This is the week we will begin Online Learning, structured according to the District’s Approved Continuity of Learning Plan. You can refer to Howard’s blog also. It is important that you refer to the Plan so you can understand your child’s learning experience. All students will be expected to complete the weekly posted classwork as best that they can. Google Meets attendance/participation will be part of student participation. This Online Learning will continue until June 11, which will be the last day of school. Report cards will be issued for an end of the year grade. Grading will be as follows:

MEETING-Attends Google Meets, has high participation and submits work regularly

PROGRESSING-Attends some Google Meets and submits most assignments

LIMITED-Attends few or none Google Meets, and submits few or none of assignments

For grading, I will be looking for participation in RAZ Kids and Zearn/ Embarc, participation in Google Meets, and completion of weekly assignments. Students can email me their work and I will reply/commenting as I receive it. I will begin grading this week for participation in Google Meets.

Please have your child continue reading DAILY. (My granddaughter who is in Kindergarten, calls me several times a day and reads to me on FaceTime or Zoom. It’s great…she even shows me the pictures.) So have your child read to anyone, stuffed animals, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, pets. outside, on the swings, porch, backyard… Reading is so very important. I will be checking on RAZ Kids for reading and Math Skills on Embarc.online and Zearn. Google Meets will be on Tuesdays at 12:00 noon.

I will continue to post the Weekly Calendar on Sundays for the upcoming week.

I continue to hold you all in my prayers, both students and parents. I know that you didn’t sign up for full time teaching, but you’re doing a great job. Most of all, you are showing your child (children for some of you), how to handle change, how to not lose your cool when plans take a sudden turn about which we have no control, how to keep your head and focus on the important things in life. Aren’t we surprised at what we really need to live and not what we thought we needed??

One final thought from a dear teacher friend…..

“Virtual teaching will never replace

the love, the laughs, the smiles on students’ faces,

and the “aha” moments

that happen in an actual classroom.

The quarantine isn’t a break for teachers,

it’s a heartbreak.”

Good Night and I’ll see you tomorrow for Google Meet at 12:00.

This is a test for me. Do not respond.

I hope you have your Journal handy…it’s SNOWING outside!!!

Write a sentence about seeing the snow today. Do you like it? Why or why not? Sketch a picture of what it looks like outside your window. Remember to date your work.

Good Morning,

I may be blogging several times today. Didn’t sleep much and was up very early this morning with many thoughts going through my mind about lessons. 🙂

Mrs. Bagnall, our Music teacher, has returned from her leave. She will be posting things for students to do. Here is her blog: https://blog.dearbornschools.org/bagnalj/

Have fun washing hands!

Mrs. Thomas, our Art teacher also has a blog that she would like students to enjoy. She would like the students to email their art work to her which will be entered into a drawing for a prize. She will be looking for good quality art work showing good effort to qualify. Here is Mrs. Thomas blog: https://blog.dearbornschools.org/thomas/

Parents,

I have enrolled all students in RAZ Kids and in Zearn. Please give Zearn a try. I hope to be moving up students in Zearn, once I see their progress. The class code is:

WK9x8B I have changed all of their Passwords to be their Student Number.

I had 3 hour meeting this afternoon, preparing for next few weeks. I will work on next week’s calendar this weekend. I hope you enjoy working/discovering some things together with your student.

Mrs. Smith