Yealey Elementary School Newsletter

 Yealey Families,

What a joy it was seeing pictures of happy kids playing in the snow yesterday.  As much as I hate snow myself, I do love at least one day of sledding and cold fun.  We had a great week here at school too.  I had the joy of hearing a class play "Are You Sleeping?" on the ukuleles!  It's amazing how quickly they are picking that up.

We are almost 100% complete with STAR testing this week.  We will use this like we do every year to check on the progress being made and make instructional decisions for the rest of the year.  This assessment also has the added benefit of being given for many years previously.  So, I will be able to look and see how each grade level is doing compared to their scores last year and in comparison with previous students at their grade level. The iReady diagnostic is not really a summative test like STAR.  We are almost complete with these diagnostics.  These will be used to gauge progress for each individual student within that program and then help the program create purposeful learning paths for the second semester.  We decided to give these assessments when the students were here in person because of the stress they caused many families in the Fall when we gave them at home.  We hope that it has been less stressful on most of you.  And what we really hope is that this is the last time we have to worry about if assessments will be given at home or at school!  The CASE assessment is a district requirement and we will tackle that next week.  Be sure your kids know that all we want is for them to do their best and have fun showing off what they know. 

Information about Friendship (Valentine) Celebrations will be coming home from each teacher.  The teams are working on plans for Covid friendly celebrations.  We want to try to do something even if it is different than our normal to celebrate the relationships we have here at Yealey.

There will be no blog update next week.  I will be out with my daughter who is having shoulder surgery.  Please send positive vibes our way.  Enjoy the weekend - stay warm and dry.

See you next week!

Mrs. Turner

principal