The First Week of School

This week, we will spend a lot of time getting to know the kids in our cluster and helping them get to know each other and the cluster expectations. We will practice classroom procedures, spend time building community, and complete all about me projects.

For the first few weeks of school, we will also spend a lot of time assessing the kids so we can prepare to ability group the students. They will each take end of the year assessments for math, as well as the Galileo assessment, and a math fact fluency assessment. For reading, they will be given the Galileo Assessment and the Developmental Reading Assessment which is a one on one reading accuracy and comprehension assessment. In writing, a developmental spelling assessment will be given and the kids will complete a writing sample. We will then look at all of these assessments to decide where to place the students for reading and math based on the data these assessments provide.

School Supplies

You can bring your supplies on Meet the Teacher night or on the first day of school:

Do not label (to be used as community supplies):
Two 24 packs of Crayola crayons
Scissors
One Highlighter
One Dry Erase Marker
Four Elmer's glue sticks
24 Yellow Sharpened Pencils
Crayola colored pencils
Crayola markers

Label with your child's name:
A sturdy zipper pouch (for the first day put inside: three labeled, pencils, one of the boxes of crayons labeled, one eraser labeled)
A two pocket folder (will be taken back and forth from school to home each day, so it needs to be sturdy)
a 1 1/2 inch binder for portfolios that will stay at school
4 pocket folders with prongs: one green, one blue, one orange, and one red
a wide rule spiral notebook (this will be your child's writer's notebook, so please have them pick out a notebook they love and will be excited to write in)

Please sign up for at least one extra item to donate at
http://signupgenius.com/go/school95

Volunteers Needed

Volunteers are a special part of Polytechnic Elementary School. We really appreciate the time that you spend helping in our classrooms, because we know that without your help there are many things that we could not do with the students! We will start inviting volunteers into the classrooms in September after the children have settled into their daily routines and procedures.

To sign up for volunteer opportunities, please visit http://www.SignUpGenius.com/go/classroom417 by the end of August. To sign up to help with math centers, please wait until you know which math class your child will be in.

There will be other volunteer opportunities throughout the year, so keep an eye out for them on our website. Also, if you have a special skill or talent you think you could use to help in our classroom, please email your child's homeroom teacher to let us know.
Thanks!