
| Chloe Behnke 5th Grade |
| 4th ELA Team |
Look who is on POINT...
August 2019 Shout-Out Award Recognizes...
Rocky River Team
August Highlights
Morning Meeting: Greeting
Mrs. Eisenhofer welcomes each of her third graders with a special morning greeting. Talk about making her students feel good?!
Morning Meeting: Morning Message
Mrs. Harryman starts her day off with a morning message. She incorporates some review of math graphs in there too!!
Morning Meeting: Social Skills
Mrs. Boprey is teaching the importance of eye contact, handshakes, and greetings!
Morning Meeting: Group Activity
Mrs. Littell and her kiddos cheered each other on during their Red Carpet time!
Reading Centers: Ask & Answer Questions
Students in Mrs. Klinger’s class are using question thought bubbles to generate questions during their small groups.
Morning Meeting:
Group Activity
Dancing and singing happen every morning in Ms. Daniels’ class, to reinforce self confidence!
Building Stamina
Ms. Kistler’s class is building their stamina for reading, and tracking it as a class!
R.E.A.D & M.A.T.H.
We are implementing the READ and MATH frameworks! Mrs. Olguin (kindergarten) and Ms. Godbold (second) have it posted at the from the room to remind the students.
Park View Team
August Highlights
Morning Meeting: Group Activity
Ms. Stewart starts each day with a classroom pledge to remind her students that they are kind, smart and leaders.
Open Number Line Activities!
Second grade is working hard with open number lines during their math workshop centers.
Morning Meeting: Group Activity
Ms. McCloud connects our asking and answering questions standard with her morning meeting shares
Morning Meeting: Group Activity
Mrs. Mays starts each morning with a chant to remind her students of the expectations. With consistent expectations, students know what’s expected of them throughout the school day. This allows them to feel more confident, engaged and connected to the school community.
R.E.A.D Workshop: Differentiated Core
During PLC, PVES teachers used connect 4 games to represent their iStation reading tiers, did a gallery walk, then dug deeper into their student summary reports on iStation. This helped them create groups for their reading block. Then they connected their next week’s reading standard with the lessons in teacher station on iStation to develop differentiated activities.
South Team
August Highlights
MATH Workshop
in 2nd – ALREADY!!
Mrs. Weir and her students are already rocking math workshop. Her enthusiasm and her organization are inspiring!
Instructions for differentiated MATH stations!
Google site for student instructions
Click to check it out!
MATH Workshop
Kindergarten
Ms. Meadows worked with her kinders over the last several weeks modeling the MATH workshop. Her kinders are ready to dive into centers.
R.E.A.D Workshop
Ms. Godbout is off to an amazing start implementing the R.E.A.D framework in her third grade classroom.
Summer Institute Slideshow
iStation Stars
Mrs. Howard is celebrating growth in iStation Reading and Math. Students with the highest growth on their ISIP each month will get their picture posted on the wall of fame as well as plaque to keep at their desk throughout the month.
Morning Meeting
Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Deaton are making mornings matter by greeting each other and reciting their class pledge.
Click to grab a list of morning meeting greetings.
Morning Meeting
Self Control Bubbles
Mrs. Rogers class practiced self control during morning meeting. Practicing self control and regulation on a regular basis will help these kinder student be more independent during their centers.
Morning Meeting
Complement Circles
Mrs. Campbell and Mrs. Fields created complement circles during morning meeting to help build community in their classroom. This also builds self confidence to start the day off right!
EMIS Team
August Highlights
Morning Meeting: Check In & Greeting
Teachers at EMIS are off to a great start implementing morning meetings and check-ins to make sure their students are starting off on the right foot!
Morning Meeting Greeting & Group Activity
Our staff has been busy greeting our students and facilitating our morning activities!
MATH Workshop in
Mrs. Nelson’s class
Mrs. Nelson has done a great job of organizing station materials and training students on station expectations. She used geometrical shape names to name each group, and has color-coded differentiated station activities based on their needs.
M.A.T.H Workshop
Our students are enjoying various components of MATH stations. From hands on learning to math vocabulary, they are fully engaged!
R.E.A.D Workshop
Students are busy during their stations collaboratively talking about plot, practicing various reading strategies,
Learning Labs
Teachers are attending Learning Labs monthly to receive in house PD. Stations include morning meeting group activities, new/revisited tech, and reading/writing strategies.
MIS Team
August Highlights
Morning Message
Ms. Campbell is reading The 7 Habits of Happy Kids with her class and discussing them during her morning meetings!
READ Workshop
Our 6th Grade ELA team is already knocking it out of the park with their station rotations! Expectations are set and being followed!
Check out the team’s cute template for their weekly rotations HERE!
READ Workshop
Ms. Mohr and Ms. Johnson have been working hard on setting clear expectations for their station work! These anchor charts were completed WITH the help of their students!
Want to dive deeper into the Daily 5 framework? Click here!
MATH Workshop
Students are already working through various different activities in their MATH stations in Ms. Behnke’s, Ms. Hall’s, and Ms. Paradiso’s 5th grade classes!
Ms. Silvestri’s class spent the first two weeks practicing each rotation all together and discussing expectations as a class. Take a look at the expectations that the students came up with for each center (image on left).
For her independent work (at your seat) work she almost always makes a video of herself doing a few examples and giving the directions and posts it in Canvas. That way she is not interrupted when working with her small groups.
MATH Workshop
Click to grab a copy of the slides she uses! Thanks for sharing!
K-6 Curriculum Team August Highlights
Morning Meeting
The K-6 Curriculum Team participated in some of our own PD during our PLC about the importance of Morning Meetings. To support our comprehension of the article, we used a top down topic web to record the main idea and details.
Morning Meeting: Group Activity
The K-6 Curriculum Team participated in some of our own PD during our PLC. We were learning about the compliment circle.
Morning Meeting: Message
Rocky River’s IC, Jenna Cook, presented to our team on how we could easily integrate our reading standards (RI.1 Ask and Answer Questions) in our morning message.
Morning Meeting: Group Activity
Mystery Word-On sticky notes, write key vocabulary words from a unit (that students should be familiar with). Choose a student to be “It” and tape a word to their back. Their job is to guess the word on their back using clues from their classmates. The student moves slowly inside of the circle that’s been formed by the other students with their back face towards them.
The Morning Meeting Book (page 162 )
READ: Explore a Strategy
During our C&I PLC, ICs practiced a new strategy to help with teaching inferencing. They used their schema to determine a character’s feelings through a wordless picture book.
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