Back to School Night – Please join us this Wednesday, August 14th, 2024, for our annual Back to School Night! The evening’s presentation will include a brief rundown of the sixth grade curriculum, schedules, expectations, and information about all the big, fun events we have planned for your child’s final year at Wolf Canyon! We will conduct two sessions for any families with multiple students at Wolf Canyon. The schedule for the evening will be:
- Session 1: 5:30pm
- Session 2: 6:05pm
All sixth grade classes will meet in the MPR (auditorium). We hope to see you then!
Back to School Night Ice Cream Social! – It has been tradition for sixth grade to host the first fundraiser of each year. We are happy to have our schoolwide ice cream social back! We will be selling ice cream sundaes before Back to School Night. We are asking families to help donate some needed items for our event. Please send in goods leading up to the event, we have space to store dry and frozen products. You may sign up for donations using this link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0544AAAC2FA0FB6-50545849-curriculum. Thank you!!!!!!!!
Nightly Homework – Please make sure your child is getting daily practice by ensuring they do their homework nightly, Monday through Friday. Students will utilize a daily planner to keep track of daily practice. Please initial nightly and sign at the end of the week. Every night, your child should be:
- Reading for at least 30 minutes
- Completing approximately 20 minutes of assigned math practice on either iReady or Teams
- Playing iReady My Path for 15 minutes of differentiated practice, Monday through Thursday
School Supplies – Please note that basic classroom materials are provided by the school. However, there are some supplies that we would love to have this year. If you are able to donate any of the materials listed below, we would greatly appreciate it. Please keep in mind that these items are on our WISH LIST and are not mandatory.
These items are just for your child (highly recommended):
- Scientific calculator (TI-30 at Walmart)
- 1 ½ inch 3-ring binder
- 4 two-pocket folders, no prongs (red, orange, blue and green)
- 4 spiral notebooks/composition books (red, orange, blue and green)
- Lined paper (only 8 ½” by 11” college ruled)
- Pencil pouch with school supplies (place materials inside pouch and place pouch inside binder)
- glue sticks
- pencils
- erasers
- highlighter
- Post-its (any size)
These items are communal property and will be used by all students:
- Twistables
- Colorful ballpoint pens
- tissues
- glue sticks
- baby wipes to clean desks
- Post-its (3X5, multi-colored)
- Ziploc bags (gallon and quart sizes)
- 8 ½” by 11” colored paper (any color)
- spiral notebooks/composition books
Apps for Math Class – To help get us ready for Math class, please complete the instructions below for the iReady and Teams apps:
- To get the iReady app: Go to https://www.cvesd.org/parents/my-child-s-learning/students> Log into Office 365 > Locate the App Launcher “the waffle” in the top left hand corner > In the search bar type “iReady” > Hover over the app and click the three dots > click “Pin to Launcher” Now, every time you click on the waffle iReady will be there. Students will utilize this app daily.
- To get the Teams app: Go to https://www.cvesd.org/parents/my-child-s-learning/students> Log into Office 365 > Locate the App Launcher “the waffle” in the top left hand corner > In the search bar type “Teams” > Hover over the app and click the three dots > click “Pin to Launcher” Now, every time you click on the waffle Teams will be there. Students will find assigned practice by clicking the “Assignments” icon on the left hand side once logged in to Teams.
Important Dates
- August 14th – Back to School Night!
- September 2nd – Labor Day (No School)
- September 12th – 19th – Parent/Teacher Conferences
- September 20th – Last Day of First Quarter