Happy Friday Sloan Creek Families!
PowerSchool and Google Classroom are now open for you to view your child's schedule and accept their google classroom invitations.
We had an unexpected glitch in how you view your child's PowerSchool schedule today that I want to help clarify until we can fix:
- Some electives rotate by quarters (a new elective each nine weeks).
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Right now, you can only see the first quarter of your child's elective rotation.
- We are working to adjust this view so that you can see your child's entire year. Until then, we wanted you to have this information:
5th Grade Elective Details:
- All 5th graders will have 1 period of P.E.
- All 5th graders will have 1 period of a 9 week rotating elective which will be:
- STEM 1,
- STEM 2,
- ART
- GENERAL MUSIC.
- Currently, you can only see the first nine weeks of classes but all students will get to rotate through all four elective rotations.
6th Grade Elective Details:
- All 6th graders will have 1 period of a full-year fine art. (Art, Band, Choir, or Orchestra)
- All 6th graders will have 1 period of a rotating elective schedule for the full year. It will rotate at the midpoint of the 90 minute class period:
- STEM (45 min) then PE (45 min)
or
- PE (45 min) then STEM (45 min)
I apologize that you can not yet see the entire year in the schedule, so it might be confusing. 1st period teachers will be calling you today to assist your child in logging on. If you have any questions, I am here to help. Give me a ring anytime.
I hope you will join us today on our Live SCIS Question and Answer hosted on the Sloan Creek Facebook Page. 12:00-1:00 p.m. We will have parents, teachers, and administrators on to answer any questions you might have!
Ray Winkler,
Principal
214.417.4660
(Repost from yesterdays' email below)
We hope you will watch the two videos posted above.
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The "How to log in on the first day" video posted above is intended to guide your children on finding out who their teachers are by logging into powerschool on Friday, as well as how to log into google classroom and use zoom made by our teachers.
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Login: Last Name _First Name
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Password: Student ID number
Calendar of Events:
Friday, August 14:
- 8:00 a.m: you may view your child's schedule in powerschool and log into google classroom.
- 1st period teachers will call your home to connect with your child and ensure they know how to log in to their class on the first day of school.
- Students may log into google classroom and "Join" all their classes.
- At this time we are not accepting schedule change requests due to scheduling constrictions.
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Live SCIS Question and Answer hosted on the Sloan Creek Facebook Page. 12:00-1:00 p.m. We will have parents, teachers, and administrators on to answer any questions you might have!
Saturday, August 15:
- Alternate Technology and yearbook pick up 9:00-10:00 a.m (Planners are sold out)
Monday, August 17:
- School starts at 7:40 a.m.
- Teachers will be logged in and ready to greet your child on zoom starting at 7:30 a.m.
- All students will log into their first period classroom's zoom link, posted in google classroom.
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Monday is an "A Day" -Students will have 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th period. SCIS Bell Schedule
- Lunch for all students will be from 12:45-1:15.
- Week one of school is called "Camp Leopard" where teachers focus on connecting with kids, learning about the learning structures we have in place for the next three weeks, and understanding what rigorous learning looks like in the virtual setting.
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Technology Help Line at 214.507.4415 (7:30 a.m-5:00 p.m.)
Save the date:
SCIS Walk The Creek- Wednesday, September 2
5th Grade 8:30-11:00
6th Grade 1:00-1:30.
This will be an optional time for students to walk their schedule prior to the first day of face to face instruction. Due to safety concerns, we can only allow students in the building during this time. More details to follow.
If I can be of service in anyway, please reach out to me directly.
With Gratitude,
Ray Winkler,
Principal
214.417.4660