Dorothy Fox Elementary Foxy Tales
News Update for April 16, 2020
PTA ZOOM Meeting Today!
School Staff Neighborhood Caravan this Friday 4/17 at 2:00pm!!!
REMINDERS: Be Safe. Stay Apart. Follow Social Distancing Guidelines.
- If your house in on the route, stay with your family and enjoy on your property.
- If your house is away from the route and you want to come to a street so you can see the cars and wave, please stay away from others and stay only with your family.
- Families could drive cars and park them alongside the route to join the fun, but stay safe, stay in your car, and apart from other people.
- Always stay out of the road and do not approach any cars.
The timing could be a little off. We will try to start on time, but we appreciate your patience!
Cars will be grouped and lined up so you can find your people that you know.
Staff will go in the following order:
Office --> Kindergarten --> First Grade --> Second Grade --> Third Grade --> Fourth Grade --> Fifth Grade --> Specialists --> Classified Staff.
Learning Opportunities with Fox Specialists This Week!
Lessons, Live Story Time, and Chromebook Updates, Oh My!
I hope all families have bookmarked the DFE Remote Library website. https://sites.google.com/camas.wednet.edu/dfelibraryremote/home
There, you will find K-2 lesson links, as well as class codes for Google Classroom for grades 2-5. There are also tech tips and additional resources. This week, the K-2 read-aloud begins with a message for parents.
Live storytime is back! To access the optional all-grades storytime, go to https://meet.google.com/ and enter the code dfelibr . This code will stay the same for all our Friday 10 a.m. storytimes. Note: you must log in with a csd account to access the storytime. The user name is your student's email address (first.last@csd117.org) the password is your student's birthday (MMDDYYYY--ex: January 4, 2014 is 01042014). I hope to see you there!
Also: You might link to this video so that all student chromebooks install the updates needed for Hangouts Meet:
Activities from Mr. Hunley for April 13-17
This music site will be updated often and students in all grades an expect new content each week at this same link.
https://sites.google.com/camas.wednet.edu/dorothyfoxmusic
April is Jazz Appreciation Month!
This week, K-2 can Sing Along to "A Tisket A Tasket" as well as listen to some music from famous Jazz Musician, lla Fitzgerald, and answer some questions with your adult at home.
Students in grades 3-5 are enouarged to learn and listen about Pianist/Composer Toshiko Akiyoshi from China. Kids can submit answers to some reflection questions to Mr. Hunley and he will common on your thinking.
Mr. Hunley has made it easy to stay connected. You can subscribe to the Facebook group, Youtube, and Spotify. Links are on his landing page.
Did you see Mr. Hunley's music recording set up at home on the news?
Have you checked out the PE Lessons for this week?
Don't Have Google Classroom as a K-2 student? Here is a direct link to Mr. Dunn's lesson:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DEsQ8Dyq2NmRNO8zap41fP5ym5ESliesUyqudLDtPPA/edit?usp=sharing
Dance Along to the TROLLS VIDEO on You Tube: https://youtu.be/KhfkYzUwYFk OR
Play along to "Would You Rather" at: https://youtu.be/M-C-4uQhn10
Students in 3-5 are encouraged to join Mr. Dunn's PTA Google Classroom. Then you can write to him and he will comment back to students directly.
HIs code to add a Classroom is: ebjnhcs
For students in Grades 3-5 this week Mr. Dunn has posted a lesson called:
Deck of Cards Workout!
End with a cool down video he linked from YouTube: https://youtu.be/CXkREedqqsw
Try the physical work out and write to him about how it went in PE at Home!
School Counseling Resources and Kids Lesson Sessions from Mr. Baxter
Corrected Link to ongoing Dorothy Foc Social/Emotional Learning Lessons, Videos, Parent Topics, and Community Resources that are available to Fox Students and Families.
Our school counselor has some video options for Fox kids with age appropriate topics. New lessons will be added weekly.
- Grade K-1: Video #1: Emotions
- Grades 2-3: Your Brain is Like a Muscle
- Grades 4-5 Neuroplasticity
Website Idea: Our Local OMSI has Ideas for Science at Home
Stay Home, Stay Curious (From OMSI)
These days, many of us are staying home and socially distant—but we can remain connected as a community through our shared experiences and support for one another.
During this temporary closure, OMSI is continuing its mission to provide informal science education across the region by sharing crafted and curated science activities that can be enjoyed by all ages.
Click here for fun activities and videos like:
- Find Your Blind Spot
- Plankton Design Challenge
- The Science Behind Telephones
- Why Do We Wash for 20 Seconds? How soap molecules interact with bacteria and viruses from our skin
- Plans for Spirit Day on April 22: Disney/Marvel Day! (Submit photo for yearbook)
- Earth Day Activities on April 22! (Submit photo for yearbook)
- Invite to ZOOM PTA Meeting for all members 4/16/20
- Update on Natural Playground given present circumstances
Registration for Kindergarten for 2020-21 is open!
Do you have a child who will be starting Kindergarten this next fall? If so, we need you to register now. It is important for Dorothy Fox to be able to calculate how many students will be joining us next year so we can assign the right amount of teachers. Our typical May Kindergarten Orientation will need to look different than normal, but we will likely push out some video information and then welcome Kindergartners to the school in August for an early orientation. More info to come, but in the meantime, please register your child and/or remind family and neighbors to register their children as well so e can count them and plan for staffing.
http://www.camas.wednet.edu/schools-resources/resources/new-student-registration/
KDFX News Broadcast for 4/14/20:
APRIL is National Poetry month! Please send a video your student reading a poem that can be shared.Send to sarah.logan@camas.wednet.edu.
We want photos and videos of what kids are doing at home to share on the news. Please send to sarah.logan@camas.wednet.edu.
If you as a family have an idea for how to stay busy at home that you can share with others in Foxy Tales, please email: cathy.sork@camas.wednet.edu.
Dorothy Fox Elementary School
Here are some helpful Technology Supports:
Has your family connected to Epic! Reading's amazing online library? Follow this link for information about Epic! and how to connect!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eJYHwKqPlKeClfI79taX6NfRAKvxl9Shg9mtpc-KBPc/edit?usp=sharing
Need support for a school Chromebook? A remote learning site has been established by the Camas Tech Department at http://bit.ly/camasremotelearning
Remind students how to be responsible with their school Chromebook. A lesson from Mrs. Logan.
Chromebook video: https://youtu.be/djH4Tr1Kn8A
Email: cathy.sork@camas.wednet.edu
Website: http://schools.camas.wednet.edu/dorothyfox/
Location: 2623 Northwest Sierra Street, Camas, WA, USA
Phone: 3608335700
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/www.dorothyfoxpta.org/