September 2014
Dear
Parents and Students,
WELCOME
BACK TO SCHOOL!
Lake View enjoyed a wonderful school year
last year and we hope that 2014-2015 will be just the same. This past
year, our students achieved some awesome academic results. From the beginning
until the end of the year, our students improved in reading accuracy by
29%. As a school, we improved in overall math proficiency by 4% The
average student at Lake View achieved one and one half year’s growth in math
this past year. Our 5th graders once again showed off their
writing abilities as 80 out of 83 of them scored proficient or higher on the
annual direct writing assessment. The average score on this test went up
from 23.7 to 25 out of 30 this year. We are all celebrating these achievements!
The former district superintendent, Mr. Ron Wolff, recently sent us a
congratulatory letter in which he cited the tremendous growth in academic
achievement of Lake View students.
I also want to remind you of your rights as
a parent. If you ever have questions regarding your child’s educational
performance or what they are being taught, please just drop in or send us an
e-mail. We will be happy to answer your questions. Your child has a right to
quality instruction that is centered on rigorous curriculum with high standards
and relevance. The focus of this instruction is literacy and numeracy to
promote economic prosperity, citizen participation, strong moral and social
values, and commitment to constitutional government. We believe that educational
success is most likely to be achieved when we develop a partnership. We hope to
develop and nurture those relationships. Please keep us informed of your
child’s needs or any impactful changes.
As we do each year, the members of the
school improvement committee have met to analyze our school and make any
changes we deem necessary to the improvement process. To improve our
students’ reading skills, we will be implementing a new phonics instruction
program for grades K-2. This program is called “Reading Horizons”. We
will use it to provide structured daily phonics lessons to ALL students in
those grades. Another ongoing problem that we have noted is the poor
attendance of many of our students. When students are absent, key
instruction is missed and those students typically fall behind. PLEASE
have your child here each day unless they are ill or there is a legitimate
emergency. If your student is ill, they will be required to make up work that
they missed. Please call to inform us if your child is ill or if they will be
absent.
We have also decided to make it mandatory
for all visitors to the school to check in at the office and then wear a
visitor’s badge.
When you visit the school this year, you
will notice another new portable classroom. Lake View is using this new
portable to house our new computer lab. This will give us two computer
labs. A few teachers have also moved to different classrooms to allow us
to better collaborate.
We believe that an orderly, safe environment is essential for students to learn
and achieve academically. To promote this type of environment, we will
continue to use our discipline program. Students can earn blue slips by
demonstrating outstanding behavior. They may also be given a white slip when
their behavior is not so great. The rules we expect students to follow
when they are not in class:
·
FOLLOW DIRECTIONS THE FIRST TIME THEY ARE
GIVEN
·
PUT OTHERS UP NOT DOWN
·
KEEP HANDS, FEET, MOUTH AND OBJECTS TO
YOURSELF
·
ALWAYS BE IN THE PROPER PLACE or HAVE A HALL
PASS
·
ALWAYS WALK IN THE BUILDING
·
USE ALL MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT PROPERLY
Lake View Elementary remains a Love and
Logic school. We will continuously seek to improve our school community
by following Love and Logic philosophy and by providing students with
recognition when they do something good. To learn more, visit their
web-site: www.loveandlogic.com
December 2013
Greeting Everyone!
This has been a great year! I would like to tell you a
little bit about our students’ hard work and success in math so far this
year. At our school, we use the SMI,(scholastic
math inventory), to assess our students’ performance in math. We test all students in grades 2-5 at the
beginning, middle and end of the year.
Everyone took the test for the second time in December and we have
achieved some great results. The test is
computer based and it is adaptive. It
measures a student’s present level of performance with points. Here is how we are doing. All of these scores are averages for the
grade level:
Grade September
score December score Average Growth
2 49 137 88
3 219 317 98
4 390 501 111
5 511 619 108
Important note: Grades 2-4 are expected to grow 150 points
in one full year of school. We have not
even finished half the year and look how much growth we have already
achieved!!!
5th grade is only expected to grow 85 points in
one full school year!! That’s right, we
have already surpassed that!
Congratulations
to the students and teachers at Lake View!!!!!
