LP #5 Primary Newsletter

Welcome to Learning Period #5 and the beginning of Semester 2! We are so excited to meet with you and your students this learning period to hear all of the amazing learning experiences and activities taking place in your home. This LP we are focusing on goal setting and are looking forward to working with your student to discuss their academic progress and set some goals that we can work towards completing over this learning period.

Please take some time to review the agenda so you come prepared to collaborate with your teacher on your student's learning plan.

• Check out these valuable resources to help with Language Arts and Math.

• ELA Padlet

• Math Padlet

• They are full of free resources and ideas to enrich your student's learning.

• The padlets are broken down by grade level bands and curricular areas to make searching for ideas easier.

One of the new opportunities for growth we are offering our students this year is through our academic challenges in math, sight words, writing, and reading. These challenges include incentives for mastery by the end of the year. Please take a look at the information about our Academic Challenges below. Students will be provided sight word lists, math fact challenges, Reading logs, and writing activities to track progress throughout the year. This is a great way to encourage a Growth Mindset and celebrate students' accomplishments.

This LP we be reviewing our second writing genre of Informative Writing. We began working on Informative Writing in LP4 and will turn in the writing samples in LP5. In an Informative essay, the writer gives information about a topic by providing true facts and details. We will focus on an introduction, supporting details, and a conclusion when writing an informative essay.

Whether your student is an experienced writer or brand new to the process we are excited to partner with you to ensure your student completes all four genres of writing: Narrative, Informative, Persuasive/Opinion, and Research. Our goal is to meet your student where they are, learn the writing process, improve their writing skills, and most importantly grow their love for writing.

Take a look at the rubrics below for some help with your writing plan.

All Students take STAR 360 Assessments three times per year. (August, January, and May).

The second window opens from January 21 through January 31, 2025.

• Access the Parent STAR 360 Flyer here.

• TK-K will take the Early Literacy Assessment.

• Grades 1-12 will take both the Reading and Math Assessments.

We are excited to use this assessment tool to help us measure your child's growth throughout the year in the area of ELA and Math. Your teacher will provide you with the diagnostic and instructional report, however, we now have the feature available for you to pull the report as well. These reports will provide information regarding skills and concepts the student has mastered as well as areas for growth.

We encourage each student to not rush through the test but to focus and do their very best despite their excitement to finish the test.

We are so excited to partner with you this school year! To ensure we have a productive and successful learning period please review the learning period expectations for the 24/25 school year.

Learning Period Expectations

The Learning Coach and all enrolled students must be present at each Learning Period meeting.

1. Please set aside 1 hour for a single student and 15 minutes for each additional student to meet with your teacher for your Learning Period meeting.

2. Bring your curriculum to your Learning Period meeting to review progress in all core academic subjects. A. Bring all of the work completed since the last learning period meeting and be prepared to discuss the curriculum plan for the weeks ahead. B. If there is not a curriculum plan you will work with your teacher to create one for the next Learning Period.

3. RSVP to your Learning Period meeting invitation from the teacher within 48 hours.

4. After 2 attempts to schedule the Learning Period meeting, the teacher will schedule a Learning Period meeting for you to attend.

To ensure your child is on track and progressing through their curriculum for the year it is important to map out your weekly schedule.

• Your teacher will include the Lesson Plans in your students’ Ed Plan.

• If you DO NOT have a plan for completing standards/curriculum over the next four weeks your teacher will create one that will be followed and monitored at the weekly check-in.

• Reach out to your teacher for some Planning Templates that might be helpful

• During your LP meetings, you will review the curriculum completed and set a goal for each subject for the LP that will be followed up with at the next LP meeting.

• Please review with your teacher a BODY of work for each subject. Your teacher should be able to have a clear understanding of the standards that were addressed during the learning period and the assignments that were completed.

• For each of your students, please turn in a work sample of every subject (ELA, Math, Social Studies, Science).

• Be sure your student has written their FULL NAME and the date the assignment was completed between January 8 - January 31, 2025.