Food & Care Coalition - Current Needs List

CURRENT NEEDS

Food & Care Coalition

299 E 900 S
Provo, UT 84606
801-373-1825
List updated 9/29/2014

TOP NEEDS:

·        Zip Lock 1 quart bags

·        Salad Veggies: Lettuce, Carrots, Tomatoes, Cucumber

·        Fresh Fruit 

TOP HYGIENE NEEDS:

·        Hair Conditioner-full bottles

·        Razors

·        Lotion

·        Shaving Creme

·        Chapstick

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS:

·        Hair Clippers & Shears for the Barber Shop

·        Bissell Carpet Shampoo

·        New or Used Computers (Quantity 20-22) Minimum specifications- Core 2 Duo processors and 2 GB RAM to run Windows 7.

RESIDENTIAL NEEDS:

·        Antifungal Foot Spray, Cream, & Powder

·        Bath Rugs-New with rubber backs

·        Paper towels

·        Unisex L, XL, and 2XL Scrubs

·        Microwave (Quantity 1)

·        Wastebaskets for residential bathrooms

If you have questions about any of these items, contact Treva at trevavc@foodandcare.org

Your contribution is tax deductible.

Social Studies - Service Project starts October 1st

K-3 Students are learning to be great citizens!

Please help your students by participating in our:

ANNUAL SERVICE PROJECT

“Welcoming Warmth”

to benefit the

Place Your NEW or GENTLY USED Blankets and

“Current Need” items in this Box.

THANK YOU FOR DONATING!

We are collecting blankets and “current needs” to benefit the homeless until Thanksgiving Break.

Book It Reading Program starts October 1st

PLEASE CHECK YOUR CHILD'S TAKE HOME FOLDER FOR THE BOOK IT READING PROGRAM INFORMATION.

Any reading your child does independently, with you or with your family counts!

I am a huge advocate of reading at home. I have so many fond memories reading with my own children.  I get to relive those memories every time I pick up a Magic Treehouse book or a Robert Munsch book (and many many others).  I am sure your children will tell you that "Ms. M&M always cries when she reads to us."  Well....not always, but so many of the books that I now read to your children I read to my own children.  Reading those books invokes fond memories and when I look into your children's eyes while reading those books I can see my own children.  It is a tender moment for me and I grow to love your children more each time I read to them.  Likewise, my own children have fond memories and we still share conversations about certain "favorite" books.  My children learned to love to read because I loved to read to them.

I want your children to love to read because I read to them!

I want your children to love to read because you read to them!

This Book It Program is, in part, a way to jump start that effort at home.

I hope you enjoy it!

Raz-Kids at HOME and at SCHOOL!

LAUNCHING Raz-Kids IN FIRST GRADE!

We are so excited to start using Raz-Kids in our classroom starting:

Monday, 9/15

and at home on

Monday, 9/22

This next week your student will learn how to access leveled readers during Guided Reading on Raz-Kids!

After they have mastered using Raz-kids in school they will begin to use it at home starting:

Monday, 9/22

How to use Raz-kids:

After logging on to the website at www.raz-kids.com you will need to 

enter the 

teacher username:

keriawahl

You will receive a Flyer with this information sent home also.

Then you will see the following screen:

Your student will then need to click on their name.

Your student will then click on their password.

Boys:  Rocket icon

Girls: Strawberry icon

Your student will then see this screen:

Your student can then go to the BOOK ROOM.

In the BOOK ROOM your student will be able to access books 3 levels below their reading level which should be used for NIGHTLY FLUENCY READINGS 

(MORE ON THIS IN A DIFFERENT BLOG POST)

and 

1 level above their reading level which can be used for practice reading if you choose (this is not required homework).

Raz-Kids App

Download the App NOW

Here is information from the Reading A-Z Website explaining about Raz-Kids Mobile:

RAZ-KIDS IS MOBILE

If You Have Raz-Kids

If you already use Raz-Kids, this app lets you access eBooks and eQuizzes for the 400+ titles on Raz-Kids, all on your tablet! All student activity in the app is captured and reported to teachers at Raz-Kids.com, thus helping teachers monitor student progress and determine the instruction needed for each student.

Use the links below to download the app to your class’s mobile devices and get your students reading! 

If You Have Both Raz-Kids and Reading A-Z

Do you already use both Raz-Kids and Reading A-Z? If so, the same app gives you 1,100+ eBooks and eQuizzes in the enhanced version of the Book Room! That's nearly three times the number of reading resources when compared to what you get with just Raz-Kids! 

Use the links below to download the app to your class’s mobile devices and get your students reading! 

Raz-Kids is now on the iPhone and iPod Touch!

Students can now access their assignments right from their iPhones or iPod Touches. Download the app to your hand-held mobile device today! 

Download the FREE Learning A-Z app

iPhone & iPod Touch

iTunesNew

iPad

iTunes

Android 2.2

Google Play

kindle Fire

Amazon App Store

Note: Android devices require version 2.2 and higher.

PLEASE CONTACT ME WITH ANY QUESTIONS:

dawn.mcniel@archesacademy.com

Guided Reading Groups begin MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15TH

What is Guided Reading?

If you would like to understand more about what Guided Reading is please visit this blog under the Language Arts tab and scroll down:

http://fantasticfirstgradersatarches.blogspot.com/p/language-arts.html

Guided Reading will begin on Monday, September 15th

Although assessments will continue throughout the week of 9/15 which will provide further information helping me with instruction, enough information has been gathered to place my students in guided reading groups.

The Guided Reading books will not be sent home.

Please focus on the FLUENCY BOOKS, POEM PACKETS, OR PASSAGES that will be sent home in the back pocket of your child's Take Home Folder.  

These book(s), poem packets, or passages should be read for an entire week to improve fluency.  These readings will generally be below level and may seem "EASY" to your child.  Please continue to explain to them that reading is not just about the ability to decode the words effectively.  A fluent reader:

PLEASE REVIEW the pyramid below so you understand the vital part FLUENCY is in your child's reading progression:

My child can't read the books you are sending home.

PHONICS BOOKS

In the past two weeks phonics books have been sent home with your child.  You would have found them in the "TAKE HOME" section of their take home folder. Please keep these assignments at home.

A few parents have asked about these books and what to do with them.

PHONIC BOOKS are used to introduce new sounds and sound combinations and are used in class ONLY.  These books are not to be read as their 15 MINUTES OF FLUENCY READING.  The Phonics Books are not leveled books and would not be effective in building fluency.  Accompanying the phonics books is a word list.  Again, this word list was used to introduce or reinforce sounds in the phonics books.  It is an in class activity.  I have organize daily phonics lessons to expose my students to 45 different sounds.  This is foundational to fluent reading and will be used as a frame of reference throughout the school year.

 If you want to review this classwork with your child please reinforce the word family that was being taught.  For example, if you see a list of words that end in "et" this is the Word Family "et" and this sound can be reinforced.  

This is not required homework.

How does Spelling Homework work again?

Many of my student's parents are asking for clarification on Spelling Homework so here you go :).......

Monday - Pre-test

What is a Pre-test?  A pre-test requires the following:

1.  You

2.  Your Child

3.  A piece of paper and pencil

4.  You read the spelling words from your child's planner out loud to your child.

5. Your child tries their best to write the words correctly they hear you read on to the piece of paper.

6.  After your child completes the Pre-test, you review with your child the words spelled incorrectly.

7.  Help your child make connections with their life with the words they write incorrectly.  This will help immensely with retention.

8.  The words spelled incorrectly are the words your child practices the rest of the week.

Your child will begin to use their SCHOOL PLANNERS on Monday, 9/8.

Students will write their weekly spelling words in their SCHOOL PLANNERS.

Students will need to do the following with their SPELLING WORDS:

MONDAY:  Pre-test Words

TUESDAY:  Write MISSED WORD(S) ONLY with crayons

WEDNESDAY:  Spell MISSED WORDS ONLY out loud using a funny voice (be silly with it)

THURSDAY:  Play Hangman with MISSED WORDS ONLY

The above homework was not a random pick of activities.  I attempt to employ all of the multiple intelligence's (learning styles) in all of my teaching methods along with my homework.

Monday is an assessment which is necessary for the rest of the week to be successful.  It also gives you the opportunity to help your child make connections between their spelling words and their life at home.  "You can remember this word because its in our backyard......"  Comments like this will naturally flow as you help your child with missed words.  These conversations help the EXISTENTIAL learner.

Tuesday - Write missed words in CRAYON employs the VISUAL-LINGUISTIC learning style.

Wednesday - Sing or say the missed words employs the MUSICAL learning style.

Thursday - Play Hangman with the missed words employs the INTERPERSONAL learning style. 

Your child experiences the BODILY/ KINESTHIC learning style daily as we practice our words daily through movement.

When we use all of the learning styles we most effectively teach the whole child.

Reading Assessments Begins Wednesday, September 10th and ends Wednesday, September 17th

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR CHILD GETS PLENTY OF SLEEP THIS WEEK........

It's Assessment Week for Emergent Readers!

1. Arches Academy finds students' instructional levels by assessing their reading skills with developmentally appropriate texts while recording reading behavior. Benchmark Passages are short text selections that are one part of a three-part process to help place students at their instructional levels for leveled reading sessions and to assess their readiness to progress to the next level.  This assessment is computer based and done through A-Z Reading.

Along with the Raz-Kids assessments I will be meeting with each student and will do the following paper based assessments:

 Word Family Recognition

Sight Word Recognition

Reading Nonsense Words - Phonics

 Reading Nonsense Words - CVC and VC - Phonics

Reading Nonsense Words - Short Vowels and Long Vowels

Manipulating Sounds - Phonological Awareness

Identifying Rime 1 & 2- Phonological Awareness

 Blending Onset and Rime - Phonological Awareness

Segmenting Onset and Rime - Phonological Awareness

Manipulating Onset and Rime - Phonological Awareness

Identifying Rhyming Words - Phonological Awareness

What is the difference between PHONICS (or Phonemic Awareness and PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS?

Phonological Awareness- Phonological awareness is a general appreciation of how spoken language can be divided into its components.  For example, we speak in sentences.  Sentences can be broken down into words and words into syllables.  Breaking words into onset-rime and an appreciation of rhyme and alliteration fall under the category of phonological awareness.

Phonemic Awareness- The word “phoneme” means sound.  When a word is broken down into its smallest unit, a sound (or phoneme), the term “phonemic awareness” is used.  Phonemic awareness is a sub skill of the broad category of phonological awareness.  Phoneme isolation, blending, and segmenting are several skills that fall under this category.

Phonics and phonemic awareness are not the same.  Phonics involves how speech sounds correspond to the written letter or letter combinations.  Phonemic awareness is only about hearing and manipulating the individual speech sounds in words.  The best way to remember the difference between these two terms is to know that any phonemic awareness skills can be “done in the dark”.