Monday, November 4, 2013

PARENT - TEACHER INTERVIEWS - This week!

Dear Parents,

All teachers will be conducting interviews in the gymnasium  on THURSDAY, November 7th.

Please note that each meeting is only 10 minutes long and so your assigned time is all that is available. If we run out of time and still have items to discuss - don't worry - we will follow-up with a phone call home. We must stick closely to the interview schedule in order to talk to all parents and /or allow timely transitions to other teachers. Thank you for your understanding in this regard. 

Mme. Blahout has now filled all available time slots on Thursday, November 7th. 
[Mme. Blahout teaches 64  students.]  Any parent who has not received a note indicating an interview time will be contacted in the next few days by either a note or phone call. 
Thank you for your patience.
Please remember that this checklist is not an official report card but a "teacher-created" assessment of curriculum expectations that we focus on at this point in the SK school year.  The statements on the list only represent a very small portion of the Kindergarten Program and are what we expect most children would have attained by this time.  That means the 2 months for the JK checklist or 12* months for SK checklist (*10 mth. of JK + 2 mth. of SK).

Please bring or have your child's checklist with you (or have it ready for phone interviews) to reference it when speaking with the teacher. The checklist helps us focus our discussions so we can quickly address areas of concern, next steps, and strategies for improvement during those few precious minutes of an interview.  This is also a concrete way of documenting where children are now in order to note improvement by February or June (Report Card times).

FOR SENIOR KINDERGARTEN PARENTS ONLY!!Due to Mrs. Maxwell illness (pneumonia), the SK informal progress CHECKLISTS have been delayed. They will be sent home either tomorrow or Wednesday.  Thank you for your patience.