Hello Everyone!
Can you believe we are half way through April? Time has gone by so fast, but I also feel like it has crawled. Sometimes it feels like it has been a year since we entered into our soft closure.
You should have all gotten an email from the school with our new lower el letter updates. I also included it in a post previous to this one.
As you all know, schools in Utah will remain in soft closure through the end of the school year. We will have more works, digital and hard copy, come the beginning of May. We will also have information about things such as our bridging ceremonies and other end of year traditions by this time as well. Please watch for an email from me on Monday with a link to a very short survey about the hard copy and digital works we have been giving you. As a lower el team we would like to use this survey to better meet the needs of our MMA families in lower el.
I hope you are all doing well and your families are healthy and happy. It has been a cold week this week, but it is gratefully supposed to start getting warmer. Thank goodness. I miss going out on walks with my kids and just sitting in the backyard with them in the sunshine. It has been nice having my husband home with us this past month, but would be much better if he were able to be mobile and join us on our walks. His knee surgery went well and he will be able and ready to help when the baby comes. However, he has been in a lot of pain but it is getting better day by day.
Just a reminder that since we are at the end of two weeks, it is time to turn in workcharts. Hard copies were provided in the packets or there is a digital form on the lower el blog. You can either turn in the hard copy at the school Monday, send me a picture of the workchart, or send me an email with the work your child is doing, such as Imagine Learning daily, handwriting twice a week, math worksheets daily. This is not meant to be stressful for you or me. Just a way for us both to track what your child is doing at home. Please don’t stress about the number of works being completed. I am grateful for you and all you are doing to help your child with their works and education. I know it can be difficult and I appreciate all your time and effort.
Tiffany and I are still loving our Zoom meetings. I am incorporating some grace and courtesy lessons into the meetings and will start doing some short cultural lessons this week as well. Thank you for helping your children get on the meetings so we can see them and they can see us and each other.
Lastly, I wanted to share with you that today the staff at MMA were able to have a Zoom meeting with our new director Micah. I cannot express to you in words are excited and at peace I am with the opportunity we get to have Micah join our MMA family. I know that he will add an amazing spirit and guidance to our community. He truly has a growth mindset spirit and amazing ideas to help all faculty, parents, and students. What a wonderful man to have as our director. I am excited for you all to get to meet him and know him better. I also look forward to getting to know him better.
Stay healthy and safe!
Jalee