December Literacy Newsletter 2015
A jolly good time in the Bayless School District
Shrek Dazzles Bayless
The Dragon and Donkey meet for the first time
Cast selfie, closing night
The leads of Shrek rocked it all weekend
Bayless Elementary Earns Money for African School
Mr. Kohler gets pied for a good cause
Students look on as principals are pied
Mrs. Stone catches a pie to the face!
Reader's Notebooks
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/top-teaching/2009/11/readers-notebook
http://literacyforbigkids.blogspot.com/2015/07/series-setting-up-readers-notebook-in.html
Here is our very own Pinterest page:
https://www.pinterest.com/kocrazypants/bsd-readers-and-writers-workshop/
Transforming the Meaning of Difficult
http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/
http://blogs.wsj.com/informedreader/2007/02/13/the-praise-a-child-should-never-hear/
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/AmericanFamily/story?id=2877896&page=1
Grrrrr! for Grammar
'Cause grammar is great!
Without it we'd face
An unthinkable fate
Imagine, just try,
To conceive of a place
Where no one used grammar
Oh, what a disgrace!
Why how could we read?
And how would we write?
I'd say correspondence
Would be quite a fright!
With run- ons and fragments
In all of our print,
And no punctuation to help
Not a hint!
- Steven L. Layne
Lucy Calkin's Writer's Workshop
The picture below shows a quick outline for informational writing unit in upper elementary grades. Lucy recommends a "boot camp" to practice essay writing using a simple topic like ice cream. She demonstrated this during her workshop, and if you'd like help teaching a writing boot camp like this, and you teach 4th grade or above, please let me know. It will take one full class period and leave students with a base knowledge of how to write an informative essay. The best part about this activity is the grading. Essays go into two piles; they have it/ they don't have it.
Happy writing!
Galileo Benchmark Window Opens- Secondary
Monday, Dec 14, 2015, 07:00 AM
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Galileo Benchmark Testing- Elementary
Bayless Elementary will once again benchmark all 2-5 grade students in reading and math to determine the mastery of our power standards thus far. Carts will be shared from the secondary library, and student logins will be updated and given soon after winter break. A reminder will be sent out the first week of January. See link for detailed schedule.
Thursday, Jan 22, 2015, 08:00 AM
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Data Teams
https://sites.google.com/a/bayless.k12.mo.us/bayless-school-district-data-teams/
Kelly Klocke
Email: kklocke@bayless.k12.mo.us
Website: https://sites.google.com/a/bayless.k12.mo.us/bayless-school-district-data-teams/
Location: 4530 Weber Road, Saint Louis, MO, United States
Phone: 314-256-8689
Twitter: @klockekelly