2/5 Edgar Road, Hixson

Prepped for EdcampSTL

• Copied Guest log in
• Copied building map
• Made room signs
• Tec req for projectors
• Created Prize presentation
• Contact Food Service
• Organized Prizes

Prepped for 6th grade science Full day tomorrow

• Organized snacks and drinks
• Copied agenda
• Copied assessments and scoring guides
• put together folders

Worked on Science kit reservations for Quarter 1

Went to Hixson for 8th grade Science meeting

Stayed after for 2nd and 3rd year teacher planning

Went to Target to get a cooler

At home:

• Emails, tons and tons of emails
• Finish quarters 2, 3, and 4 for kit sign ups
• Read chapter 4 of Never work harder
• Starting activity ranking the intelligent behaviors. 
• Make google doc
• Submit Reimbursement from target
• Submit request for materials from Flinn/Fischer

2/4 Steger, ER, PDC

Spent the morning at Steger working with 6th grade world studies.

I helped students with the East Asia project and worked with the teacher on how to revise/improve the project.  Here's the scoring guide as it sits now:

We discussed:

• Letter to parents - too many words, scoring guide on the back, let that speak.
• Guidelines
• One thing as the checklist, calendar for you displayed in the room.  Cross off with them
• Scoring guide focused on the product and not the learning.
• Where’s the reflection?  Where’s the uncovered learning/thinking?
• Video of example of expectation and exemplar, let them score it.
• You make one.
• Phases – Earn cards to move form phase to phase
• IDEA:  Scoring guide paper with blank sections, earn the next phase scoring guide after first phase is done.
• Students read and submit journal entry on what they notice, see and questions they have.
• Checklist is AWESOME!
• Everything including research/journals spaces.
• Why not Wikipedia?  Use it to start, cross reference with others…
• While researching have word or docs open to copy/paste websites and book titles for use with bibme.org later.

Copied for 6th grade Science meeting:

• MS GLEs
• NGSS for Ecology
• Ecology GLEs
• Earth's Process Assessment
• Earth's Process goals

Handled a Edcamp Miscue

Worked on 1st quarter sign ups: http://wgsdq1.signupsheet.com/

- Made accounts for 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarter.

Went over to CO for PDC meeting.

• http://www.classdojo.com/
• January 4
• Edline
• TLC
• Opening Day

2/1 CO meeting, Edgar Road

Attended the Coordinator meeting at Central office

Watched "Using the NGSS practices in the elementary grades: http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/symposia_seminars/NGSS/webseminar16.aspx 

Plotted out work for Summer requests.  Sent email to group regarding requests.

Tentative Agenda to 6th grade science full day next week.

Sent and reviewed emails.

1/31 Avery, SS facilitators

Bubble Wrap Appreciation day!
http://www.puffgames.com/bubblewrap/

I spent the day at Avery check ing out Science and Social Studies...

I saw a 5th grade lesson on World War 1:

I went to all the 5th grade classrooms to set up the Rotting Log terrarium:

 Saw a 1st grade lesson on Goods and Services:

Saw a reading/social studies lesson on regions:

I then went back to Edgar Road to meet with a social studies facilitator.  We went over Facilitator meeting 3 notes and discussed the Missouri Unit.

1/30 Edgar Road, 6th Grade Science

Emailed parent about missing rocks in a 2nd grade kit.

Emailed Avery Schedule for tomorrow's coordinator day: https://docs.google.com/a/wgcloud.org/document/d/1Djd60OizTYFooiCBhz8TZAnCF11RRSZVpF7pBoaMag4/edit

Planned 6th grade Science after school meeting, made copies and agenda

Created and submitted POs for Summer Purchases.

Met with district facilities coordinator re: Plans for EdcampSTL

Added resources to my PBLU.org Course on Creating a Project Calendar

• Watched video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi1zVXo6sQc&feature=youtu.be 

• And How to make a project Calendar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA6DAKT_Kvo&feature=youtu.be
• Completed Project calendar
• Completed reflection over the calendar
• Submitted work via Edmodo

Wrote this blog post on #Balance: http://coachinandout.blogspot.com/2013/01/hows-your-balance.html

Set up meeting with Social Studies Coordinator at Parkway

Called Missouri Botanical Garder to learn more about Foodology.

Finalized EdcampSTL evaluation

Met with Library/Technology Coordinator to learn about how to access the catalog and how to search for materials in the Social studies kits.

Emailed SS facilitators to update them about the SS kits in every library (or missing from a library)

Emailed 5th grade Chemical Interactions team about 1st draft of student packet.

Went over to Steger for a 6th grade Science team meeting:

1/29 Bristol day! iPad Training.

Spent the day at Bristol Elementary.  I was there to:

• See science or social studies lessons in action
• Help when/where you need it (not necessarily Sci/SS)
• Answer any technology questions you may have/want
• Help you log on to the NEW Curriculum server
• Have curriculum conversations about Science or Social Studies
• Share MAP data
• Talk about the Next Generation Science Standards
• Build stronger relationships.
• Be supportive and collaborative!

See which rooms I stopped in here: https://docs.google.com/a/wgcloud.org/document/d/1uGl49-26yR172YDYT1xRYzt56WVk9fKrZR8YeSGMuEc/edit

I saw 4th grade working on Circuits:

I then started to update my iPad for our after school session.  After downloading software, I ran into trouble...

I was unable to update due to ports being blocked on the WG network.  I figured this out using apple's support communities: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4467602?start=0&tstart=0

This made me miss James' Kindergarten class due to having to run to Bread Company to use their Wifi to update and restore software.  I went back there later...

After updating went back to Bristol.

Saw 5th grade REVIEW game:

Helped students in 4th grade hook up circuits.

 Played in Kindergarten to make a secret decoder necklace (Awesome!):

Met with Gifted ed Teacher to discuss Scratch and found some great resources:

• App for making collages: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pic-collage/id448639966?mt=8
• Programming collaboration: http://www.hitrecord.org/
• Learn Programming: http://hackety.com/
• More Programming: http://www.codecademy.com/#!/exercises/0
• Make a game: http://gamestarmechanic.com/
• Learn to code: http://thecodeplayer.com/
• Like Scratch: http://www.alice.org/
• Make an App: http://gamesalad.com/

I also shared my blog post on how I used scratch and other cool things in my 20% time in my classroom:  http://coachinandout.blogspot.com/2012/05/take-day-off-20-time.html

I met with a Kindergarten teacher about changing her password on her apple ID.  Used this resource: http://support.apple.com/kb/HE36  Then learned how to change the apple id on the ipad here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2693812?start=120&tstart=0


After school facilitated an iPad workshop on iBooks:

• Demo Book: Life on Earth
• tour interface
• browse bookstore
• search for books
• find a book
• highlight
• text size
• read to you
• notes, share
• www.gutenberg.org
• tuebl.ca
• Free books app
• Pictures

After work went home to attend NSTA Web Seminar: Using the NGSS Practices in the Elementary Grades, January 29, 2013

January 29, 2013, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Eastern time

1/28 Steger, Hudson, NGSS, Computer School

Started the day meeting with World studies at Steger.  We discussed the East Asia Unit, learning goals created and what possible lessons we could use to provide students the opportunities to demonstrate understanding of learning goals.

Afterwords I went over to Hudson.  At Hudson I met with Liz and Pat.

Scheduled Bristol day on Tuesday

Sent emails, tons of emails.

Coordinated meeting with facilities supervisor for EdcampSTL.

Began building Chemical interactions packet

Went to meet with Becky Litherland, Science coordinator for Parkway.  We discussed and finalized out evaluation of the NGSS and submitted our evaluation.

I then went back to Steger to meet with 3rd grade science facilitator.  We went over the meeting from last week and assigned tasks to complete before next time we get together.