Happy New Year! I was so impressed with how many LES students completed the Winter Break Reading Challenge and read over the holiday break! We had 111 students participate this year. Nightly reading makes such a difference in our children’s reading development. This month, LES students in grades K-2 will be taking the winter iReady diagnostic assessment. Our 3rd and 4th graders took it in early December. This is an adaptive assessment given three times a year (twice in kindergarten) that helps inform teachers about how their students are progressing, and how teachers can meet each individual child’s learning needs. The reading assessment measures progress and strengths/challenges in phonemic awareness, phonics, high frequency words, vocabulary, and comprehension. The math assessment measures progress and strengths/challenges in numbers and operations, algebra and algebraic thinking, measurement, and geometry. Teachers use this data, along with curriculum based measures and Dibels, to set individual learning goals and guide their instruction. This resource link explains the domains measured on the diagnostic. Here is a quick video for families that explains the iReady diagnostic. Have a happy and healthy 2024!
Climate and Culture Specialist Update~January
Stephanie DeLucia-stephanie.delucia@lebanonct.org
The New Year is the perfect time for students to reset and review our Husky expectations. Classroom teachers have been reviewing classroom, hallway, bathroom, cafeteria, and recess expectations. Please review expectations at home as well, especially regarding safe bus expectations. On the school bus, students should stay in their seats at all times, sit on their bottoms with their feet and backpacks out of the aisle, have a quiet voice so the bus driver can concentrate, keep their hands to themselves, and be kind to others. Please remind your child to thank their bus driver each day as well.
Please check out this Scholastic resource:
3 Things All Parents Should Do for Their Kids in January
