Anonymous wrote:Our daughter's teacher sends home a data notebook about once a month - shows how she did on a few "tests" (things like letter recognition, letter sounds, how many numbers can you write to 100, reading level) along with some samples of classroom papers. Between that and the report card, I feel like we have a good handle on how our child is doing. I assumed the notebook was a county-wide thing - no?

Noooo! We have nothing like that. I would love to have that much info about my 2nd grader.

Anonymous wrote:Do colleges see Kindergarten report cards?

Alright sarcastic B that keeps mentioning college. No one cares about ivy league. Is it wrong to want to have a freaking clue what your kid is doing in school, how their behavior is, if they focus and can work on their own, if they disrupt, are rushing thru work, not trying their best, getting too stressed and caring too much about a mistake etc...

I rather have a "report card" that has one written paragraph than all these P's and I's.

Anonymous wrote:Our daughter's teacher sends home a data notebook about once a month - shows how she did on a few "tests" (things like letter recognition, letter sounds, how many numbers can you write to 100, reading level) along with some samples of classroom papers. Between that and the report card, I feel like we have a good handle on how our child is doing. I assumed the notebook was a county-wide thing - no?

No way!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our daughter's teacher sends home a data notebook about once a month - shows how she did on a few "tests" (things like letter recognition, letter sounds, how many numbers can you write to 100, reading level) along with some samples of classroom papers. Between that and the report card, I feel like we have a good handle on how our child is doing. I assumed the notebook was a county-wide thing - no?

We have that too!

The data notebook is a remnant of when MCPS was very into Baldridge. Some teachers still do it but it is not something MCPS mandates anymore.

Anonymous wrote:Our daughter's teacher sends home a data notebook about once a month - shows how she did on a few "tests" (things like letter recognition, letter sounds, how many numbers can you write to 100, reading level) along with some samples of classroom papers. Between that and the report card, I feel like we have a good handle on how our child is doing. I assumed the notebook was a county-wide thing - no?

We have that too!