E-Learning Days:

I have sent home E-Learning information with all of my students.  It is in a navy blue file folder, and students were instructed to ask their parents to help them find a safe place in which to keep it.  In the folder, students have options of things to work on in lieu of meeting with me on a typical school day.  If we do have Internet access on an E-Learning Day, my students in grades 3 and above will have their very own Google Classroom with me, because every student has different goals.  That Google classroom will contain similar options of things they can work on. If they work in a program with me, such as Read Naturally or Vocabulary A-Z, they will find links to those programs in their Google Classrooms, as well.

If students have Internet access, they can also email me with questions or requests to meet with me.  If I do not have access and am unable to respond, students should work on an activity of their choice from their folder or their Google Classroom.

If you do not have Internet access, and you are unable to find the blue folder sent home with your child, a good default option is to have them write about something, or several things, they did on their E-Learning Day.  Younger children may want to draw a picture to go with their writing.  Older students can also choose to write an opinion piece about whether or not E-Learning days are a good option instead of taking emergency days, which have to be made up at the end of the school year.  They should have at least three arguments to support their opinion.

If they are unable to complete something for me on an E-Learning Day, they will be given chances to make that up when we return to school.