Good Morning HC Family,

I hope you’re all safe and well. My family and I are listening carefully to the medical experts’ guidelines. Due to the seriousness of their forecasts, I’m taking an approach that we’re going to be out for the long haul to help “flatten the curve.”

I hope you’ll treat this time proactively for the opportunities you might not have otherwise had, but for this horrible situation. (I must admit that my house has never been cleaner!) 

With that in mind, I believe it’s important to maintain a routine for engaging students each day. Therefore, I’ve developed a skeleton Web calendar to take us through June. This is meant as a tool for you, knowing that you have other responsibilities and concerns for your households. My thinking is to give you a go-to daily menu to keep students engaged from 9-3:30, as you need it, not to add extra burden to your already stressful personal situations. For example, if you have an important conference call at 10:00, you may ask your child to check the web schedule at that time to see what they should be doing.

Additionally, today I’m posting our weekly activities on Google Classroom, which offers more details about the daily assignments. I’m inserting a Quicklink on my website, well as links to the Specialist’s activities, for easy access to Google Classroom each week. I hope to have this completed by lunchtime. Please ask them to check there every Monday for the daily-weekly instructions.

I’d also appreciate a note from your student on Google Drive by the end of the day, acknowledging they understand their responsibility to check Google classroom for our weekly assignments.

They already have our class assignment packets, which I sent home in their core subject folders on our last day of school. These will provide our launching pad for enrichment while they’re at home. As I mentioned before, I’ll also roll out various online tools for whole class discussions and connections, as we go.

Please reassure your child that we’re isolating for prevention, so that we may get back to “normal” soon, and WE will. I look forward to that day very much!  

Stay well,

Mrs. Murphy