Mrs.
Bali’s First Grade News
January
16, 2015
Review
of our week:
This
week I have spent some time assessing and doing some reviewing where we needed
it. In Math we started our next chapter.
I was very happy with the math test we took. We have been working on
nouns, verbs and adjectives, so we can write a snowman story.
Homework:
The
most important homework your child should be doing everyday is reading for 20
minutes every night. We are getting
close to the end of the month, so please make sure your child is doing their
reading and filling in their mittens. I
am sending home some worksheets; they are due back by Friday.
After
your child has finished reading their book, I would like you to have them tell
you what happened in the book and also ask them some questions to clarify. Most of them are getting to the point where
they can decode very well, now we need to start working on comprehension. I am sending home another comprehension
worksheet with a story and a few questions.
Please sit down with your child and help them with this. You need to sign it and return it by Friday.
I am
going to send some a paper each week with some different ideas for your child
to practice their spelling words
Progress
Reports:
I
hope that you all have a chance to look over them. Please look at how many days your child has
missed or has been late this quarter.
They are missing a lot of things when they are gone or late. Also, there might be things I didn’t have a
chance to assess with your child because they were gone.
DIBELS:
We
just did our mid-year Dibels assessment. I wanted to explain a few things. The nonsense word fluency is the same as what
I explained during SEP’s in October. The
benchmark has just gone up. This time
they did oral reading fluency. Each
child had 3 different stories to read for 1 minute each. They counted how many words they read
correctly which is the first score. Then
there is an accuracy percentage. So, if
your child read 23 words and had an accuracy percentage of 92% your child was
able to read 23 words a minute and there were just a couple they either got
wrong or skipped. If the percentage is
lower, your child has more words they were not able to read or they are
skipping. I know this is kind of
confusing, please let me know if you have any questions about your child’s
scores. We have made a lot of progress
from the beginning of the year.
100th
Day of School:
We are going to have a
100th day snack. Other years
we have had a snack of 100 things. I saw
a fun thing where they took doughnuts at a pretzel stick to make the number
100. I decided to do that this
year. If would be willing to send a box
or a small package of the small doughnuts, I would appreciate it. Each child
would need 2, so we would need around 54 doughnuts. We also need a package of
stick pretzels. Will you please let me
know if you would be willing to send some, so I will know how many extras I
will need to buy? Thank you. The 100th day is on Wednesday ,
January 21.
FYI’s:
* Keep saving your Box Tops.
* Thanks for everything you have done. I really
want to thank all of you who come in and read in the
mornings.
Upcoming
Events:
* Friday, January 19 – No School (MLK Day)
* Tuesday, January 20 – Celebrate Rykker’s
Birthday
* Friday, January 23 – Family Fun Day
* Friday, January 30 – Family Fun Day
* Tuesday, February 3 – Celebrate Lana’s
Birthday
* Friday, February 6 – Celebrate
Brooklynn’s ½ Birthday
* Friday, February 6 – Family Fun Day
* Friday, February 13 – Valentine’s Party
* Monday, February 16 – No School
(President’s Day)
* Friday, February 20 – Family Fun Day
* Friday, February 27 – Family Fun Day
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