Important Information from Julie Richards
Forefront – Now for Math & Literacy!
Check out this video if you need a quick refresher on how to use Forefront. Currently, Amplify Desmos Math is still being processed in Forefront. Please keep your assessment data until Amplify Desmos Math is ready to go Sorry for the inconvenience.
3rd Grade Amplify Books
These are still on back order, but we hope to receive them any day. Sorry for the inconvenience. The publishers did not expect the number of 3rd graders nationwide. Julie Richards knows who needs them.
mClass Beginning-of-the-Year math assessment
Here is a video about how to assign the assessment. Do not assign the Short Form to your whole class. The full assessment will provide more information for you. Your Learning Specialist may want it assigned to specific students based on their IEP. You will need to create a group to do this (see below.) Here is a helpful checklist to get ready for mClass. To get deeper into administering, here is a full document. Here is a description of the Benchmark Goals. There will be more professional learning opportunities throughout the year to learn how to use the data.
Math Happenings
DreamBox and Amplify Desmos Math
You will now see Amplify Desmos Math as a way to create assessments. Directions are here.
Attention Kindergarten teachers (and others)!
Fat Bear Week is coming! September 23-30! This would be a good opportunity to connect Amplify math characters to the real bears. Your class can vote for bears here. You can watch the bears live as well!
Additional Amplify Support:
- Fact Fluency – Getting Started Resources are here. Here is a helpful article on how to assign the Fluency in Amplify.
- Creating Groups – do you teach a blend or need to create groups in Amplify Desmos Math for another reason. Here is how you can do that.
- Companion Mode – Here is information on how to put your ipad or iphone to work while presenting ADM slides.
- How to use Boost with students.
Math-ish by Jo Boaler
Book Club hosted by HDESD. Includes a small stipend for attending the meetings! Learn more here. Register here.
Literacy Happenings
Take a peek at these books available in Garage sale items!
Student Well-Being
Waypoints Summative Assessment for grades 3-5
This required assessment opens September 18th and closes October 25th for grades 3-12. Please see your administrator with more details but here is the 3-5 Implementation Guide. The assessment takes 15 to 20 minutes and can be completed on a student’s Ipad, using Clever and then selecting Wayfinder. Here are instructions for how it will appear in Student View.
- When they log in to the Wayfinder platform, the Waypoints assessment will be clearly visible at the top of their dashboard. It will appear as a box containing the assessment’s name with a “Start” button next to it.
**Coming Soon: Life and Career Readiness Priority Standards and Rubrics
An alignment has been created for the SEL standards and Wayfinder. We have identified priority standards for each grade and created a rubric for teachers. These priorities will appear on the progress reports. In addition, K-2 will have an assessment you can give in Waypoints on Wayfinder. This is teacher observer action assessment (students will not take on the IPad) and will be aligned to the priorities and progress reports for each grade.
Movement Moments
Guess the Sea Animal Sound
Mr Hoppit the Hare Cosmic Kids Challenge
Medshield Kids Yoga – Magic Carpet Ride
Would you Rather Back to School
Would you Rather Back to School #2
Animal Freeze Dance