Crew,
It was so fun this week to pop into our virtual classrooms and see all the fun outfits, crazy hair, and stuffed animals during our Pine Lane Spirit Week. And thank you all for submitting your pictures and to Vickie Reynolds for putting together our slide show capturing all the fun. Here is the slide show.
Next week our Elementary Progress Reports (EPR’s) will be released to you in EngagED. There are few changes from last year. Academic Standards are reviewed regularly by the Colorado Department of Education and due to those changes our EPR’s have changed slightly. Please see this document relaying those changes: Understanding Changes to EPR for the 20-21 School Year.
This document discusses “Essential Skills” potentially being specifically addressed. At this point, as a school we are not delineating from them from academic standards. Essential Skills are really embedded in each standard. Your child’s progress on those essential skills are addressed in the reported grade for the content standard. If you would like to review the academic standards for your child, please check out this site: 2020 Colorado Academic Standards.
As we near the close of this semester and winter break, some of you will be switching to eLearning and some of you will be coming back to in-person learning at the building. If you are coming back to the building, please be aware that your child’s teacher will be sending out a welcome letter to help you prepare for January 5th. On your first day, we would encourage you to send your child through the main office doors, have them check in at the office. Our staff will ensure that they get down to the teachers classroom on that first day. Please be aware that no adults will be permitted past our front lobbies.
We have all been using devices constantly as we navigated this semester in hybrid learning and this past few weeks of remote learning. If your device is like mine, there have been times when it bogs down tremendously or kicks you out of google meet. Here are a couple of tips to your child’s device or your own device working at top efficiency through this last week. First, power your device all the way down each night. This will help ensure that the device fully updates and fully charges. The second tip is to clear the cache on your device. This helps free up space for the device to operate. Here is short tutorial on how to clear the cache on their web browser: How to clear your Cache is Chrome. Lastly, clear out any unnecessary pictures, videos, or documents that may have been stored on the devices hard drive. Our school issued Chromebooks do not have a lot of storage space. These three tips should help mitigate the majority of connectivity issues with the device.
Lastly, please remember we have a Virtual SAC/PTO meeting this next Wednesday at 4:45 pm. One of our topics will be some upcoming construction on our north building that will occur this summer. We are looking forward to the completion of these much needed updates. We hope that many of you can join us.
Have a great weekend! And keep motivating your children! You all have been tremendous!
Chris Stairs
Principal
Pine Lane Elementary
