Not surprisingly administrative work fell to the wayside these past few weeks as I helped students prepare for and carry out family-student-teacher conferences. With all but three conferences yet to go, I'll be ready to devote some good time to that administrative work such as collecting/collating forms, field trip money management, and field studies/expert visitor scheduling next week.
Next week also finds students studying rounding and getting ready for Wednesday's or Thursday's first unit test--the Place Value test. My book group will continue reading and discussing Swindle, and we'll start our science matter unit.
Professionally the week includes the MTA's Teaching and Professional Learning meeting, a meeting devoted to discussing the math program, and a PLC devoted to math RTI groups.
At the meeting where we discuss the math program, we'll take a deeper look at scheduling, targeted support, and communication amongst many dedicated professionals. At PLC we'll create six-week RTI groups based on Thursday's assessment.
A continued focus on healthy, positive routines will continue throughout each day. There will be three extra help sessions offered too, and at least one remaining family-student-teacher conference and hopefully two more.
The six-week period of getting to know students and starting the year is past, and now we're digging into the learning. This is my favorite part of the year :)
