Mrs. Wells' KinderLION News for the Week of November 5 - 9, 2012

Dear Parents, Report Cards for 1st Quarter will be coming home today for Group A students, and Friday, for Group B Students. This is a new West Clermont Report Card for Kindergarten. Your child was assessed on Kindergarten Benchmarks set by the State of Ohio. We will be able to answer any questions you have about the new report card at Parent-Teacher Conferences, but until then, this may help. • “L” = Limited Progress. What does that mean? If your child gets an “L” on their report card, please know they are still making progress to meet that one specific goal, but are in need of extra help, and support by the teacher. They also will require extra help at home so that they can master this skill/goal. • “M” = Making Progress. What does that mean? Most students will fall in the “m” category. “M” means that your child is making progress to that specific goal independently on their own. Some children who get a “M” may have almost made the goal, but may have missed a couple of the steps, or was not consistent in making that goal. They too can use extra help at home to help them be more consistent so they can make the goal the next quarter. • “P” = Proficient. What does this mean? “P” means that at this time, your child has made the goal set for 1st quarter. Some goals, (such as letter names, and counting) will increase for 2nd quarter and unless your child meets that goal for 2nd quarter, they may not receive a “P”. For example, let us look at letter naming upper case letters. To receive a “p” for 1st quarter, your child only had to name 13 upper case letters correctly. 2nd quarter, they must name all 26 letters to get a “p”. This week we are working on the Reading Street, Unit 2, week 3 “Animal Babies in the Grasslands”, We are introducing three new words: “we, my, like”. Please continue to review the sight words, “have”, “is”, ”to”, “a”, “the”, “little”, “I”, and “am”. Please also work with your child on recognizing these words and the letters, sounds of the alphabet. Go Math! This week we are finishing up to work on Chapter 3 “Represent, Count, and Write Numbers 6 to 9. Please practice counting by 1’s to 25 with your child and writing numbers 0-10. Thank you! Reminder that Kindergarten’s conferences will be different this year. We only have 2 days to have our conferences, and we must give all parents a time to meet. So you will find a conference sheet with your assigned day and time. We had to cut our conferences to 10 minutes each, in order to get to meet with each and every parent we have. If you have not done so, please fill out the attached form and send back the next school day stating if you can or cannot meet at this time. Unfortunately, these are the only times we will be able to meet this first round, so we hope you can make it at your scheduled time. Group B Photo Day is set for Tuesday November 20th. We will be sending home Picture Order forms that must be turned in No later than Tuesday, November 20th. Dates to Remember: Wednesday, November 7th: Group A Report Cards Coming home. Thursday, November 8th: Marco’s Pizza Day for Education. Mention Amelia Elementary and help raise money for our school. Friday, November 9th: Report Cards Sent Home to Group B children: Group B (Tuesday-Thursday Children)will attend. Monday, November 12th: PTA Meeting at Amelia Elementary at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, November 15th: Parent-Teacher Conferences for Group A Families (10 minutes each) Friday, November 16th: Group B (Tuesday-Thursday Children) will attend. Tuesday, November 20th : Group B School Picture Day! Don’t forget your smile!! Thursday, November 22nd: NO School. Happy Thanksgiving!! Friday, November 23rd: No School: Thanksgiving Break! Wednesday, November 28th: Parent-Teacher Conferences for Group B Families (10 minutes each) Friday, November 29th Group A (Monday-Wednesday Children) will attend.