Engineer Update - Magee Elementary

Engineer Update

Magee Elementary

Sept. 21, 2020| #1

Upcoming Events

9/25 - Picture Retake Day

9/21-10/12 - Parent Teacher Conferences

10/9 and 10/12 - Virtual Days - Students learning at home

Service Spotlight - Butterfly Garden

We are blessed to have so much space outside at Magee! The Butterfly Garden is one of those spaces that makes Magee special - and it will take all of us to keep it that way! *Please consider signing up for a day during a month to maintain (weed or weed whack) the areas with mulch and seating. You do not need to take care of it the whole month. We can have multiple people each month...If we stay on top of things, management should take less than an hour. Weeds should be disposed of anywhere along the treeline. Thank you for being a part of providing such an amazing space for students, families, and the community.

Link to Butterfly Garden Sign Up

After School Pick Up

Be patient, Be kind, Have grace

Our pick up after school is working the kinks out. We do open the back playground at 2:50pm to alleviate traffic on Hwy. 83 with people arriving early. The first cars are loaded at 3:15pm and we continue until around 3:40pm.

PLEASE keep the window of time in your mind. If everyone arrives for a 3:15 pick up, we will have a traffic problem. If 3:30pm works for you, come then! It is much clearer and there is not a long line. Or, feel free to park in the lot and then join the line, at the end, when it gets shorter. PLEASE do not cut in line.

Also, please be sure to make WIDE lines on the playground - around the outside edges - to allow for as many cars as possible to be on the playground and not backed up in the parking lot and on to Hwy. 83.

Thank you for your cooperation and support!

What if...

What if questions are my least favorite questions. There is never a way to answer all of them! There is one “What if…” question that is looming out in front of us that we CAN, and ARE, preparing for. What if a student has chosen face to face learning and needs to be quarantined or isolated? How will they access instruction? AND, what if a classroom, Magee, or the district goes virtual for any period of time. What will instruction look like?

Those are What ifs… that we can answer. Our teachers and students are using Google Classroom in our classrooms. That will be the platform that students will use when they are home for isolation, quarantine or if we need to move to distance learning.

Families will be getting more information about how to access Google Classroom with your child. In Google Classroom you will find the schedule for your child’s classroom and times when “live” or “synchronous” instruction will occur both in the classroom and when/if distance learning occurs for all. One of the differences you will see from last spring is that students will be participating in synchronous instruction, small groups, and have work time throughout the day. Distance schedules will mimic face to face schedules making the transitions in and out of school a little less stressful for our learners.

The video below will guide you through where to find assignments and information in your child's Google Classroom. Mrs. Jones made the video using examples from our classrooms to make it easy to relate to.

As we take time to prepare for the “What ifs…” that lie ahead, please know that we are all in this together. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out. #thrivingtogether

Mitigation of COVID with Masks

Masks Required

The Kettle Moraine School District requires face coverings for the 2020-21 school year as a mitigation measure to help ensure schools remain open. It is essential that the spread of COVID-19 is controlled in order to keep students and staff in our buildings, teaching and learning face-to-face. Face coverings, combined with other mitigation measures, have served the district well in the few weeks schools have been open. The district is in regular communication with Waukesha County Public Health and they strongly recommend face coverings in schools. This recommendation aligns with the CDC and the State Health Department. The face covering requirement is in place for the entire 2020-21 school year, regardless of the governor’s existing order.

After observing students at recess, and having conversation with some of our older students, we have agreed that if students wish to play football, soccer, basketball or 500 they would need to wear masks. There is just too many ways they can get too close to each other. Students are continuing to remain with their classroom cohort at recess and rotate each week to a new playground space. We also discussed that this only works if they follow the guidelines we all agree upon.