March 22 - 26

DIBELS

Please remember that your red students need to be progress monitored before we leave for Spring Break. Please plan to check out a Nokia and complete the appropriate assessments with those students. ALL progress monitoring must be done by the end of the day Monday, March 29.

Progress Monitoring Schedule:

Friday, April 9 - ALL Red & Yellow students

Friday, April 23 - ALL Red students

**Please keep the week of May 3 - 7 open because we will be doing the DIBELS EOY benchmark.** After the EOY benchmark we are finished with DIBELS until next year!!!!

EOQ Testing

K-2 Reminders:

1. Administer EOQ writing assessment by Monday, March 29 and trade papers to grade.

2. Administer EOQ math assessment by Monday, March 29.

3-5 EOQ Testing Schedule:

Monday - Wednesday: Reading/Math EOQ Testing

Thursday: Fifth grade only Science EOQ

Friday - Monday: Make-up Testing

AR

Students can read and test until the end of the day on Monday, March 29 to meet their third quarter AR goal. Please encourage students to work hard because the AR carnival is going to be a lot of fun! There will be various games including football toss, putt putt, face painting, snacks and even a BOUNCE HOUSE!!!! The AR carnival will be held on Friday, April 9 from 9-12.

K/1 - 9-9:50

2/3 - 10-10:50

4/5 - 11-11:50

Upcoming Dates/Reminders

March 24 - Parent Assist Training - 3:15

March 29 - End of Third Quarter

April 9 - AR Carnival

April 14 - Report Cards go home

April 16 - Literacy folders/Math cards to K. Dooley

May 3-7 - DIBELS EOY Benchmark Assessments

March 15 - 19

DIBLES

Please remember if any of your red or yellow students were not progress monitored last week, they must be done by the end of today. I will come around and pull some students to help out this afternoon. Also, I have several sync cords missing! Please check your room and make sure you have returned all cords to my office. When you need a device, make sure to sign out your materials in the purple Nokia folder. Thanks for your hard work and cooperation!

*Reminder - Friday, March 26 - Progress Monitor Red students

Staff Development
All K-2 teachers please sign-up to attend one of the afternoon DIBELS Data workshops being held in the auditorium at Central Office on the third floor. The dates are March 8th, 9th, 15th or 16th from 3:30-5:00. Please bring your MOY class summary report and your PLL&W manual. If you have questions let me know. You will not be required to attend any DIBELS staff development on March 30th.

EOQ Testing

The end of third quarter is fast approaching, which means it is time to assess. You already have your writing assessment prompt and I will distribute math quarter tests as soon as they arrive. Our third through fifth graders will be involved in testing as follows:

Monday, March 22 - Wednesday, March 24 - Reading/Math EOQ Testing (3-5)

Thursday, March 25 - Science EOQ Test (5th grade only)

Friday, March 26 & Monday, March 29 - EOQ Make-up Testing

Doing Our Part-Informing Our Students

School’s Role in the Census Promotion: Involving students in April 1 Count

Make students aware that the US Census is important and does impact us all

Focus lessons on the US Census during the Week of March 22 – March 26

Major Resource: www.census.gov/schools on WSFCS Teacher web portal

School News Sponsor-Radio Spots for each day

http://www.census.gov/multimedia/www/radio/profile_america/index.php

March 8 - 12

Planning Days

First and Second grade teachers, please don't forget to register for your planning days this week and evaluate them afterward to receive credit.
First Grade - Wednesday, March 10 - 11:30-3:30
Second Grade - Thursday, March 11 - 11:30-3:30

ACCESS Testing

Thankfully we are almost finished with ESL ACCESS testing! We are hoping to get ESL classes back on normal schedule by next week. This is a huge task because each one of our ESL students must be tested one-on-one. A big thank you goes out to our ESL team for their hard work. Thanks to the staff for your patience with this process.

DIBELS

Please remember this week is a big week! ALL RED AND YELLOW students must be progress monitored by Friday, March 12. If you need help please let me know and I can block out a time on either Thursday or Friday to come by and assist. If you have questions please let me know.

Staff Development

All K-2 teachers please sign-up to attend one of the afternoon DIBELS Data workshops being held in the auditorium at Central Office on the third floor. The dates are March 8th, 9th, 15th or 16th from 3:30-5:00. If you have questions let me know. You will not be required to attend any DIBELS staff development on March 30th.

AR

WE NEED YOUR HELP!!
We would like to paint a mural on a wall to use for our AR display from year to year. If you have any ideas for a theme or design please add them below in a comment or send me an email. Thanks for your help.

March 1 -5

Wow! Welcome to March! Don't forget to participate in Read Across America events going on this week. Happy birthday to Dr. Seuss!

DIBELS

This is just a reminder that there are intervention activity packets in my office available for check-out. They are beside the door in a green crate with a green sign-out folder. Feel free to come by and check out anytime. These can be used by classroom teachers, assistants, or even volunteers. Let me know if you have questions.

Reminder - Friday, March 12th - Progress Monitor both Red and Yellow students

Friday, March 26 - Progress Monitor Red students

Staff Development

All K-2 teachers please sign-up to attend one of the afternoon DIBELS Data workshops being held in the auditorium at Central Office on the third floor. The dates are March 8th, 9th, 15th or 16th from 3:30-5:00. If you have questions let me know. You will not be required to attend any DIBELS staff development on March 30th.

Planning Days

Don't forget planning days are next week! I will submit those today and let you know when they are up and ready for registration. Don't forget to register and turn in your sheet to the office.

AR

Unfortunately the Fire Marshall was not a fan of our AR display this year. We will be taking it down soon and replacing it with something attached only to the bulletin board stripes.

WE NEED YOUR HELP!!

We would like to paint a mural on a wall to use for our AR display from year to year. If you have any ideas for a theme or design please add them below in a comment or send me an email. Thanks for your help.

Winston-Salem DASH Reading Program

Second through fifth grade students are participating in a great reading incentive program and earning lots of cool prizes. Keep up the great reading! Make sure you are reading books within your ZPD and scoring at least an 80 percent or higher on each tests! When students reach a goal just email me their names and I will place the prizes in your box. Thanks for your help and support with this program.

Doing Our Part-Informing Our Students
School’s Role in the Census Promotion: Involving students in April 1 Count
Make students aware that the US Census is important and does impact us all
Focus lessons on the US Census during the Week of March 22 – March 26
Major Resource: www.census.gov/schools on WSFCS Teacher web portal

School News Sponsor-Radio Spots for each day
http://www.census.gov/multimedia/www/radio/profile_america/index.php
Supplemental Resource: Sunday Morning Feature: Fast Draw—US Census
http://video.tvguide.com/Sunday+Morning/Fast+Draw+U.S.+Census/3988817?autoplay=true&partnerid=OVG

February 22 - 26

Kindergarten Registration

This is just a reminder that we will have lots of visitors in the building on Thursday, February 25 and Monday, March 1. We will be set up in the lobby area and will offer tours throughout the school day. Thanks for showing off your Gibson PRIDE to our future Gibson Grizzlies.

DIBELS - Progress Monitoring

Please remember all red students need to be progress monitored by Friday, February 26. Use your MOY classroom summary reports to determine which students to assess. If you have questions please contact me. Kindergartners need to be monitored in ISF and PSF. First graders need to be monitored in NWF and ORF. Second graders need to be monitored in ORF.

**A Gibson Grizzly ROAR goes out to the first grade team for their diligence with progress monitoring. **

PLEASE SHARE IDEAS FOR INTERVENTIONS BY POSTING A COMMENT BELOW!

Math Curriculum Updates

Presented by: Velvet Simington

The new K-12 math adoption has been approved!

Next year is a field test implementation year (more information to come)

Assessment prototypes will give further information on the types of activities student can engage in once approved changes are made.

We will have essential standards that are focused; will allow teachers to teach; and with in-depth, clarifying objectives.

Social Studies Update

Presented by: Patty Grant

Doing Our Part-Informing Our Students

School’s Role in the Census Promotion: Involving students in April 1 Count

Make students aware that the US Census is important and does impact us all

Focus lessons on the US Census during the Week of March 22 – March 26

Major Resource: www.census.gov/schools on WSFCS Teacher web portal

School News Sponsor-Radio Spots for each day

http://www.census.gov/multimedia/www/radio/profile_america/index.php

Supplemental Resource: Sunday Morning Feature: Fast Draw—US Census

http://video.tvguide.com/Sunday+Morning/Fast+Draw+U.S.+Census/3988817?autoplay=true&partnerid=OVG

February 15 - 19

DIBELS

Thanks for all of your hard work getting every yellow and red student assessed. If you still need help or have make-ups please try to get these done by the end of today. Remember now we can focus on remediation and we will progress monitor our red students only again by Friday, February 26. With all the snow days we haven't had as much time to focus on remediation, but now that we are back to normal hopefully, we can use the DIBELS data to group and target certain skills during small group instruction. I hope the model lessons helped you get some new ideas and I have some of the packets of activities ready in my office for check out. Please use these during your guided reading or remediation time. These activities can be used by your assistants, volunteers, or yourself. Let me know if you have questions.

Kindergarten Registration

Please be aware we will be holding Kindergarten registration in the lobby area on Thursday, February 25 and on Monday, March 1. If you have questions or parents with questions please direct them to the office. We will be offering tours of our school on both days so be prepared for visitors.

Accelerated Reading

Thanks to everyone for your support during our AR Doughnut Sale. It was a huge success and we raised $400.00. This money will be used to support our AR end of quarter celebrations, the AR store at the end of the year for students meeting their goal EVERY quarter, and most of all for our AR Festival of Fun. If our student body reaches 30,000 points we will have a day of fun for ALL students including a bounce house, various games, and yummy snacks.

Please remember to set your third quarter goals in the computer so students can monitor their own progress. Also, encourage students to record books and earn their Chick-Fil-A prizes from the W-S DASH reading program. Remind fourth and fifth graders to keep reading in order to compete in the Battle of the Books competition! We have tons of reasons and incentives to keep our students reading! Thanks for your help and support with all of these programs!

February 8 - 12

Folders and Data Sheets

If you have not done so already, please bring me your literacy folders, math cards and data sheets. I will work as hard as I can to get them back to you as quickly as possible. I realize with possible retention letters going home you may need a folder for a conference so just let me know.

DIBELS

Even though we missed several instructional days last week, we are still going to stick with the same progress monitoring schedule that I gave you in your data planning meeting. You should be prepared to progress monitor both your red and yellow students by the end of the week. Remember you must look at the student's individual score for each assessment to determine if they need to be progress monitored. If you have questions let me know.

The FCRR activity packets I discussed with you are almost ready for check out. They will be housed in a crate in my office and you can check out one at a time for now until we build up the collection a little more.

I am enjoying visiting your classrooms. Thanks for sharing your students with me and I look forward to watching them grow and progress the remainder of the year.

AR Update

This is just a reminder that we will have another AR doughnut sale on Thursday, February 11 during morning arrival and afternoon dismissal. Please share this information with your students and encourage them to bring 50 cents for one or $5.00 for a whole box.

Winston-Salem DASH Reading Program

Remember to send home the parent letters if you have not already so we can communicate the expectations to everyone. This program is open to second through fifth graders. Please give each student a blue reading log to record their reading and make sure they write their name and the teacher's name on the paper. When they have achieved their first goal you can turn those sheets into me and I will give you their prizes. Let me know if you have questions. Thanks for your help and support with this incentive program.

Read To Me

By Jane Yolen
Read to me riddles and read to me rhymes,

Read to me stories of magical times.

Read to me tales about castles and kings.

Read to me stories of fabulous things.

Read to me pirates and read to me knights,

Read to me dragons and dragon-book fights.

Read to me spaceships and cowboys and then,

When you are finished -- please read them again.