2024-2025 School Year
Communication is the key to a successful parent/teacher/student relationship!
One thing I can take away from the COVID school experience of no school, virtual, quarantine students and such, was the increased amount of communication I had with parents! I realized that whether we were face-to-face with students or virtual, there were increased open lines of communication.
Please make sure I have your updated phone number and e-mail address. I may need to contact you throughout the school year. I am also using Class Dojo. I will use this to make small, simple announcements.
Class Dojo is the quickest and most convenient way to communicate with me. I do try and check my Dojo app a few times a day. You can also send me an E-mail.
General Information
General Information
At the beginning of the year, I send home a news letter that includes helpful information, rules, and expectations for my class. It is given out during Open House or the first day of school if your child was unable to attend. Please take time to read the information with your child. This news letter will give you a better understanding of what to expect this year! Below is a link of the 4th and 5th grade news letter.
Students are responsible for making up their work if they miss a day. If your child is out with a cold or flu and may be out for a few days, please contact me and make arrangements to pick up their work if you can. I understand they are sick, but usually they have a time when they start to feel better and can catch up on some work. This helps alleviate a stressful amount of work when they come back.
QUARANTINE and Extended Absence (sickness or educational trip) Information
If your child has to quarantine, miss school due to an educational field trip, or miss several days due to an illness, they must complete all work missed. If they are at school and are sent home, I will do my best to give them all the work they will need to complete while they are out. There might be an instance where someone will have to pick additional work up from the school. The students will still be responsible to do the online spelling tests on Friday and any other assignments posted in Teams. They should check their Teams daily for any information posted by myself or their other teachers. The students should also go into IXL to practice their reading skills. They can also go onto Epic! during the day and read for enjoyment.
Snow Days and Flexible Instruction Days
We have a few snow days built into the Calendar. If we exceed those days, we will have Flexible Instruction Days (FID). Students will be sent home with a folder sometime prior to the completion of built in snow days. The packets will be for multiple days. The first day will be Day One. The second day will be Day Two and so forth. The packets have instructions and should not be hard too complete. I will have open hours of availability for questions on that day. You will be provided with a schedule of my availability in the packet. My schedule and instructions for that specific day will be posted under the FID channel on your child's TEAMS. If you have any questions on that day, you can message me through DoJo. I will check those messages often.