Monday Mail
Mashburn Elementary
A Message from Our Principal
Thank you all for Making Me Smile today as it was “Make Someone Smile Monday”. The pictures you sent in during the faculty meeting made me smile and so happy to see all the GREAT things you all are doing and enjoying. I am GRATEFUL for each one of you. Have a wonderful week.
Love,
Carla
Staff Class Placement
Action Item:
Complete form by May 1st
Read to Succeed
Please remind your students that they need to record their reading on the new eReading logs, not on paper. The website is sixflags.com/books. Then they will need to enter your class code. Students must log six hours of reading to earn a free ticket. The deadline to submit the logs online is THIS Friday, April 17. Happy reading!
Action Item:
Remind parents and students of the deadline.
Reading Step Recognition
For the students that reach 600 steps, please complete the 600 Steps Form by Friday. The students that have met 600 steps will be recognized on GMM.
Action Item:
Fill out form before Friday
7 Mindset Activity- “We are connected”
WE ARE CONNECTED PROJECT (OPTIONAL)
During your Mindset Lesson, please encourage your students to participate in Thanking Our 1st Responders. Please have your parents snap a picture of their child holding a message, picture, sidewalk chalk message, or a Thank You sign, and send them to you.
If you get any, please send them to Katie .
The District is creating a slideshow with the photos for the Community's 1st Responders.
Action Item:
Send responses to Katie
PAWS
Please remember to add the weekly PAWS ITSLearning Page to your ITSLearning Page.
If you send a blurb home to your parents, please use the below message:
Hey Blue Bears! This week’s challenge is Acting Responsibly. Make sure your parent snaps a picture of you showing a ACT RESPONSIBLY! and send it to your teacher through email or class dojo!
Brainpop & Brainpop Jr. Games
For each of BrainPOP’s 850+ standards-aligned topics, you can assign relevant learning games to keep kids engaged and on-track without excessive prep.
To search for a game, open Brainpop or Brainpop Jr. and search the word "games" in the box. This might be a fun way to end a lesson or give an incentive once finished with an activity! :)
Nearpod Updates
Nearpod has recently made a number of updates to accommodate the situation in which we currently find ourselves.
- Time to Climb lessons can now be played in student-paced mode. Nearpod features a ton of pre-made Time to Climb lessons, or teachers can make their own.
- Open-ended questions now offer students the option to submit audio responses if this feature is enabled by the teacher when the question is created. Learn more HERE.
- Teachers can now embed a Flipgrid topic directly into a Nearpod lesson. Learn more HERE.
- Teachers now have the ability to remove posts from student-paced collaborate boards, by moderating the board in their reports. Learn more HERE.
Parent Help Guide
Here's a little help guide for parents that will help you with these troubleshooting emails:
Frequent Problems with Online Learning
Action Item:
Please reference this guide if parents are having any issues
OTHER Parent TIps:
If parents are having issues with google accounts “sticking,” they can do one of the following:
- Try clearing the cache:
https://www.technipages.com/google-chrome-clear-cache - Have their student go into Incognito Mode:
Full directions are HERE.