We hope everyone had a restful weekend. We are entering week 5 of distance learning and a new adventure in hybrid learning. Beginning Wednesday, September 2nd, our schedule will look a little different. Please make note of the following dates and information.
Please read The Echo as it contains a lot of
important information.
XtraMath and RAZKids
Please
make sure your child is logging into XtraMath at least 3 times a week. XtraMath participation will count as a grade
for your child. Please contact us if you
are having trouble enrolling. We are
happy to help.
Your
child should be logging into RAZKids on a daily basis. New assignments and a flight check were added
to your child’s account this week.
Distance
Learning and In-Person Learning
The folders we made for distance learners were to be picked up today. Please be sure you have your child's folder. These materials will get them through the first quarter.
1. We have made folders for each you hat include materials your child will need to finish out the quarter.
In your folder you will find:
·
40 copies of Spalding Paper
·
Photocopies of our math textbook
(Units covered in the first quarter)
·
Math Manipulatives needed for first
quarter
· 2 Science journal for first quarter
· 1 History Journal for first quarter
- What will
distance learning look like?
·
We will continue with our live Zoom
classes daily. Our schedule will be changing. I will send out our new
login schedule in a document so that you may print it out and have it ready for
hybrid which begins Thursday September 3rd.
-Changes include: 1st login:
8:00am -9:10am
2nd login: 10:25am-11:20am
3rd login: 11:55-1:10pm end of DL day
Special
Note on Scheduling: Parents, please be flexible
on start and end times. Know that we are learning in classroom
procedures, teaching new health and safety protocol to 5 and 6 year olds,
transitioning from the playground, lunch room, and learning the basics like
what to do when I need a pencil. Please consider that we may be 5 or so
minutes behind or may need to go 5 or so minutes longer. Please be on
time for login, be ready, but be flexible. Thank you!
·
Subjects taught live will include
Spalding, Math, History or Science (units will alternate)
·
We will provide tutoring hours for
our online learners who may need learning support. Please be sure your
child attends any tutoring session they are assigned to. This is a very
essential and valuable service we are providing without charge to our families.
Do not miss out.
·
Distance Learners will continue to
be required to login to Google Classroom daily and complete any homework,
asynchronous lessons, poetry, submit classwork and quizzes, and complete participation
in Xtramath and RAZ Kids. Distance learners will continue to participate in
specials through the Google Classroom.
·
Classroom lead teachers will
continue to use means such as document cameras and slides for distance learning
instruction. We will be adding blue tooth lapel mics to allow us to move
around the classroom when needed but also allow for audio to be heard when not
directly in front of the computer. We will be adding an iPad camera to
the classroom so that distance learners will be able to see classmates and the
white board.
·
Both lead teacher and assistant
teacher will monitor distance learning students to be sure they are listening,
working, engaged, are able to contribute to classroom discussions and
activities, and ask questions.
·
We do ask that if you have chosen
to continue to do distant learning know that you are our partner in being sure
your child is engaged, working, listening, watching, contributing, and asking
questions. If they are struggling to stay in their seat, have materials ready,
or they are playing with toys, making faces in the camera, playing with their
mute button or video button, or eating food in front of the camera, we need
your help. We cannot catch and redirect every off-task behavior. We are not
expecting perfection and we also know that they are little, and have energy,
and have wiggles. We certainly get it. We also know that being at home
has its very own distractions in itself. So, what we are asking is that
you try your best and relay the message that their learning is an important
effort.
- What happens
if my child’s teacher is absent 1 or more days?
·
Your child’s teacher may have to be
out of the classroom for various reasons. This could be due to illness,
meetings, trainings, or other. If your child’s lead teacher is absent, we
do not want to transfer management of both distance learning and in-person
learning to one teacher alone (TA). We are asking distance learners to join in
with another first grade classroom and join that classroom’s lead teacher’s
instruction that will also be taught via Zoom. We will send a printable
document that has all Zoom links of the first-grade classes.
If
you are in-person:
- We will need
you to send to school the following books and supplies. These will
need to be in class and will be used daily. You may send materials in your
child’s backpack. If it is too heavy, send supplies and books in
waves, half the stuff on day one, other half on day two.
·
Send in all supplies from
supply list. Please label with student name so we know what belongs to who.
This includes Primary Writing Journal, markers, crayons, folders, etc.
·
We will start “Owl at
Home.” Please send in this literature book. We will communicate
the next literature book to send in before we begin a new literature unit.
·
Send math workbook 1A
·
Send Pink Spalding Notebook
- You will need
to provide a mask for your scholar. Solid colors and
modest prints are okay. No pop-culture i.e. Iron Man, Disney
Princesses. We will provide lanyards so that if scholars need to take off
their masks for any reason the masks will not be laid down on desks or
surfaces and to prevent masks from being misplaced.
- Please review
the first-grade donation request and send in a three-drawer unit and command
hooks for extra storage of personal materials. These can be
dropped off on Monday when you pick up your “Student Pick Up” cards.
You must have these cards to pick up your scholar on the first day of
in-person school. You may also send three drawer units during the first
days of in person but please communicate when you will be sending them in.
- Review the
pick-up and drop off procedures outlined in the Athenian
Echo. These procedures have some variations from last year due to
COVID and you will need to be familiar with how to pick up your scholar at
the end of the day.
- Hand
sanitizer: If your child has an allergy to
certain types of hand sanitizer or there is a preference that your child
uses a specific chemistry of hand sanitizer, we ask that you provide this
for your child. We will be required to sanitize hands often.
- Other Classroom Donations: We
always need hand sanitizer, tissues, Lysol sprays, sanitizing wipes.
Reminder
for ALL:
Next
week August 31st-September 4th
Monday: All
student distance learning using current schedule.
Tuesday: All
students distance learning using current schedule.
Wednesday: First
day for in-person, distance learner will not have live instruction but will
have classwork posted in the Google Classroom.
Thursday: First
day of hybrid using new and revised schedule.
Friday: Second
day of hybrid using new and revised schedule.
Academic
Spalding – We will begin using our pink Spalding notebooks
for spelling words only. We will learn
10 new phonograms and 12 spelling words.
Phonogram Quiz on 3rd and Spelling Test on September 4th.
Math-Introduce addition equations using number stories,
solve picture problems using addition and practice addition facts through 5. Math Quiz on September 4.
Science-What is Science and The Scientific Method.
Literature-Continue reading Different Lands, Similar
Stories.
Poetry-I’m Glad
