Reminders:
Please return decorated writing folders this week. We will be starting our units soon and students will use their folders as inspiration!
Upcoming Events:
9/13-917: Safety Week
iReady Assessment:
This week we will be taking our baseline assessment, in iReady. Students will take a math and reading portion. This is a tool to help us, the teachers, see where students are at. It will help us form our lessons, small groups instruction, and individual support.
What is i-Ready?
i-Ready is an online program that will help us determine your child’s strengths and areas for growth, personalize their learning, and monitor their progress throughout the school year. i-Ready allows us to meet your child where they are and provides us with data to inform instruction.
The i-Ready diagnostic is an adaptive assessment that adjusts its questions to suit your child’s needs. Each item a student receives is based on their answer to the previous question. The purpose of this is not to give your child a score or grade but to determine how to best support their learning.
What can you do to help?
- To help prepare your child for the i-Ready Diagnostic, encourage them to:
- Try their best on each question and try not to rush.
- Try not to worry about questions they do not know--remind them that it is expected they will only get about half of the questions correct.
- Be respectful of other students who take longer to finish.
- BELIEVE IN THEMSELVES!!!
I look forward to sharing i-Ready information with you throughout the year.
Leader In Me
We are spending our first 8 days with extra time devoted to lessons around Leader In Me. We want to build a classroom community with a clear vision and expectations to help us throughout the year.
The idea of Leader in Me is that we are all leaders, celebrating our uniqueness. But all leaders have 7 effective habits. Last week we focused on the first three habits: Be Proactive, Begin with the End in Mind, and Put First things First.
Be Proactive:
Students learn that they are in control of their own actions and words! We talked about hitting the “pause button,” and stopping to think before reacting. We also talked about how we can respond like a shaken soda bottle (reactive) or a shaken water bottle (proactive).
Begin with the End in Mind:
We talked about setting goals and knowing what we want the end to look like, so we can plan our steps accordingly.
Put First things First:
We watched a video and did an activity with “BIG Rocks.” We talked about what are the BIG Rocks in our lives (the most important things)?! We decided that we need to put the BIG Rocks into our day first and then fill the rest of the day with the less important things, the little rocks. This habit is great at home when trying to help your student build habits around chores, homework, etc before video games and screen time!
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