Note about Report Cards and Winter Book Swap

After School Enrichment Program

At this point sign ups for the after school enrichment are closed.  Demand for the clubs was VERY high and we will do our best to make sure everyone gets their first choice but this may not always be possible.  We will be sending home information soon to all those who signed up!

Report Cards

With Report Cards coming soon we thought it might make sense to point out couple important changes regarding the report card, which will be coming home Friday December 12.

This year we made a slight change to the reporting category on the report cards. The scoring will be as follows.

4 - Demonstrating mastery of the standard

3 - Demonstrating significant progress toward the standard

2 - Demonstrating some progress

1 - Demonstrating minimal progress

Please understand that there is no correlation between our scoring of 1-4 and traditional grades such as A,B,C,D and F. Students are scored based on their ability related to each individual standard. For example, if the standard is “fluently adds and subtracts within 1000” a score of 4 would mean that the student has completely mastered that concept and all demands placed on the students related to that standard. They would be able to solve the algorithm, answer word problems and transfer their understanding of the concept to a variety of problems and situations.

A 3 would indicate that they are well on their way towards mastering that standard but have not quite mastered the concept. For example, maybe they continue to struggle transferring their understanding of the algorithm to word problems.

A 2 would indicate progress but the student may be struggling with multiple facets of the skill.

A 1 would indicate that the student is still pretty far from mastering the standard.

Please keep in mind that these standards indicate what should be mastered by the end of the year. At this point of the year you do not need to be overly concerned if your child does not score a 4.

Winter Book Swap