Lower School

One Pagers are Due Today

Please be sure that you send a copy to both Ian and myself.

Final Portfolio Sharing FYI

Below are the days that Lower School children will share their portfolios with their parents. If you have the time, stop by to celebrate a year of hard work with the students.

EY 1 and 2 – Monday, June 15 - morning
EY 3 and Kindergarten and Grade One – Friday, June 19 at 9am
Grade Two – Tuesday, June 16 at 1:50
Grade Three – Wednesday, June 17
Grade Four – Wednesady, June 17

Peter and the Wolf- Friday, May 29 at 1:05

Please come to the Ranchon at 1:05 on Friday for a performance of Peter and the Wolf.

EY Numeracy Project

Please have all documents and copies of assessments ready for Monday, June 1.

Portfolio Sharing

Please let me know when you have selected a time and day for sharing final portfolios with you class parents. All grades from EY to Grade 4 need to set up a time for this and invite parents. Grade Five will use Wonderful Me as the time for final portfolio sharing.

(EY-2) Common Literacy Assessments - June 1

Just to remind you that you need to complete Term Three assessments and the class roster of results by June 1. Please bring class results and folders to my office by that day.
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All teachers should use this new improved class summary sheet.

Deadline for Subject Awards and Starfish

Please send me this information by Friday, June 5. We will discuss the Starfish candidates at our meeting on Monday, June 8.

IMPORTANT - Report Card Deadlines

Early Years Reports (bubbles and comments) are due on Friday, May 29.

Kinder to Grade Three (boxes and comments) are due on Monday, June 1.

Grades 4 and 5 subject teachers, IPC and general (crosses and comments) are due on Thursday, June 4.
Grades 4 and 5 Math, LA, Spanish (comments) are also due on Thursday, June 4. You will need to have the exam grades (and the crosses) completed by June 12.

Please use last year’s comment bank (the proofed version that actually was on the report card - see ITY) and ask another teacher to read all your comments before you “send to proofreader”. As soon as your comments and boxes/crosses are ready please inform Ity.

Today’s Meeting Time - Report Card Time

Today’s Meeting - Report Cards
We will not meet today as a section, instead please work on your report cards. Remember that once you have finished your comments, please ask another teacher to proof them for you. Things like the correct use of he/she, use of “reporting period” instead of “term”, and the correct spelling of the child’s name are very important.

A few reminders…

Final Portfolio Sharing EY to Grade Four
EY to Grade Four teachers need to invite their class parents to a final viewing of the portfolios. Please arrange a time and contact your class parents directly. Please let me know when you have chosen the date and time.

EY3 to G2 Literacy Assessments
EY3 to Grade Two teachers need to complete the final round of literacy assessments and hand in the class sheet with the results as well as the literacy folders to be by June 1. Grade One teachers should retest all the spelling words by testing over several days.

EY Numeracy Project
Early Years teachers should meet on June 1 to share all of their work on the numeracy curriculum project and then submit all of the new documents (including samples of the common assessments) to me on that day.

Starfish and Subject Awards
Please remember that our awards are as follows:
Starfish - Student who exemplifies the NINES
Most Improved Subject Award - One student per subject who has shown the greatest improvement in this subject throughout the year.
Highest Achievement Subject Award - One student per subject who has achieved the highest level of achievement.
Principal’s Award - Grade 4 and 5. There are many rules for this award - please see the description.

K-2 Small Group Meeting-Friday, April 24

During today’s small group meeting, Early Years Three to Grade Two teachers discussed their observations about the Common Assessments for Literacy.

Heidi noticed that the ORT levels are low but after looking more closley, the running records indicate that (when tested) most of the students are reading with at least 95% accuracy and more often 100% accuracy. While reading in this range is beneficial when students are reading independently, instructionally, teachers need to strive to provide students with suitably challenging text. Suitably challenging text is between 90% and 95% accuracy. Teachers must continue to use the running record and continue to raise the level in order to determine each child’s instructional level. This will also give the teacher more insights into the strategies that each child is using when reading and can indicate a specific area for teachers to focus their instruction.

It is clear that the Common Assessments provide teachers with a range of valuable information about each child’s progress in literacy. Teachers now need to specifically determine where each child needs support and teach to these needs. This is at the heart of differentiated instruction.

Some of the assessment folders are still not up to date and teachers need to finish them ASAP as the deadline was by the end of Term Two.