Monday, July 6, 2020 Weekly Update

UPDATES ON REOPENING PLANS 

Thank you to the 227 people who have already responded to the Fall Options survey! WE NEED YOUR INPUT in order to make the plan to present for approval at the July 14 Board of Education meeting. Once the plan is approved, we will then ask you to commit to one of the options for your child(ren) so we can work to finalize schedules, class lists, and details. 

Please click here to complete the family survey.

The survey will close tomorrow, Tuesday, July 7 at NOON! 

PLEASE NOTE: When considering the options, we WILL follow CDC/ISBE safety guidelines, including the required use of masks while inside, whether we are full in-person or in a hybrid/blended model. If this information makes you change your survey response, you are able to do so. THANK YOU!

I know you are all anxious to know more about the specifics of our District plans for the Fall.

As an important part of that process, we need to get an initial sense of preference from our families regarding the possible school opening options: 

• Full in-person learning with adaptations (masks required, masks breaks during the day, self-health assessment, temperature checks, social distancing as possible).
• Full enhanced remote learning (more time each day than Spring 2020, access to all courses). 
• Blended opening with alternating in-person and enhanced remote learning instruction. Students split into two groups with each group participating in two days of in-person instruction and two days of enhanced remote learning. This would split the student body in half and allow for greater social distancing. CDC/ISBE guidelines will remain in place regarding wearing masks. Family groupings would be consistent across D114 as well as with Grant High School so students from the same household would be in school/remote learning at the same time to try to help families plan for their time and for childcare/scheduling needs. A sample schedule might look like:

Your input will be advisory and will truly help inform our planning and decision-making.

Please know that all three school opening options are subject to our ability to staff and schedule them successfully with all safety guidelines in place for students AND staff. 

It is important to note that we strongly encourage all families to develop a plan for childcare should there be a change in Illinois, a rise in COVID infection, and/or an outbreak that would require group(s), school(s), or the entire district move into full remote learning for a period of time. 

Again, more to come as soon as I have facts to share. As a parent of school-aged kids myself, I totally understand how stressful this is and how not having a plan makes it worse. We will communicate as soon as we can---I promise!

Please click here to complete the family survey. We need one response per family. 

We are almost ready for Summer School (July 13-August 7), and we will be offering in-person and remote learning with health precautions in place per ISBE guidelines. All families of students invited to attend Summer School will receive details later this week with the final plans. 

We're now over 50% registered! THANK YOU!!!

We will be doing an online residency confirmation in early August. YOU MUST BE REGISTERED BY AUGUST 1 SO WE CAN CONFIRM YOUR RESIDENCY. If you are not registered, your final enrollment and class assignment will be delayed so we can confirm residency. 

If You Are Moving...

If you know you are moving out of D114 for the 2020-21 school year, please contact us so we can make sure we start the transfer process for you! 

Please contact:

Lotus: Paula.Kvacik@foxlake114.org
or

Stanton: Michele.Burgess@foxlake114.org

Thank you---you'll be missed!

If You Are Staying...
YAY! 
Please be sure to complete online registration (details below). 

2020-21 Fees
Plese see below for registration fees. There are NO increases from last year, and we are not assessing fees until closer to the start of the year.

STEPS TO REGISTER:

*Please go to the Fox Lake District 114 website: www.D114.org

Click on this button:

.

If you need assistance with your Skyward username and password, please

contact either

Lotus: Paula.Kvacik@foxlake114.org, or

Stanton: Michele.Burgess@foxlake114.org

Each field of the Online Registration must be opened, completed and the button at

the bottom middle of each screen must be clicked. Once all the fields are completed,

you'll see a green checkmark next to them and will receive an email confirmation once

the final button is clicked on the last page.

All new families MUST contact either:

Lotus: Paula.Kvacik@foxlake114.org or Stanton: Michele.Burgess@foxlake114.org

to confirm a D114 address before registration can be opened.

UPDATES ON GRAB AND GO

Grab and Go will be held at LOTUS each Monday and Thursday from 7:30-10:00AM. The roof work at Stanton is pretty messy and, since we will be offering meals as part of Summer School at Lotus, it makes sense to relocate all food service to Lotus for the rest of the summer. 

SUMMER SMARTIES!

To give our families access to learning tools for summer, a group worked SO HARD to make this page:

 Click here to check out the page on the D114 website! 

It will be updated regularly to keep the learning, review, and extensions happen all summer long!

ALL BORROWED MATERIALS NEED TO BE RETURNED!

If you have any of the following, please return them to
Stanton Monday-Friday between 7:00AM-1:00PM. 

*Chromebook and charging cord

*Library books

*Book bags from the Reading Team at Lotus

*Novels mailed out to 6th (The Giver) and 8th (The Outsiders) students

You'll just hand us the materials, and we'll grab them right from you. 

Local Resources for YOU!
Fox Lake Library

This year we had to shift gears for our Summer Reading program this year with our library needing to be closed and we created a really neat online Summer Reading program for our patrons! The program is FREE and for children, teens, and adults! It allows them to keep track of their reading which earns them raffle tickets towards the Grand Prizes and other smaller prizes along the way. 

Here is  a how-to sign up video on our website: http://www2.youseemore.com/foxlake/contentpages.asp?loc=101.

Here are the Grand Prizes we will raffle off August 16th:
Children's:
Pre-K - 2nd Grade Prize Bundle: Family of 4 Pass to the Kohl Children's Museum, 1 free pizza coupon from Antioch Pizza (Fox Lake, IL), & Curious George: Sticker and Coloring Book
3rd- 6th Grade Prize Bundle: Family of 4 Pass to the Field Museum, 1 free pizza coupon from Antioch Pizza (Fox Lake, IL), & National Geographic Kids: Dinos Sticker Book

Teen's:

Nintendo Switch Lite

Adult's:

Fox Lake Business' Gift Card Bundle

Our goal is to keep children reading during the Summer so that they go back to start the school year with strong literacy skills!

Mobile Food Pantry

IF YOUR CHILD NEEDS A BOOK TO READ...

Mackin is an online free library of books and ebooks, and we have these books until the end of the year! 

How do you get into it?  

Go to MackinVIA.com  

SKIP SCHOOL NAME

LOTUS    username D114lotus     Password read

STANTON  username D114stanton  Password read 

Talking with Your Kids about COVID-19:

New York Times Article

NPR Article

D114 Remote Learning Page

D114 Text-A-Tip

United Way

 

Ways to access:

*Call 211 from any phone.

*Text your zip code to 898211

*Access the database via web at https://211lakecounty.org/

D114 Text-A-Tip

You can reach us at District Office at 847-973-4028. Feel free to email me with questions, ideas, or concerns at heather.friziellie@foxlake114.org. We are here to help, so don't hesitate to reach out for assistance!

With commitment to our students and families, 

Heather Friziellie