January 2023 From Our Teachers

Leawood Elementary School

Teacher's Newsletter's

To cut down on the emails that are going out to families on Friday, we will start adding teacher's newsletter's to our weekly eBlast, to the monthy Newsletter, and it will also be on our website.  They will not be sent out separately to families by grade on Friday's. Please click HERE for the teacher's newsletter.

POP TOPS

5th grade will once again start collecting pop tops. All the pop tops are given to the Ronald McDonald House to help support their monthly overhead expenses. Please start a jar to collect them in, and I will let you know when to start sending them into school. Thank you, Mrs. Story

Leawood Giving Tree


Thank you for your generous contributions to our annual Giving Tree!  Together, we helped a number of Leawood families have a brighter holiday season.  We are so fortunate to have such a giving community and appreciate the wish list items, winter clothing, and gift cards that were donated. 

Thank you, Leawood Families, for all of the wonderful donations to our Makerspace Creative Corner! We are stocked up on egg cartons and crayons, but will continue to be grateful for other donations from home such as:

The students continue to enjoy time with robots as well as our construction zone area with Legos, Magnatiles, Keva Planks and Marble Runs.  We have a new building material called Clixo which is another way for students to build and create using their imaginations.  

From the Library: Yearbook Orders 


Leawood Elementary School yearbooks are now on sale!  Ordering is available until March 31, 2023. Our full-color yearbook is $16.00 plus tax, and you have the option to create 2 FREE customized pages. To order your yearbook visit: https://www.treering.com/purchase?PassCode=1015155186651069


Our school passcode is 1015155186651069 


Lisa Pepper, Leawood DTL   lisa.pepper@jeffco.k12.co.us

Middle of the Year Testing Data:  Next Steps

In December, your student took benchmark assessments to check in on their growth and mastery.  In the next few weeks, the reports from those tests will be coming home in Friday folders with resources and videos for each grade.  


Acadience shows students foundational reading skills mastery in several areas for grades kindergarten through third.  Each grade has different subtests that are taken three different times per year - fall, winter, and spring.  The tests are different during each period and include text or passages that your child has never seen before.   Our district has put together a document Understanding Acadience Reading for Families to give families more information and resources for what they can do at home.  


All grades kindergarten through fifth grade complete MAP growth testing in reading and math.  MAP shows students’ comprehension and application of knowledge, to learn more about the test here. The reports that come home will show students areas of strength and challenge.  The reports also show how students are growing over time.  For more information about MAP family reports here is a short article about reading the Family Report.   


If you have additional questions after the reports come home feel free to reach out to classroom teachers or me, Jamie Kelley, the instructional coach at jakelley@jeffco.k12.co.us