This is our last week of Remote Learning. This week's lessons are a review of concepts that have been previously taught.  Use it as a guide to keep your learner in the "groove", especially if you plan to continue with some sort of learning over the summer.

Hello Parents,

We are starting to wind down our remote learning. Next week will be our last plan with "new" learning.

Correction, the books will be sent to MY home, and then I will make arrangements to deliver them to you.  Please complete your orders by Friday at 4, and then I will complete my information. I'm not sure how long it will take the books to get here, but I would imagine that it would be around 2 weeks.

You can order books from Scholastic and have them sent to your door. Here is the link:

https://editions.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=654288 .

Class code:  TF6K4

As you know, we will not be returning to school to complete our first grade year together. While I  assumed that this was the case, I still let out an audible gasp and cried thinking about how we will not all be able to come back together in our classroom at Rattlesnake. That being said, I am so grateful that most of our class has been able to come together in our Google Classroom for meetings to see each other and share things together in the only way that is currently available.  On Thursday we will be having our weekly staff meeting and will wait to hear what, if any, additional changes there will be as we complete our year online.  We will meet again at 10 on Wednesday morning, and I am hoping this week to have 100% participation.  I want to remind you at the end of the meeting to close out the tab at the top of your screen to completely log your child out of our meeting.  This week I would like your child to come prepared to share anything about the sun, moon, and/or planets. Some examples could be an art project that they chose from Friday's lesson, an interesting fact, the cover of a book that they have at home, or anything related to this theme. Please have them ready by practicing presenting it to you first.

I want to remind you of 2 valuable apps that are located in our Google Classroom and are pictured at the top of their weekly remote learning plans-ARC and MyOn. Both of these resources provide books for your child at their reading level.  I am also able to see who is accessing these books and how many pages your child has read. This will be very useful information for your child's teacher next year.  Please get in contact with me if your child cannot remember what (color) level they are on.

Thanks and have a great week.

I am looking forward to seeing your kids for our first Google Meeting. You will need to have your child logged into their Google Classroom in order to join us. Simply go to their Classwork section and click on the video camera. Fingers crossed that we will all be able to connect this way. I will enable the video camera at 10. They will not be able to join until  I do. Thanks and see you soon!

Hello Parents,
By now almost all of you have gotten into our Google Classroom. It is great to see your child's work and check out your learner's engagement this way.  Additionally, I appreciate the photos and artwork that you have emailed me.  This week I will be adding our first Google Meeting to their schedule. I would like to meet at 10 this Wednesday.  You can help your child prepare for our meeting by having them practice one thing that they would like to share with our class. This may be a pet, craft, story, etc., but please limit them to 1 thing so that we all can have a chance to share in a timely manner. (I have another meeting at 11.) I will use their student numbers to call on students. I will ask that students turn off their microphones unless they are presenting.  On Wednesday you will go to our Google Classroom and click on the video camera in Classwork .They will not be able to access it before or after our scheduled time. I will start promptly at 10. Hopefully, this will not be too complicated. This week I have joined multiple meetings for work, a bread baking class, my book club, and even a happy hour/games call.  Looking forward to seeing their faces soon. Thanks for helping them prepare.

Please continue to send me your concerns, questions, pictures, etc. Please know that you are heard and that all concerns are being noted and shared with additional staff and administration as we continue to progress with so many unknowns and attempt to make it less complicated for all.