Monday, October 27, 2008

* Holiday Shop time same as library time. Do not need to follow the schedule we filled out in office.
* Can we keep the computer log-in for the students as K and aurora? Or can we make it easier?*Formative assessment for Language Arts this week-Use same directions as the Peter Rabbit for Characters and Setting.
*Math summative assessment from last week( Can they count set of objects?) ( Can they read, relate, and write numbers 0-9?) Give again before the January report card if they did not pass. Let them have another chance!
* Possibility of changing Lang. Arts Book Order? Nice idea, but too hard to change because of the weekly newsletters, etc.
* November Schedule-check the notes section of your agenda

October 20, 2008 PLC

• Language Arts update--Benchmark Writing Assessment this week. Guided Reading groups begin next week. DRA is available as a resource for any kindergarteners who are reading.
• Social Studies--Piloting 2 programs--Harcourt and Social Studies Alive. Each program is lacking for our needs in K. Committee will look at one more program.
• School picture on Thursday. Check schedule for your picture time.
• math--what do we do when they don't pass the formative assessments? Re-assess counting assessment
• RTI--What qualifies a student for RTI?
• For AIMSWEB--What is our target? Set at the 50 percentile--38 for LN, 22 for LSF for January.

October 13, 2008 Kindergarten PLC

• 83.3% (157) of all kindergarten students are on green/established for LNF (tested 9/08)
• SMART goal--88% of all kindergarten students will achieve the AIMSWEB performance rating of green/established on Letter Naming Fluency by the winter benchmarking period.
• Math assessment--next week (Week 9) is the counting assessment (count and write the #) Linda has specific directions/rubric for scoring. Recommended given in small group.
• standards based report card--There will be revisions to our grading system. More info to come...