Preparing for the school year: remote learning possibility.

Parents,

As I am preparing for this school year, I do not yet know what is in store for the upcoming school year and am trying to prepare lessons for either in person or remote learning.  My assumption is that even if we go back to in person learning that there will be potential for some remote learning throughout the year depending on changing health department updates. 

In the spring we had a fast transition into remote learning and I chose to use Classroom Dojo as my communication method with you and for loading videos and lessons and have the various specialists connect with you. Other teachers chose other options and I am currently weighing the pros and cons of each. 
I would love to get some feedback from you so I can improve my teaching.  If you could please complete this 4 question survey it would really help me to figure out what direction to go in. 
Thanks
Lisa

Collecting pictures

Hi Parents and kids

       I hope your summer is going well. I know I am having fun with my family despite this challenging summer with water balloon fights, walks, baking and more.

      Parents, I have been doing some reading this summer to improve my teaching and have lots of new ideas to try with students to improve their literacy.  One idea that I plan to try is to get kids writing and communicating about their lives in a more authentic way is creating a photo collections.  To do this I need your help.
         If you could do me a favor and document a few of the activities you do this summer. By either letting your child take a few pictures during an experience or by you taking some pictures of things they are doing.  These can be big events like going on a vacation or small events like baking cookies, watching cartoons. I am hoping to start a collection of pictures for each student to have so they have things to write or talk about at any time. Once school is back in session than I will print the pictures and keep them in a collection for kids to write about.  I am aiming to start the year with about 10-15 pictures.  As the year goes on please keep sending pictures to me so I can update your child's collection.  The easiest way is to email pictures to me at lisa.tisher@adams12.org. You can send me 1 picture at a time or a collection of pictures.

Here are some ideas if you are having trouble thinking of things to send me:

• favorite toy
• playing in backyard
• playing with a sibling
• eating ice cream
• playing tag
• laughing at cartoon
• going on a walk
• watching fireworks
• visiting grandparents
• playing video game
• going to a park
• riding a scooter
• playing catch
• squirt gun fight

Sesame Street Resources on Masks, Social Distancing and more

Here are some resources from Sesame Street about wearing masks and social distancing. Please look at them and read through them with your kiddos. It is looking more and more like masks may be part of our return to school plan so please start teaching your kids now. (I don't have confirmation of that but other districts have stated that.)

As always if I can be of help in anyway, please email me. 

click here for more resources Sesame Street Health Page 

Fourth of July!!

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I hope you all are doing well. I think of all of my students and their families often!  It feels like it has been forever since I have seen you all. 

Here are some resources that I found to help explain 4th of July to your kiddos. I know several of them hate noise and struggle with kids getting enough sleep when noises happen. Here are a few resources. Also, you may want to purchase some noise reduction headphones that construction workers use. The kids often where them at school when classes are loud, or assemblies are loud and it really helps them feel comfortable. I know LOWE's and Dollar Tree often carry them.

Don't forget to show kids where to find words like fireworks, loud, bright, happy, excited, scared, in their talkers so they are able to use the right words to describe what is happening with them. Feel free to email me if you need to know the pathways to those words. (fireworks may be under July or need to be added and the best place to add that is under party. Feel free to email me and I can walk you through how to add that if you need) 

Typical year fireworks social story

Tips for helping July 4th go smoothly

Fun Activties to do with kids on the 4th that don't involve fireworks. (Covid-Friendly) 
https://www.allkidsnetwork.com/crafts/4th-of-july/

Feel free to print this symbol if you need a low tech option for communication