Hope your distance learning is going well!
Many of you have been asking if I could share what I am doing for distance learning so I'm finally sitting down to write a blog post about it!
GENERAL INFO
At our school, our divisions were asked to works as a team and provide the same materials for each grade. So at my school, we have 8 educators collaborating each week.
We have set up a Google Site (not sharing the link to this, sorry!) with..
HOME - Which has a welcome note to our families and a link to our school technology website (recommending apps and websites by grade).
WEEKLY ACTIVITIES - Where we upload our weekly placemats every Sunday.
READING - Tips on reading with kids at home, including a reading strategies chart and a "Practicing Comprehension Questions at Home" handout.
MATH - A break down of each strand in parent friendly language and suggestions of activities they could do to practice these at home.
WRITING - A short summary on Kindergarten writing encouraging inventive spelling.
SIGHT WORDS - Some suggestions for practicing sight words and the Dolch pre-primer and primer sight word lists.
MUSIC - A link to our music teacher's website
LIBRARY - A link to our librarian's website.
GYM - A link to our gym teacher's website.
The only thing we change each week is we upload the new placemat and corresponding (optional) printables to the "WEEKLY ACTIVITIES" page. On Sunday nights we send out an email to the parents letting them know that the placemats are up.
The suggestion is that students and parents try as many activities as they want and send at least one picture to us by email. One of the educators will then respond to the email with some descriptive feedback.
I wasn't sure if this was going to be enough, but our parents have been giving us amazing feedback and have been very grateful for the ease of this format!
WEEKLY COLLABORATION
To make choosing activities together each week as painless as possible, I made a Google Doc and shared it with the rest of the team. The Google Doc has a table for each section (e.g. Alphabet, Sight Words, Shared Reading etc.) and we go in and add ideas as we see them/think of them.
Then on Thursday nights we have been meeting on Google Meet and we choose activities for that week. We all look at the google doc before the meeting and have a few ideas in mind for each section so that the process goes as fast as possible!
After our Google Meet, I finalize the placemats and then upload them to our Google Site by Sunday afternoon so it is ready for everyone by Sunday night!
PLACEMAT FOR WEEK 1:
PLACEMAT FOR WEEK 2:
PLACEMAT FOR WEEK 3:
PLACEMAT FOR WEEK 4:
PLACEMAT FOR WEEK 5:
*The "Design a Medical Mask" worksheet was inspired by @jarrett_lerner's printable and is being shared with permission from him!
PLACEMAT FOR WEEK 6:
PLACEMAT FOR WEEK 7:
I'll be adding more weeks when I am able to! Follow me on Instagram or check this post periodically if you are interested in seeing what we are doing!
Hope that was helpful!
- Yukari
My colleague and I love this!!! thank you for sharing
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for sharing!
ReplyDeleteWhat program do you guys use to create these?
ReplyDeletePowerPoint!
DeleteYou are a true gem to share these with us! My teacher heart thanks you!
ReplyDeleteI wish I had thought to check here when we submitting ideas to our admin. What you are doing is incredible. Thank you for sharing. I have since purchased many of your programs on Teachers Pay Teachers.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for sharing and your resources with us!! I was wondering where I could find a copy of the mask template?
ReplyDeleteIt is in the download for Week 5!
DeleteThank you for sharing! I always love your posts and all the work you do with the little ones.
ReplyDeleteQuestion regarding LRP: Do you have one that includes all 4 frames for purchase?
I do not!
Deletewill you be posting more ideas. These ideas are great
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wondering how you added the voice to your slide? was it a app you use on google slide
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for sharing. As a fellow Ontario Kindergarten teacher, I truly appreciate your work and your willingness to share these amazing activities. I just came off of a mat leave into distance learning in a Kinder class and was panicking; until I came here. Thank you <3
ReplyDeleteYukari, Thank you so much for sharing your ideas, activities and tools with all of us! I have visited your site many times over the past 3 years. I teach French Immersion but I like to see how you lay out your plans in sequence. Thank you also for sharing your distance learning activities! Your students are lucky to have such a dedicated teacher. Have a relaxing summer!
ReplyDeleteawesome resource! Thanks for sharing. Do you have a link to the shared reading resource?
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing. You have a very kind heart.
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