January 20 Newsletter

Mrs. Bali’s First Grade News

January 20, 2017

Review of our week:

         In math this week we are still working on Place Value.  We had so much fun celebrating the 100^th Day of School!!! 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.  I will also go over them at SEPs in a couple of weeks. We have made a lot of progress from the beginning of the year.

Upcoming Events:      

·      Monday, January 23 – Celebrate Emma B.’s ½ Birthday

·      Friday, January 27 – Celebrate Connor’s ½ Birthday

·      Friday, January 27 – Family Fun Day (Riddle Family)

·      January 30 – February 3 – SEP Week (School gets out at 2:30 everyday.)

·      Friday, February 3 – Family Fun Day

·      Monday, February 6 – Spelling Bee @1:30

·      Friday, February 10 – Family Fun Day

·      Tuesday, February 14 – Valentine’s Party

·      Thursday, February 16 – Celebrate Taeya’s Birthday

·      Friday, February 17 – Family Fun Day

·      Monday, February 20 – No School (President’s Day)

·      Friday, February 24 – Family Fun Day

·      Monday, February 27 – Celebrate Emelynn’s Birthday