2011.05.02

CARP meeting 5/2/2011 Minutes

3:30-4:00 - Meet with Preprimary in Ells conference room The Lower School Science department and Preprimary department will meet to discuss use of notebooks, content, and process skills. Met with Preprimary and discussed using notebooks at all levels of LS. Prepriamary was excited and willing to join in using notebooks. Pat will order Marble covered jounals for Prepariamry. We will all have the scienctific wheel on page one and then science notebook questions will be added on page 2. A label will be made for all notebooks with student names' with the beginning year and then when notebook are full the year will be added. These notebooks will be moved on each year to the new teachers...

Preprimary decided on a consistent form to have their students to fill out and insert into the notebook. They also brainstormed possible acitivities that will could be put into the notebook.

Plan is to meet with Preprimary again a few times next year.

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4:00-5:00 - Meet in LS Science Lab We discussed the science fair. The fourth graders may need to discuss ways to keep a younger audience engaged. Fourth graders expressed concern that some of the younger kids were not listening to their information. We also discussed that younger kids may need a different set of questions to ask the fourth graders.

We looked over mid-year report and started reflecting for end of year report. The Lower School Science team will meet to review the CARP within-division goals. We will assign any remaining work and update the report with any additional information/data.

OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE AT THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, AT WHICH TIME WE WILL MEET AS A CROSS-DIVISIONAL TEAM.