I'm happy to announce that I will be a Multicultural Children's book day book reviewer!

I'm so happy to share with you all that I am going to be a Multicultural Children's Book Day book reviewer! The book that I will be reviewing is "We Are Grateful" by Traci Sorrell.

I have had this book on my radar so I was so happy to hear that I was one of the reviewers for this book!! Check back in a few weeks to hear all about the book! I can't wait to receive it in the mail! :o)

Progress Reports/Report Cards

Kindergarten has 2 progress reports that will be sent home this school year. The first one will be sent home in your childs folder on November 30th and the second one will be sent home on the last day of school in June. This differs from the other grades who have 3 report cards that go home. Kindergarten however, has 2 parent-teacher conferences; one in December and one in May/June. The other grades will only have 1 parent-teacher conference in December. 

You can browse through a sample progress report for kindergarten here to see all of the kindergarten benchmarks

You can browse the rubrics that we use to score each student below:

English Language Arts Reading Rubric 

English Language Arts Writing Rubric

Mathematics

Science & Technology

Social Studies

Welcome Class of 2031!!

I am so excited to meet my new students!! Welcome Aarna, Aishah, Bennett, Cham, Desmond, Estella, Eva, Faith, Grayson, Hannah, Holden, Iris, Keagen, Lucas, Malcolm, Maren, Nathan, Omar, Piya, Sanaya, Timothy, Virginia, Victoria and William! I can't wait  to start school in just a couple weeks!! In your mailing that you should have received by now from the school it listed your half hour time slot to come visit the classroom on Tuesday, September 4th. It also included whether your child is scheduled to come to school on Wednesday, September 5th or Thursday, September 6th. (The town started kindergarten a little differently starting two years ago as a way to ease the kindergarten students into the new school year with half of the class at first and then the full class. Half of the class will come on Wednesday for a full day of school 8:10-2:30 then those kids will NOT come on Thursday and start back for good on Friday with the whole class together for the first time. The other half of the class will come to school on Thursday 8:10-2:30 and NOT Wednesday and come again on Friday.) If you have any questions please feel free to email me at clloyd@arlington.k12.ma.us Check out our class twitter page to see some pictures of us in action and see some fun things we learn!! @MrsLloydsKdg

Incoming Kindergarten meet-ups/playdates

Hello families,
     If you are interested in meeting other future Peirce kindergartners and their families please check out the Arlington Family Connection website. This group arranges meet-ups at different playgrounds throughout the summer and sometimes even playdates

*NEW* Class Schedule

This is our latest class schedule as of 9/12/17.

Welcome Class of 2030!!

Welcome Alice, Amy, August, Aurelia, Claire, Dani, Declan, Devin, Edwin, Emmy, Geoffrey, Holden, Jack, Jay, Jeremiah, Johan, Kilian, Leila, Matt, Maya, Naomi, Shae and Violet!! I am so excited to start school in just a couple weeks!! In your mailing that you should have received by now from the school it listed your half hour time slot to come visit the classroom on Tuesday, September 5th. It also included whether your child is scheduled to come to school on Wednesday, September 6th or Thursday, September 7th. (The town started kindergarten a little differently starting last year as a way to ease the kindergarten students into the new school year with half of the class at first and then the full class. Half of the class will come on Wednesday for a full day of school 8:10-2:30 then those kids will NOT come on Thursday and start back for good on Friday with the whole class together for the first time. The other half of the class will come to school on Thursday 8:10-2:30 and NOT Wednesday and come again on Friday.) If you have any questions please feel free to email me at clloyd@arlington.k12.ma.us

25 Days until Kindergarten!!

Today marks the start to our "Kindergarten Countdown" check out the calendar above for a fun activity for your child to do each day up until our first day of school (the visitation day on Tuesday, September 5th). Can't wait to see you all in just a few weeks!!