New school year, new building, new space, new teacher/facilitators and new learners/classmates are a lot of new things to get used to for the students and for the facilitators! We are all super excited to start this school year off right. We have worked a lot over the summer to make sure that we started the year off creating a culture of collaboration and learning. We were so glad to see so many of you at our Meet the Teacher night. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns. We are only an email or phone call away.
This first few days we have been working with the learners on getting to know each other and leaning about how we can use Trust, Respect and Responsibility to become well rounded students/citizens. We have done some fun activities to get to know each other and to learn about these characteristics. We worked together as a team to come up with our class "Norms". We decided we could work hard at living the following class "Norms"
*Be RESPECTFUL to others, yourself, and property.
*Be RESPONSIBLE for yourself, your belongings and others property.
*Be TRUTHFUL to yourself and others.
* Always do "YOUR BEST".
*Follow the "GOLDEN RULE".
*Treat others the way you want to be treated.
We will be teaching the students about Echo this week in our classes. Everyone is now in Echo including parents, For parents to log in the first time your username is the email you gave the school and the password for everyone for the first log in is innovation. If you are not able to log in please email Amy Mahan @ AMahan@plymouth.k12.in.us.
We have finished our first three days today by six speakers from around the community come and speak to us about how they use Trust, Respect and Responsibility in their lives. This was a neat way to culminate our work in this area. We hope that the students have learned something and that all of this work helps us to have the best year!
We have finished our first three days today by six speakers from around the community come and speak to us about how they use Trust, Respect and Responsibility in their lives. This was a neat way to culminate our work in this area. We hope that the students have learned something and that all of this work helps us to have the best year!
This past week brought Mrs. Dennie back from her trip with Team USA and her daughter. We were all glad to have her back and have our team back together. We had a very good first full week. We kicked off our first PBL project of the year dealing with the Blueberry Festival. We are excited to see what this group of learners comes up with to help the festival.
Achieve 3000 is a very big part of our reading program here at RIS. Students took a test this week to determine their lexile range for this program. They also practiced doing an article this week during Humanities. This coming week, starting on Monday students will begin doing two articles each week at a 75% average. This program is set up at each individual students reading level and students should have no problem meeting this weekly goal. We have found that students who rush through are the ones that struggle. We encourage you to ask your child about Achieve and encourage them to take their time on their two articles so that they do not have to do extra work to get their 75% average.
Each month students are given a reading calendar and they are to record when they read. Students are expected to read for 30 mins at least 20 days out of the month to get their points on this required activity. Thank you for encouraging your students to do their best.
August 25th we are having a RIS parent night beginning at 5:45 where students can get a free book and parents can sign up for door prizes. From 6-7 we will be meeting by team to learn about the following: What are the expectations of RIS students each virtual day? What is Achieve 3000 and how can parents/students monitor progress and expectations? How can parents/students use Power School/Echo to monitor academic progress? A paper is coming home in Monday folders about this as well.
August 21 is RIS picture day and order forms will be in Monday folders!
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Have a great week and please contact us with any questions or concerns!
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