Dear Families,

What a year! What a quarter! What a last week of feelings this final "school" week of the year has been. I loved seeing so many of your faces at the "parade" today! I wanted to say thank you for sharing your kids with me this past year. Every single student grew in so many ways and I am proud of each and every one of them. In the hopes of recognizing these amazing kids, I've uploaded two very special slideshows below.

First is the promotion slide of just our class, second is something of a memory video that highlights many of the amazing things your kids did this year. Though this year was cut a quarter short, boy does it show a lot of learning! Feel free to share the link to this blog, the slideshow, or the video with your friends and families but please do not share on your personal social media platforms. While all students in the video have media releases, we want to be respectful of each family's rights on how their children's images are shared outside of the FUSD "family." 

Cry. Hug each other. Laugh at some pretty silly pictures. Enjoy!
Thanks for a great year!

Love to you all,

Ms. Fisher

2019-2020 Promotion Slide Show-Ms. Fisher's Class: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1myqEtFIGXlCEOjvVKpD31xiwVTinGEv2/view

2019-2020 Memory Video: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bCWOW8hR7MExL7gH1frcgfhj3NuFyam7/view?usp=sharing

Dear Families, 

Can you believe it's the last Monday of the school year? How did that happen? Mrs. Reasor has given us permission to give an in person drive by farewell to interested kindergarten and fifth grade families. For interested families, teachers will be out front of Marshall school on Thursday morning May 21 to give our kinder and fifth grade families a chance to drive by and wave their farewells. Teachers will be wearing masks, spaced apart, and will not be allowed to approach cars. Families will not be allowed to stop but may drive really really slowly. Please start from the Flag High/FJA side of Marshall and drive towards the "tree park." See the schedule below for our class's time slot:.

9:00-9:30 Kindergarten

9:00-9:10 Bianco

9:10-9:20 Housholder

9:20-9:30 Ryan

5th grade

9:40-9:50 Arnold

9:50-10:00 Grimmett

10:00-10:10 Krause

10:10-10:20 Fisher

Please email me if you haven't yet and are interested in a pick-up time for school work on Friday, May 22. Available slots are from 9-11am or from 1-3pm. Art projects from Mrs. Hobson will not be available until the beginning of next school year. Families must stay in their cars and wait for help in the bus lane. This will also be a chance for families to drop off library books.

Be on the lookout on Thursday for two very special end of year videos for our class. I'll send a text when I post them on the blog!

Have a great week,

Ms. Fisher (efisher@fusd1.org) 

Dear Families,

Can you believe it's the second to last week of school? I know I can't. What I wild journey these last months have been. Below are a few updated notices and requests from FUSD. I'll be reaching out to individual families this week through email, so keep an eye out on your inboxes.

Fifth Grade End of Year Slide: Be sure to have your fifth grader log into Google Classroom to complete their 5th grade slide. A few students have turned them in and they look great!

Google Classroom Reminder from 3/30:  "Students should be familiar with logging in from past school work: once they've navigated to Google Classroom, they log in with their FUSD email (their 600#@fusd1.org) and their full birthday as their password (ex: 03/23/2020). Please email me if you need help logging in."

Whole Class Zoom: Don't forget to contact Eleni's Mom, Kim Owens, at okhensley@gmail.com if you are interested in getting together for a virtual visit!

Surveys from FUSD: Please take a look at the information below from FUSD and complete the two surveys.

FUSD Update: New Parent Survey 

The Flagstaff Unified School District understands parents and families are balancing the unexpected challenges of your children’s remote learning, while caring for others and dealing with the many ways COVID-19 has impacted how you live and work.  We are interested in knowing how you feel your children’s remote learning is going- for them and for you. Your input will help our district understand where we might need to provide your children and your family additional support and how FUSD can better prepare should we have to shift again to remote learning in the future.  Please take a few minutes to share your perceptions by completing this survey.  Thank you for your input.

Take the Parent Survey Today

    Elementary Student Survey (grades 3-5)

Dear Parents/Families,

Now that students have been involved in remote learning for several weeks, the Flagstaff Unified School District and our school is interested in finding out how your students in grades 3-5 are feeling about the experience.  We are administering a survey to gather input from students about the difficulty or ease of completing their learning assignments, whether they have everything they need, and how we might be able to help them more.  

Please help us gather this information by encouraging your student to complete the survey.  You can explain the questions or help them think through their answers if they need help.  Your child’s answers will be confidential.  Thank you for your input.

Estimados padres / familias,

Ahora que los estudiantes han estado involucrados en el aprendizaje remoto durante varias semanas, el Distrito Escolar Unificado de Flagstaff y nuestra escuela están interesados ​​en descubrir cómo se sienten sus estudiantes en los grados 3-5. Estamos administrando una encuesta para recopilar información de los estudiantes sobre la dificultad o la facilidad de completar sus tareas de aprendizaje, si tienen todo lo que necesitan y cómo podríamos ayudarlos más.

Ayúdenos a recopilar esta información alentando a su estudiante a completar la encuesta. Puede explicar las preguntas o ayudarles a pensar sus respuestas si necesitan ayuda. Las respuestas de su hijo serán confidenciales. Gracias por su aporte.

Link to Elementary Student (grades 3-5) survey:

https://eprovesurveys.advanc-ed.org/surveys/#/action/134502/p1502

FUSD Learning HUB Link: www.fusd1.org/digitalhub 

Dear Families,

Celebrate the Fifth Graders of 2020!
The other fifth grade teachers and I have been looking for a way to celebrate the fifth graders. We know this is a tough transition, even without getting to say "goodbye" to their elementary school and friends. To help celebrate this transition, we would love to create a digital "yearbook" for the fifth graders. We are asking each fifth grader to create a Google slide that represents who they are. They must include their name, but beyond that what they include is up to them.

They might want to include favorite quotes, pictures, words, and of course pictures of themselves. We all love a good baby picture! It's really up to them! There is a template in the classwork section of Google Classroom (along with their new classwork for the week) that they can click on and create from there. I've also included a sample for students to peek at that I'm sharing above. You are more than welcome to help them in this project, but ultimately it is up to them; we don't want extra work for families! We plan on sharing this on Marshall's and FUSD's websites and possibly Facebook pages, so please let me know if you aren't comfortable with your child's slide being shared in the slide show. Please reach out if you or your child needs help!

Virtual Kindness Assembly
In other news, Marshall will be holding a virtual assembly this Friday at 9:00. Students and families are invited to watch teachers present the final THINK awards with the kindness award. For anyone not available to participate, the presentations will be recorded and able to be viewed later. We aren't sure how it's going to go, but we're going to give it a shot! Mrs. Reasor will be sharing a phone call with more information about how to log on and view the "assembly."

Last Day of School
Finally, as you hopefully heard from FUSD's connect ed call last week, the Governing Board passed the school calendar change. This change makes this week a full week of "school," putting our last official day of class on May 22. We are still awaiting news on how the school plans to distribute student supplies and how teachers will be closing up their classrooms.

Whole Class Zoom
Don't forget to contact Eleni's Mom, Kim Owens, at okhensley@gmail.com if you are interested in getting together for a virtual visit!

FUSD Learning HUB Link: www.fusd1.org/digitalhub 

Google Classroom Reminder from 3/30:  "Students should be familiar with logging in from past school work: once they've navigated to Google Classroom, they log in with their FUSD email (their 600#@fusd1.org) and their full birthday as their password (ex: 03/23/2020). Please email me if you need help logging in."