Parent Teacher Conferences

Parent Teacher Conferences will be held on Wednesday, February 13th.  Follow the link below to sign up for time.
  https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F084CAFAB2FAAFC1-parent

Frosty Fun!

What a perfect day for ...Hot Cocoa!

 

100th Day Homework

100th Day Homework!

Your child has 100th Day homework!  We will be celebrating this exciting day next Wednesday, January 30th.  For this day, your child has a special project of bringing in a collection of 100 things.  Please see the yellow note for more specifics.  Your child may bring their project in as soon as they are finished or by January 30th. Your child should do MOST or ALL of the counting on their own.....HAVE FUN!

possible ideas.......

Thank you!

A big thank you to parents for venturing out on this cold and snowy Friday for Assessment Day!  I look forward to sharing your child's progress with you at Parent Teacher Conferences (Wednesday, February 13th).  A Sign Up for conferences will be available soon, so watch for an invite. 

A few words about report cards:

I have gotten a few questions regarding report cards, which are available through Infinite Campus.  Please take report cards in kindergarten with a grain of salt.  The district report card does not do a very good job of measuring the academic progress of our youngest learners.  Our mid-year assessments will give you a much better idea of how your student is progressing.  At this point in kindergarten, expect to see a lot of 2s.  We are only half way through the year and have much to cover.  A 2 means making progress toward the standard.  A 3 would indicate that the student has already mastered the standard and is performing at an end of the year level. 

Final note:

I am so happy to be back in the classroom with these sweet, wonderful children!  At this time, I am working 1/2 days in the morning while I continue to heal.  Lucky for us, Mrs. Palte has agreed to continue working the afternoons.  I apologize for not posting as much as I would like.  My energy is not quite back normal and I want to conserve it for working with the kids.  Please, please, e-mail or call if you have any questions or concerns and I will get back to you as soon as I can.  

The Mitten Reader's Theater Performance

This week we performed a Reader's Theater of The Mitten.  Check it out!

                                    Group 1                            Group 2

Remind News

Dear Families,

Long Story Short:  If you have Verizon as  your cell phone carrier, please download the remind app to continue to receive important class texts.  For the details, read below.

Long story:

We’re sorry to write with disappointing news. Recently, we learned that Verizon will be charging Remind a new fee that makes it impossible for us to continue supporting free text messaging for anyone who has Verizon Wireless as their phone carrier. Please read on for all the important details—we promise to keep this as short as we can.

What’s happening?
To offer our text messaging service free of charge, Remind has always paid for each text that our users receive or send. Now, Verizon is charging Remind an additional fee intended for companies that send spam over its network. Your Remind messages aren’t spam, but our efforts to resolve the issue with Verizon haven’t been successful.

As a result, the Verizon fee will increase our costs of providing text messaging by 11X—pushing our annual costs into the millions of dollars. This isn’t financially feasible for us to support, and it’s forcing us to end Remind text messaging for everyone who has a wireless plan with Verizon.

How will this affect you?
Beginning January 28, 2019, the people in your classes who normally get your Remind messages as texts will no longer receive these messages if they have Verizon Wireless as their phone carrier.

What can you do?
To make sure people in your classes continue receiving your messages, ask them to download the mobile app or enable email notifications—both of which are free of charge. Our team’s also working hard on a solution that allows your classes to continue to use Remind by text, and we’ll share more details with you before January 28.

In the meantime, we’ll keep fighting to make sure educators, students, and parents have access to effective communication. To do this, we need your help: If using Remind has made a positive impact in your classroom, at your school, or anywhere in between, please ask Verizon to reverse the fee here: www.remind.com/verizon-fee

We’re very grateful for your support, and we’ll be in touch soon with an update.

Sincerely,
The Remind team