AMP Sunday!

Well... I did not accomplish much other than resting yesterday. I had to make up for it today. I went to school and completed my A.M.P.'s (Academic Monitoring Plans) for my students testing below grade level in reading. I hope they are up to "par" because it took a lot of thought and a lot of time to complete them. 

I then worked on printing out the students work for intervention, work for this week, and a couple of things for weeks ahead. I am doing a week related to Thanksgiving. Including both fiction and non-fiction reading materials. It is kind of a short week as we have two early release days for parent/teacher conferences and our usual early release on Wednesdays. I hope it will be engaging enough to get us both through this crazy busy week.

I have some grades to finish inputting tonight. Then I can focus on what is next.
I rarely read anything the crazy rag New York Times releases. It is usually a lot on the nutty side. This one though is accurate. Unfortunately, there are still a lot of teachers not using Research and Evidence based practices to teach reading. NYT  This is more than a little frustrating. I know that colleagues are still using these "Whole Language" approaches. I know our ridiculously expensive and poor quality Basal Reading program does NOT teach systematic phonics.  I just do not know how to change it. I honestly do not think most teachers know what systematic phonics instruction is.

I had to turn up the heat a couple of degrees tonight. I realized that not only was it a bit chilly outside it was a bit chilly inside. I think we have ended our Indian Summer, spent about two weeks in Fall, and have moved on to Winter.

I'm off to finish my grading...