There is much to capture during a week of kindergarten and some of it is best accomplished with photos rather than narrative or video. Read each caption to learn more about the photo and the point of me sharing it. As always, AMA (ask me anything)!
We completed the second quarter of school before Winter Break. Since we are required by the state to do TSGold reports (anyone else have to do these?) our district eliminated kindergarten report cards. They were kind enough to take those off our plate. However, because the TSGold reports really don’t report much of anything, I have to type up a report for parents. The good thing is, I can include what is meaningful to me (and thus hopefully to them.) This is page one of the progress report.
Page 3 (I write each student’s name next to their data. I want parents to see every other student’s data as well so they can do some comparing and come to their own conclusions. This often gets them working more with their child at home.)
Page 4 (My students work on Lexia (literacy) twice a week, Dreambox (math) twice a week, and on Fridays they get to lay down and rest on the floor. Believe it or not, they look forward to doing this on Fridays!)
I am collecting this data not because we work on heart words a lot and I want to see if my teaching is effective but mainly because I laid it out in my goals and intentions this past summer and am following through on that. We will work more consistently on these in the spring time.
My small group plans for the week. We did not have school on Monday, so I did Read and Draw on Tuesday. Starting in January, I’ll be doing the PAT (phonological awareness training) and word lists on Tuesdays and Fridays whereas I used to do these activities on Mondays and Fridays. I realized—finally—that it made more sense to put a day between them so I wasn’t assessing students on two back-to-back days (Friday and then again on Monday).