September 2011 Newsletter

Sept 2011 Newsletter

Back to School Information

KISD Back to School Links

BISD School Supply Lists

TISD Back to School Info

CCISD Back to School Links

How to Help your Child Make Math Connections

Single parent... working two jobs... afraid you don't have enough time to sit down and practice math with your child? Here is a great article from SchoolFamily.com on using everyday items and tasks to help your children practice and understand math.

How to Help your Child Make Math Connections

Matter of fact, while watching my 5 year old neice a few weeks ago, I needed to count out 100 'S.M.A.R.T. Zone' pencils for a workshop. I turned this into an opportunity to practice math. Instead of counting to 100, we decided to sort them by stacks of ten, counted by 10's until we reached 100. I also threw in the "now we have 7 piles of 10 pencils each... how many more piles do we need to reach 100?" I can't wait until my daughter is old enough to do this same "everyday math" with her.

Please comment with any fun, simple, everyday, around the house math tips/ideas.

Preparing for Back to School

With a one year old, I feel the past year has REALLY flown by! Although I can't completely relate to what many of you are/will be going through as you prepare to send your babies back to school, I can provide a few resources I recently stumbled upon. Let us know what you think and if this information was useful.

Get Ready for Kindergarten - SchoolFamily.com

11 Tips for Kindergarten Parents

5 sack lunches kids love

Start the School Year Right

12 Back to School Organizational Tips

KISD 2011 District Accountability

Congratulations to KISD for having the following ratings under the 2011 TEA District Accountability: (Clifton Park ES, Mountain View ES, Venable Village ES, Montague Village ES, Oveta Culp Hobby ES were all rated Exemplary!)

EXEMPLARY                             5
RECOGNIZED                           22
ACADEMICALLY ACCEPTABLE              19
ACADEMICALLY UNACCEPTABLE             0
AEA: ACADEMICALLY ACCEPTABLE          2
AEA: ACADEMICALLY UNACCEPTABLE        0
AEA: NOT RATED - OTHER                0
NOT RATED: OTHER                      5
NOT RATED: DATA INTEGRITY ISSUES      0
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TOTAL                                53
Check out the link for details on each school.2011 TEA KISD Accountability Chart