Parent Patriot Post

Patriot families and friends,

• Hardship Transfers- Applications for a hardship transfer will open on January 1st and remain open through February 28th. Applications are reviewed annually by the Student Assignment Office. Through this process, parents can seek a transfer for medical reasons, curriculum differences, child care situations or if they are an employee of the school system. Parents may also request the renewal of an existing hardship transfer. The Hardship Transfer Policy as well as the Hardship Transfer Guidelines (see below) will be used to determine student eligibility. https://www.fultonschools.org/cms/lib/GA50000114/Centricity/Domain/335/SABrochure2.pdf

• Valentine’s Day- It is important to ensure that all homemade candy, desserts, baked goods, or other edible items are not to be distributed during school hours. Please know that taking this measure will help us maintain a safe environment for all students with allergies, etc. You can help us protect your student(s) by requesting that they not eat anything given to them by another person, anything that they have not brought from your home or anything not in its original sealed package.

  Thank you for your continued partnership in keeping all of our students safe at school!

• Confiscation of Non-Approved Items- Fulton County School campuses are a place of learning and safety for all students. As such, we have a zero-tolerance policy for any personal items that cause a distraction or disruption to the learning process.

  This includes vapes, e-cigarettes, tobacco products, illegal substances, and any other personal items that are not conducive to a safe and orderly learning environment. While this guidance is not new, I would like to draw your attention to a minor revision that has been made to the current 2023-2024 Student Code of Conduct. This revision explains the actions school administration will take when the confiscation and/or destruction of these items is necessary to maintain a safe and orderly learning environment for all students. In short, cell phones that are confiscated will only be released to your parent or guardian at the end of the school day in which it was taken and no vape cartridges, e-cigarettes that don’t have a separate battery, etc. will be returned to any student or parent/guardian. These will be destroyed. Cartridges containing illegal substances may lead to criminal charges.

  More detailed information on these actions can be found on pages 9 and 10 of our 2023-2024 Student Code of Conduct which is located here.

  I urge you to discuss this matter with your student and ensure that they are aware of the school's policy. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me.

• Picture Day-School Name: Liberty Point Elem School

  Picture Day Date: Wednesday, February 28
  

  Picture Day ID: EVTR8KFCC

• Get Ready for the 2024 SGC Elections- If you are interested in running for a position on our School Governence Council, please visit our district website at https://www.fultonschools.org/Page/7353. The candidate declaration phase will begin on Monday, February 5th and will end Friday, March 29th at 5pm. Candidates who wish to run for election should visit our charter system website on February 5th.

I encourage each of you to embrace the opportunities that this new year brings. Let us continue working together to make Liberty Point a place where every individual can thrive and achieve their goals.

Your Proud Principal,

Tanisha Lewis

February 14th- Progress reports available in parent portal

February 19th-20th- No School

February 28th- Picture Day

February 29th-Black History Program

Similar to the Fall, the i-Ready For Families Report continues to be available in the i-Ready portal. This report allows teachers to share students’ middle of the year results digitally by providing access to the "For Families" report directly on students’ i-Ready dashboard. Families will have digital access to the "For Families" report after logging in to their student’s i-Ready dashboard and entering our year-long district report code: 1HX9DP on the top right-hand corner of the For Families tab. This code is applicable to all students throughout the district and is offered to families so they can directly access student results.

Currently only grades 1-5 have completed the middle of the year assessment. Kindergarten will take their assessment at the end of January.

The following classes have met our goal of 90% attendance rate for the month of January. The students will be allowed to wear their favorite hat on Friday 2/9!

Fells

Florence

Bennett

Fresh

B. Jackson

Kelly

Hill

Jefferson

Muhammad

A. White

Fister

Hudson

Pokorski

Goulbourne

N. Johnson

Smith

Clark

Crawford

Hurey

J.Jones

Ellis

Joseph

A. Jackson

Murphy

The Infinite Campus portals - provides access to information for all enrolled students in their household. Information includes grades, attendance, assignments, transportation and school announcements.

Patriot families,

Students have a range of accidents during the school day from pizza spills, mud from recess, or misjudging a restroom break. In order to help students stay clean and prevent parents from having to miss a day of work, we would like your help. Our clinic aide, Mrs. Whitley, has new uniforms, socks, and underwear in all sizes; however, her supply has depleted. Please help her with her supplies by donating new uniform shirts and pants, socks, and underwear for both girls and boys to help scholars change clothes and quickly return to class. All donations may be dropped off in our clinic located next to the main office.

School safety remains a top priority for us in Fulton County Schools. We take maintaining a safe and secure learning environment very serious. I expect all Liberty Point students, parents and staff members to act in a manner that keeps everyone safe. I strongly encourage all parents to review the Code of Conduct, and speak with your child about his/her behavior. When incidences of misconduct arise, consequences will be assigned based on the infraction as detailed within the Code of Conduct.

In addition to your teacher's weekly newsletters, our outstanding instructional coaches will send out weekly strategies for your to work on with your children at home. We hope you find these informational and supportive!

If you need additional ideas or supports, you can reach out the following personnel.

• Mr. Glover- Math & Pre-K Support at his email address: glovere@fultonschools.org
• Ms. Griggs- Math Support at her email address: griggsf@fultonschools.org
• Ms. White- K-2 Literacy Support at her email address: whiteer@fultonschools.org
• Ms. Hodges- 3-5 Literacy Support at her email address: hodgesk@fultonschools.org

Phonics Series: Practice Perfect!

Let's continue our phonics learning series! Remember, you will learn the progression of phonics learning and how to ensure your child has mastered each concept through practice!

Let's level up our learning with a more complex phonics skill. This week we will learn about vowel teams!

A vowel team is when you have two vowels that work together to make one sound. Think about words like rain, play, boil, sound, and goat. In a vowel team, the first vowel is long and says its name while the second vowel is silent!

Home practice: Try having your scholar sort words that have a vowel team from words that do not!

Greetings Parents!

We have complete just over 1/4 of our school year and everything mathematics is trending upwards! So far, all grade levels have met or exceeded their unit assessment goals and the math team would like thank you for your continued efforts at home. We are confident that our students will continue to show mathematical growth throughout the school year. One way you can help show this growth is to have real-world mathematics conversations with your students. We are ALL good math students because we use mathematics in our everyday lives. Using a good conversation starter is a great way to begin a real-world mathematical discussion. Some examples are:

• How far do you think it is from our house to school?
• How old do you think _____________ is? Why?
• Do you think it takes longer to drive to ________ or to drive to ___________?

Any question you can think of that generates a mathematics discussion benefits your student's mathematical thinking.

As always, thank you for your continued support, we CANNOT be successful without you.

The Counseling Dept. and the Attendance Team would like to remind you the importance of having an exemplary attendance record. Absences and tardiness can affect the whole classroom if the teacher has to slow down learning to help children catch up. Attending school regularly helps children feel better about school—and themselves. Start building this habit so they learn right away that going to school on time, every day is important. Eventually good attendance will be a skill that will help them succeed in high school, college, and beyond..

The Classroom Guidance Lessons for the month of January will be Test Taking Tips for 3-5, a 4-part lesson to help alleviate test anxiety and establish desirable test taking skills in order to better their performance, and Understanding Emotions for K-2 focusing on understanding and managing emotions such as sadness and anger.

Clicking here will take you to my webpage, which provides information about the counseling services at Liberty Point Elementary, as well as some resources you can use at home. Please check the webpage often as it is updated periodically to include new resources and information gathered throughout the school year.

If you would like to contact me, please feel free to send an email or call me at (470)254-9657.

• See It. Hear It. And Report It Every Time

  If you SEE or HEAR anything about school threats, weapons, violence, bullying, drugs, self-harm, or have other school safety suspicions or concerns, REPORT it EVERY time anonymously using the SHARE TIP LINE..

Report any safety concerns to Ms. Lewis at LewisTL@fultonschools.org

Is your child too sick for school?

In order to help keep our scholars healthy, we are asking all families to monitor any signs of illness in their children. In the document below, you will find several common childhood illness, symptoms, and guidance how to treat.

Al always, it is important that we ensure the safety of all students, staff, and visitors in Fulton County Schools by continuing to report positive reports.

At this time we are asking that parents/guardians of FCS students submit a COVID-19 Report ONLY if your student fits into one or more of the following categories:

a) Has tested Positive for COVID-19 in the past 5 days
b) Currently waiting for the results of a test for COVID-19

If your student fits into one or more of the above categories, please begin the form by clicking https://fultonschools.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6hWlX46FNk8pNlz

Email: lewistl@fultonschools.org
Website: fultonschools.org/libertypointes
Location: 9000 Highpoint Rd, Union City, GA, USA
Phone: 470-254-3510