Advocacy Focus for May: 

Healthy Bodies & Healthy Minds! 

We will also be looking at our class tree that we adopted this year, and online learners are encouraged to find a tree at home to adopt! 

Upcoming Dates: 

May 28- No School 

May 31- No School 

Office Hours:  
Fridays  1:30-2:30 pm using our universal zoom link. 

All students should bring back any books or reusable science kits that were sent home earlier in the year. 

Advocacy Focus for May: 

Healthy Bodies & Healthy Minds! 

We will also be looking at our class tree that we adopted this year, and online learners are encouraged to find a tree at home to adopt! 

Upcoming Dates: 

May 5th- Changing Bodies Talk- see the email with more info about it and respond to opt out. 

Office Hours:  
Fridays  1:15-2:00 pm using our universal zoom link. 

In person learners should continue to bring back any supplies, books, and science kits that are from earlier in the year. The blue backpack with the regular everyday supplies can stay at home for use on Fridays. 

Advocacy Focus for April: 

Our Advocacy focus for April is the theme of “We Love the Environment.” This is a month to enjoy the natural world and all that it gives us. 

Upcoming Dates: 

April 26- No School 

Office Hours:  
Fridays  1:30-2:30 pm using our universal zoom link. 

In-person learners should continue to bring back any reusable supplies, books, and science kits that are from earlier in the year. The blue backpack with the regular everyday supplies can stay at home for use on Fridays. 

Advocacy Focus for April: 

Our Advocacy focus for April is the theme of “We Love the Environment.” This is a month to enjoy the natural world and all that it gives us. 

Service-Learning Exhibition starts April 22  

                This year, for service learning, students stayed in their advocacy classes to work on projects. Classes chose a topic and then made projects to educate others about that topic.  

                Projects will be completed and ready for exhibition on April 22 and will be available to view on the left side of the webpage here. 

These projects are available for you to learn about and support a range of causes such as bees, unhoused populations, and wild animal habitats.  

Community Clean Up – April 22 - 25 

Trash pickups are always a popular activity around Earth Day so let’s join the popular crowd. Unfortunately, we still can’t be together doing this as a group so you will pick up litter wherever you’d like! We have a goal of picking up 2021 pieces of litter between April 22 and April 25.  

                You can choose 30 mins to an hour sometime within those 4 days to head out and make your community a little cleaner.  

Westgate has Washington Street adopted from 120th-128th. If you’d like to pick up litter along our adopted street you are more than welcome!  

                Please fill out this form to indicate you’d like to participate. You’ll receive a sticker, bags, gloves (if you need them) and a general safety video the week of April 19. 

                Send pictures and how many pieces of litter you picked up to Mrs. Valenza at [email protected]. There will be a running total on the environmental education page of our website so you can follow along the whole weekend.  

                If you post to social media use the hashtag #WCSEarthDay2021  

Upcoming Dates: 

April 19-22: CMAS for other grades, see email with different zoom schedule for online learners this week. 

April 23 & 25- No School 

Office Hours:  
Fridays  1:30-2:30 pm using our universal zoom link. 

In person learners should begin to bring back any supplies, books, science kits that are from earlier in the year. The blue backpack with the regular everyday supplies can stay at home for use on Fridays. 

Advocacy Focus for April: 

Our Advocacy focus for April is the theme of “We Love the Environment.” This is a month to enjoy the natural world and all that it gives us. 

We will be finishing our service-learning project, which we have been working on all year, for Earth Day this month. 

Upcoming Dates: 

April 12-15: CMAS- Math students opted out but in person for learning those days will be given alternative math work. 

April 23 & 25- No School 

Office Hours:  
Fridays  1:30-2:30 pm using our universal zoom link 

In-person learners should begin to bring back any supplies, books, science kits that are from earlier in the year. The blue backpack with the regular everyday supplies can stay at home for use on Fridays. 

Advocacy Focus for April: 

Our Advocacy focus for April is the theme of “We Love the Environment.” This is a month to enjoy the natural world and all that it gives us. 

We will be finishing our service-learning project that we have been working on all year, for Earth Day this month. 

Upcoming Dates: 

Supply Pickup this week for Online Learners- look for email! 

April 12-15: CMAS- Math 

Office Hours:  
Fridays  1:30-2:30 pm using our universal zoom link 

In-person learners should begin to bring back any supplies, books, science kits that are from earlier in the year. The blue backpack with the regular everyday supplies can stay at home for use on Fridays. 

Please remember to dress appropriately for the weather. As a school, we recognize the importance of daily physical activity and learning opportunities outside of the classroom. Colorado weather is crazy and can fluctuate by the hour. While we will not be going outside while it is actively snowing/raining we will be taking advantage of every opportunity that we can to get outside throughout the day, especially for PE! Throw a hat and a pair of gloves in your backpack so that you will always be prepared. 

Reminders:

• Notebooks and Novels should travel back and forth daily between home and school 
• Please sign in to Zoom on time or early – managing multiple devices and in-person classes makes it very difficult to monitor the Zoom waiting room for late arrivals 
• If you miss class, be sure to watch the videos 
• Moby Max practice should be done every day, Monday through Friday, regardless of whether they are at school or online that day.   
• Weekly time expectations and grading for Moby Max: 
  • 75+ minutes for a score of 4 
  • 50-74 minutes for a score of 3 
  • 25-49 minutes for a score of 2 
  • Less than 25 minutes scores a 1 

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Zoom Schedule Mon-Thrs

Advocacy Theme for February: 

Growth Mindset and Grit 

DISTANCE LEARNING INFORMATION AND REMINDERS 

ALL Zoom classes now have one link. The schedule will stay the same as posted below, however, I will be leaving the zoom open in case anyone has questions. I will always be present during office hours but may need to step away from the class zoom between scheduled classes and lunch time.  

Please refer to class pages and Teams for daily To-Do Lists.  Assignment instructions will be provided during Zoom classes and/or attached to the assignment in Teams. 

If students are unable to attend a Zoom class, they need to watch the video recording on their own time.  They will be posted each day to the Stream tab in each class Team. 

Office Hours & Zoom Class Schedule can be found in Teams. 

Late/Missing Work:   

-All assignments close after two weeks on Teams. If it is being turned in past that you will need to reach out to me so that we can discuss why it is so late and so that I can open the assignment back up for you.     

Important Dates: 

Monday, Jan. 18 - No School

Wednesday, Jan. 20 - Mrs. Valenza joining our Advocacy meeting (Service Learning)

Thursday, Jan. 21 - Mrs. Briggs (community member) joining our Advocacy for service learning

Week of February 1st  
-Return to In-Person Learning; beginning of synchronous learning option for students learning from home -K-11 students will be on the Monday-Thursday in-person or synchronous learning with Fridays remaining asynchronous 

Advocacy Theme for January: 

Self-compassion and self-regulation: 

Self Compassion - being warm and understanding toward ourselves when we suffer, fail, or feel inadequate, rather than ignoring our pain or self-criticizing (https://self-compassion.org/the-three-elements-of-self-compassion-2/)   

Self Regulation - the ability to monitor and manage your energy states, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors in ways that are acceptable and produce positive results such as well-being, loving relationships, and learning.  (https://www.yourtherapysource.com/blog1/2020/01/19/what-is-self-regulation