Packets and Belongings- Students

Parents,

Please come and get your packets and personal belongings. I have every student’s belongings in a white sack outside my classroom door with their name on it. There are also inside shoes which need to be picked up at the shoe shelf- as well as some lost and found items- please claim! As well as water bottles.

The packets are at the front door in my basket with each child’s name on it.

Please continue to keep in touch as I will continue to check on each of you. Hours to pick up are 9:00-11:00 a.m. and 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Next week, Spring Break- school will be closed.

Thank you for your continued support and I am so grateful to each of you! My best to all of my students!!

Keep smiling and we will see each other soon….

Love,

Ms. Leslee

 

Scholastic News- Internet access -All Students

Great News!

Students now have access to all our Scholastic magazines on the internet. They will need to go to scholasticnews.scholastic.com. They then click on the grade they want and click login in the top right corner. After clicking that they are a student they can type in the class code we will share and then they have access to all the magazines, videos, and other things we as teachers have access to as well as the other great things on the Scholastic site.
Here are the codes:
Scholastic News 1 PHEMHMA
Scholastic News 2 PHF8977
Scholastic News 3 PHG7VQM.
I am also going to add this to the blog. It will be with the other Scholastic info that is under the Language Arts Additional Resources.
This is from Ms. Jalee- she will be posting it to the combined blog as well. Just wanted you to have this information as well here.
Thank you-
Ms. Leslee

Parents- Please Read

March 25, 2020

Dear Wonderful MMA Lower El Families,

 

We hope this email/post finds you and your family well. As your teachers and as a school, we have been thinking about you and working hard to support you as you undertake this new distance learning adventure with us. Thank you for all your hard work and patience as we get everything figured out and put together. Your continued support is greatly appreciated and does not go unnoticed. So thank you.

As a lower elementary team, we are sending this to give you updates and reminders about what we are doing for your child’s education at this time. Please continue to check our lower elementary blog for online resources to use with your child. The blog site is http://blogs.mariamontessoriacademy.org/lowerel/. Here you will find the main digital resources we are utilizing as a team to monitor your child’s work and progress. The main ones we will monitor are Imagine Learning Reading and Math, Reading Horizons, and Khan Academy. We encourage you all to take advantage of these as much as you can. You can find all the login information under the Language Arts and Math tabs at the top of the blog site. You will also find lots of other great resources under the other tabs.

 

While we are excited to use these sites, we also understand that for many of you there are limitations in regards to technology use. We know that some of you only have access to one computer to share among many children or have limited access to the internet. To help with this, we are also providing hard copy packets for you to work on with your child. These include math, reading, writing, and other fun ideas. With the news of our school continuing soft closure until May 1, we will be making packets for the month of April. At the beginning of last week, you were asked to let your teacher know if you wanted one of these packets. A new packet for all 4 weeks of April will be made for all who already requested a packet. We are working hard to have these packets available for pickup starting this Thursday, March 26. If you are able to pick up your packet this Thursday or Friday, that will be great. Otherwise, you can get it after spring break. As a reminder, school office hours are Monday-Friday, 9 to 11 a.m. and 4 to 6 p.m.

 

If you did not respond in needing a hard copy packet and have changed your mind, please email your teacher. If this is the case, your packet may not be ready until after spring break.

 

We have also created a new work chart that will be included in the packet and will be posted on the blog. We are not asking that you turn in any of your child’s completed work but that you mark off on the work chart when they have done a work. We have also included a suggestion of how many times a week to do the work as well as a suggested amount of time for it. You can turn these in every two weeks by bringing them to the school and putting them in your teacher’s basket, taking a picture and emailing or sending it to your teacher via Remind, or just sending a message with the works your child has done. This is how we as a lower elementary team will be keeping track of your child’s completed works as well as monitoring online progress. Just be mindful that as teachers we are not going to be in the school daily so we may not get your hard copy work chart the day you turn it in. Please use the work chart to guide which works you use from the hard copy packet.

 

We will also be touching base with you weekly to provide you and your child with feedback. Please watch for an email or blog post from your teacher as to how they will be doing this. It may be through an email just to you or even a phone call. Each teacher will decide the best way for them and your class.

 

As always, we are available to support you through email and the Remind app. If you contact the teacher with a question or concern, you should hear back from them by 4:00 p.m. during regular school days. Since next week is spring break, we ask that you as parents take a break with your child and allow for time to relax. As teachers, we will not be available during this week so please do not expect replies or feedback until the break is over.

 

As always, thank you for all you do. Stay healthy and safe.

 

Sincerely,

Lower Elementary Teachers

Packets- personal belongings

Parents,

If you can come in this Friday- March 27- to pick up your child’s packets for the next two weeks as well as their belongings. I will have it in a white sack with their name on the pull string.

The time frame will be 9:00-11:00 a.m. as well as 4:00-6:00 p.m.

This way you are only coming in one time. We will resume our spring break for next week. I will keep you posted as to the situation after we return.

Please continue to check our weekly email from the school – “Nuts and Bolts.”

I will continue to email you and check on your family. Thank you.

Ms. Leslee

New Blog- all lower elementary students

Hello Everyone,

I hope this post finds you well. I know things have been stressful in this unknown time with new things that we have never experienced. It is definitely a strange and even stressful situation we are in. I hope you are all able to take some time to relax and take care of your families.

With our temporary school closure, as a lower el team we have put together some amazing resources for you and your child to help ensure that they can continue learning and progressing as they have been this year. As a lower el team we have created a blog that will have all the digital resources for you to use at home. Please take advantage of this and use it daily. We will also use this blog to update you on any info we have and any new resources we have. The link for the blog is: http://blogs.mariamontessoriacademy.org/lowerel/. Please register for the blog using the Subscribe to this blog link to the right of the page. You may still receive updates and emails from your teacher via their personal blog, but during this time of school closure, this will be our main way of communicating. 

For those of you that also requested physical works to do with your children, you can pick those up beginning tomorrow, Wednesday, March 18. You can pick them up between 9 and 11 a.m. or between 4 and 6 p.m. These are the times the school will be open during regular school days. 

 

Please utilize the work chart to track the work you are doing with your students. This is something we use at school and will help keep them slightly normalized through all this chaos. We appreciate all your help and work with this. 

 

Take care and stay safe and healthy.

Ms. Leslee and Ms. Susan

Khan Academy- online source -Math – level 1,2,3

https://www.khanacademy.org/join/EVM3JCAD

level 1

https://www.khanacademy.org/join/GQ2QVK3H

level 2

https://www.khanacademy.org/join/CV9WUW9P

level 3

Depending on what level your student is- they can go into Khan Academy online and use the above code for their level to use the math resource. (Copy and paste) to be added as a student.

Please let me know if you have any questions. Khan Academy is a great resource to use for many subjects.

Thank you.

Ms. Leslee and Ms. Susan

 

Communication

Parents,

Thank you for watching your emails and the blog.

I’m available for any help with your student by providing extra work you may want or desire.

Please continue to keep in touch with our system as to any updates or changes with the schedule.

I know this is a new experience for all of us. Please continue to take care of your families.

I miss each of you and want you each to be healthy.

Ms. Leslee and Ms. Susan

 

 

“Gala” Baskets

Parents,

If you have a wicker basket/baskets- you could donate to the “Gala” baskets we are establishing to put together could you let me know.

A handle on the basket would be the perfect type. The Gala is upcoming on Saturday, March 21 at the Timbermine in Ogden. I have sent out an email with an invitation.

Thank you for your continued support to MMA.

Ms. Leslee