Join our community for an All School Back To School Night GoogleMeet on Monday, Sept. 14 at 6:30pm to 7:15pm. Plan to hear about the school year and use the Back To School Night Googleform for questions that need to be addressed by the principal and/or your teacher.

Join Principal Lunde for Coffee Talk First on the first Fridays of the month from 10:30am to 11:15am. Bring your picnic chair, a thermos cup of coffee, and sit outside with Mrs. Lunde to chat. The first one is Friday, Sept. 4.

Spirit Days are every Friday. Show your UELF Pride by wearing our navy and teal colors. Share photos, videos, and witty cheers with Mrs. Lunde. Once a month we will show extra school spirit by having dress up spirit days. Vote for you favorite spirit days on the UELF Spirit Day GoogleForm. Here's a video of the district wide Spirit Day on Aug. 28; UELF begins at minute 10:41.

Thank you to all of the families supporting their students to develop the habits of mind to be engaged and mindful learners. Learners require different support to become independent and collaborative thinkers so here are some strategies to support student agency.

1) Students need a learning environment where they can be independent. Students need a space, this can be a corner of a room with headphones, where students can engage with their class and classwork. We are seeking to see your student's thinking and the student's ideas. Please refrain from overly prompting your kids...it's okay for them to not know something. This guides the educators to know how to support the student and plan next steps.

2) Students work best with a daily routine. Use the schedule provided by the classroom teacher, plus refine the schedule to align with the household schedule. Use tools like a timer for knowing how long to stay on a task and take breaks to talk about the learning or to switch activities. Routines also include bedtimes/wake-up times, food intake, and outside play time.

3) Students need to make sense of learning. Students can take walk-n-talks with their siblings, caregiver, or record their thinking to verbalize their learnings. How are students connecting the school learning to the real world? What questions are being formulated? The more we learn, the more questions we have.

• August 27 Family Meeting Slidedeck
• August 27 Jamboard - Add your ideas to Jam Slide #1 and Jam Slide #2!
• Learning Signs - Working!/Live Class in Session/Recording