Hi Room 115 Families!!
It is hard to believe that we have completed our first week of kindergarten! This week we began building our classroom community. We learned not only about being a bucketfiller but about having a growth mindset! A growth mindset is having a positive attitude and seeing mistakes as celebrations to learn from. Instead of being upset or seeing challenges as a roadblock, a growth mindset allows you to welcome difficult tasks and see new possibilities and opportunities to learn and grow. I hope you will start to hear this language more from your students because it is something that we work on everyday! In class we began working on word games and letter names and sounds. We also started practicing sequencing of numbers and counting 1-10. MAP Testing Monday and Tuesday Morning For those of you who don’t know, MAP testing is a standardized test that allows us to start collecting data on your student to watch their growth in reading and math. While hearing "standardized testing" may sound scary, in Kindergarten it serves an entirely different purpose. Please know the goal in kindergarten is to learn how to take an assessment and complete it. This is just one of the many assessments that we use to document data on your students and to use not only in Kindergarten but throughout their time here at Braeside. I explain the test to your students as a "show me what you know". The students are showing me what they know from the test and I use the data to differentiate for each of your students on what I will be teaching them this year. Please make sure that your students have a big breakfast for brain food to get ready. If you want to talk to your student about this, please talk to them about having a growth mindset, a positive attitude, being open to the challenge and to take their time. On Monday we will do reading and Tuesday will be math. If you have any further questions on MAP testing please do not hesitate to ask. This year, we ask you to please talk with your student and decide if they are more comfortable with their headphones from home or using the earbuds from school to take the MAP test. In kindergarten, the MAP test is read to your student. We have found that sometimes students feel more comfortable wearing home headphones over the earbuds. This is to ensure that each student can hear their individual test. We also ask that you please charge your students iPad over the weekend and Monday night to make sure that they are ready to go for testing both days! Thank you for your help and partnership! I know your students will do great! Important Information: 1. Our iPad are coming home today! We explored the app Pattern Blocks. Each day next week as a class, we will learn how to have balance using technology with learning. We will explore the apps in class, and know that your students do not have all the logins at this moment for them. I will help go through them with your students. Please do not feel pressure to use the iPad at home or this week. My only ask is that it is charged for Monday and Tuesday MAP testing. I encourage you to keep playing outside, exploring and creating or playing board games! 2. First full week next week. Please make sure your student continues to know how they are getting home each day. If you know your schedule will change in the morning feel free to shoot me an email. If it changes in the afternoon, please call the office because I am not always available to check my email by the end of the day and Mrs. Pickens will share the message with me. I am so excited for our first full week next week! Your students are off to a great start and I am having the best time learning with them!
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