Grab Bags Game Analysis

This week in literacy, students drew and wrote about a self portrait, took a writing assessment, wrote in their poetry journals about the lifecycle of a pumpkin, worked with big buddies to make a skeleton craft, and responded to the greatest pumpkin ever book in their writing journals. By doing assessments this week, we are able to look at where the students are when it comes to phonics and sounding out words. They will be tested two more times with the same assessment throughout the year. In math, students learned a “Grab Bags” game that integrated counting by two’s, observed their bikes that were inserted into a bike chart, designed a jack o’lantern, created and counted a bone graph, and participated in monster stew after reading the monster book. Even though the last three days of this week we did not do Bridges math, we integrated math into Halloween themed activities.
On Wednesday, we met with our literacy group to talk about applying rubrics to writing pieces, those who are available to tutor SRD children, and what each grade needs to order for reading groups. Friday morning at 8:00 A.M. Julie and I went to an accountability meeting. This meeting was with parents and teachers to discuss ACT Aspire and how their students will be assessed. District tests do not tell how a child is doing. The teacher in the classroom has the clearest idea of where he/she