Welcome to another week of virtual learning! I hope you are all doing well and enjoyed this beautiful sunny weekend. I TRULY APPRECIATE all you are doing to encourage and nurture your child’s education. I know it isn’t easy, but we will all come out of this with new skills and a new appreciation for face to face learning!! 🙂

I can’t even describe how much I miss your children. I’m also very saddened that the district has chosen to suspend Google Meets at the elementary level. The platform they are providing us with for online meets is through ilearn with a program called big blue button. This is not a platform that we use in the elementary schools (it is used in middle and high school) Therefore neither myself or the students have been trained in using this. Trust me when I say we (elementary teachers) have made our displeasure at having lost Google Meets known to administration but they are not budging from their decision.

That being said, I will continue to communicate with your children through my comments and suggestions on their Google Classroom assignments. I am sharing access to their assignments with you via an email invitation. Unfortunately, I can only attach one parent email. If you would like me to use a different email than the one I chose, please let me know.

With this access you will receive regular, automatic email summaries for your child. You can choose the frequency of the emails—daily or weekly—and can unsubscribe at any time.

The summaries include:

• Missing work—Work that’s late at the time the email was sent
• Upcoming work—Work that’s due today and tomorrow (for daily emails) or work that’s due in the upcoming week (for weekly emails)
• Class activity—Announcements, assignments, and questions recently posted by teachers

I hope this helps us have better communication between what is being completed and the “grade” that is being given. It is based on percentages- each assignment is worth 100%- which will then turn into an effort/participation grade.

Finally, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOUR CHILD WATCH the Great Minds Math videos before attempting the problem set (we are now using ASSISTments for our problem sets). It seems that many children were finding the math challenging because they were skipping the video lesson. That would be like attempting the homework, but not coming to class :0

Thank you again, I am very grateful for your support!