Kentucky School Readiness Definition

https://4.files.edl.io/eb7e/08/07/20/184050-dfd40a3a-ba6e-421d-9dcb-9f600f47abab.pdf

Kentucky’s Transition to Kindergarten Plan 2020

https://kyecac.ky.gov/families/Documents/KY%20TTK%20Plan%20Final.pdf

July/August Newsletter see pages 45-60 for Early Childhood News from Floyd County
https://tinyurl.com/y3a62865

https://kyecac.ky.gov/families/Documents/KY%20TTK%20Plan%20Final.pdf

Meet new 20-21 EC team members, KY Coverings for Kids, Head Start family success story, pre-k Chromebooks, #MaskUp @SchoolsFloyd, Yellow Glasses Proj, Recognitions, K Transition, virtual learning kits distribution tinyurl.com/y3a62865

Check out Floyd County Community Early Childhood Council provides to families two Saturday’s a month for ages B-5! m.facebook.com/pg/fcceccky/vi… Thank you, Russ Barker, CEO at McDowell/ARH for sponsoring for our families! youtu.be/R5WE5MkEgtY

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #10 (23 mins)
Develop a literacy identity that promotes lifelong learning.
• Provide opportunities for students to view themselves as lifelong learners who take an active role in their literacy development, understanding they impact and are impacted by their interactions with text
• Carole Mullins, NBCT and Reb…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #9 (31 mins)
Apply high level cognitive processes to think deeply and critically about text.
• Help students must move beyond basic comprehension and interact more deeply with the text
• By applying synthesis, analysis, reflection and other higher order thinking skills, students are equipped to examine text cri…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #6-7 (37 mins)
#6: Collaborate with others to create meaning. #7: Utilize digital resources to learn and share with others.
• Help students learn to interact with others in order to confirm, challenge or shape their views and ideas
• Know how to effectively produce and critically consume digital information
•…Read More

INTRODUCTION TO THE 10 INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICES (18 mins)
• Understanding the purpose and function of the practices
• Carole Mullins, NBCT

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #1 (32 mins)
Recognize that text is anything that communicates a message.
• Expand traditional knowledge about text to include visual, auditory & digital sources
• Use sources across disciplines to provide increasingly rigorous opportunities for students to interpret messages communicated through different med…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #2 (29 mins)
Employ, develop, and refine schema to understand create text.
• Through the use of multiple texts and interdisciplinary content, activate students’ schema. Provide opportunities for developing new connections, applying specialized vocabulary and reflecting on new understandings
• Appropriate for K…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #3 (30 mins)
View literacy experiences as transactional, interdisciplinary, and transformational.
• When students’ literacy experiences cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, their knowledge is expanded and relevant
• Students’ interactions with text become transformational when they are motivated to purs…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #4 (30 mins)
Utilize receptive and expressive language arts to better understand self, others and the world. View literacy experiences as transactional, interdisciplinary, and transformational.
• Experiencing both receptive (i.e., listening, reading and viewing) and expressive (i.e., speaking, writing and v…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #5 (38 mins)
Apply strategic practices, with scaffolding and then independently, to approach new literacy tasks.
• Help students to strategically approach literacy tasks in order to make intentional decisions about when, where and how to apply thinking and learning processes
• Independence and tra…Read More

https://www.edutopia.org/article/developing-love-reading-students

https://www.edsurge.com/amp/news/2020-02-04-play-is-disappearing-from-kindergarten-it-s-hurting-kids?utm_campaign=site&utm_content=share-25&__twitter_impression=true

https://info.childcareaware.org/blog/how-storybook-reading-helps-children-cope-after-a-disaster?hs_amp=true&__twitter_impression=true

https://info.childcareaware.org/blog/research-round-up-screen-time?hs_amp=true&__twitter_impression=true

https://heckmanequation.org/resource/abc-care-elements-of-quality-early-childhood-programs-that-produce-quality-outcomes/

https://www.ffyf.org/what-do-we-really-mean-when-we-talk-about-brain-science-in-early-childhood-development/

https://www.edsurge.com/amp/news/2020-02-14-why-aren-t-we-paying-early-childhood-educators-what-they-re-worth?__twitter_impression=true

Composition Video Resources Link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vIg6dkOjgATOSbQCosjIiKQFMGGIqzs1?usp=sharing

KAS for Reading and Writing Video Series: EPISODES 1-5 RESOURCES LINK:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XaizNuJf-tWqMK0CLJU86EZ08xzOabfI

Our district is looking at other options for Assessment. We currently use Work Sampling for Progress Reporting. Can anyone tell me about Read/Write Gold, Core or Carolina Online? I have heard of some of these.

Floyd County Schools Connection: Early Childhood Program News: October 2018
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1e7-omLthNxS4mIvenwM-pI1uj2zxIqGgSA8yZ4KiNk0/mobilepresent?slide=id.g4212cf8796_5_0

FCS Connection: Early Childhood News
November 2018
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Sl5UnvF8Pkd77HFSSzaoWZH0HgQ9M7JAcODdslDycEY/mobilepresent?slide=id.g4212cf8796_5_0

Floyd County Early Childhood Newsletter slides Dec. 2018.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ol_8ULcGKZsZbJcNzhlGkm5bAJZ5e_HyD681DH6ZZ7A/mobilepresent?slide=id.g4a17010de4_0_110

That was my picture!!! Myself

We have received our ARI Grant materials! My students were so excited when they saw the Light Changing table and all of the manipulatives that came with it. I can’t wait to get started and watch them having fun playing while building those fine motor muscles at the same time!

Hey, KVEC Social Studies – check out our first mini-cast for our Holler!

https://youtu.be/gOESeRAFTm8

Tech Tuesdays are returning! Every Tuesday expect a new video showcasing the newest tech!
Want to know about something specific feel free to let us know. Comment below or just email me at adrian@theholler.org @professorparsons @alexsmith are you ready?!

Application is turned in. Now we wait 💕

Just a friendly heads up. FIRECAST is back! TheHoller.org/firecast

https://www.twitch.tv/thehollergaming
Hey y’all, check out the Holler stream on Thursday and Friday afternoon! Go ahead and hit that heart button on the twitch page so you can be alerted when we go live.

Here’s how we celebrated Pi Day this year in 1st Grade. This was my first time celebrating this day, so I’m sure next year will be even better.

A lesson video I posted to teachertube on how we celebrated the 100th day of school this year! (a little late, but better late than never…)

The understanding of exponents can be a tricky concept to teach mainly because the amount of rules that go along with it. To make it easier and a bit more exciting for my students I gave them the option to do a parody song to get a better understanding of exponents. This assignment alone has been something that my Algebra 1 students bring up…Read More

As I reflect on this opportunity to share technology with my preschoolers, I am very thankful to have been included in this innovation grant. I enjoyed the Fire Summit and being with other teachers and seeing what they are doing in their own classrooms. It was a very inspiring experience. I have learned to be more intentional with technology with…Read More

We’re reviewing patterns and pattern types! My students love using manipulatives to show their understanding

My students are currently using ProdigyGame.com. Prodigy Game is an online gaming website for students K-8. This website is contains Math content that is aligned with the Common Core Curriculum for each state. Students are able to practice numerous state standards through game play. Teacher are able to assign standards and content that are taught…Read More

I use these assessments during each unit! There are multiple choice and free response questions available. Enjoy…oh, they are for 4th grade!!!!

We have been on spring break this week and it has thrown us behind! Next week we will be doing basket weaving on Monday and History of our families on Wednesday then on Friday we will be doing our play!

We have been sending our PBS Tablets home with several students for the weekend. They have got to enjoy working on Science Applications with their parents at home. We introduced this to the parents During a Parent meeting and introduced the skills we were working on in Science. The parents and children both were so excited to get to take the…Read More

Last month in February, I had a parent meeting where I introduced the tablets, discussed coding, and stated that a tablet would be sent home with two children at a time so parents could gain an understanding of what coding was and the skills we were working on.

Last week a parent sent me the photo below along with a paragraph of an app the…Read More

Lock it Down

Bringing toilet paper back to the classroom! My students are using toilet paper squares to model percents of a whole number. Each student is given 10 connected squares of toilet paper along with some counters used to model each whole number. Guided the students in a whole class setting, asking the right questions will lead them to each square…Read More

We have been slow to start with all the school closings for weather and sickness. We have started on our projects though. Miss Janice Mitchell a quilting lady from our community has came in and helped the children do a nine patch block for a paper quilt the children are doing. Here is a few pictures one of the children took with their new IPAD.