Intermediate News
March 23rd, 2020
Important Information
Expect regular communication from your skills group teacher via email. This will include teacher instruction on assignments and teacher availability during the week.
Next week’s work will come out by 12:00pm on Friday March 27th. We are sending out work one week at a time. We will continue to have pick up hours on Fridays. Look for more information in the ACA II Weekly Newsletter.
Assignments can be turned in for teacher review in two ways. 1. Completed packets can be physically turned into school on a pickup day or 2. Completed work can be emailed to the teacher (in one email please) by either scanning it or taking a picture with your phone and attaching it to the email.
Young Authors and Science Fair
Young Authors and Science Fair are both still on! Please be sure you are working with your student on these projects. This week, students should be revising their stories in Young Authors. Look for an email from Miss D with Young Authors instructions on Monday. Next week she will be scanning and emailing any drafts that are still in the classroom so that students can see their edits.
For the Science Fair, students should complete their procedure for their project. The procedure is the step by step directions for their project. There is no science assignment this week, please use this extra time to work on the Science Fair project.
Social Studies
There is an online version of our Social Studies Weekly Newspapers that your student can access at home. This version has many pros to it and will even read along with your student! Below are the directions of how to login. All students usernames and passwords are the same at Moby Max. We are attaching all students’ login information for reference.
To login in to Social Studies Weekly:
Login using given Username and Password (most are the same as Moby Max and typing.com)
Click on the icon for the newspaper.
Click on week 20 “The People Unite”
Complete the reading, and any comprehension questions. SKIP THINK AND WRITE.
Gradelink
This year, we started using Gradelink as a way to monitor student grading and get more information to parents. At the beginning of the year, you logged in and filled out basic emergency information for us. Now, you can also login to access any work from your student’s teacher page and see any newsletters they post! This is a great resource in case you lose this email, or any documents your teacher emails you. If you do not remember you Gradelink login, or never logged in, please contact Mrs. Thompson at aca2office@
Daily Schedule for Intermediate
During this unpredictable time, it can help students to continue a similar schedule to what they have when in their school routine. Below is our daily schedule for Intermediate that may help you and your student plan out days better.
8:15 Attendance
8:20 Class meeting
8:50 Skills groups for Language Arts & Math (break time usually around 9:30-10 am)
11:00 Social Studies, Science, & Writing (Monday-Wednesday)
12:00 Lunch & recess
12:45 Book talks
1:00 SSR
2:00 Electives
3:00 Dismissal
Ideas for Family Learning
Write a group story where everyone passes around the paper and adds one sentence to the story
Play some new card games (21 is a great game for math, Speed is great for fluency, Spoons is great for concentration and competition)
Create your own board game using people in your family as characters
Write your own skit and then act it out
Conduct a literature group, where everyone reads part of a story or chapter from a chapter book and then discusses their favorite part or what they predict will happen next
Play Scrabble or Bananagrams to help with spelling and vocabulary
Create an art project or painting together
Have them teach you all the Personal Safety moves (Tiger Claws and Nunchucks!)
Create musical instruments from items around the house (set clear ground rules and time limits for this one)
Play Dominoes, Yahtzee, or Uno for math