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REMOTE/DISTANCE LEARNING – April 27-May 1, 2020Dear Parents/Guardians,Hello to all for another week. Much of the info in this week’s letter is the same as last week’s, but we feel it is important information. Attached you will find your Plans a Glance. Thanks to Declan’s mom who helped me revise the format. All graded assignments are written in red and highlighted in yellow. COMMUNICATION: Communication with children and parents will continue through Ms. Wood’s website. We are also heavily communicating with your children through their Microsoft Team room. YOUR CHILD’S ASSIGNMENTS, QUIZZES, PROJECTS, AND TESTS ARE NOW POSTED HERE. YOUR CHILD MUST BE ABLE TO GET INTO THE TEAM ROOM. Assignments in Teams Room.Look at menu bar and find ASSIGNMENTS.Find the assignment you need to complete.Many have attachments for directions and even rubrics.Some have special instructions.IMPORTANT – projects can be resubmitted on teacher requests. Other assignments, once you submit, you cannot change your answers.ZOOM CLASSES:We are meeting twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays for zoom classroom lessons. These classes are very valuable and NOT OPTIONAL. Please make sure your child attends.Invites to the zoom class lessons will be found In the Team Room. Once a Zoom class has started, we are not checking messages in the Teams room or e-mail as we are actively engaged with the children in the Zoom class. Students need to text a friend if they need our help.ZOOM TIME FOR BLOCK ONE HAS CHANGED!!!!We are supposed to be Zooming four times a week. We are only doing it twice. Please expect the sessions to go over a bit to cover information for both language arts and social studies. Make sure devices are charged! Be in the waiting room five minutes before start time.All information covered in Zoom class can be found in the PowerPoint posted in the Teams room.ZOOM SESSIONS – EVERY TUESDAY AND THURSDAY BLOCK ONE – Periods 1/2 – 9:00-9:40+ BLOCK TWO – Periods 3/4 – 10:00-10:40+ BLOCK THREE – Periods 5/6 – 11:15-11:55+Edgenuity and i-Ready: Same as last week.BLOCK ONE – Periods 1/2 – are completing TWO sessions of i-Ready per week. They must pass at 70% or higher. We are no longer requiring Edgenuity for first block. This is due on Friday @ 5:00 PM.BLOCKS 2 and 3 – Periods 3/4 and 5/6 – are completing ONE Edgenuity per week. This is from introduction thru the quiz. We are no longer requiring i-Ready for 2nd and 3rd blocks. This is due on Friday @ 5:00 PM.BOTH BLOCKS – On the plans at a glance, you will see I have the online platforms listed on multiple days. The children may complete any day of the week based on their needs and time schedules. This is due on Friday @ 5:00 PM.READING THE CLASS NOVELS: Same as last week. We will finish the books this week.In language arts, we are reading the novels we were reading in class. (BLOCK 1 = Guns for General Washington) (BLOCKS 2 and 3 = Chains) Students may choose to read and mark up the book on their own or they may watch me on my YouTube channel reading and orally marking up the book. Search for “Alison Grinan” on YouTube. The readings are titled by novel name and chapters being read. Examples: “GfGW – Chapters 17-18” or “Chains – Chapters 38-39”The children do not have to go to the YouTube channel, this is student preference, but the chapters do need to be marked up.Zoom classes will be discussions of the previous day’s readings. The children will then be expected to complete a quiz (10 multiple choice questions) or activity via Microsoft Teams Assignments by 5:00 PM that day. This will be a graded assignment. I will review the questions and assignments in the Zoom class.Please tell your children the images are in a LABELED word document on the home page rather than the photo album. This is MUCH faster for me.PROJECT - Think and Act Like a Social Scientist Project INTERVIEW PORTION 1st interview transcript due Monday, April 27, 20202nd interview transcript due Friday, May 1, 2020The second portion of this assignment are TWO interviews in which the children learn how the virus, social distancing and various other challenges have impacted others. Your child is to develop a series of 10-15 questions. We have been working on these questions for eight (8) academic days. This should already be done. Your child needs to interview TWO (2) different people. One person can be in the home such as a parent or sibling. The other needs to be someone not living in the child’s home. It can be a family member.If you have someone living in another city or country, this would be best. It will give the classmates a better perspective of the global impacts of the pandemic. (I am interviewing my friend in Spain that not only has Covid -19 but both her son and daughter did as well.)The children may do a Zoom interview, telephone interview, or e-mail style interview.Live interviews are recommended as it allows for a natural and organic flow of conversation.The interview must be transcribed (TYPED) in interview format. Please see the PowerPoint that Ms. Eckert presented in the Zoom class on Thursday. It can be found in the Teams Room under FILES.It is recommended that the interview be recorded so the children can go back and transcribe the words as they were actually spoken.Recording ability on Zoom meetings is a built-in feature. For students doing a phone call, we suggest placing your child on speaker phone and having a second phone recording the conversation.3829685749300ATTACHMENTS ON THIS LETTER:Plans at a Glance – Week of April 27-May1, 2020 Interview Project Guidelines for the students. These attachments can also be found on Ms. Wood’s web.Stay safe and until next week,Ms. Wood and Ms. Eckert PS – We know this has been a HUGE learning curve. I never thought I would ever learn this much new technology. Ask your kiddos about my “love” of technology. Their responses should be priceless. ? Thanks for your support as parents. You guys have been rock stars! ................
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