001good afternoon thank you for joining us this afternoon I'm Rebecca sweet moon I'm co principal of the middle school and I oversee seventh grade and today we just want to walk you through the course registration form and answer any questions for you first and foremost we hope that you and your families are safe and healthy at home we know this is a very challenging time to be transitioning to a new school and we want to make sure that we support you through all of this as best as we possibly can so thank you for being with us and I will inviting guidance counselor mr. Gomez who will walk you through the registration form hi everybody welcome to the live stream I'm glad to be here to help you figure out and now fill out this
002course registration for as best as I can so let's get started okay so the for the purpose of this whole exercise I will I'm fill it out as if I was filling out myself all right so um right at the top we just asked you to put in your email address there we go next up we have this little disclaimer right at the top saying all students take four curriculum classes in English social studies science and math and also all students are required to be enrolled in health physical education and one of our to our options this form mainly focuses on the elective options that we do offer at the middle school which is what you will see later on so we have the format for the student name as last name comma first and
003as well for the parent and guardian name and we do ask that you just type in your phone number as well so just in case you need to contact the reason so next up we have your current school so if you come from a school that's not listed on here just click other and type in where you're coming from type in put in multiplet and let's go down alright so for art so for this year which is due to us we have to new we have two different our options at the middle school so one being your traditional art such as drawing painting printing collage and ceramics and sculpture which is studio arts and we also have a second option called media arts which is more geared toward digital photography photo editing graphic design more
004the contemporary type of art so we do offer both and we'd like to know what used to is preference would be for either a medium of art so for this case I'll choose media art next up we get into the elective exploratory so if you want to know more about each of the classes that listed down here there's a link that will send me to a program of studies and see because you can see a glimpse of what each class is really about so our elective exploratory is the middle school meet for one semester every other day as you can see before you even choose your choices for your electives there's a disclaimer saying that if you do decide to take a world language or music ensemble those classes take precedence over the elective choices
005which means that we'll be putting you in either world language and/or your ensemble class first and then we'll add in your elective choices so first up we have dance for me and I'll dance no that'd be my fourth choice drama third choice intro music will be my first choice and then hold percussion a secular choice just easy as that you just let us know your preference for all those I know that I've gotten a few emails from parents asking if we do offer the dance over PE requirement so having danced fulfill that PE requirement so we do honor that one caveat is that you have to be taking a world language and/or a ensemble class in order to have that replacement we just don't have enough options in terms of electives to have that replace
006PE without you taking world language or an example class next we get into the world language so you'll up up top it shows the four language that we offer at the middle school as well as we do offer a special curriculum for native speakers of Spanish with a which kind of coincides with the honors model this is the big one that I tell out of our students is that if you don't take a language in seventh grade you're not able to take a language to high school because our the way our languages work is that you take a little bit of it in seventh grade and you take almost like a part two of it in eighth grade it's a just a continuation of what you learn in seventh grade so right here right up
007top Chinese is my fourth choice French we missed second Latin is third and Spanish is first so just like your elective options just to make them your first choice to your fourth choice and if you have a if one of the languages above that you chose for example my first choice is Spanish if I'm a native Spanish speaker i would put let's management even language so that we just natural other native language speakers and last but not least we have our music ensembles so we do offer three different music ensembles at the middle school we have orchestra band and chorus so for Orchestra and band we asked you of at least one year of being in the band class Orchestra class in the elementary school or lessons there are obviously option exceptions Debian made in
008the past so if your student really really wants to join in this ensemble being connecting you to the band orchestra teacher and maybe being at that situated we also have course which does not has no prerequisites to join chorus and sing with the group of threats and forming a new band and in the bottom we just talked about on some of our math options that we're going to talk about more in the future but definitely wanting to focus on the elective options that we do offer at the middle school does anybody have any questions so I know one of the questions that I have received was in regards to if you had already completed a paper copy of this form at your elementary school and um Holdings close so quickly that the copies are in
009various places or so in teacher classrooms at the elementary school is some are in an office we're not sure that any have actually made it to our middle school so we ask that if you did complete a paper paper copy that you please still complete this online form because we may not be able to track those down due to the building's closing so if you can please complete this and certainly if you have any questions or if you forget something that even completed on a paper copy we're happy to answer any questions for you or walk you through that but I did want to clarify that because I've received many questions in regards to that and I'm not seeing any other questions in the chat and are working with our guidance Department to develop a
010virtual step up for students we know that that is you know big time to be moving to middle school and to not be able to come to the school and walk around and see our classrooms and check out the whole building so we are putting a virtual tour together and we will have that up and ready hopefully by the end of May very beginning of June so I don't know if you and I speak to that at all mr. gumer but we're very excited to do that for students and at least give a little taste of what it will be like we really want to give you a preview or sneak peek of what you should be expecting at the middle school so this goes from a virtual tour of the middle of school to
011get familiar with the building without being in the building as well as almost like a mock student panel we have reached out to several seventh grades current seventh grade students become eighth grade students with questions that students may be asking and that we will share that with you in this virtual step update really trying to mimic what you would get what the students will get at the building in a virtual setting okay so we thank you for joining us this afternoon if you have any questions please do not hesitate to email either one of us and we can certainly walk you through this we are looking forward to sharing this stuff update orientation with you and we hope you have a great afternoon please stay safe and be well during these times a good one