*Reminders and tips:
*Parents and Guardians: Please remember to encourage your students to read at home regularly from whatever subject and type of material interests them that is NOT ALREADY ASSIGNED AS HOMEWORK. It is to be freely chosen reading for their pleasure and independent interest (i.e. fiction and non-fiction books, magazines, comic books, instruction manuals - with your approval, of course). My ELA students must keep their class READING LOG current. The reading log is worth valuable homework points in my grading system, and is checked every week for a maximum of 5 points per week. Students are to read at least 20 minutes per night, for 5 nights a week; however, I appreciate, and give credit for 'honest' log entries of more, or less time. It is each student's responsibility to complete his/her reading log entry (Title, Author, date, minutes read), and obtain his/her parent's verifying initials for each log entry.
Your student will be issued a "Mustang" planner/agenda showing a week at a time, usually with 5 different text boxes, rows, or columns (one for each subject) in order for them to write down class assignments for each day. Use of the agenda/planner will be taught and reinforced by your student's teachers, particularly in Directed Studies classes. ***Please take time to review your student's agenda/planner as often as possible. The assignment entries/notes should be clear and detailed enough so that you, and your student, know exactly what each assignment entails.
*Also, please remember, student assignments/grades can be viewed on the "Parent Connect" system available on our Las Colinas website, or viewed within your student's particular Google classroom. All parents and guardians will be invited by email to "join" their student's google classroom, and I urge you to accept the invitation.
Here's to a great school year!
Thank you,
Gerry Escallier