Weekly Homeroom Schedule

Monday: Tutoring time; Library

Tuesday: “Connections”

Wednesday: Tutoring time; Organization; Library

Thursday: Tutoring time; Organization; Library

Friday: Drop Everything And Read (DEAR)

Excuses, Excuses, Excuses

Please send an excuse the first day after your child is absent. It should include a first and last name, the date, homeroom number, and the reason for the absence.

Vacation forms are available in the office.

Check your child’s Planner daily.

Log onto the Cougar team website for weekly updates.

The main hub to access your personalized information at Seneca

Valley School District.

Student grades can be viewed on the SV

Portal. The link for the SV Portal

(https://portal.svsd.net/) can be found at the

top of any SV page.

Report cards and progress reports are no

longer mailed home!

It is YOUR job to check gradebook to make

sure assignments are recorded correctly and

you are aware of your progress in each class!

SV Portal and Gradebook

Resources

Cougar Connections

• Goal: Connect the students with the community.

• Examples• Toys for Tots

• Creek Connection

• Student Council Food Drive

• Light of Life Mission Shelter (lunch packing)

• Red Ribbon Week

• Outside teaming activity

• Veterans’ Letters

• Olweus Bully Prevention

• Pancake Breakfast

Field Trip: We will go on a field trip to Pittsburgh in May.

1. I will not bully others.

2. I will help others who are being bullied.

3. I will include other students who are left out.

4. I will tell an adult when I see someone bullying.

SV Hotline: (724) 631-1677

Sprigeo has one focus: to equip schools, kids, parents and

communities with the most current tools and training for

preventing violence.

Sprigeo offers four essential tools for creating and sustaining a

safe school environment:

1. Reporting and documentation system

2. Administrator, teacher, counselor and parent training

3. Comprehensive crisis response plan

4. Youth leadership training

Team Day: (outside) September 20

Pajama Rama: September 29

Homecoming Week: October 5-7

Fall Dance: October 27

Toys 4 Tots: October 27

End of the 1st 9 weeks: November 6th

Main Event: November 9

Remind is a private third party

mobile messaging platform that

enables teachers to send

Reminders to students and parents

via text message.

How to sign up

• Number: 81010

• Message: @svmsco

• Reply: First and Last Name

• Reply: P for parent

• * You DO NOT have to download the app.

Pre-Algebra/Honors Algebra

• Binders

• Homework

– Graded on completion

– Reviewed in class on the day its due

• Test/Quizzes

Pre-Algebra/Honors

Algebra/Principles• Edgenuity

– Weekly

assignment

(10 question

quiz)

– Three

attempts,

highest score

counts

– After first

attempt

lessons will

appear

1st- Classification of Organisms

2nd- Cellular Biology

3rd- Plant Study, Genetics

4th- Ecology, National Park

Research

Science Binder Organization

• Study guides,

tests/quizzes will be in

the binder.

• Binder checks will

occur periodically.

• Binder clean-out each

nine weeks.

• Please supply pencils.

Advanced and English 7• Quizzes/Tests

− Application, not just comprehension

− A Christmas Carol

• Vocabulary and Grammar

• Writing

− Informational

− Argumentative

− Narrative

• Supplies– Binders

– Highlighters or colored pencils

– Pencils!

• Homework– Often used in class the day it’s due

– Discussion starters

– Comprehension