Monday, January 28, 2013

New Homework Expectations

Please look for a notice regarding homework expectations in your child's folder today.  We've noticed that students have not been logging into RAZ-Kids regularly and need to be doing that at least one time per day. 

A new homework expectation is for the students to log into their email accounts and send me an email telling me one thing they learned that was new each day.  The students have logged into their email accounts many times from our room and are getting very good at it!  They have composed and sent emails, and responded to emails in their inbox.  When composing new emails students should:
  • make sure it's being sent to me
  • put a subject in (ie: New Learning; Monday Night, etc)
  • Type a note to me
Please let your student do the typing for these emails and allow them to move through the process- it is important practice for them!  

You will notice that every email address in our district can be automatically populated when they start typing in the person's name whom they wish to send an email to.  After they have sent an email to me- they may choose a friend in our classroom to send an email to if they'd like to.  

To access your child's email visit gmail.com.  Look for their username and password information in their folder.  (Please note- you must type Their.Name@colchestersd.org in it's entirety.)

If you have any questions about this at all, please let me know! I know the first few times from home may be difficult.  Please don't hesistate to email me (terrienm@csdvt.org; margaret.terrien@colchestersd.org) or call if you're having trouble! 

Thanks for your continued support of learning in our classroom!



WOW Word: Anticipate
Word Families: ed, et
Red word: your   
Math Focus: using an addition/subtraction table to find answers   

Now- for some awesome pics from today! 

 We played "Beat the Calculator" in math

 Wrote a story about our weekend

 Wrote about our pets and friends


 Shared information we've learned about important places in China




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