Sargeant Families Blog - Week of January 11th

Registration

Registration for next school year is now open. Please log on to the district website and choose returning registration. If you need help or have any questions, please call the office. Registering early helps us determine staffing. Thank you!!!

Symptoms and COVID Precautions Reminder

Please report the following scenarios on the RCSD Student Online Absence Reporting Form, keep your child home, and await a call from the RCSD COVID-19 Tracing Team. 

i-Ready

In the next week or two, we will be participating in the i-Ready® Diagnostic. The i-Ready Diagnostic helps teachers to effectively assess their students and then provide instruction based on each student’s unique needs.  i-Ready Diagnostic assesses the following skill areas:

Reading Math

• Phonological Awareness • Number and Operations

• Phonics • Algebra and Algebraic Thinking

• High-Frequency Words • Measurement and Data

• Vocabulary • Geometry

• Comprehension 

i-Ready Diagnostic is an adaptive assessment in reading or math. An adaptive assessment is a test that automatically adjusts the difficulty of the questions according to each student’s performance in order to determine his or her abilities in reading or math. i-Ready is a very different kind of test that presents students with questions that can be both too easy and too hard. It is designed to do this until the assessment finds exactly the level at which the student is performing. We encourage the students to complete the test to the best of his or her ability, and know that it is okay to get questions wrong.

Each time a student gets an item incorrect, he or she will be presented with a simpler question until the diagnostic finds the grade level at which the student is performing. The assessment efficiently assesses students across multiple grade levels, allowing for identification of root causes of students’ struggles or for identification of areas where a student is ready for further challenge.

Once your child completes the test, he or she will be automatically assigned online instruction to support his or her progress in mastering each skill.  Some classes work on i-Ready instruction in the classroom and it's available at home if you have a device too.

Sami's Circuit:   -  Check this out!  This calendar has links to all the weekly episodes. 

Calendar with Weekly Episodes

This Week 

Academic Word of the Week - Meaning 

Wednesday, January 13th 

4th Grade - A Touch of Understanding 

6:00 Sami's Circuit Family Night - https://www.samiscircuit.com/familynightcalendar

Thursday, January 14th 

5th Grade - A Touch of Understanding 

2:00-4:00 Champions Materials Pick Up in Multi - talk to your teachers to make sure they have items for pick up 

Coming Up 

January 18th - No School 

January 21st - Papa Murphy's Dinner Night Out

Champions Information Only 

Breakfast/Lunch Pick up Monday-Friday from 11:30-1:00 by the gate near the multi. 

Materials Pick Up -  January 14th and 28th 

There are two dates in January for Materials pick up however, some teacher do not use them both as only one is needed.  Please make sure to be on the lookout for information from your child's teacher about material pick up. 

** 3rd grade and 4th grade do no have materials to pick up on the 14th. **

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