Secondary News for the week ending Nov. 8, 2019
Posted by Cindy Leaman on 11/8/2019 5:00:00 PM
This is the end of week 10 of Semester 1. Students still need to remember to check in on Wednesdays for the remainder of the term. There are 7 weeks left in the semester before finals week which is January 20-23, 2020. Students should be approximately 55% finished with their course(s).
Upcoming Dates:
Middle School Math Students Only - Nov. 12 – The next math club meeting will be on Tuesday, November 12 at 6 pm in the Skyline Media Center. We will be exploring some "A-maze-ing Fractions". In this activity, you will be navigating different mazes using math operations involving fractions.
Here is the club sign up link as well: https://forms.gle/UoZp96hnyV7Yh7va8
Nov. 26 – No Proctoring at Skyline from 4:30-7 pm, Thanksgiving break begins after the school day ends. The next proctoring session is Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2020, at Skyline.
Parent Note for the week:
How often do you look at PowerSchool? Hopefully, you aren’t looking daily as this will frustrate you, most teachers only put grade updates on a weekly basis. However, if you look at PowerSchool and see a low grade how do you know it is accurate? The grades are a snapshot in time, the date that the grade posts is most likely accurate. Especially if it shows that your child is failing. Although there is an occasion where the teacher could fall behind in grading; however please note that it is not a normal occurrence. Don’t accept the answer from your child that the work is turned in and the teacher just hasn’t graded it. Write to the teacher (shown in PowerSchool) to get clarification. Or even better, have your child write an email to his/her teacher listing the assignments not graded asking when they will be corrected. Always ask your child to copy you on the email. Teachers do have up to 72 hours during the school week to grade most assignments and you can expect a little longer if it is a large project.
If you find your child is behind how can you help your child be successful? Students who are behind will need to work at school and at home at this point. Set up space and time that they can work where you can supervise. You don’t need to be looking over their shoulders every minute but here are a couple of tricks to ensure that they are on task. They should not have multiple windows or tabs open while working. If you see multiple tabs open to ask them to show you what they are so you can see if it is related to the class. Second, if you see screens pop up when you look over, they are likely working on two windows one for schoolwork and usually, the second window is social or gaming. Lastly, check the computer history when they complete their session. This will tell you all the sites they visited and what time. We tell students when they proctor or work with us that if we review the history and it has been cleared we will automatically assume that they were not working and are trying to hide it.
Have a great week,
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