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 * KINDERGARTEN REPORT CARD REVISION MEETING**
 * Wednesday, November 30, 2011**
 * 1:00 – 3:00 PM**
 * Duss Board Room**

__Unnecessary__: __Wish List__: __Grading System__: __Reading Necessities__: __Writing__: __Math__: __Specials__: Look into
 * Don’t assess drawing shapes (get an art grade)
 * Reduce amount of materials which needs to be assessed individually
 * Eliminate the “sequences correctly” area of report card
 * Eliminate the rhyming section
 * Eliminate list comprehension
 * Eliminate small muscle development
 * Eliminate picture with complete sentence and mechanics (in writing readiness)
 * Eliminate Math chart
 * Eliminate drawing shapes
 * Eliminate non-standard units to measure
 * Eliminate “tells time to hour”
 * Break-up isolating sounds – B / M / E
 * Tie it to gradebook
 * A way to assess uniformly with a plan
 * Define what “grades” mean
 * Overall math / readings grade with option to mark specifics
 * Change the appearance to resemble the 1st and 2nd grade report cards so that we can see one child’s so that we can see one child’s report card at a time
 * Math / Reading language or R/C is uniform – check boxes for areas of concern if they need improvement for approaches to learning – “characteristics of a successful learner” (Derry Township)
 * Pine Richland letters and explanation page
 * Match letter to grading scale - % for teacher use
 * Capital and lowercase letters
 * Isolates sounds in words – B þ M þ E þ
 * Identifies letter sounds
 * High-frequency words
 * Decoding words
 * Writing Readiness change “picture with complete sentence….” to “writing reflects verbal or picture prompt”
 * Forms letters correctly
 * Keep “text includes: capital letter, etc. but
 * Change “recognize and write numbers” to “recognize numbers that have been introduced” / “writes numbers that have been introduced”.
 * Pattern à assess when? (1st quarter only)
 * Identify shapes à assess (2nd quarter)
 * More / less à assess (1st and 2nd quarter)
 * Keep counting 25/50
 * Skip counting to 100 by 10’s – add skip counting by 5’s
 * Grade every 9 weeks
 * Explanation of requirements or expectations in special area