Basketball practices start on Monday for our 5th/6th grade girls and our 7th/8th grade girls. Best of luck to the ladies and coaches as they embark on a journey for the next several months. This journey entails long nights, big emotions (highs & lows), scheduling challenges for parents, scheduling challenges for students and pushing through the hard stuff to develop determination in their lives.

The iReady scores from our fall assessment are broken down into the sections your child is in this year. We will provide individual results at the parent-teacher conferences in November, but I like to share overall results with families to see our starting point for instruction this year.

We have not fully put our minds into the results of the data, but snapshot analysis shows that our students are beginning to identify the iReady program's expectations and style of writing for math. These results do not correlate with our IAR scores that identify our students as being stronger in reading than math. Therefore, we are going to do a heavy concentration this year on exposing your students to a variety of mathematics and language so as to increase their skills in interpreting questions and solving problems.

When you hear a negative statement from your children, guide them to “rewrite the script.”

This means asking the child to rephrase their statement into a more balanced or constructive one. The goal is not to force toxic positivity or deny real feelings, but to help children practice shifting from unhelpful self-talk to healthier, more realistic perspectives.
Example:
Student says: “I’m terrible at math.”
Rewritten script: “Math is challenging for me, but I can improve with practice.”
Key reminder:
This is about encouraging realistic optimism and self-compassion, not pretending everything is perfect.

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Reminder that all students are offered free breakfast daily.