ELearning Update #1

Please know this is solely a copy of the email sent out on Monday, March 16, 2020 in an effort to keep record of emails that are sent directly to parents. If you read this already, please disregard. Stay healthy!

Hello, parents:

Thank you all for bearing with us as we figure out the best way to support your children as we navigate the instructional shift in the wake of FA’s closure. We wanted to touch base to provide more information on how this next week is going to look for you and the students. By now, you should have received a detailed email from Sheila Wimble for PE and either Jesica Lontor or Abigail Ibarra about their expectations for Foreign Language this week. 

We have posted our assignments for this week and will continue to post assignments, links, and any online meetings to the Google Classroom for each specific class as listed below. All students already have access to these classrooms at this point, so they should know where to go.

 

  • Fifth Grade
    • *This is a page for us to keep in touch with each other as a whole class. As Mrs. Estes mentioned in the recent video of our Division Heads, it is important for our students to “maintain a sense of belonging”. As we practice “social distancing” in the coming weeks, we know it will be important for students to have this sense of community. As such, we will be posting the links to our online meeting space here. 
  • Math
  • Language Arts
  • Science
  • History

 

We will have the week’s assignments, meetings, and activities posted to the above sites by 10 a.m. each Monday. Please have your child use their agenda to write down and plan their week on this day. We ask that you review your fifth-grader’s agenda each Monday evening to help keep them accountable and so that you are aware of what they are doing for their classes. Students could also be working on any long-term assignments on Monday and throughout the week. Each Tuesday morning at 9:30 a.m. we will hold a weekly morning meeting for all fifth-grade students. This will begin tomorrow, March 17.

This week, students are continuing to work on assignments they started last week for our core classes. Please have your student check the Google Classroom sites above to see specific details. As we move forward, we may need to make adjustments. Lessons in the classroom don’t always go as planned, so we are used to making adjustments as we teach. Learning how to teach virtually will be a bit of a learning curve and certainly may need some tweaking as we continue. We are here to support you and your child for the weeks to come. Please don’t hesitate to email us should you have any questions, concerns, or feedback. Once more, we appreciate your patience and flexibility not only in starting up, but with any adjustments that we need to make as we proceed through these new learning spaces and opportunities.

We know many students have been very eager to get started, so we look forward to connecting with our class tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m.!

Take care,

Kimberly & Tim

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