Highlights from early April

Hello families,

I hope you are all doing well. Thanks for helping me continue to connect with your children each week. It's great to hear their voices and hear about what they are doing at home.

Our distance learning plans are ever evolving. Here are a few reminders and updates.

On April 6th and 7th from 9am - 11am  2 new review work packets will be available for pick up (4 weeks worth of review work as well as some new materials). Pick them up at your school food distribution site. We will not be collecting student work at this time to make sure we're not spreading germs. Keep the books at home to reread!

We are working on getting iPads ready for first graders use at home during the continuum of learning phase of distance learning. These iPads will be preloaded with some apps we will use to continue learning as well as the Zoom app for attending virtual classes (see next paragraph). These will be distributed on April 13th and 14th (more info to come from Superintendent McMannon and Principal Sara Raabe). Teaching with iPads is something I have not done before so I will be learning alongside your kids! I will be choosing a few apps to teach and use primarily so it's not too overwhelming. I will definitely be using Epic and Freckle. You may be using these at home already! This week I got to read "with" some of my students through Epic! They read me a book on Epic! at their home and I followed along at my home in the same text. It was fun and informative--allowing me to do the same kind of guided reading instruction like I do in class! Once all students have iPads at home I hope to do this regularly with students to support their reading progress.

Beginning the week of April 13th I will be holding 2 weekly "classes" through zoom to continue our learning together. I will send out a link to the meeting for you to click to enter. You do not need a zoom account to attend a meeting. Zoom works on laptops, tablets, and phones. If you will have your child attend on a device other than the school iPad then you will need to download the zoom app. You need the app but not an account to open the link. Students should not have zoom accounts! Starting April 13th my classes will be Mondays and Thursdays 12:00-12:30. I will be leading class meetings, read alouds, writing mini-lessons, math number talks, teaching how to use apps for learning and more! 

If you have any questions please email me!

Thinking of you always,


❤ Mrs. Fox