Week 2 of Remote Learning - You Did It!

I am overflowing with pride for Preschool today. We have taken a challenging situation - sudden school closure - and THRIVED! Nine days ago we were all new to online learning tools like Seesaw, Google Classroom, and Kids A-Z. Today in Seesaw, we have OVER 200 journal entries of Preschool sharing their thinking! I miss seeing them in person like crazy, but every time I click PLAY and hear them speaking, singing (or playing the harmonica or piano for me!), and see their smiling faces doing their best to learn no matter where they are, it gives me the MOTIVATION to do my very best for them too. When I say I am proud of Preschool - I mean our entire community: parents and students!

IMPORTANT: 

1. Please complete the learning engagements IN ORDER. We build understanding, so it is important that the students do not skip around in literacy, maths, unit of inquiry, and music. It is absolutely okay if you haven't been able to do everything everyday. However, when you DO have time, please work your way through the learning in the order it was given. 
   Complete all of the How We Express Ourselves: Celebrations reflections, show & tell, and summative task BEFORE beginning the new unit on How The World Works: Living Things.
   
   Complete all of the Maths: Measuring tasks in order for length, before moving on to capacity and then completing those in order also.
   
2.  Please don't feel pressured to complete anything in one sitting. In the classroom students often work on a task for 15-20 minutes then move on and come back and finish the next day or later in the day. However, don't upload your learning until you are finished the task and have done your personal best. It is about the learning, not how much or how fast you complete it.
   
3. Please let your child do the thinking and talking as much as possible. It is important for me to see and hear what they are thinking and doing so I can respond to that in future learning tasks and feedback. It is not about a "right" answer - it is about the thinking and learning process. Also, it is important for their confidence that they have a chance to do things by themselves.
   
4. When working with Seesaw and photos. The best option is to take the photo within Seesaw. They have a free app for most devices you can use or access the web version. That way you don't have to worry about file compatibility. If you do have to upload photos you took outside of Seesaw, please take a second to make it as large as possible within the page. 

If your post looks like this to you:

It looks like this to me when I am reviewing:

It is too small to see without my taking extra steps to go inside the post. Please make sure the part I need to see is large in the screen by clicking and dragging a corner of the picture until it looks something like:

Then it will look like this to me and take less time for me to provide feedback:

Also, please make sure you rotate photos that have writing in them. Again, I think this will all be easier for you if you take the photos or videos within the response in Seesaw. Thank you for taking the time to do this, I often have more than 30 posts to review and give feedback to each day (there were over 70 waiting for me Monday morning!) so it is time consuming for me to have to click inside and edit. 🙏🙇

Thank you Preschool for an engaging week of learning and sharing!