This week is Willard's Homecoming Week. The following is the theme for each day if your child would like to participate in the dress up days.
Monday- 'Merica Day Tuesday- Tie Dye Day Wednesday- Onesie - PJ Day Thursday- Tacky Tourist Day Friday- Willard Pride Day Important Dates: Friday Sept 21 - Half Day - School will dismiss at 12:30 Friday Sept 21 - Fundraiser packets and coupon books are due. Please return books if you are not planning to purchase those Thursday Sept 27 - 6:30-7:30 Leader In Me Job Fair Night Friday Sept 28 - Tiger Pride Assembly at 2:30 This week: Math--We are starting unit 3 this week which is our first multiplication unit. We will be spending a lot of time working on our facts to help us be successful in this unit. I would encourage you to work with students on those facts at home during commercial breaks or in the car. I will also be sending home Unit 2 math assessments this week. Several students got 100% on this assessment Friday! SS--We are wrapping up our Missouri Regions projects this week and students will be presenting those on Tuesday. Wednesday students will take a short assessment over those regions and have to label some important features in our state. Then Thursday we will celebrate their hard work with Missouri shaped sugar cookies that they will decorate by regions. It will be a tasty treat! Writing-- Last week we started talking about narrative stories and this week we will start mapping out our narratives. We are focusing on capitalization, punctuation, and great use of details. Reading-- Students have been working really hard on their DRA's for the beginning of the year. I will have those completed this week and I will send their current reading level home to you as soon as I can get them filled out. I have been very impressed with their progress over the summer. I leave you with some pictures from our STEM Challenge on Friday with Mrs. Kramer's 1st grade class. We are going to partner up several times throughout the year to do challenges and allow the students to work together. I was so proud of them on Friday and how they mentored the 1st graders and helped them through the project.
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Welcome back from our first long weekend of the year! I hope you enjoyed the beautiful weekend as much as my family and I did.
I want to start by saying that our class rocked their first math test!! We had so many perfect and near perfect papers and I was super happy! I can't wait to pass them back tomorrow and see the looks on their faces when they see the results of their hard work. Students will be bringing them home tomorrow so you can see them as well. We are scoring things different this year so I want to explain how to read their scores. This year we are getting away from the 'Mastery', 'Near Mastery', and 'Remediation' colors of green, yellow, and red. This year we are grading on a scale of 1-4. We want all students to attain a level 3 on their material yielding a mastery level, or green in relation to last year. A 2 would be the same as the previous near mastery, and a 1 would be remediation or that they still needed to practice that particular skill. A level 4 is above and beyond the desired level and will not be an attainable score on all assignments. Please ask your students to explain this to you tomorrow when they bring home their tests. We have discussed it in class and will continue to discuss it as they get assignments and assessments back. More information on this will be available at Leader In Me Night at Willard East later this month. As always, please feel free to contact me with any questions. NWEA Students will be taking the beginning of the year NWEA test this week in math and reading. This test shows us where each student is in each area so we can better instruct them at their level and help them move to the end of 4th grade level come May. We will be taking this computer test at the beginning of the year, mid-year, and end of the year. This is not something that students should be worried about and it is not as rigorous as the MAP test. This is also not a graded assessment just gives us an idea of where your child is and what we need to work on with them. This week we will test math on Wednesday and reading on Friday. Math We will not start a new unit this week with the NWEA testing. I will be giving students a chance to reassess on their math test and improve their scores to a 3 if they did not get there last week. Writing We are going to wrap up our sensory writing this week with taste and smell. We are also going to start our daily language lessons. Reading Students are working on responding to reading daily with prompted questions. Last week we focused on questions in the book and this week we are going to move to questions in our head and in our heart. Social Studies We finished up our short unit on reading maps last week and this week we are going to start learning about the different regions of Missouri and researching our state. Students will start working on a group project next week that I think they will really enjoy. Important Dates to Remember September 21 - Half Day attendance September 27 - Leader in Me Night - more info to come home soon September 28 - Tiger Pride Assembly @ 2:30 |
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