Thursday, January 28, 2016

What's Happening Around Lyon Academy? January 28th, 2016

Take a look at several highlights from around our school this week. If you see an anchor chart, student work, or something else in the building you would like showcased for the staff, please send it to Tyler.Archer@slps.org.

Ms. Wolfenden uses dots on ladybugs to show the amount of growth students achieve on the STAR Reading Assessment. 

Ms. Connell and Ms. Wolfenden created "I Have a Dream" mobiles to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. 

Ms. Connell tracks the Fountas & Pinnell Data for her first and second grade students using a bar graph chart. 


Ms. Salmo and Ms. Kempf explicitly model tasks for IDR (individualized daily reading) by creating anchor charts for students. 

Ms. Salmo uses a fish to track Kindergarten student reading levels as they approach readiness for first grade. 


Ms. Richards posts group members and schedules for daily literacy centers.

Ms. Richards developed a creative anchor chart to introduce the vocabulary found in Reader's Theater. 


Ms. Archer tracks the performance of her 6th and 7th grade Math students' quiz and homework return rates using two line graph bulletin boards. 

Ms. Cychowski created two anchor charts to help students compare and contrast the similarities and differences between animal and plant cells. 

Ms. Jones' students are working on showing the relationship between fractions and decimals through the work they are doing in Math class.