1st+and+K+09-10

K and 1st grade 09-10 MYR LITERACY

-a wide range of development (students with only 7 letters to 3rd grade readers), so differentiation is a key. -many K kids without home support at home, many families in crisis -many students are having a hard time crossing over to Primer reading level -some significant progress, but many standstills -a lot of skills are lost over summer, they are not in summer school.

Responses to Needs: -addressing lack of support at home by providing time in class, small group, access to support during the school day, homework at school. -regrouping -changing intervention grouping ( Amy)

Home work packet offers choice, options, and differentiation. Parents able to pace out the work to accomodate busy family schedules.

GROWS: -O., extremely bright high functioning academics, but behavior distracts others, is easily overstimulated, has to control situations, many interventions have been put in place to support.

GROWS -many students coming in are very low, facing the fact that the rising preschool group may be outperforming the kindergarten. GLOWS - 3 students are now on grade level, who started very low.
 * Margaret**

Glows: -Interesting to see some of the Kindergartners catch up with the 1st graders. -K. has made great progress with support of Amy -**I., in every** sub group, couldn't rhyme, only knew two lower case letters, now he can rhyme, and he understands what a letter is, has a conception of letter sounds.
 * Molly

Grows:**
 * -I missed this one because the wiki was being overwritten, check with Amy.

Ideas from the staff: -have some of the low k's and the high pre/k's get together, so group across K and Preschool, find volunteers to support some of the students, to create more 1 on 1 support. -solicit uva students to work with younger kids outside of cavs and panthers -

K-1 ** **Math**

Challenges teaching 2 grade levels: Team decided to switch for math 1 group goes to Jen; Molly takes grade level or above; Margaret takes the rest. Happy with situation now.

K math: About half are proficient or above; About half are near proficient (with 2 students not proficient) Jane and Katherine are providing support from both ends of the needs spectrum. Work in small groups, one on one.

1st grade: A pretty big group (powerful); Responsive classroom working to help them become a more cohesive group. Glows: LP - at first not confident, but now is very organized, confidence has grown, really come a long way Grows: IP - still struggling in math, working with Bree for structure.