All Week
Virtual MS Schedule
(times updated to begin 04/06/20)
Advisory 8:00-8:10am
1 8:15 - 8:50am
2 8:55 - 9:30am
Brain Break 9:30 - 9:40am with Coach Myah
3 9:40 - 10:15am
4 10:20 - 10:55am
Brain Break 10:55 - 11:05am with Coach Alex
5 11:05 - 11:40am
6 11:45 - 12:20pm
Advisory 12:25 - 12:35pm
Optional Extras
Teacher Office Hours 1:00 - 2:00pm
Athletics Stay Active Session 2:00 - 2:40pm
Extended Day 3:00 - 4:00pm
The Week Ahead
Morning Advisory Slides - Please show each morning.
Monday, April 20
- MS Leadership Team Meeting @ 2:15pm
- Subject Reports due by 3pm into the Q3 Subject Narratives folder
Tuesday, April 21
- Grade Level Team Meetings
- Grade 6 @ 2:15pm
- Grade 7 @ 2:45pm
- Grade 8 @ 3:15pm
Wednesday, April 22
- Nothing
Thursday, April 23
- MS Faculty Meeting - Cancelled. Please use this time to upload your subject overviews and checked narratives to the portal.
Friday, April 24
- Please have your reports uploaded by 9am.
- Student Movie with Ms. Strate @ 3pm in Teams. Faculty attendance not required.
- Reports released to families at 3pm
- #2 Virtual Happy Hour Reports are done celebration! 5:00 - 6:00pm
Action Items
- Textbook Count: As Ruth requested in an email earlier this week, please fill in your section of this Google Sheet to let us know which classes have textbooks checked out. And, if so, the title of the text(s). If you have not given students any textbooks, please select 'No' in the Textbooks Distributed column (or just reply to Ruth's email and she will kindly fill it in).
- Reports to be upload to myAW once checked. Please do these by Friday at 9am. Thank you.
Changes to the Week Ahead, Updates, & Reminders
- Surveys: These went out in the Flash to parents and to the students on Thursday afternoon. If you would like to see the results, here are the links. There aren't many parent responses yet, but hopefully, with another reminder, they will respond.
- Welcome to Dimpy Bloodworth! I can officially confirm that Dimpy Bloodworth will be joining the MS team next year. She will be teaching 6th grade IS and be our chapel and service coordinator for the whole school. Dimpy has strong connections to Seattle and great experience with middle school. As the year progresses I will loop her in on more MS experiences as she is very keen to get to know you all and be involved. If you weren't aware, John Hunt will still be teaching and part of the MS, but he has decided to be PT and only teach Design in all three grades next year.
As always, please remember to visit the AWS Technology Resources document frequently. There are a whole bunch of new resources shared by YOU all. Take a peek.
Updates from Sandra Bush
- Community Connections:
- Cooking and Baking: I really would love for some of you to share your wonderful recipes! I've added a couple of our family favorites. I would love to get some ideas from you - share a recipe (or two, or three) here and we'll have a lovely collection of recipes to come back to when the cooking/baking itch strikes!
- Health/Sanity-Saving Activities: Anelisa has done a beautiful job updating our Online Academic Continuity Resource Board with some 5 min/30 min/1 hr+ ideas for individuals and with others. Have a moment to engage in breathing exercises? We got you. Hankering to watch a movie with a faraway friend? We got you, too. Also, did you know that the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival now has virtual tours? The Board will take you to them! Have a family/individual physical-distancing activity that's working particularly well for you? Read an article recently you think would be worth sharing with others? I would love to hear from you and perhaps share it with others who might be searching for things to do/read! Send me your thoughts here.
- New upcoming webinars that might be of interest: [keeping it light this week!]
- April 29:
- Learn from the Best: Yale’s Transition to Remote Teaching - Registration link here
Absent Students
- Follow this link for Anticipated Absent Students
Kudos / Funny Stuff / Anything other than work...
- Shannon sent this out about her recent grad work. If you need a giggle, check this out!
- For those who didn't know, we have a professional athlete on our teaching staff, Mark Burton. As an ultimate frisbee guru, you can watch a replay of his 2016 AUDL Semi-Final and hear him comment on the game. Very impressive!
And if you didn't look at your email and see Nate, Andrew, Emil, and Myah dancing, please watch this short video of them promoting the Brain Breaks. It will put a smile on your face for sure!
The Month Ahead
- Still stuck in our houses...
- Friday, April 24 - Reports published
- Friday, May 1 - Virtual Conference Day, no classes
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