January 21 Newsletter

Mrs. Bali’s First Grade News

January 21, 2016

Review of our week:

         In math this week we finished our chapter and took our test. We are working on some really fun snowman stories.

Progress Reports:

         I have attached 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.

Stuffed Animal:

         At this time in the year, some students get tired of doing Read To Self in Daily 5, so I have some stuffed animals that they can read with.  If your child would like to bring a stuffed animal to keep in class and share until the end of the year, that would be great.  Please do not send one that is special to them. I will send them home at the end of the year or your child can leave it, if they no longer want it.

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.

Upcoming Events:      

·      Friday, January 29 – Family Fun Day

·      February 1-5 – SEP Week (School gets out at 2:30)

·      Thursday, February 11 – Celebrate Kyla’s Birthday

·      Friday, February 12 – Valentine’s Party

·      Monday, February 15 – No School President’s Day

·      Friday, February 19 – Family Fun Day

·      Friday, February 26 – Family Fun Day (McNeel Family)

·      Tuesday, March 1 – Celebrate Holden’s Birthday

·      Thursday, March 3 – Celebrate Emmalia’s Birthday

·      Friday, March 4 – Celebrate Hayden’s Birthday

·      Friday, March 4 – Family Fun Day (Bali Family)

·      March 7-11 – No school (Spring Break)