K-2 Wing Newsletter
Sept. 28-Oct. 2, 2015
Shout Outs
This week's shout outs go to......
1st Grade Team: For using the Reading Street Weekly Assessments. Way to work smarter!
Ms. Robinson & Ms. A. Brown: For using Scan Tron sheets with their classes for the S.S. Common Assessment. Way to work smarter!
Ms. Hendricks: For a great Moral Focus presentation. Thanks for teaching the kids how to whip and nae nae using the word, conscience.
Interim Assessments
SST
We have been in school for 7 weeks now. Many of you have expressed concerns about some of your scholars' academic and/or behavioral progress. Any scholars who have been low performing or having behavioral difficulties can begin to be referred to SST. You should have 5-6 weeks worth of documentation (work samples, test scores, NWEA scores, weekly quizzes, behavior logs, communication with parents etc.) before taking a student to the team. When you have a scheduled SST meeting, please be sure to complete the packet and have the above documentation with you along with strategies you have been implementing and the data to show whether or not the strategies have worked. Be sure you have conferenced with the parent at least once with your concerns. This meeting should not be the first time a parent is hearing about their scholar's struggles in school.
If you have any scholars who have been retained, please be sure you have been collecting data and let me know so a meeting can be scheduled. The meetings are being scheduled into the mid-late October now. Please do not wait to get a scholar's name on the calendar while you are still collecting data.
If you have a scholar in your class who is already in the SST process from last year, you are still responsible for bringing documentation to the meeting as a progress update. A SST packet does not need to be completed.
Second grade, the homeroom teacher represents the team at a SST meeting. Each team member who is having concerns with the scholar are responsible for providing documentation to the homeroom teacher to present at the meeting.
If you have any questions, please ask.
Mental Math Strategies
Kindergarten learns the zero rule.
First grade learns the rules for doubles and fact families.
Second grade gets to reinforce it all!
Reading Strategies
Are you teaching your students the strategies to use when they come to a word they don't know when reading? Here is a poster with the strategies. I have different ones too, if you are interested.
Solving Word Problems
Dates to Remember
Oct. 2nd : Bulletin Boards due- see the handbook for details
Oct. 5th : Picture day (all classes eat lunch in the classroom); Report cards to be finalized
Oct. 7th : Report cards printed
Oct. 9th : ½ Day Parent-Teacher Conferences; Students go home at 12:30 p.m. this year
Modified lunch schedule for 1st and 2nd grade. Classes will pick up their lunch
from the cafeteria and eat in the classroom. A schedule was emailed to you
via a calendar request.
Oct. 14th : Parent-Teacher conference sign-in sheet due to Dean Blair
Oct. 16th : Upload signed conference notes to TKES under communication
Atlanta Heights Charter School
Email: 84.dblair@nhaschools.com
Website: www.nhaschools.com
Location: 3712 Martin Luther King Junior Drive Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United States
Phone: (404) 472- 3003