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Anonymous wrote:Parents may submit up to two optional work samples. Please share with your AART at your local school by January 5, 2024

I copied this from their email .
My son is grade 2

Huh, they must be trying to make the kids who are in-pool stronger. Our AART has said for years that kids who are parent referred end up looking better than many in-pool kids because they have all the extra paragraphs of justification and the extra work samples.

Kids whose parents don’t refer will have plenty of work samples provided by the school.

Anonymous wrote:Parents may submit up to two optional work samples. Please share with your AART at your local school by January 5, 2024

I copied this from their email .
My son is grade 2

Huh, they must be trying to make the kids who are in-pool stronger. Our AART has said for years that kids who are parent referred end up looking better than many in-pool kids because they have all the extra paragraphs of justification and the extra work samples.

Email your AART back and ask if you can see the slideshow presentation they all do around the November timeframe on level IV. Those presentations include 2 or 3 "ideal" work samples along with a what-not-to-do that is super helpful.

Though don't be fooled, I think 1-2 of the work samples are by kids who are older than 2nd grade, so don't worry if the samples look advanced.

I find this site to be a good source of the kind of math problems the AAP.

For language arts I have my kids do Reflections in 2nd grade and we use that. We include both the entry and the artist's statement.

Our AART says to have your kid provide a write-up with the sample explaining their thinking. 00:35 has a good idea, but our AART says to take it a step further and transcribe/have your kid type the explanation. Her words, "The committee doesn't want to hear from you, they want to hear from your child."

Anonymous wrote:NP. We had decided not to parent refer but then we got the notice that our kid is in pool. So now we feel like maybe we should submit something. I'm struggling with the work samples too. My kid doesn't sit at home and write stories on their own.

These parents that have their kid do assignments at home to use for work samples seems so forced to me. How is there any way to know if the kid really did the work on their own?

First, how is the work sample in school generated? The teacher gave an assignments, and the student completes them. Those work sheets are basis for teacher to choose school sample from. How is home assignment method different from school sample creation? They are virtually the same.

There is a misconception that the home work sample has to be thought up by the child like Picasso makes a doodle on a napkin. I am afraid that's not how the best work samples are done.

NP. We had decided not to parent refer but then we got the notice that our kid is in pool. So now we feel like maybe we should submit something. I'm struggling with the work samples too. My kid doesn't sit at home and write stories on their own.

These parents that have their kid do assignments at home to use for work samples seems so forced to me. How is there any way to know if the kid really did the work on their own?

Download some 4th grade worksheets and have DC complete them. Maybe something like labeling planets or body systems.

Our AaRt made me redo my submissions. Said I should only put one sample on each page to make it readable.

PP, one more thing, I also provided some background on some of the sample, such as "this is an excerpt from writing of ..." and even typed some text on the side of paper for explanation because my child's math solution was like handwriting vomit onto a page.

My approach was, provide a prompt on the top of a piece of papers, and let the child do that assignment on the paper.

Suggestions for prompts could be from googling around for "writing prompt for second grader", "drawing prompt for second grader", "math puzzle for second grader", "logic puzzle for second grader".

I had a great sample with the logic puzzle like "the white house is adjacent to pink house, the green house is between pink and red house ... what are the positions of each house?"

You'll just have to keep trying different assignments until you get ones you liked.

BTW, our AART allows every work sample page containing two samples, (one pdf page containing 2 x 1 printout of two pages) so I ended up submitting two math/logic problems in one work sample page, and two pages of writings (from a same writing prompt) on the second work sample page.

Some school AART allows 4x1, but not us.

I think you can submit the questionnaire and the work samples but that may be up to your AART. Before school ended I asked about that date and was told I can update the information I had previously submittted up until the deadline for the my in pool student.

Parents may submit up to two optional work samples. Please share with your AART at your local school by January 5, 2024

I copied this from their email .
My son is grade 2

Anonymous wrote:Hi guys
My son was referred to the AAP process through the universal screener, and they mentioned the due date for the work sample is January 4th. What type of work should I submit, Are there specific requirements to adhere to? Additionally, is there still time to submit or complete the questionnaire form?

What are you talking about? Everything was due on Friday, December 15. Where are you getting this January 4 date? What grade is your child in?

There was a samples on FCPS website but I can’t find it now

The questionnaire and referral were due Dec 15th - but so were work samples, until the screener email updated that 🤷. Ask your AART for clarification.

Hi guys
My son was referred to the AAP process through the universal screener, and they mentioned the due date for the work sample is January 4th. What type of work should I submit, Are there specific requirements to adhere to? Additionally, is there still time to submit or complete the questionnaire form?