What’s Good in the Neighborhood, June 7, 2021

Here we are, everybody — the last full week of the school year. Monday and Tuesday are the last full days of school. Wednesday through Friday (half days) are the last Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of the school year. Next Monday and Tuesday are our last asynchronous days for end of year celebrations, rain dates of events from this week, and final technology and materials returns.

I started the year stating that “When the world is flipped on its head, at least you get a new perspective.” With this new perspective, we changed our daily schedule, rethought student groupings, built upon strengths and supported academic needs of students, and, most importantly, we kept student wholeness and social-emotional well-being at the forefront of every decision we made. I look forward to this summer, after we all can collectively take a few deep breaths, when we can join in various working groups and allow our new perspectives to inform how we begin next year.

Thank you, as always, for your partnership, your frequent and thoughtful communication, and your flexibility in this unbelievably challenging school year. I woke up from a dream this morning that we were back in school, the kids were all over the hallway working on a project of some sort, and I was walking a guest through the building. The guest asked me how we are managing all of this — and I replied, “With love.” Yup, that about sums it up.

Happy Week 38!

–Dr. Shyla

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Noteworthy Upcoming Dates:

 

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Family Participation Hours

Hip-Hip Hooray! We achieved our  school-wide goal of 3,000 Family Participation hours! Thanks to your participation, we can tell the school district, our funders, and our community that our families truly support our school!

How high can we go? Think you still need to record your hours? It’s not too late!

 You can log hours for:

• Time spent facilitating your student’s distance learning (i.e. helping them log onto their classes, troubleshooting access issues, navigating Google Classroom, asynchronous learning activities, etc.) – You can record hours by week or even by month!

• Participating in the workday this weekend, class closing celebrations, or other school events;

• Setting up virtual “playdates”, a virtual book club or other enrichment activity;

• Watching a City Schools Board meeting;

• Posting in the City Neighbors Hamilton Families Facebook group and following up on it (.25 hour increments);

• Attend a CNH Virtual Committee Night, Family Nuts and Bolts meeting, and/or Board Meetings; and

• Attending a Parent-Teacher Conference.

If you want to know what activities we already have on record, you can request an up-to-date report by using the form on this page: Request your volunteer hours report

Thanks for all you do for our kids and our school!

The Family Participation Committee

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Spring Gallery Night

Wednesday June 9, 2021  ✦  6:00pm-8:00pm

6:00-7:00 – A-Team Presentations

Link to join: https://bcps-k12-md-us.zoom.us/j/86550444601

7:00-8:00 – Break Out Room Class Presentations:

The same presentation will be shown during Session 1 & 2 for Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th grade.

Middle School Presentations of Learning (POL) are broken into 2 groups alphabetically. See the lists below.

SCHEDULE WITH LINKS WILL BE SENT OUT TUESDAY!

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Digital Yearbook

Please submit photos of your child(ren) in this folder for a digital yearbook that we are putting together to commemorate this year.  We will be collecting photos from you this entire week. If you are unable to upload the photos, please email Kachaelar Jones (kjones@cityneighborshamilton.org) and she can help with uploading the images.

Yearbooks will be completed online and emailed to each family soon after the school year ends.  You will have the ability to order a hard copy for yourselves and have it mailed to your home straight from the company!

We are looking for the following photos in this folder:

• Close-up photo from the shoulders up to serve as the “school picture.”

  • Save image as <Student Name Grade School Picture>

• A fun or funny photo from this year — something related to their school work or classes

  • Save image as <Student Name Grade Fun Photo>

• A photo of your child at their workspace for online learning (in your house or in a learning center/daycare/family member’s house/etc.

  • Save image as <Student Name Grade Work Space>

• Images of your child’s classes, teachers, activities

  • Save image as <Student Name Grade Classes>

• Any other photos you would like to share

  • Save image as <Student Name Grade Other Pictures>

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Technology and Materials Return Days

In order to streamline returning technology and materials for you, we have expanded when we will collect them. You may return your child’s technology and materials any day 8:00-2:00 this week or next Monday/Tuesday. You may also return the technology and materials at any of the end of year celebration events for the students (except for the jazz music in the park for 3rd-5th graders).

All technology and materials will be collected in the main lobby of the school.

When you return the technology (Chromebook, headphones, hot spot, etc.), the staff member will follow a protocol for checking the technology to make sure it is in good condition. Please know that it may take about 5 minutes to check it so please plan accordingly.

Below are the materials we will be collecting in each grade: