Happy Sunday!
I hope that you are enjoying your weekend with your family!
This week was the beginning of the Stanford 10 test for Kindergarten students. We tested on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday mornings. So far the students have been tested on letter names, letter sounds, word reading and rhyming words. Monday will be our last day of testing. The students will be tested on Mathematics.
This administration of the Stanford 10 will give us a "baseline" score to help us measure student growth at the end of the year.
After the Standford 10 is complete we will begin testing kindergarten students with the TPRI test. This test will also be administered again at the end of the year. This test covers letter names, sounds, some word reading, deleting initial sounds, deleting ending sounds, listening comprehension and several other topics in language arts.
Luckily for Pre-K students- testing (other than report card testing) is over until the end of the year when they will re-take the Bracken test for growth measurement.
This week marked our first time checking out library books! Students were able to use a "book buddy" to look for and chose a library book. Our class did a wonderful job picking books without dots on them, using two hands to find their books and speaking in complete sentences when checking their book out with Mrs. Brown. Please ensure that your child brings their book back on or before Wednesday of this week so they may check out a new one!
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| Mrs. Brown is our best friend in the library! |
After all students checked their book out they were given about 5 minutes to read and explore their book in the classroom before bringing them home to enjoy!
Parents please remember that our library is a wonderful resource for you as well! If you are ever at Reece Academy in the morning to drop off your child, or for a meeting, you are more than welcome to stop by the library and check out books as well!
This week in class the students read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". After reading the story the students helped me to make a story chart listing the characters, setting, problems and solutions from the story.
After we completed our list the students had a blast painting their own very hungry caterpillar using watercolors!
After all that work they were very hungry students and took a snack break!
This week the students were also introduced to their official workstation partner. Each student is paired with another student who they will work together with during workstations. I have spent the last few weeks observing students social skills and academic skills to see who they would best be paired with. Partners usually change throughout the year as individual students change and require a new partner to help them stay challenged!
Here are a few pictures of the children hard at work during workstations!
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| The students love working with our iPads! |
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| Students made thank you notes in the writing center for Mason and his Mom. Mason brought in rubber ducks so that students could retell "Five Little Ducks" using props! |
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| Sam and I'Ana were "Buddy Reading" together! |
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| Elijah Y. in the independent reading center. |
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| Joanita and her partner were recognizing and matching environmental print! |
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| Anthony and Kaden are working at the computer station. Students work on Starfall.com and also may work on our PBS Kids Play program. |
Over the past few years I have found that my students truly look forward to our workstations. They love having the opportunity to review skills on their own or with a partner. Because of this I have adapted my teaching so that students spend a majority of their day in workstations while I pull small groups of children to work on individualized tasks. This approach lets me give students more individualized instruction at their level while other students are working on appropriate content in FUN and ENGAGING ways.
To help bring new and fresh things to our workstations I have submitted a grant request through a wonderful charity called Donorschoose.org. Below is the link to our class project if you are interested in donating or passing the word along! I am asking for books on CD for our listening station and a program called "Hot Dots" to create a new workstation for both Pre-K and Kinder students!
Kia Automotive has also agreed to fund half of the project once the other half, $233, has been donated!
I hope you enjoyed your look into our class this week and will consider passing along our donorschoose project to others that may want to help!
-Mrs. Richardson
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