Gift Cards, SBAC Prep, Zoom & Sharing Screen, Digital Valentines, and PD – Week 22

CN Area Elementary Teaching Team:

Week 22 (February 1 - 5)

Weekly Giggles:               What do you call young love in an aquarium?
                                             Guppy love.

Hour of Code. Did you code with your students the last few weeks? If so, let me KNOW HERE. I’ll give away one $25 Amazon gift card to ONE lucky winner. Form closes on Friday, February 5, at 2:45 pm. Did everyone in your PLC code? Encourage a colleague to try it. These jobs are in high demand. As we encourage students to try things at an early age, it provides them ample room to explore things like this as they navigate their future trajectory.

Feedback. Team, I have not asked you for a survey about me in some time. The last thing you want to do is fill out a survey. Here’s the great thing: gift cards. TWO winners will be selected. Take a few minutes please. Tick some boxes, write a few sentences. It’s quick. Deadline is Friday, February 12 @ 2:45 pm.  Use the LINK HERE to share that feedback.

SBAC. HERE is the Practice Testing Portal for the end-of-year assessment. I highly recommend that you scaffold these tools and strategies with the students. I don’t believe in over testing. I do believe in training. Secondly, I have two videos that model how these buttons work. Please reach out and ask for help if you need more support with this.
MATH VIDEO
ELA VIDEO

Zoom. Do you struggle in Zoom with your first graders? Do you wish you could see what they see? They can share their screens with you.  And, if they don’t know how to stop sharing, you can take that away from them easily. In that shared screen area, you can draw on the screen to show them exactly what you are talking about. Aren’t sure how to do this? Book a session with me and I can model this for you. Here’s a PowerPoint with some teaching slides—some for you and a few for them. LINK HERE

Digital Valentines. Google Drawing is one option for digital valentines. You can construct an assignment in Google Classroom.  Then when done, share that folder with your students. This video is a teacher overview, it’s not really a teaching video. LINK HERE It’s not the only option out there, but it would work.

Professional Development Opportunities. See links below to sign up for these trainings.

Key Strategies for Successful Grant Writing Click this link to sign up! Thursday, February 11, 2021 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM PST Presenter – Melissa Culver Click sign up link to learn more Reservations end 2/9 @ Noon

Intro to TeacherMade – Convert Paper to Digital Activities Click this link to sign up! Tuesday, February 25, 2021 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM PST Presenter – Erin Roberts Click sign up link to learn more Reservations end 2/23 @ Noon

3D Printing in K-8: Just the Basics Click this link to sign up! Thursday, March 4, 2021 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM PST Presenter – Melissa Culver Click sign up link to learn more Reservations end 3/2 @ Noon

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Kindly,
Melissa Culver