• First Day of School is on Monday, August 5th, 2024. It will be a minimum day, so dismissal will be at 1:00pm.

• Mark your calendars for our annual Back to School Night event. Teachers will be going over very important information regarding expectations, procedures, and more for the 2024-2025 school year. It will be held on Wednesday, August 7th. 

Students will be required to write down their homework in their Student Planners everyday.

• Weekly Homework:

  • Every Monday, students will receive a Daily Homework Practice Packet. It includes:

    • An article of the week (read and annotate)

    • Written paragraph response (practice summarizing and citing textual evidence)

    • 5-A-Day Language Review (5 questions each night)

  • Students will also be required to choose a library book based on their reading level. This will be their Book of the Month (BOTM). It is expected that they read for 20 minutes daily. 

  • Homework packets will not be collected until Friday. 

• Unfinished Classwork

  • Students will be given plenty of time to complete their classwork. However, any incomplete classwork will need to be completed as homework if class time is not used wisely.

  • Social studies homework is not assigned daily. Typically, it is unfinished classwork or projects that are assigned as homework.
    

• Book of the Month:
  Students will take the STAR Test to determine their current reading level

  • They will check out a book in the library (every 3 weeks) that is in their reading level. This will be their Book of the Month.

  • Students will bring home a colored half-sheet paper with the Book of the Month information. It needs to be signed by you and returned to school the next day after our library visit. 

  • Students are required to read their Book of the Month for at least 20 minutes every night.

  • Students will take the AR quiz on their Book of the Month 

  • Process will start over again. Students have approximately 3 weeks to read their Book of the Month and take the quiz. It must be completed before we go back to the library.

Students must check Google Classroom, the Week at a Glance/Homework slide and the Aeries Portal to stay up to date on assignments.

No homework on Fridays!

As a participant in this course, students will receive support in the following areas: 

1. Teacher and peer tutoring and coaching

2. Reinforcement of appropriate academic behaviors that support success in school

3. Organization of assignments, materials and supplies and development of systems to keep trap of important papers, assignments, etc.

4. Completion of assignments

5. Assignment and project management: estimation of how long assignments will take and breaking big projects into smaller ones

6. Routine use of binder reminder and binder reminder checks

7. Additional study time

8. Communication tools to help students communicate with teachers, student support staff and administration

9. Time management techniques

10. Academic and self-reflection exercises

11. Edmentum/Credit Recovery

12. Life Skills Education (e.g., decisions have consequences; dealing with peer pressure; obeying laws and rules; plugging in to support systems, etc.)

Students will receive support in the SOAR exploratory course based upon individual need. Students may continue to receive support in the SOAR elective beyond the six-week period based upon student success and achievement subject to teacher and student evaluation and assessment.  Student performance and success will affect the duration of SOAR support.  

The SOAR acronym is detailed below.

Scholarship – Students are encouraged to enhance their learning, improve their subject knowledge, and refine their study skills in order to improve their grades in their core classes.

Ownership – Students explore the power to have mastery over their academic progress and success.

Awareness -   Students improve their understanding and consciousness of effective academic skills.

Respect – Students learn to have high regard for others and themselves.​

Our primary focus will be to reinforce what is being taught in Language Arts.

This will be accomplished by providing differentiated instruction through whole group and small group instruction. Students will have the opportunity to ask clarifying questions about specific skills and concepts being taught during core instruction. Students will also have the opportunity to work collaboratively with their peers to reinforce and extend their learning.