Virtual Kindergarten (03/23/2020)

Warning this is long.....please take your time and read through everything. I will also be emailing everything. 

This Week in Virtual Kindergarten: 3.23.20

BIG NEWS FOLKS…..Kindergarten team has been working together to help things go smoother and hopefully more fun for you at home. Here are 2 new ideas we want to share with you:

              A.      We put together a class page for your child in CLEVER (directions below). Our CLEVER                   page has all the apps and links used for our digital learning plan and some new ones for                       your student to try. They can all be found in one location which we hope will make it easier                for your child to access them. Please give CLEVER a try and let us know how you like it.

You will need to go to clever.com, then click login as student in top right corner, then follow the steps in the picture below

          B.    We also wanted to find a way to keep the students and you parents connected while you are                 socially distanced at home, so we explored the seesaw app. Here students can post photos or               videos of what they are working on, and if all goes smoothly, everyone in class can see each               other’s posts and send comments about what is posted.

In order to access Seesaw you need a QR reader on your phone, ipad or device.

Then go to https://web.seesaw.me/ and click login in upper right hand corner. 

When login box pops up click “I am a student”

 and then scan code. (QR code below)

Please, please, please do not give this QR code out to anybody outside our immediate class and use good judgement about what you post. We hope the posts will relate to the learning you are doing while at home!

CHECK EMAIL FOR QR CODE

When you want to post something for yourself, click on your name and the +add something button. We will be alerted to approve your post and then everyone should be able to see it! The kiddos have worked in Seesaw this year in the learning commons and have posted on it before so we hope they remember.

We hope to see everyone on CLEVER and Seesaw this week, please contact us if you have any trouble with getting onto either of these and we will do our best to troubleshoot.

Had we been in the classroom this week we would have been working on the following skills:

Here is the link to my daily reading: 
https://youtu.be/rBW43_7Hy34

Phonics: Long E sound (where e says its name as in “easy”)

Try this word sort to illustrate the difference between the two sounds and to explain why the vowel might change its sound (bully-e or two vowels go walking)

Math: Composing shapes from other shapes.

This can be difficult for students to see but Mrs. Powers was great and made a video showing how to help the kiddos practice the skill at home. And below you will find some squares to help your child practice with this week if you choose.

https://youtu.be/jgjdY6r9oQ0

Science: Sorting and classifying animals: mammals

Here is a great video about what mammals have in common:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kACaok7DRlM

Mammals offspring usually look a lot like their parents, since they are born outside of an egg as a “baby.”

You might not be able to tell that this is a baby eagle or eaglet,

But it easy to tell that this is a baby horse or foal

Looking for similarities and difference between parent and offspring, and between one group of animals and another is the heart of this unit!

Social Studies: One of our standards this 9 weeks is for your child to independently state their street address, city, state and country in which they live. There is no great trick for teaching this. It is mostly repetition. But, as in incentive…. Any child that takes a video of themselves stating it and emails that video to me will get a handwritten letter back from me to them to that address. And yes, they should email it and not post any video of their address on Seesaw app please.

Please note that these tasks are not required. Our digital learning plan asks only that your child….

• Complete at least 10 minutes or a lesson on ReadingEggs or read on Raz-Kids and complete quizzes 
• Complete at least 10 minutes or a lesson on MathSeeds or Dreambox
• Read a story with your family

·       Write a sentence or more about your favorite part of the story in a journal or on a piece of paper. (Please be sure to capitalize, punctuate and spell sight words correctly!)

Work on the homework for the week.