Weekly Newsletters and Updates

Weekly newsletters will be emailed home on Fridays.

• The email will include the lesson plans, spelling list, and vocabulary list for the week.  

This week of school, assignments will be minimal - there will be no reading vocab or spelling list. 

Friday is the last  day of school and we will be having our final party.  There is no Coyote Club after school on Friday, so please pick your child up at 12:15.

Have a wonderful summer!

As a reminder:

• Lesson plans are emailed weekly with the newsletter.  If ever your student is absent, please refer to these plans as they have all the information that the students will need to complete the work they missed at home.  Often there is a worksheet and that we can send to the office if you request it before 9 am.  In the lesson plans, items printed in black are done in class and cannot be made up.  Items in blue are assignments which are due the following day.  Items in red are assessments and must be made up as quickly as possible when the child returns to school.  These are usually made-up during lunch recess and the student will need to see all three teachers to get caught up.  Students always have the same number of days that they were absent to get work completed.  So, if a student is absent Monday and Tuesday, they have until Friday to get everything caught up.  Long-term assignments, however, are always due at 8am on the date due. Long-term assignments are book reports, research papers, reading logs, etc.  Poem recitations are to be done when the student returns to class.

IXL:

IXL is a wonderful program that Valley is providing for all of our students.  Your child has taken a preliminary test to determine where they are in regard to a wide range of skills.  On your child’s Recommendation Wall are skills where your child had some gaps in learning.  On the Recommendation Wall are also sixth grade skills suggested by the sixth grade team that we would like all students to work on.  The 6th grade teachers encourage all students to log into IXL and complete practice problems throughout the week.  30-60 minutes a week is recommended at this time. Please follow the directions below:

1. Sign into IXL.

2. Click on the “Learning” Tab.

3. Click on “Recommendation Wall.”

4. Towards the top right you will see a star symbol.  It will say “suggestions from your teachers.”  Click on this.

5. You can now work on ELA questions suggested by Miss Gross, or Math questions suggested by Mrs. Copper.

6. On the Recommendation Wall are skills the IXL program has personally selected for your child based on their preliminary assessment that they need to work on as well.

IXL encourages students to work on 6th grade skills twice a week and Recommended Skills twice a week. 

Some quick reminders:

• If your child attends Coyote Club, please remind them that it is "silent work" time until 4:15 PM.

• At drive-through pick-up, please leave your placard in the car window until your child is in the car.

  • A placard is required for student dismissal.

• If you are coming on campus, please have a school issued ID.

• If your child is participating in an extra-curricular activity, a grade of 70% or higher is needed to participate.

• Email is the best way to contact your child's teacher.