AthFest Grant and Winterville Retirement Center

Our classroom was awarded a $500 grant from AthFest to create gifts and crafts for the residents of the Winterville Retirement Center.  To date, the students have made Valentine's Day cards and tissue paper flowers.  I passed out the gifts on Friday, February 14, 2014 to each resident personally. Due to the snow days this past week, students were not able to go with me to deliver the gifts.  We are currently making picture frames.  I look  forward to the students going with me on the next visit! 

Making Valentine's Day Cards

Valentine's Day Card for the Nursing Home

We made tissue paper flowers for the residents of the nursing home.

Picture Frames for the Nursing Home Residents

Making picture frames for the residents at the nursing home.

Fluency, Comprehension and Guided Reading: Making It Work in the Classroom

Fluency, Comprehension and Guided Reading: Making It Work in the Classroom

Fluency, Comprehension and Guided Reading: Making It Work in the Classroom

Support Your Child's Reading

Helping Your Child With Spelling

Summer Reading Challenge Using Student Lexile Information

As the end of the school year approaches, we begin encouraging our children to stay involved in reading over the summer.  We are all aware of the “summer slide” that occurs when students do not read on a regular basis and begin to fall behind in reading achievement.  To prevent this, we would like to share with you a national, state-led summer reading initiative that supports students in finding great books to read over the summer.

Georgia is launching the 2013 Summer Reading Challenge to combat this summer loss in student reading ability.   The Lexile “Find a Book” website can help identify books that students are interested in and are able to read.  This tool can be found at www.Lexile.com/fab/GA.    Information about the Georgia Department of Education’s Summer Reading Challenge initiative can be found at:  http://www.gadoe.org/Curriculum-Instruction-and-Assessment/Curriculum-and-Instruction/Pages/Georgia-Summer-Reading-Challenge.aspx

You may also find this information posted on www.georgiastandards.org.  Additionally, information about Lexiles on student test reports and how to use this information can be found at www.gadoe.org/lexile.aspx.

We appreciate you joining our Summer Reading Challenge efforts to help students “Find-a-Book” and increase their reading skills.

Thank you for helping make education work for all Georgia students.

Martha

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Martha Ross Reichrath, Ph.D.
Deputy State Superintendent
Georgia Department of Education
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Best Day of the Year

Long Jump

   One of my students dad made us field day shirts. 

                                     

Face Painting

Face Painting

We Can! Screen Time Chart

Fill out the We Can! Screen Time Chart to see how much time your family spends in front of a screen.

Keep one chart for each person. Be sure to include time spent with cell phones and other hand-held video or gaming devices. Post the chart where it’s easy for everyone to see and use. Good places are near the family TV, by the computer, or on the refrigerator. If screen time for each person is less than 2 hours a day,
you’re doing great! If it’s 2 hours or more, then it’s time to move more. Find ideas to get your family moving in the We Can! Family Guide. Take a look at:

• We Can! Parent Tips: Help Your Kids Reduce Screen Time and Move More
• We Can! Parent Tips: Be Active and Have Fun

You can print more screen time charts from the We Can! Web site at http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/obesity/wecan/downloads/screen-time-log.pdf.

How to fill in the We Can! Screen Time Chart
To fill in your family’s screen time chart— For each day, write the hours spent for each type of screen. Then add the hours for each day. Write the total in the “Daily Total” column.






http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/obesity/wecan/downloads/screen-time-log.pdf