Good morning parents. I just wanted to copy a message in my blog that I included as a note to the students in Google Classroom. Thank you for your support and patience!

Hi boys and girls! 

I hope all of you are doing well. I know that this is quite a different style of school than all of us are used to, but I know we will do our best to get through this temporary classroom set-up and continue doing the best learning possible. I hope each of you have had an opportunity to explore our Google Classroom. This is a platform that will help guide you into learning and assignments. Please always remember to try your best on each assignment. 

    Please always check the Google Classroom daily, as new assignments will be posted as we go through this new process. Some things need to be completed and submitted right in this platform, while others will require you to log in to other learning sites, such as IXL. Your log in and password for IXL are posted on our classroom blog. Even for this site, please carefully follow the order of the lessons described in each Google Classroom assignment. 

    It is important to still complete your daily reading minutes from your book bags (Good-Fit books). Since we will be out of school for some time, if you finish all of the books in your bag and have reread them, please be sure to use the additional reading resources that will help you gain access to more books. Also, it’s important to keep practicing your math facts! You can do this through the assigned IXL fact practice, MobyMax – fact fluency, on the sprints in Zearn, using mathfactcafe.com, or coming up with another way to practice, repeat, improve, and memorize all of your addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. 

    If you have extra time or finish early, you can use some of the other wonderful resources to help reinforce and enhance your learning. These are not the only ones (**Remember, the front of your planner should have your log in information for some of the additional platforms that require them, such as: Zearn, Prodigy, and Epic), but you can use:

• Zearn (this is currently suggested as part of your continued individual practice continuing where you are through Module 3 (for right now – this will be extended as we go and depending on the amount of time we will be out of the building))
• Prodigy (math practice) 
• MobyMax  – you must log in through Clever from the student portal page (reading, ELA, and math practice)
• Epic (reading practice)
• Read Theory (informational reading practice)
• StoryOnline (great selection of books)

Stay safe and continue to learn!