Happy Monday and happy Thanksgiving week! Since it looks like we will be remote for at least one more week after Thanksgiving, I want to go back to a style that is more similar to my older posts, while still including some of the remote reminders. As always, if you have questions, please reach out!
As announced by the district earlier this morning, we are remote this week and next week for sure, with our first possible day of in person learning coming Tuesday, December 8. There will be another materials pickup next Monday (November 30). You will be receiving an email from the school, as well as the 6th grade teachers, if your 6th grader has work to pick up. If there are materials to pick up, please do so on Monday, since the students will need those materials in order to successfully continue their online learning. As a reminder, if students have paper copies of work that need to be turned in, those can be dropped off at the school or sent via email. As another reminder, students should be in video calls every day (Monday-Friday). The times with their 6th grade teachers are 8:30-9:30 and 10:30-11:30, PE is from 1:30-2:00, and Guidance/Art are Wednesday and Friday from 9:45-10:15. As remote learning continues, we are ending up with less students on the calls, which is going to negatively impact their grade, since they are missing their core instruction. Videos, while better than nothing, do not replace the on screen time with the teacher. Since teachers will be providing instruction during those video calls, it is important for every student to join the call and participate for the entire session. Their attendance and participation in the call also counts toward their daily attendance. If there's a reason why your student will not be in the call or will miss part of the call, an email would be great! If your student has to miss a video call due to an appointment, we are posting short recordings on either the 6th grade website or Google classroom, though those videos are not up until later in the afternoon. Students who miss the class calls are still expected to complete the daily assignments and watch the recordings. During our days, students should start by checking the 6th grade website to see their assignments for the day, then be prepared to join each of the Google meets on time. Interventions also started last week, so students should have some math/reading to complete for interventions independently. Grades can be checked at any time on Skyward by either the parent or the student. For math this week, we are completing a review packet over chapter two, as well as some themed review in honor of Thankgsiving. Next week, we will have one more review day, then be taking our test electronically over chapter two. It is very important that students are online during our call on Tuesday, since it will be a test day. After that, we will be moving on to our next chapter in math. Since our primary focus is math and ELA right now, we are not pushing out new science and social studies materials. Because of this, if students wish to raise those grades, they will need to email their teacher about redoing individual assignments. Thank you for your help and support as we work on continuing our education remotely. If you have any questions, please reach out! Happy Thanksgiving! Ms Kennell
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Carrie Painter
11/23/2020 05:41:30 pm
Happy Thanksgiving to you too!
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