Adopt a Family

My heart has become heavy for a particular family here at Clover Garden. I am asking for your help in giving this family a better holiday season. By December 14th please send in a $5.00 gift card. The gift card could be to places such as Food Lion, McDonalds, Hardees, Wal-Mart, or any other food or shopping store.

Thank you so much for your assistance

Kalyn Cobb

EC Teacher

Clover Garden School

"Never get tired of doing little things for others; sometimes those little things occupy the biggest part of their heart." - Unknown

11/26/12 - 11/30/12

K- Reading Mastery lessons 5-8

1st- Reading 79-81

2nd- Benchmarks

3rd-Reading Mastery lessons 27-30

4th- Reading Mastery lessons 34-37

5th- Language Unit 6 lesson 5

(6th-8th)- Homework and Language Lessons

(9th-12th)- "The Outsiders"

HOPE EVERYONE HAD A GREAT THANKSGIVING!

Fall into a Good Book

This year has gotten off to a great start. Students have been working hard on reading and math skills. I have seen lots of progress from each student. Parents remember that baby steps are steps and it may take us a while to reach our goals. Each success should be celebrated.

Programs: please visit http://www.ncsip.org/ for more information.

I am using the Reading Mastery Program for grades K-4. This program supplies direct instruction at the students performance level.

Grades 5-12 are using Language! 3rd Edition. This book has 6 steps for each lesson and 10 lessons for each unit. Unit objectives include phonemic awareness/ phonics, word recognition and spelling, vocabulary and morphology, grammar and usage, listening/ reading comprehension, and speaking/ writing. This allows students to get reading instruction in readiness stages.

Math instruction is based on students' needs and general education teacher's request. They are working on studyisland as well in order to get extra math practice.

If you have any questions please contact me.

Best,
Kalyn Cobb

update

Things are getting busy at Clover Garden! I have been going to different trainings which are helping me become a better teacher. The kids are getting deep into EOG prep materials and grades K-2 are getting into all new materials that may be a bit challenging. Please be supportive at home because Spring fever is starting to set in. I have seen many of my students getting into that mid-year slump and get lazy. Check behind them at home and make sure their assignments are getting completed! I cannot believe it is almost the end of the year. See you all soon.

SIP GRANT

Clover Garden's EC department is participating in DPI's Reading SIP Grant. This grant allows us to purchase reading materials that are researched based. It is said if taught on a regular basis with lots of consistency, students are supposed to improve at least one reading level by the end of each book level. I am proud to say that I have seen the positive influences that these programs have to offer. We will continue to use Reading Mastery for grades K-3 and Language! 3rd Edition 4-6 and hope that I see the continuous progress that I have seen the past two years of teaching at Clover Garden.

Make it a great day!! :)

PUNCHES

"The Job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves."


PUNCHES is the new reading strategy that we are using for our EOG practice passages.
P- predict
U- underline in the passage Who, What, When, and Where
N- now read
C- circle the important words in the questions
H- hunt for the answer
E- eliminate the bad choices
S- select the best answer

I will at training Tue. Jan 31st- Thurs. Feb 2nd. Please email if you need to contact me.

Thanks,
Kalyn

It has been a while

"Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come on earth."

This year has been a really busy year. My kids are doing great things and making wonderful progress!

Grades 3-6 have started working on review and strategies to use during the EOGs. Make sure they are getting lots of sleep. I have set up an online tool that they can use if they have time at home to work on different skills. www.easycbm.com they are to follow the link that says students click here, username is: kwyrick3 and then they know what to do from there. If not... email me.

Grades 1-2 we are moving right along in our reading and math programs. I am very pleased with what they have done thus far. A few tricks that we use to help us decode words...

ar: says arrrrr like a pirate.
or: noise that a walrus makes
ch: like a train
er: they used to be friends but they are not anymore so when they have to get in line beside of one another they get mad and say errrrr!!
wh: you just ran a mile and your out of breath so you say wh and let all your air out.

There are a few other blends that the kids have not learned yet so I will be sure to post those soon.

I want to say thank you for all the support that you all give me throughout the year and the gifts that I received during Christmas. I love each and everyone of you.

Mrs. Cobb