Hi Parents,
We want to share with you what we know will be occurring for the foreseeable future during this school dismissal. Starting Tuesday, Ms. Mack and Ms. Terry will have our Canvas courses available to students. This will be the first time our students are using Canvas. Both teachers have done their best to make sure that it is easy to navigate. The district will be providing tools to help you learn also. Please use the tools provided as it will help ease the learning curve for you as it has for us. Ms. Terry has also sent each parent their student’s login information. Ms. Terry will also be sharing with you a quick “How to Login” document (see below) so you will be able to identify what to use for each site. We understand that this is a lot which is why we have tried to make it as simple as it can be for you. Please note that we won’t be using the flipgrid badge as the students should be able to login via clever. Here are the expectations that we understand; as of now:
We love each one of our students and have kept each one in mind as we have spent many hours creating learning opportunities online. We know that this is a learning curve for many of us (teachers included) and we appreciate the patience and flexibility as we all navigate this school dismissal period. Please let us know if there is anything that we can do to help assist you during this time. Best, Ms. Mack and Ms. Terry
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We miss all of you so much! We think of you all day, every day. We hope that you are staying healthy, safe and happy! There is not a NEW packet. It is the same packet that you either picked up from the school or printed off. Mrs. Winfree sent out the Ridgecrest Roar and had some information regarding technology in it! If your student needs technology to help do online learning opportunities, please reach out to Ms. Mack or Ms. Terry! The school is open until 3 today for parents to check out the technology! LIVE VIDEO CHATS This week, we are going to start something exciting! Last week Ms. Terry did a google meets with a lot of our classmates and it was a lot of fun. We've decided to start doing that EVERY DAY! But it will be a little different. We will have PURPLE class meet at 1:00 and GREEN class meet at 1:30! This will give each teacher a chance to pop in and say hi! We will post the links below for parents as well as on DOJO. For some of this week, Ms. Terry and Ms. Mack will be doing the chats together so everybody knows how it works and what to expect. We know that it is important to have authentic Chinese production so when Ms. Mack is the only teacher in the chatroom, guess what can only be spoken? CHINESE! How fun will this be? Sometimes, we will read a story. We may just talk about our day so far. We may even do art again. But what Ms. Mack and Ms. Terry really care about is seeing each of your faces! Here are the links: PURPLE CLASS: To join the video meeting, click this link: https://zoom.us/j/964796736 Meeting ID: 964 796 736 GREEN CLASS: To join the video meeting, click this link: https://zoom.us/j/430631860 Meeting ID: 430 631 860 Home Learning Opportunities We've had a few parents reach out regarding home learning opportunities. At this time, we are not giving any additional assignments or projects. This week should be focused on review, with the option to utilize the resources put out by Canyons School District in the form of the packet that was sent out last week. Both Ms. Mack and Ms. Terry have added additional resources to the blog (previous post as well as under the tabs at the top). We will continue to add resources for parents to use. Ms. Terry just recently added a new activity packet titled "First Grade Home Learning Packet" on the drive (link provided in the English Language Arts tab). Please remember that these home learning opportunities are all review and to be used in the way the best suits your student's needs! Over the next two weeks, school will look a little different. At home learning opportunities will be made available either digitally or you may pick up a hard copy from school on Thursday from 8-3. During this time, both Ms. Mack and Ms. Terry will be available for questions, talks, video conferencing, messages, and anything that will help the students continue to feel connected to school. Here is a phone number to get ahold of Ms. Terry: 801-826-9265. Here is a phone number to get ahold of Ms. Mack: 801-826-9271. These are both our school numbers that we have forwarded to our cell phones. We are still learning how to return a phone call from that number so if we miss your phone call, we will get back to you as an "unknown number." We thank you in advance for your patience as we get the hang of this new setup! The optional "at home learning opportunities" are all review of material we have previously covered in school since the beginning of the year. Each activity is a review of skills students have learned and practiced in the classroom. As we have shared since the beginning of the school year, you are more than welcome to enrich or adapt these activities. Do what is best for you and your family during this time. Please let us know if you have questions regarding how to adapt or enrich--we are more than willing to share ideas and tips! A Note From Ms. Terry: In addition to the district provided learning materials, I know that many students (and/or parents) may want additional review options. Under the English Language Arts tab at the top of this page, I have added other optional items. There is also a link to go to my google drive. In the google drive folder, there is reading street flashback reviews from unit 1 all the way until unit 4.6 (but please don't do 4.6 as we haven't learned this material yet). There is also a folder in there, it is mainly English Language Arts but there are color pages, math pages, ideas for writing. I've also added the District provided packet PDF. My main goal is to help you however you need my help during this time. If you have a desire for something else to be added, let me know and I will add it. But please remember, these are all optional and to be used however you wish. Here are a few simple ideas that I shared with my friend who also has a first grader: Bumping reading out loud minutes to 20. When increasing reading stamina, take turns since this may be a challenge for your student. Maybe it starts out with taking turns at 5 minutes or maybe a parent reads 2 minutes to the students 8 minutes and then repeats the pattern. Do what is best for your student. When reading, parents can ask different comprehension questions : What happened at the beginning (but big idea of the beginning), middle and end? Who are the characters? Where is the setting? What is the theme ? For writing, students can write little stories. They can write about the day before, their favorite holiday, their best friend, their favorite food, what they read about or anything that intrigues them, I just would love to see them continuing to write. If students want to share what they wrote with me, they can send me a video of them reading it or even a picture! Remind them to check for capitals at the beginning of the sentence, finger spaces between words and punctation at the end of the sentence! Students who love to draw can also draw a picture then write about what they drew! For math review: Simple addition and subtraction facts are always wonderful to review. The students can also do addition and subtraction with double digit numbers without regrouping (90-10) or (45+46) they can draw models to add it, add the ones first, circle the 10 ones, then add the tens up and the leftover ones). You can also work with your student on skip counting by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s starting from anywhere between 0-100 (for example, skip count by 2 starting at 32: 32, 34, 36, etc.). A Note from Ms. Mack: All stories for units 1-9 are in the online Mandarin Matrix library. As the next two weeks will be focused on reviewing previously covered materials, I would love for students to review the stories currently available in their Mandarin Matrix library. Students can push a play button and hear the story read to them, read along with the recording, or read independently. It would be especially beneficial if students would read OUT LOUD. Using the audio recording to hear the sentences read out loud can support their reading and comprehension if they forget a character.
At the end of every story, students can practice answering comprehension questions, writing characters, and matching phrases or characters to pictures that represent their meaning. If you have other children in your home who speak Chinese, I would love for you to encourage them to speak Chinese together for an allotted amount of time each day (it is entirely up to you to determine what is feasible for your family). You may also want to have FaceTime or Skype hangouts with other students in the class and let them practice speaking Chinese together! Keep an eye out on Dojo as I will be posting short videos in Chinese to continue engaging with students during this period of school closure. I am also adding more YouTube videos to the "Chinese Information" portion of this blog. You can find this tab at the top of the blog page, or click on the button below to take you directly there! I will add links for songs students have already learned, as well as episodes of TV shows with Mandarin soundtracks and even some new songs they can listen to and learn. For those with Netflix accounts, many Netflix original TV shows have a Mandarin soundtrack so students can watch familiar stories in Chinese! IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
School starts at 8:40. We will always enter and leave the building at the first grade doors! We have show and tell on Thursday and tiger pride day on Friday! LUNCH CHOICES Monday: BBQ Rib Sandwich, Hamburger, Grilled Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Orange Chicken, Mini Corn Dogs, Chef Salad Wednesday: Orange Chicken, Cheesy Nachos, WowButter and Jelly Sandwich Thursday: Macaroni & Cheese, Crispy Chicken Sandwich (spicy or regular), Taco Salad Friday: Cheese or Pepperoni Pizza, Bean & Cheese Burrito, Turkey Sandwich WHAT WE ARE LEARNING: ELA: This week, our story is titled "Peter's Chair." The story is about a little boy who struggles with his "items" being used for the new baby. This story is a realistic fiction story. We, as a class, will be talking about the items we treasure at home and how we can share them. We will be working on identifying the character, setting and plot of the story. The secret word this week is: bubble gum! This week, our phonics focus is on compound words. We have learned about compound words in the past but we will be working on recognizing, spelling, and reading these words. We will also be working on the vowel pattern: ew, ue and ui. We are just diving right in! :) Our Spelling Words: backpack, outside, baseball, herself, flashlight, bluebird, lunchbox, suitcase, inside, brainstorm, picture ** and remember ** Challenge words: snowflakes, sunrise, spaceship, and skateboard Please keep having your student read aloud to you each night. The goal is to have them read at least 10 minutes a night! They will be asked to read 15 minutes a night starting 2nd grade so you can help them start increasing their stamina now so that adjustment isn't as difficult! CHINESE: Students will spend time reviewing some of our previous units in Mandarin Matrix, and will start learning the new characters for unit 9. Students will be studying the stories: "On the Way Home," "Scarecrow," and "Naughty Hamster." Our focus characters for this unit are: field/田, come/来, go/去, walk/走. We will also be practicing the following language features: "...likes to be in/at....", "...comes....", "...goes...", "walking here and there", "searching here and there", “don’t…”, “Let’s go behind/back…”, “Let’s go look for…”, “Where did…go?”, “….come and….go”, “can’t find…”, “go up/down”, “Here or not?”, “In the…or not?”. MATH: Students are working on unit 11 this week: "Use Models and Strategies to Subtract Tens." You can support and challenge your students by asking them to explain their thinking, or to tell you how to solve problems in Chinese on the homework packet, or on the math worksheets students bring home from practicing at school. SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES: The topics for science and social studies the next two weeks are “People at Work in My Neighborhood”, and “Making Choices with Money”, and "Earth's Water". |
TeachersMs. Terry and Ms. Mack are so excited for this year! In Ms. Terry's class, students will speak, read, and write in English. In Ms. Mack's class, students will be speak, listen, read, and write in Chinese. Archives
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