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See instructions for fixing the problem. Questions about the new site Click here. Every School Every Thursday Ankeny April Print this page E mail this article Share this article Del.icio.us Facebook Digg Reddit Newsvine What s this Ankeny schools Crocker Tonight is the first of several musical concerts under the direction of Kendra Leisinger. Students will be sharing some of the many concepts and skills learned in general music class throughout the school year. Special features will include soloists dancers and instrument players. Kim Bingham and Jay Hudecek s second grade students will perform at p.m. Carrie James and Anita Anderson s second grade students will perform at p.m. Other concerts April third grade Jennifer Johnston and Joni Clay s students will perform at p.m. Amy Anderson and Tammi McClain s students will perform at p.m. April fourth grade Jane Schmidt and Jamie Dowd s students will perform at p.m. Meredith Jacobson and Katie Christensen s students will perform at p.m. Tomorrow fourth grade students will go to the Des Moines Civic Center to hear a special performance by the Des Moines Symphony. A variety of selections will be performed including the William Tell Overture Jubel Overture and Mars Jupiter and Uranus from The Planets. Students prepared for their field trip by studying orchestral instrument families discussing concert etiquette and listening to the musical selections before attending the concert. The Crocker art department is working with Original Works to put your children s art on useful and wearable products. Your child s artwork was sent home before spring break. The art order form and payment to Crocker PTO need to be returned to homeroom no later than Friday. Original artwork will be returned with your products before the end of the school year. Proceeds from the sales will go to the Crocker PTO. For more information call Beth Albright at . In addition to the mental strategies second graders have learned for adding two digit numbers they have been learning how to regroup when adding two digit numbers in a story problem context. They started out with s sticks and ones cubes to help them understand how ones cannot remain in the ones place. They regrouped those ones into a s stick and moved it into the s place to demonstrate this process. Then the ones and s places can be added together to determine the new sum. Fifth grade students in Cheri Watson s class performed their readers theater scripts for Amy Anderson s third grade class. The fifth graders did a wonderful job performing nonficton scripts about influential people in history. The third graders were great listeners and gave nice compliments. March was designated Youth Art Month and there was a special exhibit that was on display throughout the month at the State Historical Building in Des Moines. Teachers who are members of Art Educators of Iowa could submit up to pieces of two dimensional art and this year three students were accepted into the show. Third grader Emily Hou s painting of a bamboo stalk and fourth grader Kyle Schiltz s papel picado cut tissue paper were included. Krieg Dobson was present at the reception March to receive his certificate from Lt. Gov. Patty Judge for his drawing of a Mexican sun stone. This year the annual Ankeny Community Schools K art show was moved up a month. It was held March at the Ankeny Art Center. At the March reception kindergartner Madeline Cox was recognized for her circus clown portrait. Other Crocker students included in the show were first grader Rachel Henze and third grader Josie Weber. The fourth graders chosen to have their artwork displayed were Michael Reysack Jessica Putzier Annika Della Vedova Katelyn Walljasper and Rachel Manderscheid. The fifth graders featured this year were Kylie Behrens Lauren Beauchamp and Tyler Britten. March artists of the month have been selected and their artwork is on display in the principal s office. They are kindergartner Kayla Pitz first grader Courtney Sardeson second grader Emma Young third grader Ben Albright fourth grader Mitchell McClain and fifth grader Bailey Brennecke. In honor of April being National Autism Month Easter Seals Camp Sunnyside is starting the first official Caps for Camp Day and is requesting our help here at Crocker. Here is how it works Tomorrow students can wear their favorite hats to school and pay their homeroom teachers . The dollars raised from this event will help individuals needing assistance attend the camp and provide program support. Thank you for your continued support of Box Tops for Education and Campbell s soup label programs. Please remember to continue to clip box top coupons and Campbell s soup UPC labels for the rest of the school year and throughout the summer. Box tops should be trimmed along the dotted line. Campbell s soup only requires the UPC code and not the entire label. Mark your calendar for an important upcoming date. On May students and parents will have the opportunity to tour their new neighborhood boundary schools and meet their classmates for the school year. First and second graders will meet from to p.m. third grade from to p.m. and fourth and fifth grades from to p.m. More details will come to you in a letter in April. Midterms for students in fourth and fifth grade will be mailed home today. East Gina Evans and Lori Bisgard s kindergarten classes paired up with Nicole Kennedy and Ginger Johnson s fifth grade classes to celebrate Dr. Seuss s birthday. They celebrated his many different books. The fifth graders read a book to the kindergartners. The kindergarten students enjoyed listening to the older students demonstrate prosody good expression when they read. Voting on their favorite Dr. Seuss book the kindergartners chose Green Eggs and Ham. Students also worked together to create a Dr. Seuss hat. The kindergarten students extended the activity by cooking green eggs and ham. Many students were surprised to find that the eggs were delicious. Northeast Dr. Seuss had a birthday March . The second graders at Northeast celebrated his birthday by reading many of his stories including The Cat in the Hat Bartholomew and the Oobleck Hooray for Diffendoofer Day Green Eggs and Ham Horton Hears a Who and many more. We learned that Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham after a friend bet him that he could not write a book with only different words. After reading Hooray for Diffendoofer Day we talked about some of the wild and wacky teachers in the book. We then created our own unique teachers giving them names that hint at what they teach or do. In Bartholomew and the Oobleck the king asked the magicians to have something new fall from the sky. The magicians created oobleck a green sticky goo that made the townspeople and king stick to everything they touched. We then made oobleck from cornstarch and water. Is oobleck a solid or liquid We are not sure Northeast students enjoyed the antics and comedy of Ronald McDonald and learned some things about good character along the way. This assembly took place March . The Ankeny High School show choir presented an assembly to the Northeast students and staff March . The next Northeast Character Counts activity is April at a.m. Northwest Nothing submitted. Southeast Kindergarten students in Carrie Petersen s class and fourth grade students in Kelly Coppola s class celebrated St. Patrick s Day by sharing shamrock shakes and working on holiday activities together. The third graders enjoyed treats. All the classes shared a Chinese meal together. It was the culmination of their unit on China. Each student got a chance to try egg drop soup rice egg rolls mandarin oranges and almond cookies. They used forks for the lunch but got to practice with chopsticks during class. The fourth grade classes had fun during a recent auction. Chip Prichard with Junior Achievement spent several days with the students working on a social studies unit called Our Region. The fourth graders earned play money for answering questions and participating in the lessons. They even got money just for attending the classes. At the end of the unit the kids got the chance to bid on items like candy and toys with the money they had earned. Terrace Terrace second graders wrote books about dinosaurs during their nonfiction writing unit. The unit ended by making dinosaurs out of items students selected. Some used food while others used toothpicks and clay. The dinosaurs were made in class. To end the celebration we had a dinosaur museum. The parents and other classes were invited to our classroom. The kindergartners at Terrace are learning about community helpers. Denise Baird s students dressed up like some of their favorite community helpers. The three kindergarten classes will take a couple of field trips around the community to learn more about this topic. One trip will be to Hy Vee and another to various places like the Ankeny Art Center library and post office. So far they have enjoyed learning about community helpers. Erin Port s first grade class celebrated St. Patrick s Day did Lucky Charms math and held a writers workshop revision museum and a frosty party before spring break. Audra Doak s students made book mobiles to display information about books that they ve read in class. The genre focus was fantasy or science fiction. The book mobiles contained a ton of fun information about the books they read including major and minor characters plots settings titles and authors. Students in Audra Doak s science class made hand held models of many body parts and systems while studying the human body. Each student became an expert on a part or system and demonstrated how that part or system worked to the rest of the class. It was a good teaching and learning experience for all students. Westwood The seventh grade band from Parkview Middle School performed a concert at Westwood for the fourth and fifth grade students March . The concert included The Gathering of the Nights Fires of Mazama The Pink Panther Disney s Magical Marches and The Chicken Dance. The band s conductor is John Gosnell. On March we welcomed guest author and illustrator Lisa Campbell Ernst to Westwood. Campbell Ernst gave four presentations and spoke with all our students. She talked about how she creates both the words and illustrations for her books and the amount of time it takes to rewrite and redraw things until she gets them just right. We sold books written and illustrated by Campbell Ernst. She autographed and drew a special picture in each one. The third and fourth graders had their music programs March in the school gym. The students worked very hard to prepare for their concerts. The fourth graders showcased their skills at playing recorders as well as singing. They also performed on percussion instruments including maracas wood blocks and xylophones. The third graders performed six songs including two with dances and also sang a song in another language. They also worked hard to learn several different instrument parts on drums maracas and xylophones. We had several students missing due to illness the night of our concert. Thank you to the students who served as substitutes on special parts you did a wonderful job. Marie Heiniger the music teacher would like to thank all the Westwood parents and staff for their support and help in preparing for the concerts. Nursery rhymes are being explored in kindergarten. The mouse ran up the clock then he jumped off the dock and got a shock from the lock. The kids put a block into a sock and they threw it at the rock. Learning rhyming words through nursery rhymes is so much fun. Parkview Middle The sixth grade social will be Friday from to p.m. at Parkview Middle School. Cost is . The next Parkview STARS ceremony will be April . Parents guardians of the STARS winners will receive invitations to the ceremony. Twelve week progress reports will be mailed by April . Northview Middle Northview Spanish I students have been learning about the growing importance of Spanish in Iowa. Recently a guest speaker who works with Spanish speaking immigrants in Iowa spoke to all classes. Himar Hernandez Santana an ISU community development specialist discussed how Iowa s declining population has been slowed due to the increasing immigration of Hispanics. He also talked about how studying several years of at least one other language will help students have an edge over other job candidates without second language speaking skills. A native of the Canary Islands in Spain Himar shared with students how he learned both English and German before graduating from high school. This week Spanish I students considered issues related to immigration while reading chapters from The Mexicans and watching a film about a Mexican American family celebrating a girls th birthday the quincea era. After spring break Spanish II will watch the George Lopez film Brown is the New Green and discuss immigration and Latino issues. Kelsey Knake tied for first place in Iowa on the National French Test for Level I. In Level II Arida Dhanaswar and Rebecca Strachan tied for third place. Katie Powers placed seventh in Iowa Sarah Sutter earned ninth place and Liza Cooley finished th. The test is administered each March to about French students in Levels . Twenty outstanding Northview French students prepared for the test many of whom earned honorable mentions. This is the fourth time in five years that Northview has placed a student first or second in Iowa. High School Katherine Megivern a science teacher at Ankeny High School is one of teachers nationwide receiving a Wells Fargo Earthwatch Fellowship this year. Through the fellowship Megivern will travel to the south shore region of Nova Scotia from April to to participate in a research expedition aimed at promoting environmental awareness. She will conduct hands on research alongside Dr. Christina Buesching and Dr. Chris Newman from the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at Oxford University to explore how the region s wilderness ecosystem is coping with the impacts of climate change along with implications for forestry hunting and tourism considered vital to the local economy. Using Earthwatch s Live from the Field program Megivern will share her field experiences and photos with her students and classrooms around the country through an interactive Web site and live conferencing. Students will be able to communicate with their teachers ask questions and learn about how actions even simple everyday actions affect nature. The site will be posted on http www.earthwatch .org LFF NovaScotia . A link to the site which will go live next week also will be available via the Environmental Affairs section at www.wellsfargo.com . This is an exciting opportunity for one of our local teachers to promote environmental stewardship and provide students from Ankeny and across the globe with a rare frontline view of the importance of environmental stewardship said Scott Johnson president of Wells Fargo regional banking in Iowa and Illinois. At Wells Fargo we want to do all that s possible to help support education and healthy sustainable communities. Megivern is in her third year of teaching biology animal science plant science and geology at Ankeny High school. She is an avid outdoorswoman who enjoys backpacking camping hiking rock hounding gardening and bird watching. During the trip she will be monitoring wildlife using various methods from trapping small mammals to observing their behavior to counting droppings to provide density estimates and habitat preference data. Megivern hopes to use the research techniques she learns on the trip in an outdoor learning center she is helping plan for the new high school in Ankeny. This Earthwatch opportunity is exciting to me for a number of reasons she said. We so often teach about the doom of global warming that some students become apathetic. This opportunity will allow me to share with students the interesting dedicated people that are working for the Earth researchers that have hope and are taking action. The teachers were selected based on their enthusiasm for teaching and ability to translate an adventurous field experience to their classroom colleagues and community. Teachers nominated by Wells Fargo team members received preference and final selections were made to ensure that recipients came from locations across the country. A total of applications were received for this year s program. Since teachers have received Wells Fargo Earthwatch fellowships. North Polk schools Central Nothing submitted. West Jessica Wycoff s fourth grade class is busy with a variety of reading comprehension activities. We are currently adding our own words to a wordless picture book. Students are having a blast using their creative minds and developing typing skills to publish their writing. Michelle Fetter s fourth grade science classes have also been using their creative thinking skills. They are studying the space system and have created a city on Mars. The students wrote about their imaginary city and then drew a poster of what the city might look like. The fourth graders are publishing their papers and posters to be displayed in our hallway. Junior and Senior High School Nothing submitted. Saydel schools Cornell On March Candie Cable s third grade class participated in a basketball game sponsored by KJJY radio. Playing for Cable s class were Melissa Cogdill P.E. teacher Maria Mattiace guidance counselor students Sammy and Michael and Sammy s dad. Cable s team played against the KJJY morning news team. Deb Chiodo served as the referee. The game was exciting with many offensive and defensive strategies. The third grade classes cheered their Eagles to a victory Kindergarten students started a theme on endangered species. The students worked with their parents to research endangered species and make reports to the class. The students investigated if their species were mammals amphibians reptiles birds or fish. They were able to tell where their species live what food they eat and why they are endangered. The month of March was a review month with our Character Counts program. Eleven classes worked together to gather items for the local Animal Rescue League. The students listened to a representative from the Animal Rescue League and met an animal that had been rescued. Students were excited to demonstrate the pillars of citizenship and caring through this project. In second grade the students are reading the story The Hole in the Dike about a young boy who saves Holland by keeping his finger in a hole all night. This story fits with our courage theme in reading. In math the second graders are learning about adding and subtracting two digit numbers. So far in this topic they have worked on adding three or more numbers multiples of and reviewed addition strategies. A representative from Junior Achievement will be visiting soon to teach lessons about our community. Norwoodville Nothing submitted. Woodside The week of March Woodside participated in a national study concerning use of time. A data collector shadowed the principal the entire week. Every five minutes the shadow took data on what the principal was engaged in at the time. The data collector couldn t talk with the principal or anyone else. The data collector carried a red clipboard with a stop watch and tried to be as invisible as possible and not disrupt. The data collector met with randomly selected eighth grade students and called or met with parents to help determine how people in our school viewed the role of the principal. A survey form was given to all teachers as well. In April the results of the data collection will be shared and the principal will begin working with the school administration manager to work toward an even higher percentage of time the principal spends on instruction. Next year we will repeat the data collection noting progress. High School Parent teacher conferences were well attended March and . There was an attendance percentage of percent. The Hy Vee gift card drawing went to Traci Mienke. Academic Awards Night NHS induction ceremony was held March in the high school auditorium. This is a night devoted to recognizing the outstanding academic accomplishments of Saydel s student body. Athletes were also recognized for their academic accomplishments during their respective sports seasons with all conference awards and state excellence and distinguished awards. This year Saydel is proud to have recognized students. DECA s annual Variety Night is April and will showcase Saydel s diverse talent in a fun and entertaining atmosphere. Plan to attend this year s event. Junior senior prom is April from to p.m. hosted at the top of the tower at the Holiday Inn downtown. This year s theme is City Lights. After prom runs from midnight to a.m. and is hosted at Saydel High School. Spring sports are getting under way at Saydel. Girls and boys tennis had season openers against Clarke of Osceola on March . Girls and boys track traveled to Perry on March for their season opening meet. Saydel will host four track meets this year beginning April with the middle school meet. Girls and boys golf is also under way. Check out highschoolsports.net for up to the minute information regarding Saydel activities. Important dates for seniors May auditions for graduation speakers May and May senior tests May senior tests hand out caps and gowns Senior Awards Night at p.m. May senior class picture commencement practice May commencement at p.m. in the high school gym. Other schools Ankeny Christian Academy An ACA graduate who has been serving in Iraq presented a flag flown in Iraq to his alma mater March . Jesse McWilliams a graduate has returned to Ankeny after serving in Iraq since last fall. McWilliams spoke at an all school assembly and presented the flag flown in Iraq to administrator Joyce Hansen. He also visited ACA classes that sent him care packages throughout his duty in Iraq. McWilliams enlisted in the Navy Reserve in as a construction engineer and is a member of Navy Mobile Construction Battalion based at the U.S. Naval Reserve Center at Fort Des Moines. McWilliams was promoted to petty officer rd class while in Iraq. He is an employee of Karl Chevrolet and the son of Jane and Jack McWilliams of Ankeny. A meeting about the Heart of Iowa School Tuition Organization and its tax benefits will be held at Ankeny Christian Academy on April . The meeting will be held at p.m. in the ACA auditorium. The public is invited to attend. The STO allows donors a tax credit for donations to ACA s scholarship fund. Donors receive a bottom line percent tax credit on their Iowa income tax. Members of the Heart of Iowa STO are Ankeny Christian Academy Iowa Christian Academy Des Moines Christian School Grandview Park Baptist School Mount Olive Lutheran School and Isaac Newton Christian Academy. For more information about the STO see the link on the ACA Web site www.ankenychristianacademy.org . A spring jazz concert and fundraiser will be held at Ankeny Christian Academy on April . Jazz Java Jubilee begins at p.m. in the ACA gym. A four course dinner will be served by band members while diners listen to music by an ensemble of teachers band students and friends of the instrumental music department. A play area will be provided for small children. Music will be provided by ACA teacher Alex Coleman on trumpet ACA student Andy Schnathorst on drums ACA instrumental music teacher Heather Iverson on flute and saxophone Greg Simmons on bass tuba Will Klees on piano and ACA elementary student Garrett Crown on drums. Proceeds go to the ACA instrumental music department. The public is invited. For tickets contact the school office at . Ankeny Christian Academy and other nonpublic schools from throughout Iowa had displays and presentations at the Iowa State Capitol yesterday. The event was part of the fourth annual Nonpublic Schools Day to inform the Legislature and the public about nonpublic educational opportunities in Iowa. Select ACA students will participate in the Association of Christian Schools International elementary district speech meet in Mount Pleasant on Friday. The event will be held at Mount Pleasant Christian School. Students were selected to participate based on their presentations at the ACA elementary speech meet Feb. . Classes will dismiss at p.m. Friday for a teacher in service. Central Campus Twelve students of commercial photography instructor Denise Wicker and graphic design instructor Tim Rice spent a week in Rome Florence and Paris during spring break. They spent their days touring historical buildings taking photos and sketching. This week students and staff are experiencing Awareness Week. There are booths at lunchtime for students to get information on various global and health issues. Students are participating in a mock accident as well as hosting representatives from M.A.D.D. Hemali Batra a student at Central Academy and Valley High School has won two major awards this spring. She took first place at the Iowa Junior Science and Humanities Symposium and will compete at the national symposium in Orlando later this spring. She also took first place at the regional science and engineering fair at Simpson College and thus will be competing at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Atlanta in May. Approximately students from Central Campus instructor Ralph Young and East High instructor Clint Gadbury participated in a Careers in Welding seminar today at Central Campus. They heard about career opportunities at Vermeer in Pella and toured Central Campus welding related career programs. Orchard Place Elementary and middle school students had an assembly with the Science Center of Iowa on March . The program Simply Electrifying was an exciting way for students to explore the world of electricity. They were able to experience hair raising fun with a Van de Graaff generator and participated in an interactive presentation by becoming electrons and atoms. One highlight of the program the electric pickle helped students begin to understand the many properties of electricity. This event was coordinated by Sandy Stevens elementary classroom teacher as an extension of her Science Club activities. Ruby Van Meter We had a successful turnout at March conferences. IEPs were written or updated student progress was evaluated and plans for summer services were made. For parents who live out of town we held conference calls so that everyone could share progress. PTO provided dinner for staff the first night of conferences. Teachers have completed this year s Iowa Alternate Assessments IAA for student in grades and . Materials that will be turned into the Iowa Department of Education are being collected and will be delivered in the next few weeks. Teachers will be using an electronic scoring system for the first time this year to report student performance. IAAs for ninth and th graders will be completed in the next couple of weeks. The curriculum committee has been hard at work organizing the curriculum. We are aligning the state core standards with the district standards and matching them to the needs of our students. This arduous work will continue into next year but the framework is getting in place. Soon we will begin looking at the data we collect and how we use it for school improvement plans. We will also be looking at our level structure and how to improve that for next year. Scavo Prom sponsors Patty Guevara and Eve Shonts were busy during spring break organizing formal gowns and dresses for the prom. More than dresses have been donated for prom. The majority of the dresses came from the employees of Allied Nationwide Insurance. Many others came from an outpouring from the community. The dresses will be given away to students in need. After Scavo students have a chance to pick their dresses there will be opportunities for other young women in the district to pick a dress. The Women s Leadership Connection of Allied Nationwide Insurance has been working for three weeks with the young women of Scavo Campus on writing resumes. Along with resume writing the students are leaning about writing cover letters and post interview thank you letters. These are real life skills that will help the young women of Scavo Campus get a head start in their job searches for this summer. Twenty students from Scavo will be extras in the Civic Center production of High School Musical. They will be dressed in jeans and red shirts supporting East side High from the bleachers. Many of the performers look forward to adding this credit to their resumes. The Civic Center s Lucy Sulvalsky provided this opportunity. Smouse The annual Smouse school art fair was held Monday. The theme this year focused on the cultures of Australia and New Zealand. To prepare for the fair students studied the people culture arts and history of Australia and New Zealand in their classrooms. Activities during the fair included making Maori masks that represented native Aboriginal artwork creating Aboriginal dot art animals hand prints and puppets listening to Aboriginal folktales and Australian music making an Australian instrument called a didgeridoo and creating bookmarks depicting the different seasons or colors of Australia. Students also played interactive games on the Smart Board including a game about Australian language and slang a game about the coral reef and an Australian animal match and bingo game. Finally students had the opportunity to observe animals called sugar gliders which are marsupials that are native to the region. The sugar gliders look like small flying squirrels. Online discussion standards What we ll allow and what we won t allow About discussion A message from the editor. In your voice Read reactions to this story Add your comment max characters You must be logged in to leave a comment. Login Register staffMark authorIcon authorHandle wrote commentBody commentTimestamp recommendLink reportAbuseLink Report item as required X Obscenity vulgarity Hate speech Personal attack Advertising Spam Copyright Plagiarism Other Comment optional Missing input fields. You must fill out the comment body in order to submit a comment. Comment too long. The comment you have entered is too long. Please limit your post to maxchars characters or less. Northeast Elementary School students enjoy the antics and comedy of Ronald McDonald during an assembly March and learn some things about good character along the way. THANKS TO BETH COLWELL FOR THIS PHOTO THANKS TO BETH COLWELL FOR THIS PHOTO The Ankeny High School show choir presented an assembly for Northeast Elementary School students and staff March . Jesse McWilliams an Ankeny Christian Academy graduate who recently returned from Iraq presented a flag flown in Iraq to Ankeny Christian Academy on Monday. THANKS TO LIZ ANDERSON FOR THIS PHOTO THANKS TO ALICE PARETI FOR THIS PHOTO Kindergarten students in Carrie Petersen s class and fourth grade students in Kelly Coppola s class celebrated St. Patrick s Day with shamrock shakes and some holiday activities. Fourth grader Chance Pagliai and his kindergarten buddy Nick Krusemark give the shamrock shakes a try. THANKS TO ALICE PARETI FOR THIS PHOTO Kindergarten students in Carrie Petersen s class and fourth grade students in Kelly Coppola s class celebrated St. Patrick s Day with shamrock shakes and some holiday activities. Kindergartner Mallory Logsdon and fourth grader Angel Thong their shakes together. THANKS TO ALICE PARETI FOR THIS PHOTO Fourth graders at Southeast Elementary School make all kinds of bids during the Junior Achievement auction. Chip Prichard with Junior Achievement recently spent several days with the students working on a unit called Our Region. The fourth graders earned play money for answering questions and participating in the lessons. At the end of the unit the kids got a chance to bid on items like candy and toys during an auction. THANKS TO ALICE PARETI FOR THIS PHOTO Fourth grader Jack Voigt uses some of the money he earned during a recent social studies unit to purchase an item from bankers fourth grade teachers Janice Swedlund and Kelly Coppola. 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See instructions for fixing the problem. Questions about the new site Click here. Jordan Creek effort helps with reading By MICHOLYN FAJEN REGISTER CORRESPONDENT March Print this page E mail this article Share this article Del.icio.us Facebook Digg Reddit Newsvine What s this Jordan Creek Elementary School is testing a pilot of the Reading Recovery program to help students on the journey to lifelong reading success. The early intervention reading program for first graders is used in several schools in the metro area. The West Des Moines school district is training five teachers to assist students who need a boost. School board member Milton Cole Duvall of West Des Moines knew his daughter Leah Cole Duvall was struggling early on. Her life experiences prior to being adopted displayed a lack of preparation and she lagged in reading. It was obvious she was light years behind the other children he said. Leah was placed in the Reading Recovery program. She met with Susan Healy the Reading Recovery teacher for minutes a day five days a week. Working one on one with Healy for weeks Leah began to develop stronger word recognition phonetic abilities and a new level of self confidence. Before I went to Ms. Healy I did not enjoy reading very much. After the year I could read said year old Leah now a fourth grader who digs deep into the pages of Harry Potter books with a renewed verve. Daniel Dickerson a recent graduate of the program said the sessions took him from below average reading skills to class level in a few months. Admittedly we were ignorant to his ability we didn t know he needed help. But they evaluated him in kindergarten and put him in the program said Daniel s mother Nancy Dickerson. Just months from his first session with Healy Nancy Dickerson said Daniel was correcting his parents at home. When we read with him at home he will tell us not to point at the words for him and not to correct him he wants to make those corrections himself Dickerson said. It is an excellent program. Teachers identify the four lowest achieving readers for the program which operates two rounds of sessions one at the beginning of the year and a shortened session in the latter months of the year for those students who may not need as much help. With up to first grade students in the building dedicating two Reading Recovery teachers to the program only gave percent coverage of the four sections of Jordan Creek first graders. School Principal Nancy Moorhead took the program a step further by training one special education teacher and two first grade teachers. My teachers and I believe in this program and we ve paid for the ongoing training and materials out of our own budget. The initial training costs were subsidized through the district central office budget Moorhead said. Training takes one year and includes at least six sessions of professional development. Because Jordan Creek has taken the initiative to train more teachers the effect on students is spreading. Moorhead said greater resources allow those teachers to work with small reading groups to incorporate Reading Recovery strategies. It also allows them to begin working with kindergartners during second semester. By the time they get to second or third grade the vast majority are reading at grade level Moorhead said. Once a student completes the program Healy said they won t need any more assistance they will be brought up to the class average or beyond in that week time frame. Nancy Healy kept unbelievable records in terms of word recognition engagement phonics and memorization . every encounter was recorded said Cole Duvall. who reinforced the efforts at home reading with Leah. Most importantly every day the child encounters success that changes to affirmation and finally to an appreciation and love of reading. He said Leah moved from a child who was surviving as a non reader to a child who will thrive as a lifelong reader. It was helpful because I learned to sound out the words then I could read books Leah said. Today I can read longer books and figure out the words and what they mean. Online discussion standards What we ll allow and what we won t allow About discussion A message from the editor. In your voice Read reactions to this story Add your comment max characters You must be logged in to leave a comment. Login Register staffMark authorIcon authorHandle wrote commentBody commentTimestamp recommendLink reportAbuseLink Report item as required X Obscenity vulgarity Hate speech Personal attack Advertising Spam Copyright Plagiarism Other Comment optional Missing input fields. You must fill out the comment body in order to submit a comment. Comment too long. The comment you have entered is too long. Please limit your post to maxchars characters or less. LISA FERNANDEZ REGISTER PHOTOS Lisa Clark helps first grader Nyah Rieckhoff of West Des Moines with her reading at Jordan Creek Elementary. LISA FERNANDEZ REGISTER PHOTOS Susan Healy helps first grader Jared Schweitzer of West Des Moines during the Reading Recovery program. 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Wednesday March Print this story Email this story Fourth fifth and sixth grade students at Thatcher Elementary dress up as characters from their favorite books for the Reading Parade on March . Photo by Keri Lunt Advertisement The Thatcher PTO sponsored the event and on Feb. handed out papers for the children to keep track of their reading. Students were allowed some reading time during school but most of it was done at home. Ora Allred a fifth grade teacher at Thatcher said students have recorded more than minutes of reading since the program began. The week s theme is I Vote for Reading. Students wore their costumes to school on the day of the parade. Many Harry Potters and Hannah Montanas were seen roaming the playground that day. There was an assembly honoring the top readers after the parade. 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To educate your child at home is not a bother but a wonderful richly rewarding experience that benefits you and your child. So take the bother word from your vocabulary if you really would like that opportunity. Yes this is your opportunity and your child s opportunity. If you are a stay at home mom or dad then you have the opportunity to have wonderful learning experiences by home schooling your child. In most states home schooling is legal a legal option. There are some guidelines and rules and regulations that you need to follow but after that everything rocks In some states there are a certain amount of days that you have to notify the Board of Education that you intend to home school your child . You cannot simply keep your child from school and decide to home school. You must almost always notify the School Board or the Board of Education. You can find out the rules and regulations through your government officials or through some wonderful home schooling magazines and literature. Once you find out the rules and regulations you are set to go. Are there benefits to home schooling Time Balance Growth Togetherness When home schooling is done in the proper way your child will have a fully balanced education and will become a well rounded good student. The rewards are unmeasurable. First one of the benefits is that you both spend more time together and give each other more attention. The average student sees their parent for probably a few minutes a day during the week or at most an hour or two. However the average home schooling parent or guardian sees their child on a regular basis for a few hours a day when that parent or guardian is teaching . You will learn together Now that s one of the biggest and best benefits of home schooling. The teacher and the student learn from each other. You grow together. And you can look back on this experience in years to come and both of you will be happy about your choices and decisions. Children get to spend more time with their siblings and the younger ones will learn while the older ones are learning also. You will have more time for each other. You can make practically any life lesson an education lesson. Going to the supermarket or going to a department store is a lesson in buying purchasing finances and product comparison. Going to a fast food place is a lesson in food health and in purchasing and even a lesson in customer service. The fast food process shows the children very valuable marketing lessons. So things in every day life add to your home schooling experience. Good Education Another benefit is a great education. You see first hand what your child is learning without the need for PTA meetings and without the need for a strangers report on your child s progress. You choose your child s education. 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Early in their year marriage it was easier for me to be home while he went on the road and played says Cox. And as my solo career happened the positions reversed. . We work really hard to take care of each other. When Cox hits the road sometimes she is accompanied by a backing band led by Schrock. But just as often she accompanies herself on guitar playing the rootsy country folk material and warm full bodied voice that has drawn comparisons to Gillian Welch Sarah Harmer Shelby Lynne and Nanci Griffith and established her reputation in Americana circles. And when she is away from home for the weekend she often multi tasks stopping for interviews and impromptu performances at radio stations that are playing her latest CD Crowded Is the New Lonely. Cox grew up in Nashville. Kathy Mattea was my baby sitter she laughs. That s my claim to fame. But she and her parents moved to Maine during her high school years. My parents are both teachers and are originally from Maine she says. We moved because I was going to go to college here. After enrolling at the University of Southern Maine as a French major she realized her real interest was music. Although Cox had written a ballad on a ukulele at age and sang three part harmony with her mom and dad part time musicians who introduced her to folk music via Joni Mitchell Dylan and Crosby Stills and Nash she didn t write what she considers a real song meant to be played before people until she was . Then one summer she met Schrock. Her future husband a Maine native had played in the early s in the punk reggae band Paleface touring with The Clash and The Ramones and in the early s with a blues rock band called The Lost cutting two records for Epic. We were playing together a lot and I fell in love with him Cox says. In she joined Schrock s Portland alt country band The Coming Grass which recorded three CDs between and . Seventy five percent of what we played were his songs Cox says. The more upbeat rocking stuff was mine. Cox ventured out on her own in recording a six song mini album Firewater followed by her first full length CD s Arrive which was voted best album of the year by the Portland Phoenix. Crowded Is the New Lonely has pushed Cox further into the spotlight. She recently won the Granite State Songwriting Competition for At Home with Home while Be My Man and Busted Symphony have found favor at Americana stations. Those three Crowded tunes are fairly straightforward in subject matter but Cox also can communicate by being oblique. Hijacked Soul for example was inspired by the brutal murder of a longtime friend who played trombone with the San Antonio Symphony. Just before Christmas nine years ago his wife s ex husband showed up at his door and shot him point blank says Cox. He was a true innocent who never dated much in high school or when he was at Julliard. . His wife happened to have a crazy ex who created his own murder suicide. 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PM print email Digg it del.icio.us AIM Americana artist Sara Cox makes room for career in a crowded life By LEN RIGHI The Morning Call Allentown Pa. Handout Singer songwriter Sara Cox never harbored a dream of rock music success. http www.mcall.com factbox Sara Cox doesn t wait for the question she has been asked so many times before how as a mother of three is she able to function as a singer songwriter find the time to chat up the media about her music and tour the country During the first five minutes of a conversation from her home in the Portland suburb of Windham Maine Cox volunteers one of her secrets She has time to talk this day because the boys Avery and Caleb are hanging out reading and my daughter Lila is at day care. A few minutes later she discloses another of her time management tricks If I have minutes I write a song. Then she reveals the reason that she can take her act on the road the divide and conquer strategy to problem solving developed by Cox and her year old musician husband guitarist keyboardist producer Nate Schrock. Early in their year marriage it was easier for me to be home while he went on the road and played says Cox. And as my solo career happened the positions reversed. . We work really hard to take care of each other. When Cox hits the road sometimes she is accompanied by a backing band led by Schrock. But just as often she accompanies herself on guitar playing the rootsy country folk material and warm full bodied voice that has drawn comparisons to Gillian Welch Sarah Harmer Shelby Lynne and Nanci Griffith and established her reputation in Americana circles. And when she is away from home for the weekend she often multi tasks stopping for interviews and impromptu performances at radio stations that are playing her latest CD Crowded Is the New Lonely. Cox grew up in Nashville. Kathy Mattea was my baby sitter she laughs. That s my claim to fame. But she and her parents moved to Maine during her high school years. My parents are both teachers and are originally from Maine she says. We moved because I was going to go to college here. After enrolling at the University of Southern Maine as a French major she realized her real interest was music. Although Cox had written a ballad on a ukulele at age and sang three part harmony with her mom and dad part time musicians who introduced her to folk music via Joni Mitchell Dylan and Crosby Stills and Nash she didn t write what she considers a real song meant to be played before people until she was . Then one summer she met Schrock. Her future husband a Maine native had played in the early s in the punk reggae band Paleface touring with The Clash and The Ramones and in the early s with a blues rock band called The Lost cutting two records for Epic. We were playing together a lot and I fell in love with him Cox says. In she joined Schrock s Portland alt country band The Coming Grass which recorded three CDs between and . Seventy five percent of what we played were his songs Cox says. The more upbeat rocking stuff was mine. Cox ventured out on her own in recording a six song mini album Firewater followed by her first full length CD s Arrive which was voted best album of the year by the Portland Phoenix. Crowded Is the New Lonely has pushed Cox further into the spotlight. She recently won the Granite State Songwriting Competition for At Home with Home while Be My Man and Busted Symphony have found favor at Americana stations. Those three Crowded tunes are fairly straightforward in subject matter but Cox also can communicate by being oblique. Hijacked Soul for example was inspired by the brutal murder of a longtime friend who played trombone with the San Antonio Symphony. Just before Christmas nine years ago his wife s ex husband showed up at his door and shot him point blank says Cox. He was a true innocent who never dated much in high school or when he was at Julliard. . His wife happened to have a crazy ex who created his own murder suicide. Next page News Business Sports Entertainment Living Shop Local Classifieds Jobs Cars Homes About www.kansascity.com About the Real Cities Network About the McClatchy Company Terms of Use Privacy Statement Copyright The show by local puppeteer Robert Rogers promoted the school s PARP People as Reading Partners initiative. The intent is to have children read at home for at least minutes a day or in the case of younger children have parents read to them. Promoted by the New York Parent Teacher Association PARP has become a popular program in schools across the Southern Tier to spark younger students interest in reading. While programs can run anytime March is a big month. It s one of the many ways we promote literacy and promote a connection between school and home said Kathleen Kerr Harshaw s principal. Monday was also Read Across America Day a national effort sponsored by the National Education Association that coincides with the birthday of children s book author Theodore Seuss Geisel better known as Dr. Seuss. The programs come at a time when national surveys indicate reading for pleasure is down among all age groups. Though not the entire answer in reversing this trend initiatives such as PARP and Read Across America call attention to the importance of reading said Richard Long director of governmental relations with the International Reading Association a professional organization of literacy educators. Like a lot of things we teach by example Long said. If we have celebrations of reading it does result in more kids picking up a book. Some schools arrange visits by children s book authors. Others will have people from the community read to children. Some schools offer incentives such as pizza parties to students who read the most. It s an incentive to get students into reading said Darlene Oleniacz a secretary at Susquehanna Valley s Donnelly Elementary School that began its PARP program Monday with an assembly where Principal Margo Undercoffer played Snow White and other staff members played the Seven Dwarfs. Our overall theme is Crazy for Reading said Stacy Adornato a special education teacher at Union Endicott s Linnaeus W. Primary School. The school is planning a Pajama Day and a Crazy Hair Day as part of its event. Post a Comment This article does not have any comments associated with it News index Print this article Email this to a friend Email this to a friend Subscribe Now Search our archives Past Articles Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Archive Advertisement Advertisement Partners Jobs CareerBuilder.com Cars cars.com Apartments apartments.com Shopping ShopLocal.com Customer Service Subscribe Now Pay Bill Place an Ad Contact Us Jobs With Us Copyright Binghamton Press Sun Bulletin All rights reserved. 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I think that this is as fair of a test as I can give. The student who cheated on the test was absent the day the others students took the test and so took it as a makeup the following day. She stayed from P.E. class to take the test but did not have time to finish it. So I told her she could sit at a table right outside our classroom door. Since there is only a bench attached to this table and the table is a bit high for writing even for me she mentioned it was uncomfortable and asked if she could go into the next classroom and sit at the teacher s empty desk there. I told her yes. She asked if she could take her notebook where the review sheet was pasted in and I told her of course not but that it was OK to take her text book. All she had left to do at this point was write an essay of five or six sentences. I was expecting it to take her about twenty minutes. After more than one hour I sent my assistant to go check on her. She found her copying from the essay she had written at home which she had sneaked into the test by hiding the notebook it was written in inside the cover of her reading text book. I would have given her an F on the essay portion since she did the rest in front of me but our school policy says we must give her an F on the entire test. After I spoke with her mother the mother s reaction was She prepared her essay all by herself at home. The mother meant that the girl did her own work and that no adult wrote the essay for her to memorize. Then she asked Why can t you just give her the test again without her notes So that would mean there is no penalty for cheating. The mother could not understand in ten minutes of discussion why her daughter would be penalized for cheating. So the mother is coming in on Monday to see the principal and I m sure the mother thinks she can get the decision reversed. I know the principal will stand her ground as she knows the whole situation and it was she herself who said to give her a zero. I d like to know what other teachers think about this mother One of the problems with living in the Middle East is that it seems to matter little to many people what they DO as many people aren t thinking about having integrity . The idea seems to be that as long as you can get out of it either through who you know or by begging for a favor that it just doesn t matter what you do. It also seems like the lower status people have to follow the rules and one way you show your higher status is that you don t have to follow rules because of who you are or who you know. This seems to be a cultural norm that causes clashes between Western teachers and Middle Eastern students and parents. 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You can subscribe via RSS . feed to this post s comments. You can comment below or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Comments on When PARENTS Don t Understand What CheatingIs Miss A Says February at am Cheating is cheating AND I really hope that your principal stands her ground explains what cheating is to the parent. Keep us posted I ve had kids caught cheating but never had any big issues or reprecussions from it. swallows Says February at pm Eileen You shouldn t be surprised or scandalized at this kind of behavior. I can t see how you could expect to find honesty for honesty s sake outside of the very few Protestant countries. It might serve society but unless everyone is brought up with this code of ethics the individual is not only not benefitted by it he is actually at risk. Why should anyone keep from cheating if no one will see him do it The rule is thou shalt not get caught that s all. Here in Spain children are encouraged by their parents to cheat not openly perhaps but tacitly by awarding them with a good laugh when they hear how the child got away with some prank or cheekiness. Parents believe a boy who is clever in this way will go far and they show him they are proud of him the little Dickens . And as for daddy or mommy getting the truant or the cheater or the trouble maker out of a jam that is most common. When my students cut a class and then lie about the reason for their absence their parents often back them up defend them which they see as a greater duty than having him corrected or punished by an aggressive teacher. When I first came to Spain a thoughtful Spanish woman who had lived in America told me to be careful here. I think there are more bad people in my country than in yours she said. Naturally I didn t accept this mainly because I don t believe any country has more than its share of bad people. But afterwards I saw what she meant. Yet I don t think Spain is unique in this regard. I think it is America and as I said a few other European countries that are unique. Don t be too hard on the girl or her mother. elementaryteacher Says February at pm Well Swallows this is very interesting to know about what is going on in Spain. It sounds very much like Greek behavior as well my first husband was Greek and much of his family behaved as you describe above it always shocked me . Anyway your post makes me appreciate more the honest people I do know in the country where I live and it makes me feel like I am actually making progress in teaching values to most of the children. When I get them mostly at age their values are still in the process of being formed. It sounds to me like maybe you are teaching high school Very little chance of influencing values at that point. But you are making me question the values we are teaching them are these values going to hurt them make them like sheep if they have to live in a society of wolves Yet I still feel we are doing the right thing to try to teach them these values especially since most of our students are planning to go on to school in either England or America. Eileen elementaryteacher Says February at pm Thanks Miss A. I will try to let everyone know what happens tomorrow but I do fully expect the principal to stand her ground. What does make me feel bad about this particular situation is that this is the FIRST time that this student has REALLY buckled down and STUDIED for a test. And she would have gotten B if it were not for this incident. Just the fact that she studied so hard I count as a success toward her becoming a success in life in the future. I hope it will not turn her off studying now and make her feel like why should I even try. That s what is bothering me here. Eileen elementaryteacher Says February at pm A comment emailed to me by a British friend living in Spain Thanks for asking our opinion on this. I firmly believe cheating should be punished and find it outrageous to suggest that only protestant countries believe it is wrong to cheat Surely religion has nothing to do with it Morality and ethics I believe are encoded in to us and our upbringing decides whether we choose to disregard this or not I cant believe a child caught cheating won t realise on some level they ve done wrong irrespective of religion or background. That said I can well believe it of the Spanish. Observing them over the years as they loosely watched over their children say around a communal pool it stunned me to see them brazenly disregard their children stealing other kids toys with no reprimands whatsoever. I think it breeds arrogance and contempt and I see it believe it or not in later years with the Spanish in their driving. They believe they are in the right all the time and disregard other motorists with an arrogance and selfishness that is breathtaking Feel free to paste this in your blog if you like Regards Kev elementaryteacher Says February at pm Meanwhile I ve had another email from a British friend of mine who lived in Spain for several years and ran a language school before moving to the Middle East I agree with your first friend in Spain. I heard endless stories of how A helped B to pass an important exam and how B was later able to help A in some underhand way all told in a very aren t we clever sort of way. I wonder if it is all the Protestant ethic though and if this acceptance of cheating if it will do you any good is a reaction to oppression from tyrannical regimes If there is no sense that justice will ever be done in an even handed way perhaps people resort to cheating in their own defense. And there is also the education is for stupid people idea i.e. if you are clever you can hustle and make money if you are stupid then you need education to equip you for a profession of some sort. If that is your attitude then of course you wouldn t have much regard for what teachers tell you about honesty in exams. I think things have changed a lot since I lived in Spain but I do sort of agree with this second person in some ways. It makes you realize what a precious thing it is to be brought up in a place were cheating is unequivocally wrong. Can you imagine that we are seriously discussing whether people regard cheating as wrong It kind of fits in with hissing and booing and even physically attacking your opponents at school sport matches against other schools too don t you think and whether that is right or wrong. Maria O. elementaryteacher Says February at pm OK our principal stood her ground very well with the parent. I ll make a new post about how this student does when we have our next test in a few weeks. Eileen swallows Says February at am Kevin I m sorry I said things so carelessly. To be truthful I m not prepared to enter into a broad discussion of morals. Where do you think morality comes from The government Nature Perhaps you would say reason . But I m not so sure reason would tell you not to steal from your enemy for instance. Maybe everyone knows when he cheats but the way he deals with that knowledge is culture determined. And a big chunk of our Western cultural tradition is the Christian religion. I certainly didn t mean to begin an attack on Spaniards. I know good and kind people my best friends. Living in a foreign country takes a lot of patience and understanding. Maria O s thoughts about a reaction to bad government are interesting too. kevmoore Says February at am swallows I would say Morality comes from within and is strengthened or sadly weakened by example. I m not religious in any way and rejected it when sent to Sunday school as a child. I make a total distinction between knowing right and wrong and being a christian. The two may be combined but are not inseperable. There s been a hell of a lot of lyin and cheatin done in the name of God Maria O It is breathtaking is it not to stop and think we are discussing the credibility of something I have taken my whole life as a given that cheating is wrong. What I find doubly sad is that we should be drawn into the trap of making cultural excuses for it. Just another small step of many on the rocky road to anarchy. Miki Says February at am Unfortunately I must agree with what swallows iabout the cheating behavior in Spain. Parents really encourage their children to cheat without being caught it seems to be a kind of national sport. In the place where I live the situation is even worse everybody is trying to cheat not only the Spaniards This place here around Benidorm is socially extremely interesting it would make a great field of research for human behavior in society. I can explain the reasons if somebody is interested in. Fact is that here almost everybody cheats as long as he is not caught. And it generally takes a long long time until you get caught here because there is too much real criminality around. And when everybody cheats it is extremely difficult to survive without starting cheating too. An awful devil circle. I must say that this is exactly the reason why I don t feel wellanymore in this place which was once my dream place of living. I think there is a big problem as a teacher. if you teach the children not to cheat and at home they are encouraged to cheat what happens in their young minds It must be quite disturbing to get taught at home contrary values than at school. I really don t know how I would cope with that situation as a teacher. And I have generally the following problem when we try to teach our ethics value in a country from which the values are different and even contrary are we not doing something like the missionaries trying to impose their God the indigenes This is a very difficult and deep theme. elementaryteacher Says February at pm I received this additional email from another friend of mine There was an American movie called K PAX that featured a being from another planet played by Kevin Spacey. He was being psychoanalyzed by a psychiatrist and he told him that the people on his planet do not need religion that we are all born with the knowledge of the difference between right and wrong. And I also believe that inspite of what religion you profess to be or what book you think is the right one or whether you have any religion at all you know that cheating is wrong. I live in Egypt and I find that what is sadly lacking is the their ability to find joy in the accomplishment of something and instead they find joy in the getting away with something. And one of the things they are truly afraid of is public embarassment. I am not a teacher but how I would handle it would be to make up a sign saying I have cheated on my exam and do not deserve to be promoted to the next level class and make them sit in front of the class with such a sign. elementaryteacher Says February at pm Dear Miki I think this is indeed a very difficult and deep subject. I think a good answer is as still another teacher friend of mine said The parents of the children in our private school have CHOSEN an English language education for their children. In that circumstance they have to accept the cultural values that come with the particular school and language. Since most of their children will be going on to university in England or America it is appropriate that they learn the cultural standards of those cultures now before it is too late. What do you think Also I am curious. Is it necessary to cheat to survive in Spain I know that in Central Africa the only reason to get a government position is to be able to steal for one s self. If someone got into such a position and did NOT steal say for moral reasons then he is NOT respected he is considered STUPID. Is that what Spain is like If so it must be a pretty depressing place. Eileen Miki Says February at pm No Eileen it is not necessary to cheat to survive in Spain I was referring to this very special area where I live where there is a very special social structure perhaps unique in the world. This place has become a nest for small criminality and con men from all over Europe South America North Africa etc. When you are a normal person no worse nor better than average and when you are confronted at all times with this vile behavior you cannot help but start behaving like that yourself. many times I have the feeling that our unique rule here is the law of the jungle You really need a strong character to stay true to yourself. Well to tell the truth traveling through Spain I have noticed that these people are starting to expand to other places. I have no idea what can stop this phenomena. Yes your friend s answer is perfect in my opinion I totally agree with her Comment Name required Mail will not be published required Website XHTML You can use these tags Blog at WordPress.com . Theme Sapphire by Michael Martine .
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While the students currently read at school every day research shows that the additional minutes of at home reading will really increase children s reading fluency and reading comprehension said Pamela Hosterman elementary school principal for the school district. We envision that this will be for minutes a day on Mondays through Thursdays Hosterman said. The students from the J. Andrew Morrow School who are in grades pre kindergarten to will be the first to participate in the program which is called Leaping into Reading. Students in grades K to will be asked to read to a parent or other relative at home she said. Alternatively the relative and child could spend the minutes taking turns reading to each other Hosterman said. We encourage anyone to participate who would like to listen to a child read such as an older sibling an aunt or uncle or a grandparent Hosterman said. The J. Andrew Morrow students are being asked to read out loud because they need more supports than older children need because they are not fully reading yet. We adults need to listen to them read to see how they are progressing. It s extremely helpful to listen to them read. The Leaping into Reading program will begin with a kick off event this Friday for the students at the J. Andrew Morrow School at which each child will be given their first book to use in the program. These books which they will get to keep were purchased by the school s parent teacher organization PTO Hosterman said. The subsequent books that the students will use in the program will be loaned to them she said. Teachers will select the books for the students based on the book s level of difficulty. In early April the Leaping Into Reading program will be expanded to include the students in the Towanda Area Elementary School who are in grades to Hosterman said. These older children will also be reading minutes per day on most days but the format for how they will do their reading has not been decided she said. Even the four year olds will be doing some type of program as part of Leaping into Reading she said. Leaping into Reading is a not a pre packaged program but was created by the Towanda Area School District Hosterman said. One benefit of the program will is that it will allow parents to be informed as to how their child is currently performing on his reading skills she said. It was named Leaping into Reading because it is being launched in a leap year specifically on the year s extra day Feb. Hosterman said. The program will be evaluated at the end of the year and if it successful will continue next year too she said. As part of the program each day parents will be asked to note in a log book that their child participated in the program that day Hosterman said. The log book will be used as a tool for communication between parents and teachers and parents could write an entry in the log book stating for example if the child liked a particular book or not she said. James Loewenstein can be reached at or e mail jloewensteinthedailyreview.com. Daily and Sunday Review Email to a friend Printer friendly Top highlights LOCAL SPORTS Waverly falls in sectional final Seeds set for district swimming Action continues at Epiphany tourney EDITORIALS Primary system skews campaign needs reforming LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Disheartening READER POLL What is your experience with toll roads I drive a two axle vehicle seldom face them and pay. I drive a two axle vehicle seldom face them and try to avoid paying. I drive a two axle vehicle face them often and pay. I drive a two axle vehicle face them often and try to avoid paying. I drive a multi axle vehicle seldom face them and pay. I drive a multi axle vehicle seldom face them and try to avoid paying. I drive a multi axle vehicle face them often and pay. I drive a multi axle vehicle face them often and try to avoid paying. viewresults News Classifieds Print Ads Archives Yellow Pages Subscribe to the Paper Place an Ad Online Contact Us Send us your community news events letters to the editor and classified ads. Read our Privacy Policy AM Students choose books to take home Type TARGET blank Type BORDER ALT Zoom Order Print Delores Leonard right a retired assistant teacher reads a story to first and second graders at Pilot Elementary School during the Reading is Fundamental program.Photos by Deneesha Edwards The Dispatch By DENEESHA EDWARDS The Dispatch THOMASVILLE Students at Pilot Elementary School filled the gymnasium with eager ears and wide eyes Tuesday as volunteers took turns reading books to them. Then each member of the student body of nearly also had the opportunity to choose a book from a wide variety of selections ranging from comedies mysteries scary and chapter books which was all part of a literacy program Reading is Fundamental. We get to hear different books said second grader Maggie Whitman. I like it because you get to keep the books and read them at home. Reading is Fundamental is a federally funded program that prepares and motivates children to read by delivering free books and literacy resources to children and families who need it the most. RIF is the oldest and largest children s and family nonprofit literacy organization in the United States according to its Web site. Through the program more than books were purchased to be distributed three times this school year. The school s Parent Teacher Organization also helped supplement the remainder of the books that were not paid for through the grant to make sure every child received a book. First grader Connor Ware liked being able to keep the books compared to going to the library and having to return them. It s neat because we don t have to check out the books he said. We get to take them home and read them. Rotating every minutes students from each grade level came to the gym to hear a couple of books read by a volunteer and then choose their own personal book to take home with them. As a literacy program we want to involve the community said Carol Utz a teacher. The school has been part of the RIF program for more than years. The program combines three essential elements reading motivation family and community involvement and the excitement of choosing free books to keep. It encourages reading and promotes ownership for the children said Darlene H. Owens a part time teacher. It s a combined effort from the community and school. Retired school employee Sharron Chesney was one of the volunteers who read to the students. She said she enjoys visiting the children. It s important to read she said. Reading is great. It s nice that three times out of the year students get to pick a book to take home. Nina High a second grader who enjoys reading fictional chapter books about fairies and princesses was eager to choose a book. I learn about things in books she said. I like them a lot. Deneesha Edwards can be reached at ext. or at deneesha.edwardsthe dispatch.com . Discuss this article Printer Friendly Version E mail this article Have The Dispatch delivered to your door. Click here to subscribe. 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For fun we added the only little fresh water stuffed animal we own a little Beanie otter. We also got some lily pad decorations at the teacher s store and each time we read a different story we add the name of the book on a new lily pad. I did this to inspire Aspen to listen to and read some new stories. She has her favorites and wants to read them over and over which is fine but I also want her to branch out and take an interest in new stories too. I decided to go with a themed unit study for spring because my hubby keeps pushing for me to use some type of curriculum. We disagree on this point. Aspen is almost three and I still think she s a little young for too much structure. On the other hand our formal lessons have been a bit sporadic and although she has learned a lot I can see where he s coming from. If any of you home schoolers out there have suggestions about good preschool curriculums please let me know Stay tuned for more on home schooling coming up. Posted by Earthmommy at PM Labels home school preschool reading comments tiffany said. Preschoolers dont need a curriculum.or any formal program at all as they just learn naturally. BUT to satisfy dh and also to give you some direction and sense of accomplishment you might try Before Five in a Row. You can find the book for or under and check the rest out from the library. Basically you do a theme type study around each book and the activities have been planned for you in the BFIAR book. I have enjoyed poking around your site today and am so glad you are now getting to be home taking care of your family. Best of luck you you and your family. 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