Distance Learning Launch 4-17-20

Big Lagoon Elementary School

 Distance Learning

April 20th - June 2020

Dear families,

      I’ve been missing my students’ faces and seeing them everyday!  I hope you guys have been enjoying the sunshine and the company of your family.  We’ve got 8 weeks left of school and we are moving forward on the 20th! That means I am advancing our instruction and will continue to assess and complete report cards at the end of the school year as usual.   We will be using Zoom Lessons to have face-to-face time with teachers, workbooks/textbooks/paper sent home to support their lessons, and a menu of Independent Projects (that you can add too!) to take the place of or work with their at-home materials.

I understand this is a different, difficult time and I appreciate your patience as our school prepared to move forward with our children’s education.  The program laid out below is available to every student and for many this is not a simple, nor easy time. Our top priority is our students’ physical, emotional, and mental health--  Use these tools if they are helpful.


What is it?

Our distance learning program is based on Zoom lessons Monday through Thursday, leaving Friday open for our Class Meeting and Office Hours (I’ll be available for family/student support).

My Zoom lessons will introduce new ideas and work with the students in either a lecture or discussion. The rest of their daily academic needs will be in their workbooks and materials to be completed at home.


Each Daily 3 Math group meets with me twice a week, each Daily 5 Language Arts group meets with me twice and meets with Ms. Sophie twice per week.  Same time each weekday! I know, I know-- it’ll be a crazy first week, then we’ll settle in for the last 7 weeks. 


Your students workbooks will be sent home, along with any tools and their pencil bags with basic supplies.  We have a check-out sheet for textbooks and manipulatives they will need for their lessons.  We have limited resources and require our checked out items to be returned in June, so please enjoy the use of them and take care of them!


Tools to help..

Schedules

  • Student schedule to keep track of your child’s Zoom lessons.
  • An “If you need it” schedule guide you in how much of what per day.  It reflects the routine they’re used to at school with suggested time slots and activities that use their workbooks, online programs, and paperwork.  Timed slots don’t work for your kiddo? Work through the subjects in your child’s time and whatever time of day works for YOU.   

Independent Project Menu

  • Does your child want to create a weekly newsletter?  Cooking? Gardening? Research their favorite animal to read and write about?  That counts.  

How do you keep track of Independent Projects or teaching moments that happen every day?   Use the Assignment Sheet!  ...


Assignment sheet 

  • Conversations and games that fit in math, language arts, social studies, science, music, art, or PE?  Add it in!
  • It lays out Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Music/Art, PE-- Monday through Friday.  School required minutes per day is 90 minutes for Math, 120 minutes for Language Arts. Did you do math in a science activity?  Put that time down. Did you read and write for a social studies activity/discussion? Put that down! It counts.
  • I will collect these at the end of the year
  • Each week will have its own color in Assignment sheet and weekly paper work.  
    • Week 1 Hot pink
    • Week 2 Rose
    • Week 3 Yellow
    • Week 4 Orange
    • Week 5 Green
    • Week 6 Blue
    • Week 7 Dark purple
    • Week 8 Light purple

Office Hours

  • I will leave the link to my Office Hours on our website, and of course in the original email.  Every Friday I will have available appointment slots to speak with family, work with the students, etc.


What do YOU do?

Pick-up or coordinate our drop-off of materials will occur over the weekend; please contact Ms. Jen!


Get to know your child or children’s Zoom Lesson schedule.  It will remain the same each week.


Find the best fit for YOU in scheduling how you help your child or children in completing school work at home.  We understand not every family is able to support teaching each day, it’s why there’s school! Please do what you can.  The student schedule can be used without time markers for whenever you can fit it. 


Thank you and contact me if you have any questions,

Ms. Rebecca

 

Please Note:  

Your Zoom meeting IDs will be sent Sunday in 1 document so you can keep it all in one spot!