Hybrid Update: Questions from Q and A

Thanks to everyone who came to our Q and A yesterday. If you missed it, the link to the video is at the bottom of this post. We had some questions come up that we just wanted to make sure we clarified.

1. Electives- In a normal year, students do have more say in what their electives are. For example last year 6th graders were part of an exploratory  rotation for one elective and then got to select a second music based elective. Unfortunately this year we needed to work to keep students in their cohort groups to the extent that we could. So when we added the one elective to the schedule, we had to make it more of a “selective” where an “elective’ is  assigned to a cohort and eventually we rotate “electives” through the cohorts. You will also note that we have more language arts or math based “electives” this year. We wanted to provide more reading, writing, and math practice for our students after this last year. We hope to go back to our more traditional schedule next year where students choose their elective next year.
2. Music Instruction- We were not able to offer an introductory band class this year. Our plan next year is to offer both a 6th grade Band 1 and a 7th grade Band 1 class so current 6th graders still have the opportunity to learn to play an instrument. We know that learning to play an instrument helps to open up neural pathways and improves overall learning.
3. Breakfast- Just a reminder to all families that we will not be serving breakfast at school, including the first day. We will have take home breakfasts for students, but no breakfast will be available at school the first day.
4. Who goes on what day- There was some confusion about what each grade level is doing during this transition. To help with that, we created the chart below:
5. FRMS Hybrid Return to School Transition Chart
   

   	2/25	2//26	3/1	3/2	3/3	3/4	3/5
   6th	A Onsite B At Home	B Onsite A At Home	No School Teacher Workday	A Onsite B At Home	B Onsite A At Home	A Onsite B At Home	B Onsite A At Home
   7th	Distance Learning	Distance Learning	No School Teacher Workday	Distance  Learning	Distance Learning	A Onsite B At Home	B Onsite A At Home
   8th	Distance  Learning	Distance Learning	No School Teacher Workday	Distance  Learning	Distance Learning	A Onsite B At Home	B Onsite A At Home

    

6. And if you missed it, here is the video from the Community  Q and A:

If you have any further questions, please feel free to call or email. We can’t wait to have our students back in the building!!