• Is your child doing homework every night? If the answer is no, you just found your answer.
• Are you looking over your child’s homework to check it for completeness, correctness and quality? If the answer is no, you just found another answer.
• Is your child studying every night? If your answer is no, you just found a third answer!

• Is it difficult for your child to read? In other words, does your child struggle to pronounce words? When your child reads to you, is it choppy and filled with pauses? Then I suggest reading every reading assignment with your child at home.
• Does your child struggle with comprehension, understanding what is being read? Then I suggest reading every reading assignment with your child at home.

• Whenever your child has a writing assignment, read it out loud together and give your child pointers on how to make their story more powerful.
• Check your child’s writing. Check for correct punctuation, like periods at the end of sentences. Check for correct capitalization. Check for correct spelling. Check for fragments (incomplete sentences) and run-ons (three or more sentences written as one sentence). You don't have to be a pro at writing. That's my job. Just follow my suggestions and you will see results. I promise.

• Your child should memorize all the terms for the day. That means every day your child is committing to memory one or more facts learned on that day.
• Check your child’s written homework. Is your child writing complete sentences? Is your child starting answers with capital letters and ending with periods?

• Do you look over your child’s homework every night? It is surprising to me how many students misspell their words day after day in their spelling homework. Then, on test day, they have become proficient at misspelling their words. The exact opposite of what I want to accomplish with the homework.
• Doing no more than the daily homework is not enough to score 100% on a spelling test. Quiz your child and have him/her write the answers. Spelling a word out loud, although simple and quick, is not as powerful as writing the spelling word on a piece of paper.

Step 1:
Open your browser to the PowerSchool Parent Portal: http://www.eurekausd.org / Parents tab / PowerSchool-Student Grades (you can also go to the Student tab and select PowerSchool)
Step 2:
Click on Create Account. You can create multiple accounts (We recommend students create their own account)
Step 3:
To create an account, you will enter the following information:
Name – Your first and last name
Desired User Name – Your user name is your unique PowerSchool identity of your choosing. We recommend students use their Google username
Password – Your password must be at least 6 characters long (We recommend students use their Google password)
Student Access Information – This is the old Access ID and Password you have used in the past to access
PowerSchool. The Access ID and Password are case sensitive. If you do not already have this information, it can be acquired by contacting the school secretary.
Relationship – Enter the appropriate option. Students can select “Other” at the bottom of the list.
Once you have created the account you then will be directed back to the login screen where you will log in using the new login and password that you just created.

Student usernames are the year they graduate from 8th grade lastnamefirstinitial@eusdk8.us.

Their passwords are Eu-student number.

For example:

Username:  24fletcherc@eusdk8.us

Password:   Eu-12345

If there are multiple students in the same grade with the same last name and same first initial, additional letters of their first name have been added to avoid duplicates.

If a student has a hyphenated last name, only the name before the hyphen was used.

If a student has spaces in their last name, they have been omitted.

If a student has an apostrophe in their last name, it has been omitted.