Weekly Update 9.13.20
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On September 12, 2020
Welcome to week 5 of 3rd grade. Grading is under way and your child’s attendance and participation are very important. Thank you for communicating absences and technical issues with me so I am not waiting for your child to begin groups. Going forward and students will be expected to turn in assignments on their due dates to avoid a Friday pileup and missing assignments.
Reminder: finalized schedule for the remainder of remote learning.
NOTE FOR FRIDAYS: Students will NOT have regular SMALL group meets on Fridays. These times will be reserved for longer assessments called “Show Me What You Know” time, tutoring or reteaching, technical assistance, or catch up time for students who still have asynchronous work to complete. If your child is being requested to attend a Google Meet during small group time I will message you Friday morning or you may message me if you think your child needs that extra support that week. ALL students should plan to attend meetings on Fridays at 9:10 and again at 1:00. They will NOT have scheduled writing and science meetings Friday. They will have asynchronous tasks Friday afternoons and may use the link to pop on to ask questions or get help.
YOUR CHILD’S WORK LOAD THIS WEEK:
- ISTATION BENCHMARK ASSESSMENTS WILL OCCUR THIS WEEK. It is very important that your child is present and on time for their sessions and that there device is prepared for this test. More info on this can be found in my post from earlier this week linked here.
- All work will be accessible through Google Classroom. When finished they must TURN IN for it to disappear from their to do list.
- Students should be 5 minutes early for morning meeting (9:10), whole group reading (12:55), and Writing/Science (2:15). They should be ON TIME for any small group to they don’t interrupt an active meeting.
ASYNCHRONOUS WORK: When your child is not meeting live with the teacher, they will be expected to complete independent tasks daily or weekly. This may vary slightly from teacher to teacher, but our class will have the following expectations:
- MATH asynchronous work will be done DAILY but turned in on Friday. They may complete several tasks in the same day if they choose, but cannot turn in until after the Friday “Show Me What You Know” quiz or activity has been activated and completed. Here is an example of the document students will use to track their task completion throughout the week.
- READING/WRITING asynchronous work will be a mix of daily and twice a week assignments. Students are expected to read DAILY for 20 minutes in addition to the required reading of our class reading focus text. They may read physical books or one of the many digital reading resources available to them. These minutes will be tracked in their Google Classroom post. Here is an example of what they will use to access and track their reading minutes.
- SCIENCE/SOCIAL studies lessons will be a mix or live meets and asynchronous work. If students are NOT live they are expected to turn in assignments THAT DAY.
Please ask your child about their EPIC and Xtramath accounts. Students learned how to use these tools last week through the Technology Quest and you can now track their progress and celebrate their growth with them at home.
