Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Illuminate Parent Portal



As you know, FSUSD no longer utilizes paper Progress Reports or Report Cards. All reports are accessed electronically. Last year you received your personalized portal letter with your access information. This information remains the same this year and you access it in the same way. The link below will walk you through the process. If you are NEW to our District, I will be giving you your access code letter. If you have difficulty accessing your account, please contact our office. Once I have input my paper grades to Illuminate, I will open parent access.



October 11th Progress Reports
November 18th Report Card Conference Week

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Amazon Donations

Our students are lucky to have 21st Century desks and chairs!!  We love the flexibility of being able to easily move around the room and collaborate with our peers.  However, they lack storage.  Students have personal cubbies--but, trips to our cubbies several times a day is becoming a waste of time.

We would like to get a class set of this "Chairback Buddy Pocket" in order to give us some storage at our seats--so that some our materials are more readily available to us.
If you feel so inclined, feel free to visit my Amazon List [click on the link below] to donate to the classroom.  We are hoping to "clear the list" soon.  Thank you for your support!!  

Amazon List                    

CODS


We had a great parent meeting about Coloma on Monday. I will be showing the video we watched to the kids next week. We are very excited that we will be able to attend this great learning opportunity from March 2nd-4th. [Students that do not attend are still required to attend school.] Look for a green paper coming home soon asking if your child will /will not be attending Coloma so we can get an initial head count.

If you are interested in being considered as a chaperone, please let your classroom teacher know and we will send home an application.  Unfortunately, we cannot take every parent that wants to attend; it will depend on our student numbers.  

CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH ADVENTURE

Learning about the past... to change the future

The Coloma Outdoor Discovery School's California Gold Rush program is designed for fourth graders and integrates California Content and Common Core Standards. CODS' goal is to celebrate the culture, music, and folklore of the California Gold Rush while using lessons of the past to awaken students' interest and sense of responsibility for the environment.

Friday, September 13, 2019

Grades in Google Classroom


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Most of your child's graded work is completed in Google Classroom. I grade and comment on their work in Google Classroom. Grades are reported back to them through their GMAIL Ask your child to log on and show you. There is not a "link" or a "code' I can give parents, because you must be a student in my class to have access. This is a great system as we no longer have "lost" papers and the work 

Coloma ~ CODS


 
You should have received a green information form about the field trip to Coloma in March. The information meeting will be on Monday, September 16th,  at 5:00 pm in room 600.

eSpark

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

MAP Assessments

We will be testing on Wednesday [9/18] and Thursday [9/19].
Students MUST bring their CHARGED DISTRICT-ISSUED CHROMEBOOK to test on those days!!  

MAP (Measure of Academic Progress) testing will take place THREE times during our school year.  These tests are done on a computer and they measure academic growth throughout the year.  The tests are unique as they can adapt to your your students's level of learning!  Each student has the same opportunity to set goals for themselves and to succeed while maintaining a positive attitude toward testing!  MAP tests take a shorter amount of time to administer and give us detailed accurate information about their growth.  Check out THIS Parent's Guide to MAP Growth!