1/25/2020 0 Comments January 2020January 2020 update:
1/25/20 Hello! It has been an interesting start to the new year with added time off for snow one week after we returned from a two week break! This will extend our year by 3 days at this time, making our final day of school now June 23rd (IF we do not have any additional days off due to weather). Keep your eyes on the district website for updated information in the near future. In the event we do have additional inclement weather, here are sites that provide information regarding school closures/late starts: *FlashAlert *Families with verified mobile numbers in Family Access will receive tests from the district *District and School websites will post information by 6:30 AM (issaquah.wednet.edu) **Please locate your Emergency Transportation Bulletin (ETE) that was mailed out in October or access the ETB online. Also, take a moment to use SNOW E-Link to find your emergency snow route and make sure you check the chart to become familiar with program changes. ***In the event of a late start, we are unable to have students arrive to school earlier than the time stated that school will start. For example, if school starts two hours late, your students will arrive at school two hours after our typical 9:15 start time, which would be 11:15 AM. We have been revisiting and practicing our classroom expectations. We are talking about situations that are little deals/big deals, red zones, green zones and yellow zones, where we feel we are and perhaps using a tool (or two) that will helps us to remain in, or get back to, the green zone. This is the zone we all strive to be in....the one we are at our best to be productive, learn, help a friend, etc. The Zones will soon be used school wide so if you hear your student using terms green zone, yellow zone or red zone, you will know why! We are continuing our Winter Animal theme of the month. This past week w talked about, watched a short video, and made a craft on penguins. Students practiced cutting, gluing, and following directions to craft their penguins. Once they made their penguins, they had an opportunity to practice writing a sentence about the penguin underneath on a strip of lined paper, stating that penguins like to swim. They did amazing work! If you would like to volunteer to come into the classroom and teach the students a simple lesson about a winter animal, read a short book or do a craft with them, please let me know and I will be happy to work on days and times with you. We continue to work on all student goals in areas of behavior, adaptive, social/emotional, reading, writing and math. Areas include reading comprehension, retelling stories, forming sentences, sounding words out, identifying letters and letter sounds, adding, subtracting, drawing pictures to prove answers, identifying colors, practicing letter and word writing. We are BUSY! A GREAT app that I love is called "Letter School". If you can download it, it provides great practice on how to form letters beginning with guided practice and ending with independently forming the letter. It has super cute sound effects and graphics that keep student attention. Hard to believe February is right around the corner! 1/12/20 Dear Families, Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful two weeks off with your students celebrating holidays and making new memories. It was great to see each of our students back after all of that time. They started their daily routine the day we returned and showed that they remembered so many of our classroom expectations. I was proud of them being able to return to a full week after so much time off. We were all tired by the end of the week so took this past Friday afternoon to relax and play after a morning of learning. Hopefully they have had time to sleep in this weekend. :) We have jumped right back into the routine of working on individual student goals, attending specialists, participating in general education inclusion and even attended an assembly! One fun thing we did this past week was practice our letter writing in shaving cream! They loved it! We sprayed cream on the table and worked on letter formation with specific letters, their names and words that some students are working on. For students who have an aversion to the feel of the cream, we put some in little bags and sealed it up so they could also join in the fun! Our monthly theme this month is going to be WINTER ANIMALS. Last week, Ms. Donna, our school OT, came in and made our first winter animal project, a bear sleeping in a cave after some discussion about what bears do in the winter. The craft turned out very cute. We will be reading books and talking about all kinds of animals. If you would like to plan a craft and/or read a specific story with our kids around this theme, please let me know! We would love to have you join us! ************************************************************************************************ With snowy weather upon us this week, please check out these sites to help keep you informed: *FlashAlert *Families with verified mobile numbers in Family Access will receive tests from the district *District and School websites will post information by 6:30 AM (issaquah.wednet.edu) **Please locate your Emergency Transportation Bulletin (ETE) that was mailed out in October or access the ETB online. Also, take a moment to use SNOW E-Link to find your emergency snow route and make sure you check the chart to become familiar with program changes. ***In the event of a late start, we are unable to have students arrive to school earlier than the time stated that school will start. For example, if school starts two hours late, your students will arrive at school two hours after our typical 9:15 start time, which would be 11:15 AM. The message below is from a student from the Issaquah High School ASB class. She is hoping for support! "For this year, the Special Olympics is scheduled to happen on January 15th at 7pm in the Issaquah main gym. As one of the coordinators, I was wondering if the LRC2 class at IVE would be willing to attend this event to support the basketball players and show their school spirit? We are thinking of planning a tailgate before the game with pizza and a fun environment to bond with each other. Thank you!" IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!
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