• November 15: Veterans Day Assembly & 3rd Grade Performance at Celebrate Smith @7:45 AM
• November 22: November Principal Awards & Birthdays and POD Spirit Day @ Celebrate Smith
• November 25-29: NO SCHOOL--THANKSGIVING BREAK!
• December 2: PTA Sponsored Program for Students; Angel Gift Donations Due!
• December 9: Smith Spelling Bee in Cafe @8:00 AM

Please have students wear tennis shoes on the days they go to Health & PE.

• Parents cannot check out their student after 2:45.
  
• Students may bring a healthy snack each day and water.
• Blue Behavior Calendars will be sent home every Thursday. Please sign and return the NEXT day. This allows teachers to communicate with parents when students are not following the Smith STRONG character traits throughout the day. If the calendar doesn't have any teacher notes, that's good!

• If a student is absent, please fill out the short absence form on our Smith homepage.

  https://schools.friscoisd.org/campus/elementary/smith/home or send an email to SmithAttendance@friscoisd.org

• Lunch visitors must check in and provide a photo ID at the office to obtain a Visitor’s Sticker.

• Lunch visitors are NOT permitted to go anywhere else on campus other than the cafeteria.

• Lunch visitors are NOT permitted to use student bathrooms. Please ask to use the bathroom located in the clinic or the staff bathroom in the clinic.

• If waiting to eat lunch with your child, please wait in the cafeteria at the designated Visitor Table so your child can easily locate you.

• Since this is a special time for you and your child, we have reserved specific guest tables for parents to have lunch with their children. Due to assigned seats, and space at students’ lunch tables, you and your child sit at the visitor’s table.

• The Texas Department of Agriculture DOES NOT permit parents to bring food at lunchtime for any other child other than their own. Please help us monitor this guideline from the state.

We follow the state guidelines regarding regulations and

allowable foods at school.

• Log in to Clever at home! This clicksheet will give you instructions on how your student can access several of our student applications at home!

Check out what we're learning this week!

Reading: Students will analyze how mystery books tend to go.

Writing: Students will gather evidence to prove my opinion.

Grammar/Word Work: Students will use pronouns to replace nouns.

Math: Students will solve 2 step multiplication using strategies.

Science: Students will identify the order of the planets in relation to the sun moon and earth

Social Studies: Students will discuss civic duty.

As your students are bringing home a new homework sheet each week, you might find yourself having questions about the strategies they are learning! We have some videos that you are able to watch with your student to help deepen your understanding of the way we teach our lessons.

Anchor Charts & Video Examples/Explanation:

Representing Numbers/Place Value/Comparing & Ordering/Estimating & Rounding:

• Representing Numbers & Place Value Anchor Chart
• Comparing & Ordering Numbers Anchor Chart
• Estimating & Rounding Anchor Chart

• Addition & Subtraction Models Anchor Chart
• Addition & Subtraction Strategies Anchor Chart
• Represent One-Step Addition Problems with Pictorial Models
  

• Represent One-Step Addition Problems with Number lines

• Represent One-Step Subtraction Problems with Pictorial Models

• Represent One-Step Subtraction Problems with Number Lines

• Solving Multiplication Problems using Equal Groups and Repeated Addition

• Solving Multiplication Problems using Equal Groups and Skip Counting

• Solving Multiplication Problems using Arrays and Area Models

• Solving Multiplications Problems using Number Lines

• Solving 2-Digit by 1-Digit Multiplication Problems using Area Model

Division:

• Solving Division Problems using Objects
• Solving Division Problems using Arrays
• Solving Division Problems using Number Lines

Area:

• Relating Area to Arrays
• Area Anchor Chart

Numerical Relationships in Tables:

• Anchor Chart

Fractions:

• Modeling Fractions Anchor Chart
• Fractions on a Number Line
• Representing Fractions on a Number Line Video
• Decomposing Fractions Anchor Chart
• Compose/Decompose Fractions Video

• Use Objects to Represent Equivalent Fractions

• Use Pictures to Represent Equivalent Fractions

• Use Number Lines to Represent Equivalent Fractions

You can now access your child’s Progress Report in HAC, the Home Access Center.

Access HAC through The Gateway or here: https://hac.friscoisd.org/HomeAccess

• Login: student ID
• Password: 8-digit birthdate - MMDDYYYY
• The password must be 8 digits. If DOB is February 4, 2019, your password would be 02042019.
• Once in HAC, click on GRADES.

If you have questions about accessing HAC for grades or attendance, please contact Angela Hurwich at hurwichan@friscoisd.org.

If you have questions about grades, please contact your child’s teacher.

HAC Access for Parents

HAC Access for Parents

Frisco ISD frequently evolves to make sure parents are informed and can support their children’s academic needs. Home Access Center (HAC) provides parents with access to their students’ attendance calendar, grades, and STAAR scores (if applicable).

Parents of K - 1 grade level students will be able to see their attendance calendar only. Parents of 2 - 5 grade level students will be able to view their attendance calendar, grades and STAAR scores (if applicable).

Progress Reports will not be emailed to parents (viewable in HAC for grade levels 2-5). Report cards will be emailed to parents (all grade levels) (also viewable in HAC for grade levels 2-5).

Make sure you have set up your parent Portal account so that you can access HAC and other parent apps. https://www.friscoisd.org/about/resources-and-information/portal

For more information, please view the below links:

HAC Help Document:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzitQr2Ru4V6psx9COA0LV85UUflNJf3SM202shFrBc/edit#heading=h.gjdgxs

HAC Video:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1skraAFvavN-f4TQPf-WNpsW1rER0DYZ_/view

Please take a minute to review this handbook! It contains lots of important information that you will find helpful, including policies and procedures for birthday celebrations, arrival/dismissal, campus visitors etc.