Happy December Everyone!
Yikes, where has the year gone! It's so hard to believe that we are almost at the end of our first semester of school. I have loved spending time in classrooms with your kids, getting to interact with them and cannot wait to continue working with them during the second semester.
We will be completing our mid-year benchmark assessments in reading and math by taking the iReady assessment. After your student completes this assessment, we will be able to see who is already making a year's growth, who is on track to making a year or more of growth, and who may need some additional support with making that growth. We will send home parent reports on December 15th with your student.
As the weather continues to be wet and icy periodically, we ask that you look closely at the ground while walking your child to and from class. We work hard to make sure that we are spreading ice melt, shoveling, plowing, and spreading sand as much as necessary, but we want to make sure everyone is safe.
It is so important for our students to be at school each day, unless they are sick. There is a high connection to student achievement and school attendance. Students who had lower rates of absences (were absent less), made more academic growth when compared to students who had higher rates of absences (were absent more).
Here are our attendance rates so far this year. As you can see, it has gradually gone down each month. Our hope is that during the second semester, we will go up each month!
- August - 93.61%
- September - 92.13%
- October - 91.84%
- November - 90.57%
We appreciate those of you who are having kids stay home if they have symptoms of illness, but if there is no illness, please make coming to school a priority. We are happy to support you with any barriers that you may be experiencing, so please reach out if there is anything we can do to help.
As always, thank you for sharing your children with us. It is such a privilege to get to work with them every day!
