Warrior Connection for Families
#worldchangingwarriors
This is the week! Our teachers are eager to connect with ALL of our students! Please make sure that all Sevier students are logging on Canvas and Google Classroom. They know how to do this! This is how JSMS students use their chrombooks daily in the classroom. If you have ANY questions, please email your child's teachers. They are happy to help! Student emails and access to Google Hangouts have been opened for students for increased communication with teachers so please be looking for communications from teachers! If you need technical assistance, please call 378-2450 and ask to speak to our Tech Support, Laura Valentine.
Student devices will be delievered by school bus mid-week if students were day users, or if students left their chromebooks in teacher classrooms. More specific information is to come regarding the specifics of delievery. If your child left their chromebook in their locker, please call the main office and make arrangements to come and get it (423-378-2450).
Also, look for JSMS Staff tomorrow afternoon! We are parading through all JSMS neighboorhoods! While we can't go down EVERY street, we will try to go through all main streets in a neighboorhood! Listen for us to be honking, cheering and playing fun music! WAVE! WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU!
JSMS JAM
This is an excellent article about supporting our mental health during this time! (Please CLICK ON Link Below to READ)
KCS Feeding Program
- Program is available at 10 AM - 2 PM at all eight elementary schools, Sevier, Robinson, and Dobyns-Bennett each weekday. We will restart the program on Monday, 3/30 following spring break.
- This is for all children 18 and under. Children do not have to be Kingsport City Schools students.
- Breakfast and lunch will be given during the 10 AM - 2 PM time frame.
- Bus routes will leave schools starting at 10 AM.
- Sevier's "Drive Through" feeding location is at the front of the school, on the corner, by the parking lot.
- If you are not on a bus route and live within Kingsport City limits, please call (423) 392-4670 or (423) 392-4416 to be added to a bus route if needed.
A Challenge from our own SS Teacher, Chris Carr!
I hope your quarantine time is going well. Yesterday, I had an idea. In our 7th grade class, we read lots of primary sources about the major events we cover in our curriculum. I thought it would be interesting to create a student book of primary sources from this unprecedented time we are in right now. After thinking about it some more, I thought it would be important to document the thoughts and actions of ALL KCS families, not just my own students.
What I am envisioning is a collection of diary entries, essays, poems, drawings, photographs, etc. showing the daily activities of our students, while we are waiting this out. Students and parents would email me their submissions, which I would compile using an online publisher, and then have printed into a hard copy, or copies. The result would be a book of primary sources by KCS families, that would give future students insight as to the fears, concerns, and daily life our children are experiencing right now. This could also give children a creative outlet to alleviate the stresses of isolation.
I'm asking each teacher to make mention of this in his or her Canvas or Google Classroom (or whatever platform you are using) lessons. Depending on the grade level, hand-drawn pictures or a few sentences would be great; you know the ability levels of your children. If you wouldn't mind telling parents to email their child's submission directly to me (ccarr@k12k.com), or if you could forward them to me, I can begin compiling them. I would like for the work to include the student's name, and age.
I'm sending this to everyone, because I want your submissions as well! This is your chance to tell future generations how you spent your time during the spring of 2020. Get creative! I'd like to have May 1 as the deadline for submitting work. That way, I can assemble the book, and hopefully have a hard copy, or copies, by the start of the next school year. Thank you in advance for your help with this endeavor. If I haven't made myself clear, or if you have any questions, please feel free to email me. Stay safe, and stay sanitized!
Statewide Partnership with PBS to Deliver Daily Instructional Content Audience: Directors of Schools, District Staff, Eductaors Contact: K12.Health@tn.gov
Starting April 6, the six stations— WNPT Nashville, East Tennessee PBS, WCTE Upper Cumberland, WKNO Memphis, West TN PBS, and Chattanooga WTCI— will deliver two hours of programming with high-quality instructional content from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. CST. Four hours of content will also be streamed overnight, which viewers can watch live or record.
This is an incredible example of Tennesseans coming together to support kids. Families and students are hungry for content right now, and we are grateful our local stations have stepped up to help fill this need. Read more here.
Calling all members of the Sequoyah Scribe!
We're stuck at home, but we are still student journalists! Be sure to check for messages from your adviser on Canvas to see how you can help keep our student newspaper going! -Mr. Flanary
Missing a Chromebook?
Looking for Good Reading Material? See below!
Clothes Closet Needs
Is anyone Spring Cleaning?
We have a clothes closet at Sevier for students to use if they need to change clothes or if they are in need of clothes. We encourage students to keep what we give them when they come to the clothes closet. If you are doing any Spring Cleaning, consider donating your old clothes to the Sevier Clothes Closet. We are also always in need of new socks and underwear for students.
Thank you!
By Hannah Ramey