This week in Division 3, May 11th to May 15th

Maintaining Community this Week

We will be having an optional meet up at 1 pm on Tuesday and Thursday this week. To join the video meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/kmb-wijp-qff  The meeting won't be available until the teachers hosting it have joined.

This week we are assembling another slideshow of our home learning. These pictures will also feature in our Grade 5 Year End Slideshow. Yes, we are getting creative around how to acknowledge your passage from elementary to middle school. If you have a novel idea, share it with us.

Continuing Learning this Week

Low Tech/No Tech: You can find this week's suggestions on this link or attached to the email version of this post.

Google Classroom: 
We will have a GC question and answer session at 1 pm. During this session, students can ask about "classwork" or make requests around lessons/activities.
We are designing materials that have curricular connections, but that could also be done with siblings. We do review what students submit, but we are appreciating their efforts and not grading them.

Self Design:  Thank you for sharing what you are doing with us and for reaching out when you want clarification around Grade level curriculum expectations. We are excited to hear how many of you are using Sal Khan's "Khan Academy"; this site is free and teaches the concepts behind the algorithms that we grew up learning by rote (https://www.khanacademy.org/math). Ms. Bridal's daughters have been using Khan to support math and science instruction at UVic., so it really is a long ranging resource.

Or Mix and Match to create a hybrid program that works with your family and routines.

There is a lot of speculation around a "dry run" in June of optional, on-site lesson delivery. We don't have details about when that could be or how that could look yet. As soon as we know those details, we will share them widely.

Until then, here we are, in our virtual world, missing our kids, your kids, and hoping this comes to an end soon. Let's make the best of it.

Your teachers,
Ms Powers and Ms Bridal