Good Morning,
I hope you all had a great week and are ready for the weekend. This week we welcomed a new student to our classroom. Otto Duckworth joined our class (in person) on Thursday. Otto is a first grade boy and comes to us from Antarctica. He has spent time swimming with penguins and is working on his role in Happy Feet 3. JUST KIDDING! Otto has moved up here from Massachusetts. I am psyched to have Otto join our class. Speaking of new connections, all of the students will now be in person 4 days a week. It will be great to have everyone in school together and give everyone the opportunity to meet each other.
4:1 Model Notes: Click this link to see the schedule for our class during the newest learning model. I have set it up so that Wednesday's can be as flexible as possible. We will have one live meeting each Wednesday and then the students will have some asynchronous tasks. The idea is that it will give you the most flexibility in your schedule. The asynchronous work can be done at any point during that day. Please let me know if you have any questions.
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| A student sharing their journal entry |
This week we journeyed to New Hampshire. The students did a great job with their passport entries. They will make their New Hampshire video on Monday. Here is a link of the videos they made about their Vermont learning.
Monday will mark the start of formal reading instruction and we will be in full swing with all of our academic instruction. The students have been split into small groups and I will meet with each group daily (every in person day). The groups are not based on grade level but rather on instructional needs of your child. Each night your child will bring home a book to read. Please make sure the book is brought back each day. The books should be kept in your child's homework bag.
PARENT CONFERENCES: In a week or so, you will be sent a link to sign up for parent conferences. These conferences will give us a chance to talk about your child, how their start has been, and about the goal they have set for the 1st part of the year. I would like to have your child be part of the conference. If your child isn't with you and we are doing a virtual conference, we can do have them join via Zoom too. Please be on the lookout for the sign up link. You will receive it via email.
That is all for now. I hope you all have a great weekend.
Peace,
Tommy
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| A student is practicing the skill of subtraction during math class |
