Good Evening!
One more week of distance learning! I am thrilled to be welcoming your child back into our hybrid learning environment, and for some of you, this will be your child's first time in a hybrid setting. Welcome! I have a lot of information to share with you all this week, so please hang in there. I wanted to provide as much information up front so you can start to prepare and ask any questions/address any concerns that you may have about our return. I also shared some updates that will be needed for next week too!
Click HERE to access parent plans for the week of Monday, February 8th - Friday, February 12th. There is a list of materials at the end of each day so you can prepare those items the night before. **There will not be any small groups on Monday, February 8th. I will be using that time to prepare our classroom and curriculum for hybrid learning!
Return to Hybrid Learning: The LCPS School Board approved the motion to return Hybrid students K-5 to school on Tuesday, February 16th. I am so excited to be back in the classroom with our class! Students will attend school in-person two days a week, and complete asynchronous work 3 days a week at home. Students are required to login for morning meetings on the days they are learning at home. Please pay close attention to the supply list below to help your child start preparing their materials for school (some supplies may have changed if your child attended in-person learning in the fall). Click here to access our schedules for our in-person and at-home days. This includes our daily Specials. Please refer to the Parent Calendar on the Puma Paw to know if it is an A or B week.
Parent Information and Q&A Session: As many classes have changed, and some students will be coming back to Pinebrook for the first time this year, Ms. Drumheller, Ms. Duckworth and Mrs. Tomaseski will host a virtual parent session on Monday, February 8th from 11:30-12:00 to provide information about what our school day will be like, and allow time for any questions you may have. If you are unable to attend our information session, it will be recorded to viewing at a later time. Please use the following link to connect to our Virtual Q&A Session: meet.google.com/gih-yvaq-tur
Your child will be placed into the Navy Group or the Maroon Group depending on the days that they come to school and will follow that group’s schedule/assignments on our Schoology page. If you are unsure what days your child comes to school, please email me ASAP.
Navy Group - students who come to school on Tuesday/Thursday
Maroon Group - students who come to school on Wednesday/Friday
Asynchronous Work:
Please remember that students MUST complete all asynchronous work on the days they are learning from home. Students should follow this order when completing their work - listen to the provided recorded lessons (new content to stay on pace for the year) for each subject, then complete Independent/Seesaw work for that subject work. Some Seesaw work is being submitted early in the morning, and is incorrect, which means students are not listening to the lessons first.
Brain Break Box: Brain breaks will be provided throughout the school day for your child. Since we are unable to share games and activities in the classroom this year, we have asked that each student bring in a “brain break box” this is a shoebox sized box that contains independent activities that your child can complete during a brain break or during indoor recess time. Your child’s brain break box can be decorated and should have their name on it. You can include items such as: play-doh, legos, art supplies, games, etc. for your child to play with. Brain break boxes will be kept at school each day.
Library Books:
Students will receive library books each week that they have Library special. They will get to select 4 books from a book menu and the books will then be delivered to our classroom. Students will be able to keep their books for two weeks. They can return them to our classroom on Tuesday or Thursday of the week that we have our Library special.
Extra Change of Clothes: The clinic is unable to provide extra clothes this year for accidents at school, so we ask that each child bring an extra set of seasonal appropriate clothes in a labeled bag that can be kept at school. If your child already has a set of clothes at school from the fall, please let me know if you need to switch those clothes out for warmer clothes, and I will send them home with students on their first day back.
School Lunch: School breakfast and lunch is provided free of charge for your child each day. We will send home a breakfast and lunch menu with your child and this can also be viewed on the LCPS website.
Supply List: During Hybrid learning, students will need to keep some materials at school, some materials at home, and bring some materials back and forth. Students will have a space in the classroom to keep an extra set of materials there, if families choose. Please click here to access the supply list for hybrid learning.
P.E. and Recess: While your child is in the hybrid learning environment, they will be participating in P.E. outside as much as possible to allow the students to take advantage of being able to take their masks off for physical activities. We will also be going outside for recess every day that the weather permits. We ask that your child dresses appropriately each day knowing that we will be going outside if it is not raining and the temperature is above 32 degrees.
Specials Schedule: Your child will attend specials on the days that they are in school, expect for Library. Library will still be a virtual special. Please look on your child's schedule to know when to attend our virtual Library special
| A Week | Art | Art | Library (Synchronous) | Library (Asynchronous) |
| B Week | P.E. | P.E. | Music | Music |
Valentine’s Day- Although this Valentine’s Celebration may look different this year, we still want to celebrate all the friendships we have made in first grade! Connections and feeling cared about are even more important right now as we continue to tackle this difficult year together. We will begin our day with a virtual Valentine’s celebration for morning meeting, where we will share our Virtual Valentine’s cards with each other. We will then incorporate some fun Valentine’s activities throughout the day. Please click on the link below to access our class cards and directions. You will need to login to your student’s lcps account using their email address (studentid@lcps.org) and their password (birthday - MMDD)
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12Hk-iWgEC9iOkaY8yISOplmY_kb5Q3Gf0xGEI_hiagY/edit?usp=sharing
100th Day of School - We are celebrating the 100th day (and 101st so both groups can celebrate in-person) of school on Thursday, February 25th and Friday, February 26th! We will be doing many fun literacy and math activities during the day. I invite students to dress up for the 100th day. Your student may dress up like a 100 year old person or decorate a shirt with 100 things. **Please make sure your child still wears their mask!
Here are some examples:
100 year old girl – eye glasses, skirt, sweater, wig, gray hair spray, stockings, pearls, large purse, scarf
100 year old boy – button down shirt, flannel shirt, suspenders, tie, eyeglasses, gray hair spray, drawn on beard or mustache
100 item shirt - (glue or paint items) – pom poms, painted shapes or numbers, googly eyes, stickers, etc.
Once again, I know that this is a lot of information, so please take some time to let it process. I hope everyone is doing well and staying safe!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Best,
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