Workshop

We have Workshop time during our reading block each day, and it's the kids' favorite time of the day. They wait on 10:15 all morning! We just wanted to share a few pictures of what we do during Workshop to let you have a look at another part of our day at school. Ask your child to tell you about what we do during Workshop. Ask what his or her favorite Workshop station is - I promise you'll hear either listening station or computer station!

(Israel & Maribel-these pics were taken before last week - I promise I've made David keep the mask on!)

3, 2, 1, Blastoff

This afternoon, at 1:01, we watched the space shuttle Atlantis launch from Cape Canaveral. We learned that the astronauts are on an 11 day mission to fix the Hubble telescope (which has been out there since 1990 - did you know it had been there that long?!!).

Before takeoff, the kids wanted to know why we were watching this. I told them that this was something that just didn't happen too often and it was an amazing thing to watch. After the shuttle took off and they watched it "fire up", and we could see Earth behind it, they were amazed! You should have heard the "oohs" and "aahs!"

GET WELL SOON!

David, we hope you feel better! We miss you!

Graduated

In honor of one of this week's vocabulary words, here is a picture of Mrs. Davis and her brother, Matt, who graduated from Faulkner University last Saturday.

May 4-8

Field Day '09

It's time!!

We've been working towards this week all year long @ BC! We've done so much to get ready: read our nightly passage, recorded and listened to ourselves read, read to our teachers countless times, worked on fluency, decoding, retelling, etc.

Now, it's time for...

Below is a link to the DIBELS website - you can see benchmarks (goals) for this year and the upcoming years.

ORF - Oral Reading Fluency (how many words read per minute with fluency and prosody (expression)

RTF - Retell Fluency (how well your child can comprehend and tell about what they've read)

**The goal is to be in the low risk category in each section (ex: 2nd grade, end of year ORF: 90 and above).

https://dibels.uoregon.edu/benchmark.php#3grade2