General Announcements
The school year is now in full swing! Thank you to parents who donated items to our classroom. Your gifts really made a difference.
I've conducted assessments with all students to see what kind of progress or regression they made over the summer towards their IEP goals. For students with academic goals the AIMSweb progress report charts are now on their individual pages. Parents, be sure to check them out and email or call me if you have any questions.
Math
This fall the Unit 4 Special Education Department purchased a math curriculum specifically for students receiving special education services. The curriculum, SRA Corrective Mathematics, is organized into seven strategic modules that provide teacher-directed instruction on critical skills and concepts which struggling students often fail to grasp; addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, basic fractions, decimals and percents, ratios and equations.
Carefully structured practice develops skills students need to learn efficiently from instructional materials by helping them.
- Learn and retain facts.
- Understand place value.
- Solve computational problems.
- Discriminate among various types of story problems.
Reading
The Unit 4 Special Education Department also purchased a new reading curriculum this fall called Reading Mastery. The program begins by teaching phonemic awareness and sound-letter correspondence and progresses to word and passage reading, vocabulary development, comprehension, and building oral reading fluency. Later lessons emphasize accurate and fluent decoding while teaching students the skills necessary to comprehend and learn from expository text. Lessons are designed to be fast-paced and interactive. Students are grouped by similar reading level, based on program placement tests.
In addition to SRA Reading Mastery, we are using SRA Corrective Reading and Barton.
If you would like to learn more about which curriculum is being used to instruct your child please email me and let me know.
Homework
Homework is a very important part of school but is NOT meant to frustrate students (or parents). I've asked classroom teachers to adapt and/or provide alternate homework for students who are working at different levels than the rest of the class. If you have concerns about your child's homework being too difficult please talk to the teacher or me and we can make accommodations.
Please make sure that your student reads at least 10 minutes a night from a book at their level and remember that the more you read to them, the more examples of fluent reading they will have.
Dates to Remember:
September 5th: Labor Day-No School
September 10th: School Improvement Day - Dismissal 12:00
September 13th: PTA Forum-What is PBIS? 6:30-7:30
September 16th: PTA Walk-A-Thon Assembly @ 2:00PM
September 19th: TV Turnoff Week Begins
September 20th: PTA Ice Cream Social @ 6:00PM and General Meeting @ 6:30
September 29th: 2nd grade trip to the Pollinatarium
Have a great month!
--Ms. Griffin
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