Showing posts with label parent conferences. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parent conferences. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Parent Conferences
Parent conference notices will go home tomorrow (Wednesday). Please check backpacks for bright orange notice. Sign, tear off, and return bottom portion of sheet with an attendance response. If you are absolutely unable to attend your scheduled time, please indicate a time or day which would work better.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Thirty-Second Day
A good portion of our day was consumed by IWT (independent work time) and the second portion of the writing assessment.
Fluency scores are now posted. The mean average score for this test was 50 WPM (words/minute). Those students scoring 60 WPM or greater on the next exam (in 6 weeks) will take home the reading achievement certificate. Please keep in mind that as the year progresses, not only are more WPM required but the reading selections become increasingly difficult.
Conference notifications go home tomorrow. Please locate them in backpacks, sign and return. The conferences should not take too long, especially as there is no report card to discuss. I will go over test scores with you as well as individual goals for your child.
The math homework for the evening is a review page from last week.
We will probably read election speeches on Thursday so that voting can take place next Tuesday.
Fluency scores are now posted. The mean average score for this test was 50 WPM (words/minute). Those students scoring 60 WPM or greater on the next exam (in 6 weeks) will take home the reading achievement certificate. Please keep in mind that as the year progresses, not only are more WPM required but the reading selections become increasingly difficult.
Conference notifications go home tomorrow. Please locate them in backpacks, sign and return. The conferences should not take too long, especially as there is no report card to discuss. I will go over test scores with you as well as individual goals for your child.
The math homework for the evening is a review page from last week.
We will probably read election speeches on Thursday so that voting can take place next Tuesday.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Thirty-First Day
We completed all seminars for the first unit today. Thank you parents for your support. I've never completed an entire class before in the first unit. We are almost complete with our reading battery. I will post statistics tomorrow. If you would like to know your child's individual score you can come see me or wait for conferences. Fluency scores will be posted in the classroom.
We had our fifth dance lesson with Ms. Marrin. Today we learned some break dancing as well as its origins.
In past years the concept presented today in math has stumped many 1st graders. This publisher presented the material a bit differently and made it easier to teach and hopefully learn. With the notion that subtraction finds differences we compared different sized collections today. We discovered that if you subtract the smaller collection from the larger, you will find the difference. The question for the difference is presented in two different ways: how many less, and how many more. This can sound confusing. The answer however remains the same for both questions (thankfully). The homework is the math sheet on comparing.
If you received an unsatisfactory notice, please sign and detach the bottom portion and return it to school so that I know you have seen it.
If you would like a visual record of some of your child's classroom activities, send along a flash drive and I will try to record such things as oral reports. It just has never seemed right to me that I'm the only adult that gets to see all the things your students are doing. It would be helpful if there was some place to write your child's name on the outside of the drive or better yet, attach it to a lanyard with your child's name. You can also bring the flash drive along with you to parent conferences. I am at least hopeful I can get this to work.
We had our fifth dance lesson with Ms. Marrin. Today we learned some break dancing as well as its origins.
In past years the concept presented today in math has stumped many 1st graders. This publisher presented the material a bit differently and made it easier to teach and hopefully learn. With the notion that subtraction finds differences we compared different sized collections today. We discovered that if you subtract the smaller collection from the larger, you will find the difference. The question for the difference is presented in two different ways: how many less, and how many more. This can sound confusing. The answer however remains the same for both questions (thankfully). The homework is the math sheet on comparing.
If you received an unsatisfactory notice, please sign and detach the bottom portion and return it to school so that I know you have seen it.
If you would like a visual record of some of your child's classroom activities, send along a flash drive and I will try to record such things as oral reports. It just has never seemed right to me that I'm the only adult that gets to see all the things your students are doing. It would be helpful if there was some place to write your child's name on the outside of the drive or better yet, attach it to a lanyard with your child's name. You can also bring the flash drive along with you to parent conferences. I am at least hopeful I can get this to work.
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