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Optional: Zoom meetings just to see each other and answer or ask any questions we have. It will be so good to see you. Gmails will be sent daily at the start of the meeting. Click the link if you are invited. Contact me if you want to be invited.
7 / 8 Reading & Writing
Special Education
Reading 8 Schoology
If you want to, join me and our classmates everyday at 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. for a ZOOM meeting for Reading 8. If you want to, join at 2:00 p.m. for Writing 7/8. Come here to say hello and to get feedback on your work, say hi to your classmates and me. You can ask questions about our instruction and assignments and stay for a few minutes or for up to 30 minutes.
From our classroom.........to my home office
Contact Information:
Contact Information:
Emails will be checked throughout the day Monday - Friday. I will do my best to respond in a timely manner. If you need help with an assignment, please consider joining a Zoom Meeting for small group (see below) or set up a time with me for one-on-one teaching.
Meet with me: Ms. Simmering's Weekly Zoom Meetings daily
Meet with me: Ms. Simmering's Weekly Zoom Meetings daily
Check your Gmail right at these times for a link to the meeting. I am keeping the links private and off this public website, so please call me if you need help getting in.
Check your Gmail right at these times for a link to the meeting. I am keeping the links private and off this public website, so please call me if you need help getting in.
11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. for Reading 8 *No Wed. 1:00 meeting*
11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. for Reading 8 *No Wed. 1:00 meeting*
2:00 p.m. for Writing
2:00 p.m. for Writing
You may also call me at Google Voice at 507-858-4577 to ask a question.
You may also call me at Google Voice at 507-858-4577 to ask a question.
Click the link just below and we can be together through FlipGrid too!!
If you have questions about or need help with a lesson or assignment:
~Email me a question
~ Google Voice: 507-858-4577
Attendance and absence:
~If you are in my Advisory Group, you need to click on this ATTENDANCE FORM every day to be counted present for school for each day. If you do not submit this attendance form, you will be counted absent for that day. School attendance rules still apply, but if you are having difficulty for any reason, please let me know and I will help you problem-solve your attendance issues. On days you are absent / sick: call 238-4411 to report.
~If you were absent, please communicate with me about what you missed
~Check Google Classroom to see what resources and assignments are there
If you would like to explore topics in greater depth or would like to work ahead:
~Access iLit and read your self-selected leisure book
~Ask for additional assignments in iLit, specifically if there are skills you know you need to work on
~Practice your current Fluency Passage for the week (please don't move ahead to the next passage)
~Practice the sight words list
~Review your reading and writing goals and know them
~Review your data charts and graphs and determine your track for meeting your goal
Ms. Simmering's Schedule: / Course listings
Ms. Simmering's Schedule: / Course listings
News and Notes:
News and Notes:
How are you doing? Please know that this is a very unique time and we are all in this together. Reach out to me, your parents, or other trusted adults if you are having a hard time. Also, see this link for support. Link to Student Support COVID-19
And, if you don't know me yet....Hello! I'm Ms. Simmering and I teach reading, writing, and organization for students in special education in 7th and 8th grades. I attended Winona State University to obtain my Elementary and Special Education Teaching Licence with an emphasis in Reading. Then, after I began teaching at FHS, I earned my Master's Degree in Educational Leadership from Southwest State University. I continue to take courses online to further my education. Even though this is my 22nd year at FHS, I am still finding new things to learn about education and our students. Fairmont is my hometown. I even attended and graduated from FHS (a few) years ago! I live here with my twin sons, Grant and Carter who are both in 2nd grade this year!
Outside of school, I enjoy playing outdoors with my kids on the trampoline, at the pool, or at the parks. We also go fishing and camping often too. I enjoy music, play piano, and sing. Watching movies and reading are my favorite personal quite time activities.
While I've been so excited to spend my year in my classroom with my students, things have changed with our Distance Learning plan. My "Beach" classroom is now closed "to the public," but I brought some happy reminders home with me so that we can still learn together, and dream of warm sandy beaches, seagulls calling, and ocean waves lapping!
This is my home office. I brought my beach lamps and Cardinal home! This is how I will remember of all of you!!!
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