Senior Shout-out: Ivan "Junior" Gonzalez
Senior Shout-out: Omar Gonzalez
LMS competed at the Haskel County Relays today. The 7th grade girls came home with a championship plaque! The 8th grade girls placed 3rd, the 8th grade boys placed 5th, and the 7th grade boys placed 6th out of 14 teams.
First day of LMS softball Camp in the books! We got to do some throwing and fielding today with the High School Softball Team! The girls even got to take home a softball for their gloves! Next camp day is this Friday starting at 12pm!
Senior Shout-out: Keanu Esquivel
VOICE OF THE BRONCS
Today's Activities:
1:00 PM - HS Golf @ Syracuse
1:00 PM - MS Track @ Sublette
6:00 PM - GS Concert @ MS
Senior Shout-out: Jessica Gallegos
Senior Shout-out: Alison Cruz
Senior Shout-out: Sebastian Beltran
Lady Broncs fall 0-2 tonight against Cimarron. We celebrated Senior night as it was our last home game! Lady Broncs will be in action Thursday at Holcomb for last regular season game.
FREE Physicals - THANK YOU Kearny County Hospital
#getBETTER
Due to weather, today's JV track meet at Goodland has been cancelled and will NOT be made up.
Here is an article written by Carol Panzer about the new English language arts curriculum that will be implemented next year for grades K-6.
Wit and Wisdom, from the publisher Great Minds, is Lakin Grade School’s new English language arts curriculum. This curriculum will support students’ literacy skills by building deeper background knowledge for reading comprehension as well as writing skills. This is an addition to the Pathways to Reading program that provides the explicit, systematic, and cumulative instruction in phonics/decoding that students require.
Wit and Wisdom is not a reading series that looks like the basal readers used in the past where stories and poems were bound into one volume and would jump from one idea to another in random order. Students will study material in nine-week modules such as A Season of Change (second grade) and A Great Heart (fourth grade). Reading, listening, writing, and speaking activities will build skills and core knowledge around those “big topics”. For example, the materials in a module may include books (fiction and nonfiction), poems, readers’ theater, essays, visual arts (paintings, sculpture, photographs), speeches, etc., but all integrated to expand the concepts in the unit. Students will be learning content in more depth as well as being introduced to a broad range of literacy skills in K-4 instruction.
One thing to remember, as this curriculum begins next year, is that it may seem more rigorous than expected. Students will be listening to texts above their chronological grade level since the research shows students’ comprehension of oral language often exceeds their reading comprehension. And hearing complex text builds their background knowledge to prepare them for higher-level reading. Professional development for the teachers will be provided, and as always, materials will be scaffolded as needed to support all students.
Learning to write as well as writing to learn are integral parts of the curriculum. For example, students in all grades will respond to literature and draw or write informational and persuasive pieces in a coherent continuum. As students gain expertise, longer pieces will be expected and students will use rubrics to self-evaluate their own writing.
Families can look for reading fluency work that builds from the module’s theme, drawing and/or writing assignments that promote deeper thinking about the topics, explicit grammar practice tied to the reading and writing topics, and continued opportunities for cooperative learning that support learning by face-to-face communication.
New materials for learning but the goal is the same: Increased literacy for the students of USD 215.
Activities Week at a Glance
Busy day for the Broncs:
9:00 AM - JV Golf @ Ulysses
3:00 PM - JV Track @ Goodland
4:00 PM - HS BSB @ Cimarron
4:00 PM - HS SFB (H) vs Cimarron | Senior Night
Senior Shout-out: Tristen Cox
Senior Shout-out: Braden Fisher
Senior Shout-out: Alexis Diaz
