8-20-20 Harris Creek Parent Message
Hello Harris Creek Family,
I hope you are having a great first week of school orientation. It has been wonderful seeing our teachers so excited and hearing student voices again! Please read over a few announcements to keep you informed of what is happening throughout our school community.
Supply Distribution:
Our Supply Distribution started today and we have seen many of you come to pick up your child(ren)'s supplies! If you haven't come through yet, we will be handing out supplies in our bus loop until 6:00pm tonight and again tomorrow from 7:30am-1:00pm and 3:00pm-6:00pm.
Chromebook & Hot Spot Distribution:
The district has started device distribution with High Schoolers. They will be reaching out to Middle school students soon, then Elementary school students. At this time, they have not started contacting elementary school families to pick up devices. Please be patient with this process since they are distributing over 30,000 devices. I've heard that elementary school families should start receiving notifications on pick up dates in the next 1-2 weeks. You will be notified 3 days prior to the date your device will be ready for pick up.
Start of Instruction:
We will begin instruction on Monday, August 24 for Math, Language Arts, and Specials. We will add Science and Social Studies Instruction to their day on Monday, August 31. We understand that many of our students are sharing devices or borrowing parent's devices at this time so we will be recording lessons and posting them in Google Classroom for students to access when they are able to utilize a device. If you do not have a device or Internet, communicate with your student's teacher daily via email or messaging App on what he/she can do to practice their skills until they receive their device and/or Internet.
Our goal is for our students to simulate a regular school day as much as possible. Students will be working daily from 9:00am-11:30am and 1:00pm-3:00pm. They may have some additional independent work and/or homework to do after 3:00pm.
Special Education Parents:
If your child is in our Special Education Program, our resource teachers and related service therapists have begun reaching out to families to introduce themselves and share your child's Special Education schedule. We will begin serving students starting next week.
Our ECS teachers have been in contact and have been meeting with our ECS families.
WCPSS held a Special Education Parent Webinar on August 11. If you have not been able to view that, you can see it here: Special Education Webinar
Have a wonderful evening,
Mrs. Sanchez