Weekly Email

Dear Families,

What a GREAT first (short) week of school! Thank you to those of you that came to my Back to School Meeting. We had very few questions, so I didn't choose to send out a recording after all. EXTRA thanks to everyone who has already filled out the form! If you haven't had a chance yet, it's not too late!

Just make sure you've gone through the Flipped Back to School including the Common Questions doc to learn everything you need to know and then fill out the form!

I am answering concerns or questions as quickly as I am able. (That's why this email is coming on a Tuesday instead of a Monday.) I believe I have answered anything that came in yesterday and this morning. If I haven't replied, please let me know right away!!!

Happy Reading, Learning and Growing this week!

Julie

1. If you are still having trouble with email, let me know ASAP. I have had to reset passwords for so many kids. It has to be done one at a time.
2. If you have trouble viewing this type of email, I can text you the link to your phone. Just fill out the request for this year at this link.
3. Finally, if you have a second guardian you want me to CC on all emails, please add their name and email address to the same link.

Bright Thinker online materials are live! Non-Bright Thinker course cards will be added this week.

Your student's login will be in this format: firstname.lastname. So, for example, Harry Potter would be harry.potter for his username. Password is always utahonline.

If your name is hyphenated or common, there might be an exception. Reach out if you have trouble.

I have some fun art supplies for everyone. I handed out some at the pool party and I will bring more to Acadience testing. I hope to see everyone soon so I can give them all out!

Remember, every child can have a Chromebook to check out but you are responsible for it. You will need to fill out the contract at this link once for each child borrowing one. Purchasing has been changed this year. We will now have a 5 year purchase structure instead of 3.

I get a lot of questions that ask about the same things. Please check out this Web Slides site that I made for you. Most questions are answered here.

These courses are managed by our wonderful school mentors who began work on the first day of school. They are working hard to clear out old accounts and replace with new. I will add course cards in Bright Thinker as a placeholder this week, but your account in those programs might not be active yet if it is a new request.

Also, two special cases:

• iReady eliminates all accounts at the end of the school year and we have to re-create every course. This will take the mentor some time to complete.
• Signing Time is now virtual and we order once a year. I am required to upload all students wanting this course this year by the end of September. If you want this course this year, make sure that you requested it previously during placement or that you request it on the course changes link.

• August:

19th - Imaginaria Back to School Bash (RSVP HERE)

27th - Reading Acadience Testing for grades K-5 (Please try to make this day work first.)

• September:

2nd - Make-up Acadience Testing for grades K-5

11th- First Virtual Activity!

WE'LL USE MRS. LARSEN'S ROOM AGAIN THIS YEAR.

Back to School is a FLIPPED MEETING. That means you look over everything in advance and thenask questions. We held our Q&A meeting last week but there were very few questions and so I am not sending the recording.

When you are done with everything, please fill out the form. You can access the flipped slides at the link and the form link in the buttons below.

If you Log in from 9:00 to 9:30am on Friday, Aug 21st, I will be in my classroom again to walk through questions. My ZOOM link is in my signature below. (It is included on all my emails in the signature.)

We will have a few repeated items beginning after Labor Day. Here are my tentative plans.

MONDAYS: Progress Monitoring at noon until 1:00 pm for Acadience tested students. Frequency determined by your test results.

TUESDAYS: Upper Grade Math Tutoring. Again, beginning after Labor Day, plan between 11:00 and 1:00 for grades 5-7. It will be an open time in a ZOOM classroom to look at the previous week's work and answer questions and then look forward to the upcoming week. More details on the breakdown soon. This is optional but might be helpful for your student if they need support.

MONDAY- THURSDAY: WIN time (What I Need Time) will begin after all Acadience testing is done and we've been able to do a follow-up screener. This is for students who need extra support as shown in Acadience Testing results.

FRIDAY: Class Virtual Activity! This is always a fun time. Our first activity will be on 9/11. We will switch back to Mrs. Larsen's room again this year.

Remember to check out our RSVP Site. There are other activities that you may want to attend!

This is for grades K-5 and is required by Utah Law unless you opt out. Older grades, we'll do a different reading screener just to see how everyone is doing and if anyone needs support after I am done with all Acadience. There is no long a required Acadience Math test.

Please pick a slot at the link below. Remember to maintain student privacy, only put the parent name on this form.

If you wish to opt out of testing this year, please let me know right away and I will get you the link. You will use the same link to opt out of Acadience or RISE.

If you have an older student, we'll do a reading screener after Acadience is finished.

Speech screenings will happen in Early September. If you have concerns about your child's speech, please reach out by email right away.

Remember I'm only an email, phone call, or text away!

Happy Learning!

Julie