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Sierra Family Newsletter August 6, 2020
SHARK SUPPLIES FOR SUCCESS PICK UP: TUESDAY, AUGUST 11
For non-RVC students, textbooks and other learning materials, along with Chromebooks as needed (Chromebook borrowing form below), and the 2020 spring pictures which have finally arrived (YAY!) will be distributed directly from your child's classroom at our Shark Supplies for Success materials handout on Tuesday, August 11. Use the first letter of your child's last name for pickup times:
8:00-9:00 for A - F
9:00-10:00 for G - N
10:00-11:00 for O - Z
If you are unable to pickup at that time, email your child's teacher to arrange alternate pickup times. (Teacher assignments can be found on the Aeries parent portal at 5:00 this Friday evening.) We will send out teacher room numbers with the Virtual Back-to-School Night meeting links (see below) on Monday so you know where to come pick up materials.
If your child is enrolled in RVC (Rocklin Virtual Campus), you will use this same form to request a Chromebook. Parents of RVC students requesting to borrow a Chromebook will pickup Chromebooks from our front office (drive up to the curb in front of the front office door, give a honk, stay in your car, and we'll bring it out to you) on Tuesday, August 11, from 1:00-3:00. If your child has spring pictures, we will add those to the Chromebook. RVC parents wanting to pick up spring pictures can also pick up those at our office from 1:00-3:00 even if you don't need a Chromebook.
Our yearbooks have still not arrived but we anticipate receiving them within the next couple of weeks and will get them to you as soon as possible.
If you did not pick up your child's clay projects from VAPA last spring, they will be out on a table for pickup in front of the VAPA class (room 18).
Virtual Back-to-School Night for Parents
We will hold virtual Back-to-School Night for parents/guardians on Monday, August 10th, at the times below. Teachers will be sharing their specific daily schedules and all the other details about Distance Learning we know you're excited to hear. Your children's schedules will be very similar to this RUSD elementary sample schedule, but adapted to accommodate for VAPA, Spanish, Shark Shuffle (a.k.a. small group instruction for intervention and extension) and PE rotations for each class. Each schedule provides time throughout the regular school day for synchronous learning in both whole and small groups, as well as asynchronous learning time. In addition, we are mindful that we don't want our sharks on the screen all day. After the school year starts, we will have periodic pick-ups of learning materials (leveled books, art projects, paper/pencil work, etc) for your students on Monday afternoons (frequency determined by teacher/grade level), as none of us want our sharks starting at a screen all day. There will be morning and afternoon "recess" breaks in addition to a one-hour lunch for all students from 11:00-12:00 to accommodate ensuring all students in a household have a unified lunch break as well as time to drive to school to pick up a school lunch if needed.
Teachers will be recording these Back-to-School Night meetings to share via email on Tuesday for families unable to attend. If you are concerned about being recorded, you can simply get creative with your display name and turn off your camera/video feature during the meeting. Please look for an email from the school on Monday with a master document of the virtual meeting access links for each teacher's Back-to-School night session on Monday, August 10th.
Grades K-1 5:30-6:15 p.m.
Grades 2-3 6:15-7:00 p.m.
Grades 4-6 7:00-7:45 p.m.
AERIES DATA CONFIRMATION - TEACHER ASSIGNMENTS
Very Important To-Do. (Aeries system engineers have fixed the earlier glitch you may have experienced this week.)
The data confirmation process for Rocklin Unified School District is available now on the parent portal in Aeries. This process is designed to ensure all student demographic and contact information is reviewed and updated each year. Be sure to update your own contact information with your cell phone and email as we frequently use both for school communications. Please be sure to complete this process as soon as possible. This will need to be completed for each student before you can view who your student’s teacher is in the Aeries Parent Portal for the 2020-2021 school year. If you need to reset your password, click here or go to the parent portal in Aeries for instructions. For further instructions, please click here. If you have any questions about Aeries and/or data confirmation, please contact our school clerk, Mindi Diemer, at mdiemer@rocklinusd.org.
Data confirmation must be completed if you plan to request to borrow a Chromebook during distance learning. As a fellow RUSD parent of two high-schoolers, I'd recommend that you bookmark AERIES in your internet browser now as your AERIES use will increase a bit as your children get older.
Class/Teacher Assignments are viewable on Aeries Parent Portal starting on Friday, August 7, 2020 after 5:00 p.m. so be sure to get your child's Data Confirmation completed to view the teacher.
BACK-TO-SCHOOL SUPPLIES
We know you are excited to set up your shark for success with at-home learning. It's very likely that you already have many of the basic supplies your shark will need at home already. We recommend creating a special space just for school that is free from distractions. Please click here for our suggested supplies list.
Chromebook Loan Request for At-Home Learning
UPCOMING EVENTS
- Data Confirmation (must-do for all parent/guardians): Monday, August 3rd
- Calling All Kindersharks: Thursday, August 6th @ 6:30 p.m. via Zoom
- View Teachers on Aeries: Friday, August 7th after 5:00 p.m. (must complete Data Confirmation to view teacher in Aeries Parent Portal)
- Virtual Back-To-School Night for Parents Only: Monday, August 10th.
K-1 5:30-6:15
2-3 6:15-7:00
4-6 7:00-7:45
- Shark Supplies for Success Materials Pickup at Your Child's New Classroom: August 11th, pickup by first letter of last name. 8:00-9:00 for A - F, 9:00-10:00 for G - N, 10:00-11:00 for O - Z.
Meet our New PTC Committee!
Introducing our 2020-2021 PTC board:
Jenn Alexander - President
Irina Soares - Co-VP
Shannon McKiernan - Co-VP
Claire Luna - Co Treasurer
Tracy Baker - Co Treasurer
Katie Leman - Secretary
Sierra's amazing group of parents support many aspects of Sierra. You can contact the PTC by emailing info.sierra.ptc@gmail.com and you can find more information about our PTC at the following link: https://www.sierraelementaryptc.org/.