We are so excited to have students back in the building.

Expectations-for-Online-Learning

here is the link to get to it: https://flipgrid.com/birchmay2020

You can answer any of the Topic Questions by video. It works great if you download the app onto your phone and use that to answer the questions and record your answers.

We are currently scheduling conferences for the week of June 1st.

Sign-up here to schedule your conference. If you don’t see a time that works for you send us an email or call us at 845-645-7772 and we will schedule a time that works for you.

Plans are being made for our annual end-of-year Student Led conferences to be held as usual but via Zoom. Students will begin preparing for the conferences when we return from Memorial Day weekend break. (*May 22 – 25).

Look for an email with a link to our conference schedule. Once you register you will receive a link to meet teachers in the zoom room. Your student can participate via a different zoom window, or in the same room with you sharing one zoom window, it is up to you!

We are looking forward to “seeing” everyone soon and finishing up a strange, but rewarding school year.

Join us in Gaye’s room at 2:00 each day to enter the BREAKOUT EDU game!

Prizes are available!

Join us in Eilleens Zoom Room Monday at 12:30 to meet with Dianne and discuss this week’s ART OFFERINGS. She will offer classes during the week that are responsive to student interest. COME MONDAY at 12:30 and chat with us.

Be prepared to let Dianne know what Art Supplies you have available at home. See you there!

This optional room is available for those who want to join together in the “Commons” for lunch.

Click this link to get to the LUNCHROOM

Everyone is invited.

Grab your lunch and come hang out.

OPEN FROM 12:00 – 1:00

link to pdf to read it

Greetings Birch Families ~ 

Welcome back to school!

We are ready to get back to Birch and we hope you are too!

SCHEDULES FOR THE WEEK ARE POSTED

At our communication dashboard (dash.thebirchschool.org) you will find the schedule for the week. We have listened to your feedback and made adjustments to the work and schedule and that we hope will benefit everyone. You will see on the schedule that we have marked “recommended” classes in white and “optional” classes in blue. As always, you as parent should be the judge as to how much time your student is spending on schoolwork and if you have questions or concerns please reach out to us.  Our goal is for the program to be “just right” for each family and that will require communication and collaboration.  

WEEKLY WORK SCHEDULES ARE ADDED

In response to feedback we have added a weekly work schedule for groups 3 and 4. (group 1/2 will be added shortly) 

The work schedule has a list of the assignments for each day for each subject. It can be accessed from the dashboard.

Dash.thebirchschool.org

ADJUSTING TO NEW NORMAL – THREE-WEEK CYCLES

Since no one is sure how long our quarantine will last it is hard to plan ahead. Our team has decided to plan in three-week long cycles. The first cycle begins this week and runs through May 1^st. The next cycle runs from May 4 – May 21, which is the start to Memorial Day weekend.  

The schedule that is posted this week will be the same for each of the weeks until May 1st. (of course we will add Monday classes in the upcoming two weeks).

PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES BY REQUEST

We invite any parent who is interested in a parent/teacher conference to reach out via email to Eilleen (load) and let us know. We will schedule a zoom meeting at your convenience.

VIRTUAL PIANO LESSONS AVAILABLE

Joann Digulio is available for Zoom piano lessons if interested. Reach out to us and we will connect you if you are interested. Birch has 2 portable electric keyboards that are available to borrow during school closure if you need an instrument to have at home for practice.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND SUPPORT

We truly appreciate our Birch families and their flexibility and positive attitudes during this time. Thank you for your feedback, support, and encouragement.  As always please reach out with concerns, issues or feedback.  

Kate and The Birch School Team