Next Thursday all 7th grade students will participate in a workshop known as the Nightmare on Puberty Street. This is part of the California Healthy Youth Act and provides comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention education. For many years students in the 7th grade have watched an age-appropriate live performance about four middle school students on their journey through adolescence. Because we are in the distance learning environment, this year we will have students watch a web-series and then participate in a workshop. Nightmare on Puberty St. was created in conjunction with physicians, teachers, licensed counselors, and parents. You can also access the webisodes here. If you have concerns and do not want your child to participate please contact the main office.
By submitting the Multipurpose Family Income Form, you are helping to support our efforts to provide better school meals to our students. Federal, local, and private grant funding is based on the number of eligible applications we collect. Even if your child does not eat school meals, submitting the form helps provide classroom funding at your school.
Free meals are available to students through June 30, 2021 if their household’s income is less than or equal to the federal income guidelines. Eligibility is based on total household income and the total number of household members listed on the Multipurpose Family Income form. If anyone in the student’s household receives CalFresh, California Work Opportunity (CalWORKs), or Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) the student will be eligible for free meals through the case number included on their form submission.
Hello KMS Community,
Please take a couple minutes to complete this survey. We are seeking support for Friday activities. Based on the responses we will try and put a weekly Friday schedule together for the kids. Because students are completing asynchronous work on Fridays, there is some flexibility to have parents and community members run clubs and tutoring sessions.
Thanks for your support,
MB
Hello KMS community,
In case you were not able to attend our PTSA meeting last week. Here is the State of the School presentation. It provides come context regarding KMS.
Please also consider signing up for our After School Program. The resirictions around attendance have been changed during our distance learning environment and I encourage everyone to sign up. Miranda Taylor and her team are offering tutoring and homework assistance time daily and I encourage students to log in and get help as needed.
English: Here is the link to sign up.
Espanol: Aqui esta el enlace para registrarse.
Hello Korematsu Families,
Here is our Back to School Night slide-deck with videos. Once you open the link click “present” in the top right corner. You can scroll through and find each faculty member’s slide. You’ll see the video and contact information. We also have a form at the end of the slides in case you want to use that to communicate with teachers.
Thank you for taking the time to view of presentations. We really wish we could be together.
Stay safe and well,
Team Korematsu
Hello everyone,
Three days down and we continue to learn. It’s the great thing about being part of learning organization. We are always ready to learn and grow. First off, I want to thank our students and families for their patience. Students are doing a great job getting acclimated to our systems. I also want to give a huge shout out to our teachers, and all the teachers for doing amazing and really hard work during a difficult time.
We have had few incidents where students have decided to log into a different class/meeting and create a disruption. It is difficult for teachers to determine who is on the zoom when names are not specific to the student. Some students are clearly using devices that belong to parents and other family members. That is fine, but beginning tomorrow we will not allow students into the zoom meeting unless they use their first and last name. Here is a video one of our teachers put together for students who may not know how to change the name in zoom.
Thanks,
KMS Team
Sorry this took so long folks. Handing out powerschool codes in the heat has me fried! It also is way longer than I anticipated which made the upload process long. Hopefully this help our kids start the year. I’ll be sending out more info this weekend and yes, you’ll get more of my calls…
Powerschool Access/Orientation/ askkorematsu@wccusd.net
Hello Korematsu families. We are another day closer to the opening of school. I know many families have received a call, text, or email from their homeroom teacher. Teachers will continue making calls tomorrow. Hopefully your student now knows their google homeroom code, and powerschool access username and password. The powerschool username and password are very important as it allows student to see their schedule. We plan to open powerschool up on Friday night once we finish balancing the schedule.
If your child does not have their powerschool username and password you can come by the school tomorrow for a drive through style handoff. We will be handing out this paper from 9 until 3. Simply drive down Donal Ave., stop in front of the main office, and let us know the student’s name. Please make sure you are wearing a mask. Most of our 8th grade students should know how to get into powerschool already so I do not anticipate seeing many 8th graders…
Also I will be posting a video tomorrow night at 5:30 as an orientation to the school year. Please also continue to check this website. And we now have an email you can send to for questions. It is centralized and we can route it to the person best suited for support. The email is askkorematsu@wccusd.net.
We know this is an anxious time, and we are working to create a soft landing for our students. Please continue to reach out directly to me as needed.
Matt
Hello Korematsu Community, It’s me again. Today and the next few days you or your child will receive a phone call from their homeroom teacher. It is really important that you take this call. Homeroom teachers will provide their google class code and they will also provide the username and password to access Powerschool. Having powerschool access will allow students to see their class schedule once they are live in a day or so. I will make a call once that they are ready.
Beginning at 10 AM tomorrow and running through 3 PM any student without a district issued tablet can come to school to pick up a tablet. Based on our information about 80 – 100 students are without tablets. Students and families must wear a mask and practice social distancing. Students will go to the library to check out their tablet. We will have clear markers of where to go. Please park along the school or in the lower parking lot. Please do not park in front of our neighbors houses
Please continue to check the Korematsu Middle School dot org for information.