Happy Friday!
Thank you for all of your wonderful support this week! I could not have done it without all of you! I have loved being able to share your child’s learning on Seesaw this week! So far it has been a HUGE success! Next week we will begin our DRA assessments, so please view the information below to select a time for your child to complete their assessment.
Daily Lesson Plans:
Click here to access next week’s daily lesson plans. Please remember to review the Parent Lesson plans the day/night before class. We are including some printable activities, as we feel some activities away from the screen are very important for first graders. We understand that not everyone may have access to a printer, so please feel free to modify any worksheet activities with a notebook and pencil.
Fall Literacy Assessments:
On October 5th we will begin our DRA (Developmental Reading Assessment). Just like with our PALS assessments, we are asking that each child sign-up for a 30 minute time slot for your child to complete their assessment. If your child needs more than 30 minutes for their assessment, we will prompt you to sign-up for another time to finish assessing. There will be some time slots on our sign-up that are during our whole group synchronous learning. Those assessments will be administered by one of our wonderful resource teachers at Pinebrook. Lessons will be recorded for your child to watch during their afternoon asynchronous time. We ask that you be present during your child’s assessments to help support technology and logging your child into the Google Meet being used for the assessments, but know that the assessment piece will need to be completed by your child only. We need to accurately determine your child’s strengths and instructional needs. This will help us provide direction for our instruction. Thank you for your continued support during this process!
Click here to sign-up for your child’s DRA assessment time slot!
1st Quarter Interim Progress Reports:
1st Quarter Interim Progress Reports ("interims") will be issued on Wednesday, October 7th. If your child receives an interim, it will be emailed to you on Wednesday, October 7th using the email address on file in your ParentVue account. You can update and/or verify your email address by logging into your ParentVue account. If you are unable to access your ParentVue account, please contact the school office.
Independent Reading:
We are now implementing Reading Workshop in our daily schedule! Part of our workshop includes independent reading time. Students should have 3-5 books to read during this time. If your children are in daycare and do not have access to books there, please be sure to pack 3-5 books for them to use.
Writing Booklets:
If your child is in need of more Writing Workshop booklets, please click here to access a printable version of the paper.
Support Center:
Please click here to view a short video about how to submit a trouble ticket for technology issues. This could be trouble with your Chromebook device or LCPS Go applications!
Bookmark Websites:
Sometimes we use more than one website at a time during our synchronous time (for example, using epic or Raz-Kids during reading workshop) or there are times when LCPS Go is not working. To best support your child, I encourage you to bookmark the following websites on your child’s Chromebook. Also, please take the time to educate your child on opening a new tab and using the bookmark options.
Schoology
Seesaw
Raz-Kids
Epic!
Dreambox
Scholastic Book Club:
Dear Family,
Now more than ever it is so important for your child to have books in the home. Plus our class gets FREE books with every order!
Class Order Due Date: 09/30/20
When you checkout, make sure you have your books shipped to your home!
Thank you for encouraging the love of reading!
PS: Feel free to forward the class page link to extended family who may want to support your child's reading.
Class Code: PB4G4
Seesaw Grading:
I have started assigning tasks in Seesaw each day for your child to complete. Although, this week was a way to get to know the Seesaw tools and get into the routine of using Seesaw, it is very important that you look at your child’s daily schedule to see what “asynchronous” work they are doing for the day. All Seesaw activities will need to be completed starting the week of October 5th. Some activities will be graded. I will check these assignments every week to track your child’s growth, to give feedback, and to give them a grade. This is the grading policy that I will be using:
Morning Meeting Visitor:
On Monday morning we will have a teacher/visitor in our morning meeting. This teacher is here to celebrate the ways we are building our classroom community. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out.
Welcome Back Hybrid Students!
I’m so excited to have your child join me in the hybrid setting beginning on October 27th. It will be an adjustment once again, but please know that I appreciate your patience and understanding in advance. We are still problem solving and planning our hybrid setting experience for our students. Please be on the lookout for more information about the hybrid setting from Mr. Thiessen.
I hope you all enjoy the beautiful fall weather this week! Please reach out with any questions, comments, or concerns!
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