Ms. Swinton's Class

Hello everyone! I hope that you are doing well! I just wanted to write a note that with the launch of our Google Classroom, this blog will become less of an important resource, as information that was previously housed here will now be posted in our Classroom instead for the most part. Most students have been using Google Classroom very successfully so far, and I've enjoyed looking through the fantastic work that you've already done! There are a few students who haven't submitted any assignments yet, so I'll be checking in with those students soon, just to ensure that they understand what they need to do and how to hand in work electronically. You still have the rest of this week to get the work done though, before new assignments are posted next week, so no rush! Students have expressed interest in another class meeting through Google Meet, which is tentatively scheduled for this Thursday at 2:00 pm (just like our time last week). Some important online resource

Thank-you for your flexibility and enthusiasm as we begin this process of emergency distance learning! As I've mentioned, we are building toward the launch of our Google Classroom on Monday morning. This will be a very important space that will function as our online classroom. This is where you will be able to find important information, your assigned work for each week, and resources necessary to complete that work. When you first log in to the Classroom on Monday (through a link that will arrive in your educbe email that morning), the amount of work there might look overwhelming. I have decided to upload a whole week's worth of work at once, to allow you to work through it at the pace that works best for you. Some of the assignments have been split up by day of the week; this is a suggestion to help you decide what to work on when. However, it is ultimately up to you and your family how you would like to progress through. Feel free to do more than the one day's wort

Thank-you to everyone who participated in our class meeting through Google Meet this afternoon! It was definitely an interesting experience, and it was helpful to see some of the limitations of the platform. As I mentioned during the chat, I'm not sure how useful this will be for us as a class as we move forward. Where I could see it being most beneficial for us would be for small group or one-on-one meetings if people need more support or to check in about particular things. If people are interested in continuing to check in as a class in an audio-visual way, perhaps to do Circle time, we could potentially schedule monthly class meetings on Google Meet. I know people were happy to see one another's faces and to get a chance to check in! If you're looking for the Google Chrome extension that allows you to see everyone in the meeting in a grid, like my screen that I shared, this is where you can find it . For those of you who were unable to attend, I decided not to record th

Hello again Grade 5 Families! To reiterate and expand upon the email that was sent out earlier today about our class meeting tomorrow on Google Meet: Our meeting time is:  Thursday, April 2 at 2:00 pm Instructions for accessing Google Meet can be found here , and I will be sending the meeting link out tomorrow just before the meeting time via email. (I will email it to student and  parent email accounts, so feel free to check whichever one is easier for you.) All you'll need to do is click on the link at 2:00 and log in using your educbe email address. I understand that not all students will be able to attend this virtual class meeting at the scheduled time. If that is the case for your family, please don't worry! The intention of this meeting is to explore this new platform, reconnect as a class, provide a space for students to share about what they've been up to, and start talking a little bit about what the next weeks might look like. I will also be record