We are really getting into a good routine. Our days Monday-Thursday are structured in the same way so the kids know what to expect. Our Fridays have many twists and turns. Speaking of Fridays, this Friday is our first birthday celebration. We will be celebrating our September birthdays: Ella, Zandir, and Mrs. Taylor. Ella and Zandir's families....please e-mail me and let me know what you could bring for the party. We are looking for a sweet treat and a drink. Keep in mind...we are a peanut-free room! We will celebrate from 3:00-3:30.
So...I spelled out a bit of my philosophy of homework in the last post. We will be starting spelling/word study homework after the break. Be looking for a post all about that during Fall Break. Remember we have a break next week! Yee-haw!
The other part of our homework will be posted weekly on our portal. Since we've had so many problems with the portal, I've been hesitant to start posting homework there. In order to alleviate paper issues and copying costs on our end, I do ask families to print out homework from home. I am going to use this week as a practice week. Please check to see that you can log into the portal. In order to do that, please follow these steps:
1. Go to www.northstarcharter.org
2. Look on the top right corner and click on "Polaris Portal Login"
3. For user's name: child's first name.child's last name (don't forget the period between the two names! Also it is your child's given name not nickname. So for example, mine would be: carin.chochrek)
For password: it is password-1 (password is NOT capitalized)
4. Scroll down until you see my picture. Click on that.
5. Then click on "documents" on your right hand side.
6. Click on the portal challenge.
7. Print it out. Have your child fill it out and sent it back to school.
When I have everyone's challenge, I will start posting homework on the portal!
While you are on the portal, be sure to log into Powerschool. The Powerschool username and password is the same as the portal log-in. You can see your child's first grades for his/her concept test and language test that they took on Friday.
On Friday, we started learning about our artist of the month, Leonardo da Vinci. We will continue our study of Leonardo as we do a fun art project with our awesome art moms on Friday. A big thank you to Brandi Smith and Lindsey Burnett who have kindly volunteered to take on art instruction every other week!
Mrs. Taylor and I are busy putting together the parent volunteer schedule. We will begin our volunteer schedule after Fall Break. If you haven't stopped in to get the materials for fingerprinting, please do so this week. I so appreciate all of your willingness to jump through this hoop knowing that it is a great protection for our students.
We have another fun week in store for us as we learn about Johnny Appleseed!
Have a great week,
Carin
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