Mrs. Pellin's Post
January 5th - January 9th

Winter break will be from Monday, December 22nd until Friday, January 2nd. Have a wonderful holiday! I look forward to seeing you again on Monday, January 5th.

During the first week back, I will be administering the winter benchmark test to the kindergarten, first and second graders. This is part of the state mandated RTI program and will be used to assess each student's progress.

Center Cass School District # 66 is in the process of implementing an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response of Intervention (RTI). RTI is an array of procedures that can be used to determine if and how students respond to specific changes in instruction. RTI provides an improved process and instruction for school teams in designing, implementing, and educational interventions.

Mrs. Pellin's Post
December 15th - December 19th

This week I will continue progress monitoring all three grade levels. This will continue until the holiday break.

I will resume guided reading for the first graders this week. Guided reading has the students reading stories that both engage the student's interest and are appropriate for their reading level. The students will write about activites they hope to do over the holiday break.

The second graders will be reading and learning about different Christmas customs around the world. I will be assisting the second grade teachers with activities associated with these different cultures. On Thursday we will be caroling at the Fairview Retirement Home in Downers Grove.

Center Cass School District # 66 is in the process of implementing an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response of Intervention (RTI). RTI is an array of procedures that can be used to determine if and how students respond to specific changes in instruction. RTI provides an improved process and instruction for school teams in designing, implementing, and educational interventions.

Mrs. Pellin's Post
December 8th - December 12th

This week I will resume progress monitoring with all three grade levels. Progress monitoring will continue until the holiday break.

I will begin implementing guided reading for the first graders this week. Guided reading has the students reading stories that both engage the student's interest and are appropriate for their reading level. We will also write about the stories we read.

The second graders will also be continuing guided reading this week. They will be "making words" with magnetic letters. They will write about the beginning, middle, and ending of the stories they read.

Center Cass School District # 66 is in the process of implementing an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response of Intervention (RTI). RTI is an array of procedures that can be used to determine if and how students respond to specific changes in instruction. RTI provides an improved process and instruction for school teams in designing, implementing, and educational interventions.

Mrs. Pellin's Post
December 8th - December 12th

This week I will resume progress monitoring with all three grade levels. Progress monitoring will continue until the holiday break.

I will begin implementing guided reading for the first graders this week. Guided reading has the students reading stories that both engage the student's interest and are appropriate for their reading level. We will also write about the stories we read.

The second graders will also be continuing guided reading this week. They will be "making words" with magnetic letters. They will write about the beginning, middle, and ending of the stories they read.

Center Cass School District # 66 is in the process of implementing an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response of Intervention (RTI). RTI is an array of procedures that can be used to determine if and how students respond to specific changes in instruction. RTI provides an improved process and instruction for school teams in designing, implementing, and educational interventions.

Mrs. Pellin's Post
November 24th to November 25th

I wish all of your families a very Happy Thanksgiving and I will be back to school the week of December 1st.

Center Cass School District # 66 is in the process of implementing an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response of Intervention (RTI). RTI is an array of procedures that can be used to determine if and how students respond to specific changes in instruction. RTI provides an improved process and instruction for school teams in designing, implementing, and educational interventions.

Mrs. Pellin's Post
November 10th to November 14th

This week my first grade students will learn about the consonant sounds "J" and "Z". We will be reciting a poem about jackets, zippers, and zoo's. The vowel we will work on is u and umbrellas. The poem is:

Jackets have zippers,

Jungles have trees,

Zoos have zebras,

Zookeepers have knees!

The second grade students will continue to work on guided reading and write summaries in their journals about the stories we are reading. We will also write about the things for which we are thankful.

As I continue to progress monitor for the RTI program, I am happy to see how much progress is being made by our students.

Center Cass School District # 66 is in the process of implementing an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response of Intervention (RTI). RTI is an array of procedures that can be used to determine if and how students respond to specific changes in instruction. RTI provides an improved process and instruction for school teams in designing, implementing, and educational interventions.

Mrs. Pellin's Post
November 3rd to November 7th

This week my first grade students will learn about the consonant sounds "Y" and "V". We will be reciting a poem about violets in a vase from "me to you." The children will sort picture cards to match them to the beginning sounds of "V" and "Y" . We will also learn the short "E" sound by reading about Ed the Elephant. The elephant on the right is eight days old.



The second grade students will continue to work on guided reading and write summaries in their journals about the stories we are reading. We will work on the differences between fantasy and realism. For example, realism is "After school Tom walked home." Fantasy is "After school Tom flew in a rocket to his house on the moon." We will also play spelling games from their weekly spelling lists. The students will make words using magnetic letters.



Center Cass School District # 66 is in the process of implementing an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response of Intervention (RTI). RTI is an array of procedures that can be used to determine if and how students respond to specific changes in instruction. RTI provides an improved process and instruction for school teams in designing, implementing, and educational interventions.

Mrs. Pellin's Post
October 27th to October 31st

This week my first grade students will learn about the consonant sounds "D" and "L". We will be reading about a duck and a lion. The children will sort picture cards to match them to the beginning sounds of "D" and "L" . We will also learn the short "O" sound and read about Ollie the Ostrich. Can you find the ostrich on this page?

The second grade students will continue to work on guided reading and write summaries in their journals about the stories we are reading. We will also play spelling games from their weekly spelling lists. The students will make words using magnetic letters.

Happy Halloween to everyone!

Center Cass School District # 66 is in the process of implementing an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response of Intervention (RTI). RTI is an array of procedures that can be used to determine if and how students respond to specific changes in instruction. RTI provides an improved process and instruction for school teams in designing, implementing, and educational interventions.

Mrs. Pellin's Post

October 20th to October 24th

Last week a great deal of my time was devoted to progress monitoring many students. Therefore, this week my first grade students will continue to focus on the consonants "G" and "R". We will be reading about a tiger and the sounds that he makes by working on the sounds that "G" and "R" make. We will begin by working on the letter sounds separately and then working on blending the letters to make the sound that a tiger makes ("GRRR").

The second grade students will continue to work on guided reading and write summaries in their journals about the stories we are reading. We will also begin to play spelling games from their weekly spelling lists.

Center Cass School District # 66 is in the process of implementing an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response of Intervention (RTI). RTI is an array of procedures that can be used to determine if and how students respond to specific changes in instruction. RTI provides an improved process and instruction for school teams in designing, implementing, and educational interventions.

Mrs. Pellin's Post
October 6th to October 10th

This week my first grade students will focus on the consonants "B" and "R". We will work to learn the consonants sounds by sorting picture cards and saying "B" and "R" chants. We will also work on the short "i" sound by blending short "i" words.

The second grade students will continue to work on guided reading and write summaries in their journals about the stories we are reading. We will also work on the Starfall Phonics computer program.

Center Cass School District # 66 is in the process of implementing an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response of Intervention (RTI). RTI is an array of procedures that can be used to determine if and how students respond to specific changes in instruction. RTI provides an improved process and instruction for school teams in designing, implementing, and educational interventions.

Mrs. Pellin's Post

September 29th to October 3rd.

RTI has gotten off to a great start this week! I enjoyed meeting lots of eager new students. The students are excited about our new computer intervention called "I Station!" I will also continue to work with first and second grade students using the Houghton-Mifflin Intervention Strategies Program. We will work on letter recognition and letter sounds in first grade. In second grade we will focus on fluency skills.

Center Cass School District # 66 is in the process of implementing an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response of Intervention (RTI). RTI is an array of procedues that can be used to determine if and how students respond to specific changes in instruction. RTI provides an improved process and instruction for school teams in designing, implementing, and educational interventions.

I am looking forward to starting the Response to Intervention (RTI) program next week. Kindergarten classes will be introduced to the "Handwriting Without Tears" intervention. We will be using sticks to learn how to construct letters. We will construct the letters while listening to a special song with the "Hokey-Pokey" melody. This will help the students to remember the construction of each letter.

First grade classes will begin working on the Houghton-Mifflin intervention strategies. We will begin playing games correlating with the "m" and "t" letter sounds.

Center Cass School District # 66 is in the process of implementing an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response of Intervention (RTI). RTI is an array of procedues that can be used to determine if and how students respond to specific changes in instruction. RTI provides an improved process and instruction for school teams in designing, implementing, and educational interventions.

This week we have been working on the RTI schedules for kindergarten, first and second grades. We are still preparing for the beginning of the RTI program which will start Monday, September 22nd at Elizabeth Ide.

Center Cass School District # 66 is in the process of implementing an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response of Intervention (RTI). RTI is an array of procedues that can be used to determine if and how students respond to specific changes in instruction. RTI provides an improved process and instruction for school teams in designing, implementing, and educational interventions.

Reading

This week we have been administering the aimsweb test to the children in kindergarten, first, and second grade. We are still preparing for the beginning of the RTI program which will start Monday, September 22nd at Elizabeth Ide.

RTI

Center Cass School District # 66 is in the process of implementing an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response of Intervention (RTI). RTI is an array of procedues that can be used to determine if and how students respond to specific changes in instruction. RTI provides an improved process and instruction for school teams in designing, implementing, and educational interventions.

Mrs. Pellin - Reading Teacher