Seems like just yesterday that I started the school year ... and I suppose that's because I haven't been the greatest with keeping this blog up.
These next couple of weeks are super hectic with Christmas stuff. It's pretty fun for the kids but tiring for me. We have our Advent mass on Thursday and I'm hoping that we don't have to walk to the Church and we just have it in our gym. It's so wet and slushy outside ... I can't imagine the whole school having to walk through that.
Interviews went well. I had one no show and the parents were pretty decent with me. I just hope that some of the low kids improve their reading marks. It seriously is so very frustrating for me to have so many kids at a level 0. I've never had that before and it's making me a little nervous and I feel like I'm not doing enough for them. I know that this Christmas holiday I'm going to be hammering on the literature on reading recovery and writing programs. I'm starting a new program by Lucy Caulkins come January and I need to read up on that some more. Also I was thinking of taking a Reading part 1 course ... has anyone taken that? Is it helpful?
Well I have lots more I can write but will leave it at that. It's not all good stuff and I'm just too much in an air of negativity right now to delve into it. I'll save it for another day.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
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I have done Reading I and II - - both very useful and fun! I love PD in literacy and have also done some reading on Caulkins. Another good book is Reading w/ Meaning by Debbie Miller. It provides actual books to go with the mini lesson (infer.predict. etc) I took both courses in class and was able to gather a lot of resources and complete hands on projects. I'm not sure what the dynamics would be if you did it online. But go for it!!
I signed up for Reading part 1 and am looking forward to it. I have that book Reading with Meaning. Admin ordered it for all the primary teachers. It'll be one of the things I read this Christmas break. Unfortunately it wasn't the book I needed for reading part 1.
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