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Room 11 Families,
Thank you for another successful week of eLearning! This is definitely a challenge for everyone involved, and I appreciate having you on the other end of the computer encouraging your children. PLEASE help with organization of materials. We are having a number of children who are coming to class without the necessary books and papers because they can't find them.
PLEASE keep an eye on your child's work! I am getting some work that shows amazing effort and other work that has clearly been rushed through and is not the child's best. (Including some that gets turned in without actually being completed.) You can see their assignment grades with comments in Teams. If you see a grade that doesn't represent your child's best, please look over the work and comments and talk about how they could improve next time. If you see a grade that has extra credit, that means they went beyond the assigned work and should be congratulated for their great effort. Your child should be working on school work for 1 HOUR and 45 MINUTES every day outside of our live class time. This is part of their school day. Please help stress that they should give it their best. Independent work in the classroom is when I would usually be walking around the room watching them work and encouraging/correcting them. They need someone to be there to check their work and encourage them to give their best. Thank you for helping in any way you see your child needs with this.
October 7 and 8 I will have all second quarter materials in our classroom ready for pick-up between 1:15 and 3:45. It is super important that the students have a place to keep their materials together. No one really knows what our second quarter holds, and if students are allowed to return to school, these same materials will need to come back with them.
October 9 is the last day of our first quarter. I am not sure how report cards will get to you since we usually hand them out at parent conferences, but we will figure it out. We are hoping they can be mailed prior to conferences, but if they can’t, we will try to email them before that. Grades are always accessible on ATLAS as well.
Speaking of Parent Conferences, we will be holding them virtually during the week of October 19-23. I will be sending you a link through Actionaly and Remind to sign up. You only need to sign up once, but that gives you options. The link will take you to Sign Up Genius where you can choose your day and time.
We are getting into the swing of our schedule, but there are still a handful of students who are arriving to our live instruction tardy or who are waiting for me to call them in on a regular basis. I know this doesn’t sound like a huge issue, but it takes away a few minutes of instruction while I figure out who is missing and call them in. With only 45 minutes during our live blocks, each moment is precious. They can join the meetings five minutes early, and it is actually fun to talk casually with the students who are there before we officially begin.
Please continue to check your child’s agenda and assignments tab each afternoon to help keep him/her on track. We spend the last five minutes of each day going over their 105 minutes of independent work and writing in the agenda, so it should all be written there.
Mrs. Gengozian and Mr. Sassano held a fabulous assembly with the students about digital citizenship and expectations. I would like to encourage you to watch it together as a family and double-check how your child is meeting up to the expectations of the school. It is only 20 minutes long and can be found on your child's Manchester GATE School Team under the Fourth Grade Assembly channel.
Thank you for your support,
Lanie Huene