Meeting+Minutes

= November 9, 2011 - Meeting Minutes = **__ Regrets: __** Mrs., Marson, Madame Strickland, Sam Fillipovic, Cathie Adams
 * __ Attendees: __** Mr. Facca, Ms. Jones, Emma J., Emma, Ethan, Kia, Rose, Hannah, Kayla, Zoey, Brianna, Shay, and Lexie

**// 1. Welcome/ //**** Introductions **//** (Mr. Facca) **// //** 2. Objectives for 2011-2012 (Ms. Jones) **// //** 3. Literacy Fair (Mr. Facca/Ms. Jones) **//
 * Mr. Facca welcomed attendees and asked them to introduce themselves one at a time to the rest of the group.
 * Each attendee was given the meeting agenda, objectives, and a blue folder to house their ideas, planning, and information provided.
 * Ms. Jones went over the committee's objectives for this year.
 * __ Lead-up Activities __
 * 1) Family Short Story Contest (Families of all grade levels are invited to collaborate together to create a short story with a maximum of 1000 words. Stories can be illustrated and monthly winners' stories will be posted on the school website for everyone to view. Could extend this idea so that each monthly winner is pitted against each other, with the story that receives the most votes given a grand prize at Literacy Night. The grand prize could be their story read at the Literacy Fair and then made into a book to be housed in the Learning Commons.
 * 2) Reading is... Poster Contest (Open to all students, they are to create a poster demonstrating what reading is to them, It can feature both text and/or photos/pictures. Can be posted around the school for all to view.
 * 3) Songwriting Contest
 * 4) Logo for Literacy Night Contest
 * 5) Math Challenge

**//Example - Poetry//** Centers would include: a) What is poetry? (definition and dialogue between participants after reading "I Hate Poetry" by L. Lesynski b) The Rhythm of Poetry (verse in song for Primary students; Junior Students - setting poetry to music; rap) c) Poetic Movements (exploring poetry through body movements - skipping chants, acting our nursery rhymes) d) [|Writing A Found Poem] (participants write a poem based on words (verbs, nouns, adjectives, preposition) that they clip out of magazines, newspapers, other printed materials). Homework for student attendees: //** 5. Literacy Club (Mr. Facca) **// //** 6. Next Meeting **// - December 1, 2011 from 10:45 - 11:25 am in the St. Bernard Learning Commons.
 * __ Exploration Rooms __
 * Goal: ** Each room will be a self-directed, learning experience focusing on a specific topic/genre, through the use of multiple modalities.
 * Develop more themes/genres for the Literacy Fair;
 * Create/develop activities for the exploration rooms that are multimodal; and
 * Generate ideas for the Literacy Newsletter.
 * // 4. // Parent-Teaching Modules (Mr. Facca/Ms. Jones) **
 * Asked students to think of homework that parents have difficulties helping them with. Most students discussed math problems such as the new way to do division.
 * Students were asked to go home and dialogue with their parents about these difficulties and report them back to the group during the next meeting.
 * Students participated in a book talk.