Welcome
Welcome Parents and Students,
I am so excited to be able to see all of you again even if it isn’t in the best of circumstances. We are going to try to get our school life back to normal as much as possible. We are going to make the most of this situation.
I am going to keep our curriculum, classwork, and AR testing to the norm as if we were in class. We will continue reading our novels that we are supposed to be reading throughout the year and will take short quizzes to check for understanding and reading if we are able to find a copy online. We will also continue to use our Star360 reading level testing since AR has made that available to us again. You will be using Schoology and Microsoft365 to receive and send your work to me. We will also be using Schoology where you will find all the assignments and instructions on how to complete them. (See below). All the resources we will be using will be under Classlink. (Instructions Below)
Please remember that this virtual teaching is new to teachers as well. I do not want students or parents to stress out about anything that is assigned.
My prep time is 1:00-1:45, but you know that I am always available to you. The only difference is that 1:00-1:45 will be an immediate response and after that I will get back to you at my earliest convenience.
Grades will still be issued. I will be using AR points, quizzes, and assignments in order to continue with our grading system. Since I can’t send home progress reports anymore, please make it a point to check the parent and student portal every Monday so that you can keep up with your grades.
I will continue to also put assignments on my websites, but it will not have the instructions like Schoology will. It will be very basic.
Instructions and Schoology codes in order to login
Go to www.episd.org, scroll all the way to the bottom and under Resources click on Classlink
Classlink is where you will find Schoology and a lot of other Apps you may want to explore
Click on Schoology, enter your username (AR username) and password (your birthday year, month day), ie (19720916)
Click sign in, if you get Classlink Browser extension not installed or enable, then just click continue to website
Under the tab Course Dashboard at the top, look through and find either of these 2 courses depending if you are 4th or 5th grade. Please make sure it is the Reading and not Eng or SS courses. All of our assignments will be under this course.
Click on the correct course, you should not need a course code, but just in case the course is not there please contact me and I will get it for you.
Once you are there, you will be able to see the assignments for the day.
We will be utilizing Zoom to do our video Conferencing as follows:
Monday- Friday for 4th grade 11:30-3:25
Monday-Friday for 5th grade 8:15-11:00
ZOOM Conferencing
Join Zoom Meetings
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85719925760?pwd=aWc5RDBmUDZ3VDRzcmtXSkhON0pkUT09.
Please enable microphone, audio and webcam for our session.
I am so excited to be able to see all of you again even if it isn’t in the best of circumstances. We are going to try to get our school life back to normal as much as possible. We are going to make the most of this situation.
I am going to keep our curriculum, classwork, and AR testing to the norm as if we were in class. We will continue reading our novels that we are supposed to be reading throughout the year and will take short quizzes to check for understanding and reading if we are able to find a copy online. We will also continue to use our Star360 reading level testing since AR has made that available to us again. You will be using Schoology and Microsoft365 to receive and send your work to me. We will also be using Schoology where you will find all the assignments and instructions on how to complete them. (See below). All the resources we will be using will be under Classlink. (Instructions Below)
Please remember that this virtual teaching is new to teachers as well. I do not want students or parents to stress out about anything that is assigned.
My prep time is 1:00-1:45, but you know that I am always available to you. The only difference is that 1:00-1:45 will be an immediate response and after that I will get back to you at my earliest convenience.
Grades will still be issued. I will be using AR points, quizzes, and assignments in order to continue with our grading system. Since I can’t send home progress reports anymore, please make it a point to check the parent and student portal every Monday so that you can keep up with your grades.
I will continue to also put assignments on my websites, but it will not have the instructions like Schoology will. It will be very basic.
Instructions and Schoology codes in order to login
Go to www.episd.org, scroll all the way to the bottom and under Resources click on Classlink
Classlink is where you will find Schoology and a lot of other Apps you may want to explore
Click on Schoology, enter your username (AR username) and password (your birthday year, month day), ie (19720916)
Click sign in, if you get Classlink Browser extension not installed or enable, then just click continue to website
Under the tab Course Dashboard at the top, look through and find either of these 2 courses depending if you are 4th or 5th grade. Please make sure it is the Reading and not Eng or SS courses. All of our assignments will be under this course.
Click on the correct course, you should not need a course code, but just in case the course is not there please contact me and I will get it for you.
Once you are there, you will be able to see the assignments for the day.
We will be utilizing Zoom to do our video Conferencing as follows:
Monday- Friday for 4th grade 11:30-3:25
Monday-Friday for 5th grade 8:15-11:00
ZOOM Conferencing
Join Zoom Meetings
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85719925760?pwd=aWc5RDBmUDZ3VDRzcmtXSkhON0pkUT09.
Please enable microphone, audio and webcam for our session.