Teachers will be sharing with you when the students will be taking their benchmarks during the week of January 9th. We strongly encourage you to ensure your child's device is fully charged and ask that your child gets a full night of rest and eats a healthy breakfast.

We are looking forward to seeing the growth of our students from the beginning of the year!

Students need a safe space to voice their thoughts and to take risks. They also need to understand the many ways varying perspectives can be beneficial, the importance of helping to create an inclusive and accepting community, and how clear communication can lead to productive and positive group work.

If there's one thing an elite athlete knows, it's how to be an effective member of a team, especially under intense scrutiny and pressure. Use this unit to help solidify the positive classroom culture you've been working so hard to cultivate. With teamwork, you can make dreams work!

This month, Lex and Kelly will teach students that through the development of teamwork skills, they can learn communication tools that help create a great team and strategies to get along with others, including how to resolve conflict in healthy ways.

You can learn more about teamwork and continue the conversation about teamwork at home from Olympic Swimming Gold Medalist, Summer Sanders by clicking the link below.

https://teach.classroomchampions.org/external/content/family-video-summer-sanders-on-teamwork

Please also take a moment to review our Teamwork Family Newsletter!