Lucy S. Herring
Return to Learn
Return to Learn
Important Start Dates
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Grades K-2nd: March 8 (Blue) or March 15 (Green)
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Grades 3rd-5th: March 22 (Blue) or March 29 (Green)
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Starting Friday, March 12th, ALL Fridays will be asynchronous
learning days.
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Full calendar for In-Person return
Face to Face,
Face to
Face,
Remote, &
Virtual
Face to Face/ Remote Students:
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Students are assigned to
Green or Blue Week and
will alternate each week
Monday- Thursday from
8:00-1:30pm.
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Depending on a student’s
grade level, they may or
may not have the same
teacher for face to face
and remote weeks.
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Fridays are asynchronous
days.
Virtual Students
:
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Students will
continue to log into
SeeSaw or Google
Classroom and
Google Meet for
online-only classes
from 8:00-1:30 each
day.
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Students will have
built in screen
breaks.
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Fridays are
asynchronous days.
A Note about
Class
Assignments
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Due to class size limits and staffing
changes, some students may have a
different homeroom teacher than they
began the school year with.
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Parents will receive an email Friday,
February 26th with detailed
information about class assignment
and green or blue week assignment.
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Due to class size limits, green/blue
week and homeroom request changes
will be honored on an extremely
6
Face to Face Teachers
Remote Teacher
(for off weeks)
Virtual
Teacher
K
Dowers
Hale
Hancock
Homeroom
Teacher
Homeroom
Teacher
1st
Hawes
LeClerc &
Doe
Joens
Phillips
2nd
Perry
Watkins
Homeroom
Teacher
Johnson
3rd
Hussey
Sergeant
Homeroom
Teacher
Abernethy
4th
Allison
Murphy
Mehler
Homeroom
Teacher
Homeroom
Teacher
5th
Bell
Carter
Levering/
Kemmerling
Levering/
Kemmerling
Virtual
Classrooms
Kindergarten
Dowers
Hale
Hancock
First
Phillips
Second
Johnson
Third
Abernethy
Fourth
Allison
Mehler
Murphy
Health and Safety
Protocols
Cleaning
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Extra custodial staff have been
hired and are cleaning
bathrooms, door handles, and
other shared spaces every 2
hours.
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Shared manipulatives from
kindergarten centers will be
sanitized nightly.
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Technology will be sanitized
with approved cleaners each
day.
Drop Off
and Pick
Up
Arrival-Car Drop off lane
❏ Parents may not drop off students prior to 7:15am ❏ Students will remain in their vehicles until a staff
member arrives to check their temperature and ask the questions.
❏ Students will be directed to their classrooms by staff ❏ Parents may not escort their students to classrooms
Dismissal-Car Drop pick up
❏ Parents will arrive and pull into the designated spaces (1-8)
❏ Parents will be given a lanyard to hang in car with student’s name, class, and grade written
❏ A staff member will be outside to take names for those 8 spaces and call for the students.
❏ Parents will wait for their students to arrive at their vehicle and staff will check and make sure that the student belongs with the car
Bus Riders
● All students who use or plan to use ACS Transportation will be required to complete a new 2020-21 Transportation Request and an ACS Attestation Form by the parents/guardians within 10 days of the start of riding an assigned bus.
● ACS in-district students will only be allowed to ride a bus to and from home and daycare facilities. These must be addresses listed as PowerSchool contacts for the student.
● NO bus passes or transportation changes will be issued to ensure our ability to conduct contact tracing. To the greatest extent possible, students should ride the same bus both to and from school.
● Students and staff are required to wear a mask while on and riding the bus. If a student enters the bus without a face covering, one will be provided for them.
● To increase airflow, windows will be placed in the down position for the entire ride unless the weather does not allow.
● Students will be given assigned seats, no more than one passenger may be seated per school bus bench seat, with the exception that members of the same household may share a seat.
Bus Riders
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Notifications of a late bus will be sent out via
Blackboard Messenger System by the Transportation
Department.
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The Parent Attestation Form will serve as the health
screener and the student will be temperature checked
and screened when entering the school. This form has
to be completed within the first 10 days of school.
Meals
Meals will be delivered to the
individual classrooms. Students
that bring their lunches will leave
them in the classrooms in a
designated spot. If possible,
students may be able to eat outside.
**
Refrigerator storage or
microwave use for lunch boxes will
not be available
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Classroom
Safety
Measures
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Desks are spaced 6 ft apart
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Cubbies and lockers are spaced
apart
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Hard to clean and fabric items have
been removed.
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Hand sanitizer and cleaning supply
stations are in every classroom
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Students will have their own supplies
and will not share materials
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Students will have their own devices
to use throughout the week
Classroom
Safety
Measures
Continued
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Classroom materials such as scissors,
tape, pencils, crayons, math
manipulatives, etc. will be individually
packaged for students and should not be
shared.
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Classroom teachers will be utilizing
outdoor learning as much as possible.
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Ventilation through opening of windows
will be encouraged within the classroom
as much as possible
Classroom
Instruction
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Focus on Social Emotional Learning
(45 minutes daily)
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Face to Face, Remote, and Virtual
students will move through the
curriculum at the same rates as much
as possible.
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Small group instruction will continue
to take place for face to face, remote,
and virtual students.
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Asynchronous
Fridays
What are expectations for Asynchronous Day?
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Students should have instructional work for all
subjects area (this can be an interdisciplinary
project)
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No new content - reteach, practice,
demonstrate
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Make-up work / catch up work is NOT an
assignment. Make-up work can be encouraged,
but should not stand in place of Friday
assignments.
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Students should practice strategies learned
during any assigned silent-reading time
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Teachers will set small group/individual student
check-ins, as needed and well- communicated
with family
Recess
Safety
Protocols
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Students will be allowed outside for
recess
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According to maintenance and CO the
areas do not need to be sanitized after
each group
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We are going to divide up the play
areas so that there are only two groups
of students per area.
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We will also have a tent outside in each
Specials
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ALL students will continue to have
specials daily.
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In order to reduce possible exposures
between classrooms, specials teachers
will connect with students remotely.
This means that students will not
transition to specials and specialists
will not move between classrooms.
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PE will be conducted live and students
can safely socially distance.
Devices and Screen
Time
Devices For Face to Face Students
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Kindergarten student will not bring their
iPads to school. Please leave iPads at home
until the end of the school year.
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When students come for their face to face
weeks, they should bring their device and
charger.
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Devices will be left at school for the rest of
the F2F week to prevent damage from
transportation
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F2F students will have extremely limited
screen time.
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Students will bring home their devices on
Thursdays each week.
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In the event that a student can not return
to school, device pick up will be arranged
Virtual and Remote
Students
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Our new schedule will continue to
allow for screen breaks and
asynchronous time.
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If students have issues with
technology please fill out a tech
help ticket through the ACS
Student Tech Support Form. This
form can also be found on the Lucy
S. Herring website on the Remote
Learning page.
Quarantine
Protocols
What happens if my student’s
classroom has to quarantine?
Exclusion Room
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If a student develops symptoms
during the day, an exclusion room
has been created in an isolated area
of the building.
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An adult will be with them until a
parent of guardian can be reached
Please Read:
Kindergarten
Specifics
Kindergarten
Specific
s
The following procedures will be in place for all play centers:
● Classroom play centers may remain open and will operate
on a "50% guideline" with no more than 2 students at each play center
● No soft plush items, no play-dough or sensory items will be
in play centers. Only wood, paper, and hard plastic materials will be allowed in play centers.
○ At the end of each day, K teachers or IAs will place
bins of toys/manipulatives used that day in an open space for nightly cleaning. Custodial staff will come in and spray the materials with approved disinfectant. In the morning, the teacher or IA will come in and put the sanitized materials back into bins for use that day.
● Students must remain masked at all times in centers.
● Hand sanitizer will be available at each center and students
should sanitize hands before and after play.
● Sensory play (water table, sand table, play dough) will be
prohibited.
