Kindergarten Stories: 4th Six Week's Report Card

3 - Meets Expectations (Consistently demonstrates proficient understanding and applies skills independently with minimal teacher support.)
2 - Making Progress (Demonstrates initial stages of understanding; applies skills but requires teacher intervention or reinforcement.)
1 - Insufficient Progress (Demonstrates a lack of understanding; difficulty accomplishing grade level tasks; reteaching consistently required.)

 Language Arts:

• Uses strategies to comprehend a variety of texts - 3
• Uses the writing process to compose a variety of texts - 2
• Listens attentively - 2
• Communicates ideas, experiences, and needs using academic language - 3

Early Literacy Intervention:
(Completed during Beginning of the Year)

• Letter Identification - 3
• Letter Sounds -3 (Jakob went from a 1 in this category to a 3!!)
• Concepts about Print -3 (Jakob went from a 2 in this category to a 3!!)
• Phonological Awareness -2 (Jakob went from a 1 in this category to a 2!!)
• Writing Samples - 2
• Dictation - 2
• Independent Reading - 2

Guided Reading Level:

• Student Guided Reading Level - B
• Student Uses Strategies to Comprehend Guided Reading Text - 3

Science:

• Observe and record properties of objects (able to identify size, mass, shape, color, texture) - 3
• Differentiate between living  and nonliving based upon whether they have basic needs - 3
• Identify basic needs of animals - 2

Social Studies:

• Explain why people have jobs - 2
• Identify purposes for having rules (including rules for order, security, and safety) - 2
• Identify authority figures in home, school, and community (able to identify school, home; not able to identify community) - 3
• Place events in chronological order using vocabulary related to time and chronology, (including before, after, next, first, and last) - 3
• Identify the flags of the United States and Texas - 2
• Recite the Pledge of Allegiance - 1

Mathematics:

• 2-D Geometric figures - 3
• Position and Location - 3
• Describe relative sizes of concrete sets (compare) -3
• Name ordinal positions (first, second, third, etc) - 3
• Count by 1's to 100 - 2
• Compare objects (length and area) - 3
• Identify, extend, and create patterns - 3
• Task 1: Counting Objects (Keeps track while counting accurately, remembers how many) - 3
• Task 2: Counting out a particular quantity (Counts up to a particular quantity) - 2
• Task 3: One more/One less - 1

Pregnancy - Fourth Month

Not much going on this month.  Most of the morning sickness is finished and doing pretty good.

15 Weeks: 

• We have had an interesting week with the weather.  We received an ice/sleet/snow mix Monday night/early Tuesday morning (2/1/11.)  School was canceled ahead of time Monday night due to the forecast.  High temperatures were set for low 20s and wind chill factors in the single digits and teens!  The temperature has stayed in the low 20s and the ice is not melting!
• Rough couple of days on Saturday and Sunday.  Thinking about calling my doctor on Monday regarding medicine for the nausea.  I am really not sure what happened because I was doing pretty good overall once I started into my second trimester. 

16 Weeks:

• Another snow day on Wednesday, 2/9/11.  It is sure hard to believe we have used 5 snow days this year!

Scrapbooking on Snow Days

We have had an interesting week with the weather.  We received an ice/sleet/snow mix Monday night/early Tuesday morning (2/1/11.)  School was canceled ahead of time Monday night due to the forecast.  High temperatures were set for low 20s and wind chill factors in the single digits and teens!  The temperature has stayed in the low 20s and the ice is not melting!  My school district was closed on Tuesday through Friday due to the weather.  We received about six inches of snow on Friday to add to the previous ice/snow already on the ground!  While at home on our snow week, I pulled out my scrapbook paper and supplies and made some layouts!

Winter Season (The Scrappiest) - Inspiration from The Scrappiest Sketch #105.
Journaling: 2/12/10.

Family (Design Dollies) - Inspiration from Design Dollies.
Journaling: Lisa, Mom, Mema, Laurie, Jennifer. 12/25/09.

Boys (Scrap A Little-Sketches) - Inspiration from Scrap A Little-Sketches #42
Journaling: Roland and Jakob 11/25/09.  Roland 13, Jakob 4.

Gifts (Sketchy Thursdays) - Inspiration from Sketchy Thursdays 2.03 Sketch.
Journaling: We opened presents on 12/28/09 after Roland came over to our home.  The family received an XBOX 360 along with other goodies in 2009.