iReady & Paper Chain Activity
Friday, September 12, 2025
Friday, September 12, 2025
NOTE: To accommodate the iReady diagnostic, we will follow the extended advisory bell schedule (posted below).
iREADY READING DIAGNOSTIC
All 9th grade homerooms will be completing the iReady Reading Diagnostic on their Chromebooks. (they will complete the Math test next week)
Please review the documents provided by Laura O'Brien (see below) - they provide all of the instructions and resources you should need for the assessment. Please see Laura with any questions.
NOTE:
On Thursday, September 11th, in homeroom, please have students log into i-Ready. Please make sure the log in is from the Classlink Launchpad. DO NOT access i-Ready from the drop down menu. It will not let them log in otherwise.
Headphones and mice will be distributed to homerooms on Thursday afternoon by the tech department. Please return all materials to their bags and bins on Friday after testing. The tech department will collect them shortly after.
CAREER CENTER SURVEY
Please post the link below to your Homeroom Google Classroom and have students complete the survey for the Career Center.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5sddtvrO-b7oh_yHU0RjCAS2BK0rHqPI7NOWCxivl4Cqreg/viewform
PAPER CHAIN SIMILARITY ACTIVITY
One of the primary purposes of Advisory is to build meaningful relationships between students and staff, as well as between students and other students. Today's activity helps accomplish this.
Materials
Paper
If you need construction paper, stop by Amy Rosenberg’s room (2073) at your earliest convenience
Stapler, tape, glue, or other means of securing paper rings closed
Instructions
Break your homeroom students into groups of 2 to 4, depending on your preference.
Give students 10-15 minutes to talk to one another in order to identify as many similarities between group members as possible. Examples: all group members have an older sister, all group members went to a country music concert in the last year, etc. They should avoid obvious similarities such as all attending RHHS.
Students will write each similarity they identify on a strip of paper and turn those strips into a paper chain.
After 10-15 minutes, each group should choose 1 or 2 of the most unique similarities to share with the whole class. The group with the longest paper chain can also be recognized.
Decide if/how you want to link and/or display all paper chains in your homeroom classroom.