12/22/17

Happy Holidays Doolittle Families!

Have a wonderful winter vacation!

I wish all Doolittle families many opportunities for laughter and good humor next week!

Our December Town Meeting was wonderful today. Students sang a number of seasonal songs. Classrooms received generous gifts from our awesome PTA. The Town Meeting ended on a high note with all teachers singing Holly Jolly Christmas.

12/15/17

Hello Doolittle Families

Our Winter Concerts this week have been amazing! Many thanks to our music teachers; Mrs. Weed, Mr. Szulczewski and Mrs. O’Dell for their hard work.

On Monday all three musical groups performed for students at school. Students were great audience members. They were attentive, listened to the performances and clapped appropriately afterwards. Being a good audience member is something that we discuss frequently at Doolittle School. We talk about showing respect to those who are presenting especially if they are other students. Performing or speaking in front of a large audience can be nerve wracking but gets easier with practice. Through concerts, town meetings and class presentations, we provide students with opportunities to practice performing and speaking in front of others.

The Concerts this week were excellent!

Strings

Chorus

Band

12/8/17

Hello Doolittle Families,

How did it get to be December? Is there really a forecast for snow tomorrow?

Report Cards will be sent home on Monday, December 11. Elementary School grades in Cheshire are based on a rubric score of 1-4 and are not a numeric average of test scores, work scores, etc. Our Report Cards are intended to communicate with parents about how their child is progressing toward our end of year common standards.  

The following information comes from the Parent Report Card Handbook.

Teachers use number and letter codes to answer three evaluation questions for each student:

1. To what extent has this student achieved grade level expectations and standards?

2. To what degree does this student demonstrate effort during learning, especially when tackling challenging, new content and skills?

3. To what extent is this child developing the characteristics of successful learners?

Grading Keys:

The report card uses two different grading keys to communicate the answers to these three questions:

One for the academic areas (Question 1) and one to describe learning behaviors and effort (Questions 2-3).

Within the academic areas there are four numerical codes that will be used to tell parents and students how student work compares to grade level expectations and standards:

4: Exceeds the Grade Level Standards/Expectations: The student consistently and independently applies the grade level standards/expectations in this category to advanced content.

3: Meets the Grade Level Standards/Expectations: The student independently demonstrates the grade level standards/expectations in this category.

2: Approaches the Grade Level Standards/Expectations: The student requires some teacher assistance to demonstrate the grade level standards/expectations in this category.

1: Not Meeting the Grade Level Standards/Expectations: The student does not yet demonstrate the grade level standards/expectations in this category.

The full Parent Report Card Handbook can be found at the link below:

CPS Parent Handbook for Report Cards

**Students in 6th grade will receive a special progress report for Social Studies and Science to update parents on their work in the Summit Platform.

As always if you ever have questions about your child’s performance in class, give us a call or send an email and we can set up a meeting with the teacher.

Picture of the Week:

Last week administrators from around the district came to visit Doolittle School.

All administrators will visit classrooms at all schools during the year.

Here an assistant principal from CHS observes students in 3rd grade who are hard at work!