THE LATEST & GREATEST
April 3, 2017
ELAR
Proposed Revisions to English Language Arts and Reading TEKS for K-8
- At the January/February 2017 State Board of Education (SBOE) meeting, the SBOE approved for first reading and filing authorization proposed revisions to the English Language Arts and Reading TEKS for Kindergarten – Grade 8. The SBOE is scheduled to consider proposed revisions for second reading and final adoption at its April 2017 meeting.
- The official public comment period for the proposed revisions to the English Language Arts and Reading TEKS for Kindergarten – Grade 8 is now open.
- The SBOE has specifically requested feedback regarding the amount of time needed to provide instruction in the proposed student expectations. Specific feedback related to the time needed to teach individual concepts would be helpful.
- To view the proposed revisions and submit public comments, visit
Public Comment Period: March 3, 2017– April 18, 2017
Earliest Possible Date of Adoption: April 2017 SBOE meeting
MATH
- The IC’s are going to have an Exemplars training in April. The math department has asked us to get student work samples for each grade level. They want each team to administer the following summative tasks from the Exemplars library. Please see below and let me know if you have any questions. I will need this by April 10th. Thank you so much!
· K.2A Ginger Bread Man
· 1.6A Drawing Shapes
· 2.7A,C Cars and Trucks
· 3.6C,D;3.7 A Fence for Star
· 4.6A,B,C,D A Shape Game
· 5.4 H Cereal Box Display
Summative tasks can be read to the students, and any non-mathematical terms may be defined. Tasks can be reread during the student's work time, and scribing may be provided for any non-writing or primary students. A summative assessment must represent a student's total independent solution.
- EOY window opens Monday, April 3 for ESTAR/MSTAR. The window closes on May 5. Please make sure that you take your Math classes to do this online assessmentJ Thank you for all you do!
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Here are the directions from last time. See below.
https://drive.google.com/a/friscoisd.org/file/d/0B08ax49LtAI6S2pWWkpqOVE3Vnc/view
Science
Coming the week of April 17th- 3rd grade ladybugs and 4th grade meal worms
Coming the week of April 24th- 2nd grade butterflies and 5th grade milkweed bugs/praying mantis
Fourth grade owl pellets will need to be picked up at the science store. We will let 4th grade science leads know in an email when those will be available for pick up.