Class Updates

Good Evening Parents,

This message comes to you with great sadness from my home as I think of all of my students and how much I will miss them, pray for their safety, academic progression, and hope the best for you and your families.  We will get through this difficult time together!  

I will post lessons each day via Class Dojo and Google Classroom.  Below is a schedule for what a day at home could look like as far as doing school work.  

Here is a recommended schedule:

Daily Schedule: 2 hours per day (We recommend a regular schedule, same time each day)Reading: 20 minutes (Online daily assignments/books)Brain Break: 5 minutes (stretch, deep breaths)Writing: 15 minutes (Respond to the prompt on the google classroom)Brain Break: 5 minutes (take a walk)Spelling: 10 minutes (Online MobyMax ) Brain Break: 5 minutes (dance to your favorite song)Math: 20 minutes (Online one lesson on Zearn)Brain Break 5 minutes (Exercise! jumping jacks, running in place, etc.)Science/Social Studies: 20 minutes (Online Brainpop/ Mobymax Assignment)Brain Break: 5 minutes (make a healthy snack, send a picture!)Share your picture, writing, something you learned: 10 minutesRead to someone for 30 minutes.  Write about it and submit it to me through ClassDojo via a picture of your writing or video tape what you have written. *Express that online game time should be limited to Saturday/Sunday so that students are not exposed to screen time over the recommended usage.

Second Grade:

Math

• Zearn -Online lessons aligned to Eureka Math 
  • Creating an Account
  • Study Island (Clever)
  • Edmentum (Clever)
• Moby Max – (Clever) – Wide variety of material available.
• BrainpopJr.- Free stuff section includes Math, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts and SEL information
• Discovery Education– Educational videos that cross grade levels.  Log in with Google.
• Math-A-Thon (math facts practice)- iLearn

Language Arts

• Storyline Online– The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations.  
• Readworks–  Provides K-12 teachers with a large, high-quality library of curated nonfiction and literary articles, along with reading comprehension and vocabulary supports, formative assessments, teacher guidance, and more.  Must have an account, but they are free.
• MobyMax- Access through Clever
• Study Island
• Edmentum
• Reading Eggs

Science

• Mystery Science – Mystery Science features multimedia science units for K-5. Each lesson consists of a series of short videos and prompts guide student discussion. This is followed by an experiment that can be done at home. Teachers can send students specific lessons via a link. Students do not have to be logged on to Mystery Science! Click this link to MyPD to watch a video about how to find these student links and the different ways you can share the link with your class.
  • Seed Dispersal 
  • Roots, Water, and Minerals 
  • Lights, Leaves, and Competition 
  • Adaptations and Habitat: Should you water a cactus? 
  • Adaptations and Habitat: Where do plants grow best? 
• BrainpopJr.- Free stuff section includes Math, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts and SEL information
• Discovery Education– Educational videos that cross grade levels.  Log in with Google.

Social Studies

• MI Open Book – Community Studies (Teacher Correlation Guide available in MyPD Remote Learning course)
• BrainpopJr.- Free stuff section includes Math, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts and SEL information
• Discovery Education– Educational videos that cross grade levels.  Log in with Google.

• ReadWriteThink.org– reading and writing resources across grade levels.
• BrainpopJr.- Free stuff section includes Math, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts and SEL information
• Discovery Education– Educational videos that cross grade levels.  Log in with Google.
• Pobble 365 (writing prompts useful across grade levels)- iLearn
• MAISA Reading and Writing Units- See DEC
• NewsELA- need a free account- standards-aligned reading activities

Schedule for home

Reading with ALL students:

 Read at home with your child at least 20 minutes every day with books they enjoy.   

Before reading:

• You may read to your child a text before he or she reads it.  
• Have your child make predictions about what might happen next.  
• Have your child use picture clues from the cover to predict what the book is about.   

During reading:

• Read out loud to your child.
• Listen to your child read.
• Echo read (you read a line and then have your child repeat the line).
• Read together at the same time (choral reading).
• Reread or retell favorite stories.
• Talk to your son or daughter about what they are reading.
• Talk about how the pictures in the book connect to the words on the page.

After reading, you may:

• Ask “What do you remember from the text?”
•  Ask questions about the reading (who, what, when, where, why).
• Have your child talk about his or her favorite parts of the story and why.
• Ask “What have you learned from the text?”
• Ask “Who was in the book and what did this character do in the story?”
• Connect the story to your child’s life or to other books you and your child have read together.

Example for a daily schedule

Math problem (addition and subtraction up to 1000, multiplication and division for 3rd graders)

Read for 20 minutes – talk to someone at home about what you read

Look at the topic for daily writing on google classroom.  Write about it on paper then record it online and send it to me on Class Dojo or take a picture and send it to me.

Read to someone for 30 minutes.  Write about it and submit it to me through ClassDojo via a picture of your writing or video tape what you have written.