A picture for third grade

Third grade is when many students get their first taste of how beautiful the Universe can be in their study of Astronomy. One of my favorite sites is APOD(Astronomy Picture Of the Day).
This is a picture of the Annular Solar Eclipse of January 15th of this year. I encourage you to go to the site- the picture there is larger and more detailed than the one I've posted here.

For Fourth Grade

San Francisco in 1906

Testing at Rancho

As I'm sure many of you know, NUSD is now using the Northwest Evaluation
Association's student assessment tool,Measures of Academic Progress (MAP).
Because students take the test on a computer, it immediately adapts to each individual student's ability, getting easier or harder as students answer each question. The assessment results are available immediately and provide teachers with an accurate and clear picture of what a child knows and needs to know next. It's another useful tool for making sure that all Rancho Students get the personalized study plan that they need.

The test is for grades 2-5. The test is given in the Rancho Computer lab. NWEA's website is here. Information for parents can be found here on their website. The Parent Toolkit will give you more information here. I've also provided a link to the toolkit in the Parent Links on the right side of this page.

All grade 2-5 students were tested in the fall. We'll be testing again the first two weeks in February. The kids seem to enjoy the testing as a break from everyday work.

First post of new year::Continued Progress in Accelerated Reader

A new year, new things happening at Rancho

The first document camera/video projector/laptop has been deployed in a classroom.
I'm finding it's more complex to do this than I thought. More later.

The Librarian got a brand new computer for check out. The old one was terribly slow, incredibly old, and crashed frequently. Hopefully the new computer will make check out/ check in much easier and speedier.

Rancho students continue to read as if there were no tomorrow. Today's Totals:

3,979 books read
77,853,322 words read.
99% participation in grades 2-5.