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September Happenings

From the Teacher

October Happenings

  • October Field Trip ideas to be announced

Important October Dates

October News

Unbound and Rooted Academy

  • Math: Students reviewed past skills and learned new skills (time, math facts, expanded form, even/odd numbers, place value)that required whole class mastery before moving into differentiated small groups
  • Reading: Students worked on independent and instructional grade level reading skills, reading comprehension, paragraph writing, spelling and sentence structure.
  • Health/L.A.: Body Systems (nervous system, skeletal system, muscular system, organs).
  • Character Trait: Trustworthiness
  • Math: Students will begin differentiated small groups. We are using “Good and Beautiful” math curriculum.To stay abreast of what your child is learning in class, refer to math homework given on Tuesday and Thursday nights.
  • Reading/L.A.:We will begin differentiated small groups in the “Good and Beautiful” L.A curriculum. Each group will focus on phonics, reading, spelling,writing, grammar/punctuation, literature,geography, poetry, art appreciation and art instruction. Refer to Monday and Wednesday homework to stay abreast of current skills learned in class.
  • Social Studies: Students will be learning about US Geography and Maryland History (after completing our body systems health unit)
  • Character Trait: Citizenship
  • October Donations:Thompson Family
    • 4 cases of water
    • 4 rolls of TP
    • 4 rolls of paper towels/napkins
    • Pack of snacks
  • October Outings: Our local recreation center has 2 language programs offered in October (11am-12pm) for $25 per student. I would love to sign the kids up for one of the classes, but will need help with transportation ideas. Classes fill up fast. If interested, Help Needed...
  • Class Schedule Change: The class schedule has been changed to align with small group instruction. You may refer to the school handbook to check out the changes.
  • Spelling Homework:
    • Monday- Copy words 3x each
    • Tuesday: Alphabetical order
    • Wednesday: Choose from menu
    • Thursday: at-home practice test
    • Friday: Test
  • Check student folders daily for:
    • Homework
    • Home-to-School communication
    • Sign reading logs
    • Behavior calendars
  • Creative Kids: Looking for help in planning and preparing for sustainable business ideas for the students to raise and donate money this year. Please reach out if you or someone you know is willing to help.

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October Happenings

From the Teacher

Novemberer Happenings

  • School closing
    • Nov 5th (PD)
    • Nov. 25-26th (Thanksgiving break)

Important October Dates

November News

Unbound and Rooted Academy

  • Math: We started small group/differentiated instruction. In small groups, students learned time, skip counting, computation strategies, counting money, logic strategies, word problems, place value, rounding numbers
  • Reading: In small groups, students are working on writing a book about a fictional story, parts of speech, homophones, decoding, spelling, sentence diagramming, using sensory language in their writing, comprehension skills.
  • Health: Body Systems (nervous system, skeletal system, muscular system, organs).
  • Character Trait: Citizenship
  • Math: Depending on the group/level, students will begin learning about measurement, intro to metric units, fractions, computation strategies, and elapsed time.
  • Reading/L.A.: Students will continue to learn grammar/punctuation usage, writing strategies, literature, decoding, and comprehension skills. Students will also begin studying autobiographies and begin writing their own.
  • Social Studies: Our health unit has extended into November. We will soon begin learning about US Geography and Maryland History (after completing our body systems science unit)
  • Art: students will be working with pastels this month. They will work on creating landscapes.
  • Character Trait: Respect
  • November Donations:Smith Family
    • 4 cases of water
    • 4 rolls of TP
    • Pack of plastic ware
    • Pack of snacks
  • November Outings: We will continue to visit our local rec center for our Sign language classes (Nov 3rd, 10th, 17th)
      • Our rec center always has classes offered to homeschool families. I will continue to look for our next set of classes for the students to keep them engaged. I will keep you all posted.
  • Aven’s birthday is coming up (Nov. 10th). It falls on a Wednesday. I would love to take the students on a day of adventures (at no cost). We will begin at IHOP for breakfast. Next, we will go to our sign lang class. After that, we will go to the movies. Finally we will return back to school for lunch and cake. I will send home more details and a permission slip to be filled out if you give your child permission to participate. I am trying to keep it all a secret and surprise (we’ll see how that works..lol).
  • Latenesses:
    • If you know that your child will be arriving after 10am, send a text with your estimated arrival time. This will help me to attempt to adjust instruction/small group time to try to make sure that your child receives their LA or math instruction. Otherwise, they may miss some or all of their instruction time.
  • Creative Kids: Looking for help in planning and preparing for sustainable business ideas for the students to raise and donate money this year. Please reach out if you or someone you know is willing to help.

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Dec/Jan Happenings

From the Teacher

February Happenings

Future School closing

February

  • 18th: School Closed- Professional Development Day
  • 21st: Presidents Day, school closed

Important Jan/Feb Dates

December/ January News

Unbound and Rooted Academy

  • Math: Students worked on multiplication, long division, word problems, multi digit addition/subtraction (with and without regrouping), and measurement.
  • Lang. Arts: Students are finishing up their autobiographies. They have also worked on decoding, spelling, paragraph writing, parts of speech and comprehension skills.
  • Social Studies: The students have learned map skills. They have also researched and learned facts about where they live in the world: including their continent, country, state, and city. They are working on identifying where all 50 states are. So far, they can identify where 25 states are found.

  • Math: Depending on the group/level, students will begin learning about expanded form, computation strategies, measurement, fractions, computation strategies, writing number to the hundred thousands, and reading graphs
  • Reading/L.A.: Students will continue to learn grammar/punctuation usage, writing strategies, literature, decoding, and comprehension skills.
  • Science: I plan for students to learn about coding and robots. I am currently purchasing materials and working on curriculum. More detailed info will come in February’s newsletter

Language: We are currently working out the details for interested students to partake in Spanish class. More information will come soon.

  • December/January Donations: Johnson Family
  • February Donations: Thompson Family
    • 4 cases of water
    • 4 rolls of TP
    • Pack of plastic ware
    • Pack of snacks
  • Dec/January Outings: Due to covid, we will only be experiencing virtual outings this month.
  • Tuition Increase: The 2022-23 school yr tuition will increase monthly by $25 per student. This calculates to $3.54hr per child; thus, the new monthly tuition for the 2022-23 school year will be $425 per month. You can find this updated information in the school handbook.
  • “Intent to Return” form:
    • We love having your child as a student at Unbound and Rooted Academy and hope you choose to return for the 2022-2023 school year. Because enrollment is limited, we want to make sure that your child has a space reserved for next year. Please note that there will be no guaranteed space reservations for students who do not return their intent to return forms by February 4, 2022. Your child has a copy of the form or you can download and print the form from the “Important Docs” tab in the school handbook.
  • Parent/Teacher Conferences: I am available next week for parent teacher conferences (Jan 24th-28th). We will discuss your child’s progress, go over work samples, and discuss a goal and plan to ensure that your child continues to grow. Please fill out the conference form to schedule a day and return it to your child’s teacher.
  • Covid Protocol: We have added a new health and safety action plan in our school handbook in order to attempt to keep our student, staff and families safe and comfortable during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Jan Happenings

From the Teacher

February Happenings

Future School closing

February

  • 18th: School Closed- Professional Development Day
  • 21st: Presidents Day, school closed

Important Jan/Feb Dates

February News

Unbound and Rooted Academy

  • Math: Students worked on multiplication, long division, word problems, multi digit addition/subtraction (with and without regrouping), and measurement.
  • Lang. Arts: Students finished their autobiographies. They began studying advertising techniques, spelling teams, capitalization rules, and editing (amongst other skills)
  • Social Studies: The students have learned map skills. They have also researched and learned facts about where they live in the world: including their continent, country, state, and city. They are working on identifying where all 50 states are. So far, they can identify where 30 states are found.

  • Math: Depending on the group/level, students will begin learning about division, long multiplication, place value to millions, adding and subtraction 3-4 digit numbers, fractions and measuring capacity.
  • Reading/L.A.: Students will continue to learn grammar/punctuation usage, writing strategies, literature, decoding, and comprehension skills. They will also begin writing ads using advertisement techniques. They will write a dialogue for their own commercial.
  • Science: Students have started their robot unit. They have built two robots in class and will be creating more. They have learned the purposes of robots and possibilities in the future.

Language: We are currently working out the details for interested students to partake in Spanish class. More information will come soon.

  • December/January Donations: Johnson Family
  • February Donations: Thompson Family
    • 4 cases of water
    • 4 rolls of TP
    • Pack of plastic ware
    • Pack of snacks
  • Dec/January Outings: Due to covid, we will only be experiencing virtual outings this month.
  • Tuition Increase: The 2022-23 school yr tuition will increase monthly by $25 per student. This calculates to $3.54hr per child; thus, the new monthly tuition for the 2022-23 school year will be $425 per month. You can find this updated information in the school handbook.
  • “Intent to Return” form:
    • We love having your child as a student at Unbound and Rooted Academy and hope you choose to return for the 2022-2023 school year. Because enrollment is limited, we want to make sure that your child has a space reserved for next year. Please note that there will be no guaranteed space reservations for students who do not return their intent to return forms by February 4, 2022. Your child has a copy of the form or you can download and print the form from the “Important Docs” tab in the school handbook.
  • Parent/Teacher Conferences: I am available next week for parent teacher conferences (Jan 24th-28th). We will discuss your child’s progress, go over work samples, and discuss a goal and plan to ensure that your child continues to grow. Please fill out the conference form to schedule a day and return it to your child’s teacher.
  • Covid Protocol: We have added a new health and safety action plan in our school handbook in order to attempt to keep our student, staff and families safe and comfortable during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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March Happenings

From the Teacher

April Happenings

Future School closings

April

  • 11th-18th: School Closed- Spring Break
  • 28th and 29th- School closed, personal days (not on school calendar)

Important March Dates

March/April News

Unbound and Rooted Academy

  • Math: Depending on the group/level, students learned about rays/angles, fractions, multi-step word problems, mental math, expanded form, and computation strategies (multiplication/division, addition/subtraction). We also reviewed past skills due to our spiral curriculum.
  • Reading/L.A.: Students finished up their ad campaigns for their robots. They created their logo, slogans, commercial storyboards, and commercials. They also focused on grammar skills; subject/ predicate, simple/compound sentences, etc.
  • Science: Students started their robot unit. They have learned the purposes of robots and possibilities in the future. They build real and model robots in class.

  • Math: Depending on the group/level, students will begin learning more about rays/angles, shapes, fractions, multi-step word problems, mental math, expanded form, and computation strategies. We will also review past skills due to our spiral curriculum.
  • Reading/L.A.: Students are continuing to learn grammar, punctuation, and usage skills in order to improve their writing. They will be working on independent research papers/projects this month. They will also be learning to create google slide presentations to share their research.
  • Science/Health/S.S: Each student chose their own topic of interest to research. They will use books, articles, videos, and other resources to complete their research projects. They will also be responsible for teaching what they have learned to the class (Malia:Antarctica, Houston:Water Cycle, Nevin:Football, Nyle:Pandas, Alani: Sloths, Aven: Fire.

  • March Donations: Smith Family
  • April Donations: Johnson Family
    • 4 cases of water
    • 4 rolls of TP
    • Pack of plastic ware
    • Pack of snacks
  • April Outings: April 7th: Library Field Trip.
    • We would love to go on more outings now that the weather is better. If any parents would like to help plan a trip, please reach out to me.
  • Parent/Teacher Conferences: The final homeschool reviews are approaching. This will be a time to revisit student progress and goals from our last conference. When your child’s district homeschool reviewer contacts you with date options, please let me know as soon as possible. If you would ever like to set up a conference (outside of the review dates), you can anytime. Just reach out.
  • Spring Break: School will be closed Monday, April 11th - Monday, April 18th.

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May Happenings

From the Teacher

June Happenings

Future School closings

April

  • 11th-18th: School Closed- Spring Break
  • 28th and 29th- School closed, personal days (not on school calendar)

Important March Dates

May/june News

Unbound and Rooted Academy

  • Math: Depending on the group/level, students learned about rays/angles, area/perimeter, fractions, computing fractions, multi-step word problems, mental math, rounding, computation strategies (multiplication/division, addition/subtraction). We also reviewed past skills due to our spiral curriculum.
  • Reading/L.A.: Students have been working on their independent research projects. They each picked a topic, studied and took notes on their topic, created a google slide to display the information learned, and wrote research essays as a final project.
  • Science: Independently Researching and teaching the students about
    • Alani: sloths
    • Nyle: pandas
    • Houston: water cycle
  • Social Studies: Independently researching and teaching the students about
    • Malia: Antarctica
  • Health: Independently researching and teaching the students about
    • Fire Safety: Aven
  • Sports Studies: Independently researching and teaching the students about
    • Nevin: Football
  • Math: We will use these last few week to review skills that students may need extra support in
  • Reading/L.A.: Students are continuing to learn grammar, punctuation, and usage skills in order to improve their writing. They will be working on independent research papers/projects this month. They will also be learning to create google slide presentations to share their research.
  • Science/Health/S.S: Each student chose their own topic of interest to research. They will use books, articles, videos, and other resources to complete their research projects. They will also be responsible for teaching what they have learned to the class (Malia:Antarctica, Houston:Water Cycle, Nevin:Football, Nyle:Pandas, Alani: Sloths, Aven: Fire.

  • March Donations: Smith Family
  • April Donations: Johnson Family
    • 4 cases of water
    • 4 rolls of TP
    • Pack of plastic ware
    • Pack of snacks
  • April Outings: April 7th: Library Field Trip.
    • We would love to go on more outings now that the weather is better. If any parents would like to help plan a trip, please reach out to me.
  • Parent/Teacher Conferences: The final homeschool reviews are approaching. This will be a time to revisit student progress and goals from our last conference. When your child’s district homeschool reviewer contacts you with date options, please let me know as soon as possible. If you would ever like to set up a conference (outside of the review dates), you can anytime. Just reach out.
  • Spring Break: School will be closed Monday, April 11th - Monday, April 18th.