Weekly News for Oct 21- Oct 25

I can't believe how fast October is flying by! I have a great group of learners and am so proud of the work everyone is doing! We are in the midst of our October progress reviews this week and will be continuing them next week. Remember that your child should be spending 27.75 hours a week on learning activities, which is about 5.5 hours each day. This includes time spent in all the Accelerate Education courses, workbooks, Art and PE activities, reading, and any time learning new skills. Please make sure that these activities are balanced and varied and you are showing evidence of learning in each subject. I do look at the amount of time students spend in each subject during the month and base their progress on that as well as the percentage of progression. Keep up the hard work in Accelerate Education!

Please remember that our field trip to the CASEE Center Pumpkin Patch will be taking the place of our in-person class tomorrow.

Accelerate Education Due Dates - Module 8 this week

Students should be doing one Module in Language Arts and Math each week. Most students should be working on Module 8 in Language Arts and Math this week unless your student started later in September or October.

Please be aware that there is no school for students on Wednesday, October 30 for a teacher in-service day. This means that I will be unavailable to answer questions or help with Accelerate Education. If you send me an email, I will respond as soon as I can. You may notice that there are no assignments due for students that day. Feel free to take the day off or use it to catch up!

Thank you for all the hard work you are doing as your child's learning coach! Have a great week!

Ms. Harrier and Mr. Cain

🎃 October 22 - Pumpkin Patch Field Trip - Permission Slips due 10/15

📚 October 25 - All Kindergarten and 2nd Grade In-Person Reading Assessments Due

😎 October 30 - District In-Service Day - No School

👂 November 5 - Hearing and Vision Screening

🎖 November 11 - Veterans Day - No School

🦃 November 27-29 - Thanksgiving Break - No School

Thank you so much for helping your first and second graders complete the i-Ready test! We are completing the rest of the required district reading assessments for our kindergarten and second grade students. First graders are all complete at this time! If your child still needs to do one of these assessments, I will be contacting you to schedule a time.

WaKIDS for Kindergarten Students: If you have a newly enrolled Kindergarten student, I will be contacting you to schedule a time to complete the Early Literacy Skills Assessment (ELSA).

For kindergarten, I will need to do multiple observations each week for our WaKIDS assessment. Some of these assessments will be during our advising meetings in October or during our virtual or in-person classes. I would like all kindergarten students to attend our kindergarten Monday Trekker Talk Meetings on Google Meet at 10:00 for the month of October and part of November as I will be doing some specific kindergarten activities. These virtual meetings may go a bit longer than normal but we will be done by 10:45.

If your child is attending our Tuesday in-person classes, please bring your child to the locked gate by the small parking lot/gym at 10:00 and I will be waiting for your child to walk back to our classroom. Campus Security is sometimes at the gate and may also let you in and if so, you can meet under the covered awning by the east door to the Longhouse. We will be in Longhouse Room 7 for most of the time. I will bring students back out at 11:55 through the gate and you can park along the curb in the parent pickup area closest to the building. If you prefer to park and meet us by the gate at the end of class, that is also fine. Please make sure you are following the traffic flow map when coming on campus. Click on the picture to make it larger. Also, have your student bring a water bottle and a snack if your child needs one. Bring a jacket if it is raining or cold as we usually go outside unless it is raining heavily.

For every class virtual meeting, have your child keep a blank sheet of paper to draw on, a pencil or marker to draw with, and crayons or colored pencils nearby. We won't be doing a directed drawing each week, but that way your child is prepared for our class in case it is needed. I will see virtual students on Google Meet on Thursday!

Topic: Ms. Harrier's K-2 Virtual Class Meeting on Google Meet

Time: Thursdays from 10:00-11:00 AM

Use the same link that you have already received via email for all of our virtual class meetings.

Come join our Monday Morning Trekker Talk Meetings! This is an optional meeting to kick off the week, review last week's learning, preview learning for this upcoming week, and to interact with other students in their grade level. I would like all Kindergartners to come starting this week through mid-November for our WaKIDS assessments. Please make sure your student brings a small whiteboard and dry erase marker or paper to write on each week.

Monday Morning Weekly Check-ins through Zoom with each grade level.

Please remember that the due dates for Language Arts may be a bit incorrect on your student's Accelerate Education calendar. This is because they are based on your child's start date and has the end date as the end of the semester in January. Depending on the course, there may be times that the calendar may show that your child should be doing 2 lessons a day or working on more than one module each week. Please ignore the calendar in Language Arts if it is incorrect and only do one lesson a day. Students should be doing one Module in Language Arts and Math each week. Most students should be working on Module 8 in Language Arts and Math Arts this week. It is okay to be in a different place if you are new to our program and are just getting started. This calendar is a guide to help you stay on track so you can finish by the end of the semester. Each module has 5 lessons in Language Arts and Math. For Social Studies and Science, you will notice that there are only one or two lessons in each module.