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Here is the link to our recording of the Virtual Open House opening session in case you missed it.
Our New Family Orientation, during which our equity lead, counselors and specialists introduced themselves, might be of interest to all families.
Thanks so much to the families who attended the band and strings breakout sessions yesterday. Just a reminder that your electives forms are due THIS WEEK! (There was a glitch in the fifth grade form that has now been corrected.)
Strings (4-6) or Band (5-6)
Students who elect to learn an instrument will receive two days of band or strings instruction a week, either during the electives blocks or on Monday mornings. The remaining days provide an opportunity in their schedule to practice their instrument, enhanced this year with an online program CWES will purchase called Smart Music, which provides individual students with feedback on their playing.
This strings recruitment video is designed for new strings students.
This video is also available with sign language interpretation and with cued speech transliteration.
These CWES recruitment videos for grades 5 and 6 provide an overview of all the instruments available in both the band and strings programs. It features professional musicians and our band and strings teachers. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer Chorus at this time. We await further guidance from FCPS and are hopeful we can add it to the Electives Block at a later date.
Any student who wishes to learn an instrument is encouraged to sign up to indicate their interest. The IFA (Instruments for All) program in FCPS provides qualifying families with free or low-cost access to rental instruments; we are committed as a county to providing equitable access to the arts for all students. County instruments will be distributed at school later in September after virtual fitting appointments are made.
Choice Specials
If students do not elect to learn an instrument, they can elect to participate in an additional choice special once or twice a week, either by joining a synchronous (live) class, or by completing asynchronous (on demand) activities for an area of interest. The choice specials (art, music or PE) are supplemental to the graded traditional specials instruction during the specials block.
The advent of the Electives Block this year is meant to motivate our students to continue pursuing their individual extra-curricular interests supplemental to the expectations for their grade level. We will base our live and on-demand offerings on student interest expressed on the forms below.
ALL STUDENTS in grades 4-6 should complete a Google Form entry (links are below) to indicate their preference for the Electives Block. Choices include:
- Learn an instrument with live instruction twice a week.
- Participate in an additional 30-minutes of live choice specials (art, music or PE) once or twice a week.
- Participate in pre-recorded on-demand specials (art, music or PE) on their own.
FORM RESPONSES ARE DUE THIS WEEK. Non-responses will be considered a request for asynchronous (on-demand) electives participation, and students will not be enrolled in synchronous classes for the Electives Block.
SPECIALS start September 8; ELECTIVES start the following week on September 15. The ELECTIVES block is held 30 minutes preceding the SPECIALS block in grades 4-6. While SPECIALS will be graded and students will remain in classroom groupings, ELECTIVES will be supplementary and student groupings will be mixed across the grade level, based on student choices.
Take a moment to fill out the form here:
FOURTH GRADE ELECTIVES
FIFTH GRADE ELECTIVES
SIXTH GRADE ELECTIVES
At Canterbury Woods Elementary School, our teachers will use a variety of digital resources to support student learning and promote communication and collaboration with students and families. Some of the digital resources your child may use this year will require your consent before they can be used. You can find our school’s list of the resources that require parental consent here: https://canterburywoodses.fcps.edu/adopteddigitalresources
Included on this page is also a link to a form https://isweb.fcps.edu/iscontacts/techpermform.cfm?secure where the enrolling parent or guardian will need to indicate whether or not their student is allowed to use the list of digital resources this year.
This page also provides more information about how FCPS carefully reviews digital resources for approval and why we must request your consent before using certain tools. We encourage you to complete the parental consent for digital resources form as soon as possible, as your child will not be able to use the digital resources until we have received your permission.
Please reach out to your child’s teacher if you have questions or concerns about the digital resources we’ve chosen to use this year.
FREE SUPPLY KITS are available to families in need --email deleipzig@fcps.edu to request your kit and arrange for pick up.
Supply lists are posted on our website.
To communicate maximum flexibility to families, additional clarifications have been added to the supply list for Art:
ART
- Sketch book (unlined), any size OR folder of copy paper
- Black Flair Pen OR thin black marker/think black pen
- Construction paper
- Heavyweight white paper (needed in October with watercolors)
- Liquid glue
- Watercolor set (needed in October)
- Modeling clay (school provided, will distribute in November)
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