Families,
Thank you so much for all of the love and appreciation that was shown to our staff this past week. We truly appreciate the videos, emails, and heart-felt thank you’s we received, and we are so grateful to work with such a supportive school community and PTO.
Sincerely,
Bob Hanrahan, Principal
NEW: Elementary Student Material Pick Up
Be on the lookout for information on Monday morning regarding student material pickup and how to sign-up for your spot!
NEW: Guidance for Parents Supporting Their Children’s Remote Learning
Our faculty and administrators continue to look for ways to support District families during this challenging time, including cultivating a happy parent-child working relationship. As many of us are also working from home with our own children, we recognize that when children listen and follow directions, there are better learning outcomes and less frustration for the entire family. We believe you’ll find this article helpful and broadly applicable, as it offers specific steps you can take as a parent to earn instructional control and respond to your child’s behavioral challenges: (CLICK HERE) Seven Steps to Successful Parenting Through Behavioral Challenges, written by ELC Behavior Analyst Alexa Halbert, based on Robert Schramm’s work, MA BCBA.
NEW: Buffalo Grove Police Department Coloring Challenge
BGPD would love to receive a virtual wave via a coloring challenge from your child! This is something fun to do if your child would be interested. CLICK HERE for the BGPD Coloring Challenge!
REPEAT: Making and Keeping Stay-At-Home Memories
School Resource Officers Ashley Krozel and Mike Martin from the Village of Buffalo Grove Police Department have provided a COVID-19 TIME CAPSULE–a fun activity to help students and their parents capture and preserve the details of staying safe at home together during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
REPEAT: Don't Wait! Register for the 2020–21 School Year
If you haven't already registered your new or returning District 96 student for the 2020–21 school year, please do so right away. Having an accurate enrollment count is important for anticipating staffing needs appropriately. Please tell new neighbors and friends to contact the public info coordinator [email protected] with registration questions and for info on options to delay/waive registration fees.
REPEATING: Dual Language Update & Info
Dual Language Interest Forms are due from interested parents of 2020-21 incoming kindergartners by 3 PM on May 15.
The Dual Language Program Public Lottery will be at 6 PM on May 27.
This Dual Language Parent Screencast VIDEO (17 minutes) presented by KCSD96 Director of Language and Early Literacy Kathryn Sheridan gives detailed info about the program.
REPEATING: Do Your Kids Need Some Good Books to Read?
Students with iPads have no reason not to be reading. It's important to read every day. CHECK OUT ways to find great books to read (online) and more.
REPEATING: Tech Support (Kindergarten-5th Grade)
I’m having technical issues while accessing slideshows in the Google Slides app. What can I do to get around these issues?
- DELETE the Google Slides app from your student’s device. (It can always be re-downloaded from Self-Service at a later time.)
- Open the Google Drive app on your student’s iPad and locate the shared slideshow that you are trying to view.
- Play the slideshow from within the Google Drive application, or OPEN IN SAFARI if given the option.
As students are home with their iPad devices to access remote learning plans, we do anticipate there may be some tech needs that arise. If you run into any difficulty with your child’s school iPad, just send us an email explaining your problem and we can support you and your device. Please email [email protected] with any tech-related support needed.