The Continuity E-Learning Plan in our Early Year's Classroom will include a list of home learning activities, engagements or invitations parents can facilitate with their children.
Learning Experience: At the beginning of each week, Classroom Teachers will post a video on Seesaw to welcome their students and parents to the Weekly E-Learning Lesson Plan. Each day they will either give video or written instruction explaining the activities and learning approach and goals to focus on for the week. Early Year's students and their families will participate in 5 components of their e-learning experience- Project Work, Creative Development, Language Development, Math Development, and Movement. Art and Spanish will have additional activites that are optional and extra engagements.
Online Office/Classroom Hours: Students will also be invited to participate in daily optional face-to-face synchronous meeting online via Google Hangouts from 9:00-10:00 am.
Learning Time frame: The bulk of the Continuity E-Learning activities will be posted in within approximately one hour starting at 8:15am each morning, with the understanding that you may complete these activities throughout the day on your own schedule that works for your family. Activities may include reading aloud, pretend play, investigations, writing, drawing, going on backyard nature hikes, dancing, etc.
Each day students should spend approximately...
20 minutes in Language Development (reading, writing, speaking, and listening)- Language development activities usually connect to current project work and unit of inquiry.
20 minutes in Mathematical Development (playing games, counting, working with shapes, patterns, measuring, etc.)- Mathematical development activities can connect to current project work and the unit of inquiry, however, math time can also function as stand alone skills.
Limitless time for Movement, Creative Arts, Language Learning, Science, etc.- We encourage you to spend time as a family in learning that often feels like play. Play is children's work in the early years. For example, you can play a game the requires math/strategy/critical thinking, working on a creative projects, cooking together, reading books, having family dance party, creating videos for our virtual classroom, going on nature hunts, etc. We will be sharing many more ideas for the weeks to come.
It is important to keep in mind that the quality of this experience is closely related to how deeply the child is connecting to the the learning experience, activities, and content. This level of engagement doesn't require a lot of time; it does, however, take care and intention.
Learning Specifics: Teachers will be using Teaching Strategies GOLD assessment, IB Scope and Sequence, and the classroom's current Unit of Inquiry to guide e-learning curriculum and activities to target developmental benchmarks and standards.
Online Educational Content: Teachers will be posting resources from a variety of reputable online educational websites, such as: Youtube Kids, Discovery Kids, Fun Brain Jr., Time for Kids, PBS Kids, Make Me Genius, ABCya, Nick Jr. Sprout, Starfall, Kid's CBC, Boowa & Kawala, Fisher Price, Orsinal, etc.
