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Happy New Year, Benchmark, & Ice Cream!

9/18/2020

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Hello Room 19, 

Happy New Year to those celebrating Rosh Hashanah! I hope you are able to enjoy this special holiday even though this year is certainly different. 💕

I know the Benchmark Assessment was not loading for some. If this is the case for you, please have your child log in from Schoology by clicking Benchmark Education in the left-hand side menu instead of clicking the link in today's assignments. I know the end of the day is coming, so I will make this assessment due by the end of day next Friday to give you time. I will not assign a new Benchmark assessment next week. 

Charlotte K's family is hosting our school's new location of Roscomare's Ice Cream Friday between 3-4. How fun! Check your email from FOR for the address. Thanks for your support!

Have a great weekend,
Christina Polay
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Thanks for my reading material!

9/17/2020

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Hello Room 19,

Thank you for dropping off the writing. I am so excited to settle in with my tea and read them all!

I also received 2 by email. If you weren't able to make it to school today, please email me a picture of each page at your earliest convenience. I am using these first stories as a source of information, so please don't correct them.

The packet I sent has a lot of papers. You may already have a good system going, but if you don't, you may want to organize by subject in folders. You already have one for writing. You might consider adding four more:
  1. word study
  2. math
  3. reading
  4. social studies/art/science

I will send detailed information about which papers are for what, but in the meantime, please keep everything together so we can use it in the upcoming weeks. 😀

Tomorrow, your child will log on to Benchmark and take a reading comprehension assessment. There is a button students can push to hear the test read aloud to them. The room should be quiet as they work. I will show them how to navigate the test during our zoom call, so please wait until after class to begin. Please do not help your child with assessments. I usually say to students, "I don't want to see what your caregivers know, I want to see what you know." This is probably a good time to have a discussion about the ethics behind testing integrity and the value of making mistakes and learning from them. 

I will start releasing grades this week. There are many outstanding assignments. Please try to have your child log into Schoology and complete assignments daily. I try to add videos and/or record my voice reading the directions in hopes that students can work independently. I hope things are going well for you at home. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help. 

Have a great night,
Christina Polay
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