What's going on at Williams?
Here are a few tidbits about us!
By: Jennifer Payne
Williams School Principal
Son of Tidbits
9/6/06
Williams is continually highlighted through out the District. I was having lunch with friends Monday and said it was brought up at the District Special Ed. Meeting. Jackie Confirmed.
Mrs. Parsons – Grade Level Facilitator, Responses in a timely manner, team said, “She is so sweet and helpful. She bought us pizza for lunch before school started.”
Ms. Welch – Using snowballs for vocabulary, making predictions and discussing with partners before sharing out.
Ms. DeGeare- Making predictions, using guess and predict
Mrs. Bowen – read, stop, discuss with partner a question, find in the story the clue.
Stiles – vocabulary in groups, using icons……decoding skills
Solomon – Behavior contracts – involving students in their own goal setting
I saw predicting/inferring across the grade levels – Solomon and Horton
Welch/Gneckow – Subject Level vocabulary cards/posters
Bowen/Rowland – Writing Targets selected, posted and utilized in writing instruction. Rowland said, “We will practice hitting these targets this week. After Friday, they will become an expectation.”
Wells – Story mapping and writing summaries. Students wrote very good summaries. He had modeled it.
Owens – decoding skills, finding syllables and patterns
Ohe/Miller – Read Alouds
Cisneros – Target Boards, use of actual dart board, had targets and work posted
Weaver – painting a dead fish blue……but, students were doing a story on What’s for Dinner. Great language and experience opportunities. And, use of science…plant groups, talk, observe, etc.
3rd Grade – Students very excited about science. High Frequency Phrases collaboration, booklets, pocket chart, power point. Third Grade is being very pro active.
Noland – Checking for Understanding
Miller – Irene using the S/S placemat to spell “chain”
Gneckow – Notetaking with reading comprehension strategies – summarize, predict, evaluate
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