Welcome to Our Group Parent

Meeting

Please come in and have a seat at your

child’s table.

Tonight We Will Discuss...

• Teacher Assessments• Homework • Report Cards• Global Scholar Assessments

Your Child’s Folder

• All of your child’s data and the handouts for this meeting are in the front pocket of your child’s Binder. This information is for you to keep.

• Your child’s data is CONFIDENTIAL! • What if I have a question???• What if I STILL have questions???• Please remove the conference form and

fill it out. Look for the stars! You will need to leave this form with me tonight.

Letter Identification Assessments

• Kindergarten assessments are on-going.

• Letters and sounds are assessed about once a month.

• Teacher Observations• Checklists

Please take the time now to look at your child’s letter /sound assessment

sheet

How I am helping your child with letters and sounds at

school• Letters in Our Names / Name Game• Letter Sound Song• Weekly Focus Letter• Write the Room• Letter Books• Small Group Instruction• Poems and Nursery Rhymes• Environmental Print• Magnetic Letters• Computer Games• Reading and Writing

Sight Words

• Your child is required to learn a list of 43 sight words by the end of kindergarten.

• These words can be found in the homework section of your child’s Binder.

• Learning letter sounds and sight words will help your child learn to read.

• By the end of kindergarten, your child must be reading fluently on a Level D.

Level A

Level D

How I am helping your child learn sight words at school

• Word Wall (We cheer out words)• Big Books• Poems • Journal Writing• Word Work Stations• Pocket Chart Station• Small Group Instruction• Computer Games

How you can help your child at home with letters and

sight words• Letter Sound Sheets and CD’s• Flash Card Games (ABC’s and Sight

Words)• Magnetic Letters• Letter Factory, Word Factory, and

other Leap Frog DVD’s• Harcourt Homework• Reading (make a book box or bag)• Writing• www.Starfall.com

Homework

• Homework consists of the following:– Harcourt Homework Pages

(weekly)– Reading Logs (monthly)– Math Homework Calendar

(monthly)

Start a Nightly Homework Routine

Harcourt Homework

Reading Logs

Math Homework

Report Cards• Report Cards are sent home at the end of each

9 week grading period. (4 report cards per year)• Each 9 weeks, the children will only be assessed

on the skills that were taught during that particular grading period.

• Kindergarten report card grades include S, P, and N:– S Demonstrates a satisfactory level of proficiency for all

subskills taught in that standard for the nine week period.– P Student exhibits partial proficiency in the standard. Student

meets some, but not all, benchmarks for the nine week period. – N Student does not demonstrate proficiency with majority of

subskills taught in that standard for the nine week period.

Global ScholarReading Foundations assessment

• Computer-based, adaptive assessment– As questions are answered correctly, more challenging content

is presented. As questions are answered wrong, less challenging content is presented.

• This is a formative assessment – not a grade

• Used for instructional purposes – Teachers know which students have mastered which standards

• Individual learning paths can be generated on Compass Learning/Odyssey– This allows students to work at their own ability level, whether

they need remediation or enrichment

Thanks for your support

and time!