May 20, 2016

DIBELS Testing-  The results from our DIBELS reading assessment went home on Thursday.  A few helpful notes...
- TRC (Text and Reading Comprehension) is a combination of reading and comprehension levels.  Please note this level might differ than the reading level of class leveled books due to the comprehension questions.  I also try and challenge the students by moving them up when they are ready to conquer the next level.
- FSF (First Sound Fluency) is not measured at the end of the year.
- LNF (Letter Naming Fluency) is where student name capital and lowercase letters in a random order. They have one minutes to name as many as they can name.
- PSF (Phoneme Segmentation Fluency) is where children must give all the sounds in a word.
- NWF (Nonsense Word Fluency) is where students have one minute to sound out nonsensical CVC words like "mup".  They are given points for CLS (correct letter sounds) and points for WWR (whole words read).
-  WR (Word Recognition) is a list of sight words.  It is recommended that students know all 24 of the sight words on List A by the end of kindergarten.

Please let me know if you have any questions about the assessment results.

We need a few Magic Erasers to help clean up our classroom.  If you could send one in, that would be great.  I also need 1 dozen eggs for our Egg Drop on Tuesday, May 31.  If you can send it in, please email me.

Friday, May 27- Last Meeting with 8th grade buddies
Monday, May 30- No School
Tuesday, May 31- Movie Morning (Students may bring pillows and blankets.)
The Great Egg Drop STEM project in the afternoon
Wednesday, June 1- Field Day
Thursday, June 2- Last Day of School

Theme: Pirates

Sight Words: could, again

Word Families : -ud (bud, mud, spud, thud)
-up (cup, pup)
- us (bus, plus)

Wonderful Word: faithful

Poem: Pirate's ABC Chant

Authors of the Month: Oliver Jeffers and Doreen Cronin

Religion: We Celebrate that Jesus is Our Friend

Writing Prompt: Tell me about your year in kindergarten.

Language Arts: word ladders (replacing a letter to make a new word)

Math: fact families
addition and subtraction fluency

Have a great week!