Note: This year I am blogging weekly reflections at my school site (weskids.com) in order to provide more transparency in my teaching for parents, students, and the community (local and global). I will be cross-posting most of the entries here at Bit By Bit as well. You can see the original posts at the “Reflections by Mr. S” blog.

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In a few weeks, Report Cards will be coming home. I wanted to remind you that your student will not be receiving a grade in Computer, but you will instead see a summary of the Standards & Skills that each grade level has been working on so far this year. Grades 1 to 4 will again be self-assessing (as they did in preparation for conferences) and will meet individually with me (over the coming weeks) to go over these self-assessments. I will check in with the skills that students have identified as “mastered,” as well as those that they don’t think they’ve met yet, and then sign off on their Assessment. A copy of this will then be sent home to you.

Since classes are all in different stages of learning (i.e., one 1st Grade class might be in Unit 9, while another is still working on Unit 8), the students’ Self Assessments will be coming home at different times, throughout the latter part of this month and February. It will take time for students to finish projects, complete their assessments, and also to meet with me. Chances are, most classes will be bringing their Assessments home after Report Cards come home, and I wanted to make you aware of this.

You can click on the .pdf files below for your student’s Self-Assessment that they will be bringing home, so you’ll know what to expect.

Also, all lessons are posted on www.weskids.com along with my weekly blog reflections, so you’ll be able to go over the work we’ve done so far with your student at home. If you’d like even more information, please don’t hesitate to set up a Student/Parent/Teacher conference in which your student can show you their work here at school.

Assessments:

• GRADE 1 SELF-ASSESSMENT
• GRADE 2 & MULTI 1/2 SELF-ASSESSMENT
• GRADE 3 & MULTI 3/4 SELF-ASSESSMENT
• GRADE 4 SELF-ASSESSMENT

Things you can do at home with your students:

• Go over the assessments together (links above) prior to their filling them out at school and ask them if they think they’ve mastered a skill or not.
• Ask them to show you some of the skills that they’ve mastered if you have a computer at home.
• Review the lessons (on weskids.com “Lab Lessons”) with them and ask them what they remember learning during each Unit.