Weekly Update
1. Fresh Start!
Today is the beginning of the second marking period. Grades will be available for students and guardians to see on the Home Access Center on November 6, 2024. Teachers are able to finalize grades between now and Thursday, October 31.
If you were not able to achieve a minimum score of 60% to pass for the first marking period, you can expect to be enrolled in Edgenuity credit recovery on Monday, November 4th.
2. Monthly Focus: GRADES
- Take care of yourself: Get enough sleep, eat healthy food, and exercise.
- Be present: Attend class on time and avoid being absent.
- Set goals: Set small goals to help you accomplish larger ones.
- Build resilience: Develop patience and resilience.
- Surround yourself with support: Surround yourself with supportive people who motivate you.
- Connect with classmates: Learn from one another in breakout rooms and attend Virtual Academy events.
- Accept responsibility: Remember that you are responsible for your own success.
- Stay ahead: Try to stay on top of checking Schoology everyday and work through your assignments, both in Edgenuity and Schoology (and any other platforms your teachers are using)
- Ask for help: If you're struggling, don't be afraid to ask for help from your teachers or use Varsity Tutors
- Be autonomous: Give yourself the freedom to access information related to your studies.
3. IN-PERSON event! THIS WEDNESDAY!!
THIS Wednesday (October 30, 2024) we will be hosting a Fall Popcorn Festival for our students. We will have a popcorn bar where students can create their own blend of popcorn mix along with activities such as:
- Virtual reality (multiple VR headsets will be available!)
- Rock painting
- Table games
- Corn-hole
Water will be provided.
The event will be from 1:30 - 2:45 and will be in the PD center. Students can follow the sign and the balloons. As a reminder, parents will need an ID to pick up your student(s).
WE HOPE TO SEE YOU HERE!!
4. Daylight Savings Ends
This weekend we "fall back" one hour (2 am on Sunday) meaning that at 2 am, it will become 1 am. Therefore, your classes on Monday will be an hour earlier - however Sunday your clocks and phones should automatically update to the new time (just be sure to double-check!).
A little history of Daylight Savings Time:
"Daylight saving time became established law in the U.S. in 1918 with the passage of the Standard Time Act, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory's astronomical applications department.
The time change was implemented as a way to maximize daylight hours to help save on energy consumption during World War I.
Over the next several decades, legislators made unsuccessful efforts to repeal daylight saving time nationally, and some individual states and cities reverted to non-daylight saving time hours.
In 1966, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act, which established a uniform daylight saving time throughout the U.S., according to the U.S. Department of Transportation, the federal agency that oversees time zones.
Under the Uniform Time Act of 1966, states that observe daylight saving time must follow the federally-mandated start and end dates.
States may also "exempt themselves from observing daylight saving time by state law," according to the DOT.
In 2022, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved a measure, the Sunshine Protection Act, that would have made daylight saving time permanent across the U.S., however, the legislation was never brought to a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives."
