Welcome to the Absent Students section of our class website.

If your child has a fever or truly does not feel well, please do not send them to school. Students do not perform well in school when they are physically ill; he/she also risks other students getting sick if he/she is contagious. I would also like to add a note on how important it is that your child is at school as much as possible. Every day at school is important. It is you and your child's responsibility to arrange making up any assignments/tests missed. Please note that I am not required to give make-up work or allow work to be made up for students that do not have an excused absence.

Here is a list of what I recommend you do in the event your child is absent:

1. Please contact the office of the school at 501.447.7100 to alert the secretary about the absence and to inform them if you need to pick up any work (the sooner, the better). Once the school day gets going, I am very busy. If the office does not notify me before lunch to gather work(11:55), I will not have adequate time to get your child's missing assignments together.

2. Please email me to let me know about the absence as soon as possible (for instance if you know the night before, or if it is a planned absence to shadow a middle school). My email is Mary.Struthers@lrsd.org

3. Keep up with our class blog and weekly newsletter. I try to update important information for students weekly. We have a spelling contract and test to complete every Friday, so that is something your child can always work on. They also can read and work on meeting their AR goal.

4. Now some of our books are online. Check the "For Students" webpage for more information about viewing textbooks online from home. Students may be able to complete some of their work from home without making a trip to the school.