by Roxanne Turner | Sep 15, 2017 |
Happy Friday everyone, It has been an event-filled week; in addition to our academic endeavors, students experienced the first Farm-to-Table of the year, a lockdown drill, and spirit week. Today, students are coming home with their NWEA math & reading scores....
by Kelly Smith | Sep 15, 2017 |
In the last blog entry, we talked about what the Daily 5 is and the philosophy behind it’s implementation. We also took a look at the three options that deal mainly with reading – Read to Self, Read to Someone, and Listen to Reading. Today we are going to...
by Kelly Smith | Sep 12, 2017 |
You have probably heard your student come home and say something about our Daily 5 time. You may be wondering what it is…and what it is not. This week’s posts will focus in on what it is, how we use it, and why we use it. Today, we are going to focus in...
by Roxanne Turner | Sep 11, 2017 |
I want to write a quick note to let you all know that we had a class meeting this afternoon. During the meeting I told that class that I felt we have had an outstanding start to the year, and that in the past two days (Friday and Monday) I have noticed a change in...
by Kelly Smith | Sep 11, 2017 |
Just like in math, we have benchmark assessments for reading at every grade level. In first grade, we use two tools to check in on the students’ development in early literacy – AIMS Web Fountas and Pinnell. The AIMS Web portion of the benchmarking process...