LP #1 Primary Newsletter

We are so excited to start the 24/25 school year off with you! We hope you had a chance to rest, relax, and enjoy some fun over the past few months. Hopefully, you are feeling rejuvenated and getting geared up for another great school adventure. We can't wait to share with you the great events and learning opportunities we have planned for your student(s) this coming year. From school events, field trips, Learning Launchpads, and clubs, to enrichment opportunities and OSP offerings, you will be given the tools to personalize a fantastic educational plan for your child.

Here are a few things to think about as you prepare for the meeting with your teacher.

To ensure we have a productive and successful learning period please review the learning period expectations for the 24/25 school year.

Learning Period Expectations

The Learning Coach and all enrolled students must be present at each Learning Period meeting.

1. Please set aside 1 hour for a single student and 15 minutes for each additional student to meet with your teacher for your Learning Period meeting.

2. Bring your curriculum to your Learning Period meeting to review progress in all core academic subjects. A. Bring all of the work completed since the last learning period meeting and be prepared to discuss the curriculum plan for the weeks ahead. B. If there is not a curriculum plan you will work with your teacher to create one for the next Learning Period.

3. RSVP to your Learning Period meeting invitation from the teacher within 48 hours.

4. After 2 attempts to schedule the Learning Period meeting, the teacher will schedule a Learning Period meeting for you to attend.

To ensure your child is on track and progressing through their curriculum for the year it is important to map out your weekly schedule.

• Your teacher will include the Lesson Plans in your students’ Ed Plan.

• If you DO NOT have a plan for completing standards/curriculum over the next four weeks your teacher will create one that will be followed and monitored at the weekly check-in.

• Reach out to your teacher for some Planning Templates that might be helpful

• During your LP meetings, you will review the curriculum completed and set a goal for each subject for the LP that will be followed up with at the next LP meeting.

• Please review with your teacher a BODY of work for each subject. Your teacher should be able to have a clear understanding of the standards that were addressed during the learning period and the assignments that were completed.

• For each of your students, please turn in a work sample of every subject (ELA, Math, Social Studies, Science).

• Be sure your student has written their FULL NAME and the date the assignment was completed between August 21, 2024 and September 13, 2024.
  

Did you know that writing is perhaps the single most important skill that students learn in school? Writing helps people make sense of their thoughts, ideas, and emotions while also communicating clearly and coherently to others or even simply to themselves. It also helps students be more productive with their school tasks as they work to assimilate and consolidate the information they are learning into the written word. Through writing, students also grow their reading and analytical skills by responding to various situations and information they encounter.

Whether your student is an experienced writer or brand new to the process we are excited to partner with you to ensure your student completes all four genres of writing: Narrative, Persuasive/Opinion, Research, and Expository. Your IST will be doing a fun writing activity with your student at each LP meeting. Some of these activities can be completed at home and returned to your IST at a later date. Our goal is to meet your student where they are, learn the writing process, improve their writing skills, and most importantly grow their love for writing.

One of the new opportunities for growth we are offering our students this year is through our academic challenges in math, sight words, writing, and reading. These challenges include incentives for mastery by the end of the year. Please take a look at the information about our Academic Challenges below. Students will be provided sight word lists, math fact challenges, Reading logs, and writing activities to track progress throughout the year. This is a great way to encourage a Growth Mindset and celebrate students' accomplishments.

All students will take the STAR 360 test 3 times each school year during the months of September, January, and May. You will be provided the link where your student will log on with the username and password. The first assessment window opens September 3rd. Click here to access the STAR Parent Flyer.

We are excited to use this assessment tool to help us measure your child's growth throughout the year in the area of ELA and Math. Your teacher will provide you with the diagnostic and instructional report, however, we now have the feature available for you to pull the report as well. These reports will provide information regarding skills and concepts the student has mastered as well as areas for growth.

We encourage each student to not rush through the test but to focus and do their very best despite their excitement to finish the test.

• Tech needs, core curriculum and any core intervention supports must be purchased before enrichment can be ordered.

• If you are in need of tech to access your core curriculum be sure to budget your funds accordingly. We ask that you order it right away to ensure it arrives quickly.

• Laptops and Chromebooks must be ordered as a Tech Order through the EOS. Laptops and Chromebooks cannot be purchased through other vendors like Amazon. Printers and Kindle tablets can be ordered through other vendors.
  

• Here is the link to the new OS website: https://orders.axiasystem.com/login. Be sure to bookmark it for quick and easy access.

• Please be sure to discuss any "outside" of the box OS orders with your teacher during your LP meeting so you can discuss how they will tie into your student's educational plan. This information is important for your teacher to know when approving orders and can save a lot of time in the process if the teacher is included in the plan before the order is placed.

Before ordering enrichment items please explore the Lending Library! The lending library is FULL of so many wonderful resources!

1. TONS of K-8 curriculum resources. The lending library contains nearly all major curricula options. So before ordering head over to the lending library to see if there is a copy you can check out for the year or view before ordering.
2. Books galore for kindergarten to 12th grade students. The lending library contains nearly as many novels and resource books as your local public library! You don't want to miss browsing these books that your student can check out to read throughout the year.
3. Games and activities that you can check out for free! Card games, board games, puzzles, you name it, the lending library has it!

Many of these items are brand new and have never been used. So don't delay...come in and check it out!