Dear Parents-Welcome to Digital Learning (I miss your kiddos already)!!
Over the next few weeks, we will be moving teaching and learning online. During this time, students are expected to
complete 90 minutes of school work each day. In 5th grade, students will have 35 minutes for ELA, 35 minutes for Math, and 20 minutes of Specials. For students who finish work quicker than others or for those who you’d like to do extra work at home, they could do one of the following each day: read their monthly book at home (write/type their review), do I-Ready, select a Coach Digital lesson to print/complete, explore Science/Social Studies activities sent out by their math teachers, or even visit the attached Scholastic link for some current leveled articles to explore (their online magazine is free right now-I think they’ll like some of the current articles under grades 3-5 and 6-8 when I previewed them this weekend).
Free Scholastic Magazine articles: Scroll down to grade levels. https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html
For the first 5 days, we will be using county provided digital learning lessons. Please note that these lessons are
remediation and do not align with our current units we are working on in class. These lessons consist mainly of worksheets. Students can print them out and complete, write their answers on a piece of paper, or type their answers in
Google. Answer keys will be uploaded on Google Classroom the following day to help them check their work. Here is the link to access the lessons for week one.
Lessons can be found at https://dolvindigitallearningday.weebly.com/fifth-grade1.html
I will be available online during normal school hours to help students or answer any questions you might have. I am here to
help! Your child knows how to use these online tools. Each day we will be leaving a message for the
kids in Google Classroom to stay in touch with the kids and convey that we expect them to complete the daily lesson in reading/math, check their work using answer keys, and give additional activities in case they’d like to do more. Next week, we’ll be posting all lessons/activities for Week 2 in Google Classroom.
To help you and your child, I recommend you create a daily schedule similar to the one they have at school. You can check
out an example below :). Please e-mail me with questions and know that I cannot wait to see your children again soon!
[email protected]
Sample Home School Schedule:
7:00 – 8:00 Breakfast, get ready, chores
8:00-9:30 Reading/Math Lessons (Be sure their cell phone is not in room/area they are doing work…just from experience this
will turn a 30 minute lesson into 60 minutes with group chats.)
9:30 Specials
10:00 Snack
10:00-11:00 Outside Time/Recess-Take a walk outside, walk the dog, or simply just play a game in the yard
11:00-12:00 Chores
12:00 Lunch
12:30 Quiet Time / Reading (no devices…except for reading on a device 😊)
1:00-2:00 Creative Time-Let them play with Legos, play a board game, draw/do art, origami, crafts, bake something, do puzzles,
design their future house on grid paper, etc. No devices!
2:00-2:30 Handwriting / Typing (use a typing program, have them type a letter to friend/family, write a play/story, type a
song/rap, type a diary entry for day, design a Google Slideshow on topic of interest, etc.)
2:30 Free Time/After School
Over the next few weeks, we will be moving teaching and learning online. During this time, students are expected to
complete 90 minutes of school work each day. In 5th grade, students will have 35 minutes for ELA, 35 minutes for Math, and 20 minutes of Specials. For students who finish work quicker than others or for those who you’d like to do extra work at home, they could do one of the following each day: read their monthly book at home (write/type their review), do I-Ready, select a Coach Digital lesson to print/complete, explore Science/Social Studies activities sent out by their math teachers, or even visit the attached Scholastic link for some current leveled articles to explore (their online magazine is free right now-I think they’ll like some of the current articles under grades 3-5 and 6-8 when I previewed them this weekend).
Free Scholastic Magazine articles: Scroll down to grade levels. https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html
For the first 5 days, we will be using county provided digital learning lessons. Please note that these lessons are
remediation and do not align with our current units we are working on in class. These lessons consist mainly of worksheets. Students can print them out and complete, write their answers on a piece of paper, or type their answers in
Google. Answer keys will be uploaded on Google Classroom the following day to help them check their work. Here is the link to access the lessons for week one.
Lessons can be found at https://dolvindigitallearningday.weebly.com/fifth-grade1.html
I will be available online during normal school hours to help students or answer any questions you might have. I am here to
help! Your child knows how to use these online tools. Each day we will be leaving a message for the
kids in Google Classroom to stay in touch with the kids and convey that we expect them to complete the daily lesson in reading/math, check their work using answer keys, and give additional activities in case they’d like to do more. Next week, we’ll be posting all lessons/activities for Week 2 in Google Classroom.
To help you and your child, I recommend you create a daily schedule similar to the one they have at school. You can check
out an example below :). Please e-mail me with questions and know that I cannot wait to see your children again soon!
[email protected]
Sample Home School Schedule:
7:00 – 8:00 Breakfast, get ready, chores
8:00-9:30 Reading/Math Lessons (Be sure their cell phone is not in room/area they are doing work…just from experience this
will turn a 30 minute lesson into 60 minutes with group chats.)
9:30 Specials
10:00 Snack
10:00-11:00 Outside Time/Recess-Take a walk outside, walk the dog, or simply just play a game in the yard
11:00-12:00 Chores
12:00 Lunch
12:30 Quiet Time / Reading (no devices…except for reading on a device 😊)
1:00-2:00 Creative Time-Let them play with Legos, play a board game, draw/do art, origami, crafts, bake something, do puzzles,
design their future house on grid paper, etc. No devices!
2:00-2:30 Handwriting / Typing (use a typing program, have them type a letter to friend/family, write a play/story, type a
song/rap, type a diary entry for day, design a Google Slideshow on topic of interest, etc.)
2:30 Free Time/After School