Dear Parents and Guardians,
We are proud to say that as we are wrapping up the
month of November, our Team Taylor students are navigating their middle school
responsibilities with increasing independence. With academic expectations and
workloads increasing in our classes, students are learning important time
management skills and study strategies to ensure their success in sixth grade.
We are here to support them and are proud of their growth thus far! We will
continue to provide them with guidance about how achieve a good balance between
homework, studying, and other activities.
As always, we need your help to ensure the success
of our students! We encourage you look at your student's agenda book for any
purple missing stamps. This is our way of letting you at home know when your
student has missed an assignment. If your student forgets to write down a
homework assignment, we encourage them to check our Google Classrooms. We post nightly
assignments as well as upcoming quizzes and tests to our individual class
pages. The team blog and Google Classrooms also note upcoming events and
assessments. This is a valuable resource for students to use regularly!
By now, all students should have logged on to their
Aspen accounts to check their grades. We encourage students to check Aspen
regularly, as we update our grades every two weeks. If you have any questions
regarding access to Aspen, Mrs. Morrison, the Assistant Principal is able to
provide you with information. Students are realizing how important it is to
complete their homework assignments and class work assignments. When students
are absent from class due to illness or music lessons, it is their
responsibility to make sure they get the work they missed. They must complete
it in the time frame outlined in the student handbook in order to get credit for
the missing work. Students have the same number of days to complete missed
assignments as days they were absent.
As a part of our Admirable Attribute program, Team Taylor
recognizes one boy and one girl from our team who exemplify positive attributes
of the authors we read in 6th grade. The attribute for November is: Respectful.
During our orientation week at the beginning of the year, we brainstormed
a set of expectations for behavior that became our Team Taylor contract. Each
of the expectations we noted had to do with respect. Students know how
important it is to demonstrate respect for their teachers, peers, school, and
themselves in order to ensure a positive, safe, and productive school
environment.
We truly feel that the success of our students
depends on clear communication between school and home. Please feel free to
contact us if you have any concerns or questions about your child's progress.
Email is the best method to reach us. Our email addresses are listed below.
Warm regards,
Team Taylor
