Empowering Students Through Multiage Curriculum: Engage, Learn, Lead!

1. Second/Third Multiage Curriculum Night September 21, 2011 AB Combs Leadership Magnet Elementary Kayla Edwards Jodie Spencer

2. Quality Process + • Agenda • Issue Bin • Plus/Delta

3. Wildly Important Goals(W.I.G.s) • Student Achievement • Leadership Opportunities • Lead • Learn • Serve

4. Why Multiage? • Why should children work in multi-age groups? • Removing traditional grade-level grouping reduces the yearly time constraints placed on children, allowing them to work to mastery of high standards at their individual rates. • Flexible use of multi-age groups provides children with many good role models. • Advanced learners across all levels have the opportunity to be challenged and accelerated in their learning. • The amount of support and help available to all children is increased through teaming and collaboration. • Children learn social responsibility as they learn to work cooperatively. • Leadership qualities of students are enhanced through group work. • Children deepen their learning and grow academically as they explain their work to others. • What are the benefits of continuous progress? • Providing a family atmosphere for learning for both children and adults. • Enabling teachers to build a long term relationship with each student. • Student progress is effectively monitored over time. • Increasing meaningful learning experiences for all children. • Strengthening student’s positive attitudes about school. • Meeting the individual needs of every student through appropriate instruction. • Fostering self-esteem, leadership skills and sensitivity to others. • Developing a stronger relationship between home and school over time. • Reducing stress in children as they continue learning at appropriate rates in a familiar atmosphere.

5. Second/Third Multiage Mission Statement • We are here to accept challenges and set goals to accomplish. We will work together to make the world a better place.

6. 3rd Grade Curriculum Resources http://www.wcpss.net/parents_students.html Handbooks, Planning Guides & Program Information K-8 Connections

7. A Day in the Life of Your Multiage Child

8. Math Workshop • Math Expressions • Building concepts • Math Talk • Quick Practice • Student Leaders • Helping Community • Multi-digit Addition & Subtraction, Multiplication, Geometry, Algebra, Fractions, Measurement & Problem Solving

9. Quarter 1 Reading Objectives-Please see handoutBlended Objectives (objectives that are the same for both grades)Listed 2nd/3rd*means essential objectives assessed by observing student behaviors throughout the quarter without teacher support

10. Balanced Literacy FrameworkDaily 5 • Reader’s Workshop • Guided Reading & Conferring • Writer’s Workshop • Word Study & Vocabulary

11. Reader’s Workshop • Workshop Cycle Learning & Instruction • Mini-lesson • Student Application • read, respond, confer • Reflection • Primary focus • Creating a community of readers & thinkers • Vocabulary Instruction • Flexible Reading Strategies • Decoding & Comprehension Skills • Increase Fluency & Reading Stamina

12. Word Study & Vocabulary • Words, words and more words! • Learning spelling patterns • Bi-weekly developmental feature tests • Differentiated student lists • Improves • student decoding abilities • spelling and writing • Vocabulary Instruction • Prefixes & Suffixes

13. Writer’s Workshop Genres • Lists and Instructions • Poetry • Letter writing • Personal Narrative • Informational Writing • Continuous Cycle • Planning • Drafting • Revising • Editing • Publishing

14. First Quarter Expectations

15. Science • Soils • Objects in the Sky • Plants • The Human Body

16. Social Studies • Change over time • Native Americans • Colonists • Video Conferencing • Visit from Raleigh City Museum • Wake Ed Partnership Grant • Artifacts and hands-on connections • Economy • Needs & Wants • Supply & Demand

17. LEGO Serious Play Education • Integrated into the curriculum • 3 Rules of LSP • LEGO Theory • Play • Constructionism • Imagination

18. Classroom Economy Create list of classroom careers Rank jobs and identify salaries Establish how to earn credits & debits Generate credit/debit logs, wallets and Combs cash

19. Homework • Hallmarks of Good Homework • Agendas • Weekly Reading • Math Expressions • Word Study

20. Volunteers We love to have volunteers in our classroom. Please make sure you have signed up to be a volunteer using the volunteer registration (it is always available in the media center). We sent out a Google document for you to sign up to volunteer. The link is: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqAjYo3FFVEOdHMzNS03QmwtUjdFR2tydDZmWGhCYlE&hl=en_US#gid=0 If you can only volunteer once or twice a month, that is great. We need volunteers to run and organize our classroom store once a month starting at the end of September. Please let us know if you are interested.

21. Field Trips & Events • Historic Oak View County Park (Oct) • Night Under the Stars/Starlab • Dec 6th at AB Combs • TBD (Spring)

22. Communication • We will send out a newsletter every other Friday and special announcements. • Agendas are our main source of communication; homework, specials, notes, etc. Please feel free to write notes as well. • Friday folders

23. Quality Process + • Issue Bin • Plus/Delta

27. Build a model of what you expect your child to learn in the Multiage classroom. This can be social, emotional or academic.

28. 3rd Grade Expectations • Meet quarterly benchmarks • Standards based grading (3 or higher) • Achieve a reading level of 31-32 • Achieve a level 3 or 4 on EOG’s