#TeamPenn WAG
April 13 - 17, 2020
2nd Week of Distance Learning! We've Got This!
AMAZED - WOW!
Week 1 of Distance Learning was outstanding! Keep up the great work! Thank you all for connecting so genuinely with your students and being so available to families. Please be sure to let me know about any student who did not engage in Zoom calls. The doc for you to share that info on is here. This week, I hope to join more Zoom calls and we're going to also need your help pushing out a few things.
#1 My "Monday Message" or "Weekly Message" YouTube video- not sure what it will be called but I'll send the link tonight after it's uploaded to our YouTube Channel. This also goes out to parents via Smore on Monday morning but a couple of teachers showed it during their Monday Zoom call via "screen share". Nice idea and a good time filler if needed!
#2 Zoom Etiquette - a reminders page for you to share with students and families (it's referenced in my Monday Message also.
#3 Coach K's Brain Breaks, Workouts and Other Silly Things (this will be updated weekly so just include the link on your hub).
In other news, I am ordering some new Penngrove notecards for us to use. Let me know if you have other needs or ideas that I can help execute. Be on the lookout for an email from Anne & Alyssa this week with some ideas for how you can help celebrate our 6th graders! Thanks in advance for your participation!
Adrienne or I will be getting in touch about a grade level meeting this week so stay tuned! If you already have one scheduled, will you just invite us? That would make things WAY easier and LESS meetings! :)
Ms. Gies will be sending an attendance spreadsheet with details soon. Be on the lookout!
Grades....I'm still working on that one. One thing at a time!
I'm sure more things will come up but for now, signing off!
Amy
- Monday, 4/13, Distance Learning/Instruction continues
- Tuesday, 4/14, Yesenia Work in Office
- Wednesday, 4/15
- 11:30am Staff Meeting (please save this time for all Wednesdays and we can see if it works well)
- Thursday, 4/16, Yesenia Work in Office
- Friday, 4/17
- 4pm Happy Hour via Zoom
Happy Birthday, Amy Fadeji on April 14th!!
Elena Judson-
Learning Team
PennPTA Rocks!
Looking for the link?! Distance Learning Doc Lives Here!
Please make sure your Zoom links and everything else are UPDATED!
Zoom Grade Level Meetings
PEF is Here For You - How Can We Help?
To all our Superintendents, Principals, Teachers and School Staff:
PEF is here for you! We are proud to continue partnering with your school communities during this challenging time. We are impressed with each and every one of you in how you have handled a complete change in your traditional teaching environments. When this is over we will need each other more than ever. PEF pledges to be here for you today, tomorrow and in the future.
Currently, we are:
- using our social media platforms to share your individual campus posts and distance learning resources - keep sending us links and messages to share!
- updating our supporters on how our local academic community has stepped up to keep students feeling secure and academically supported during this unprecedented time
- looking for ways to honor the Class of 2020 in a special way - your ideas are welcome!
- next week $226,075 in PEF Scholarship awards will be shared with members of the Class of 2020 via regular mail
- PEF Impact Grant awards totaling $185,337 for the current academic year are being funded as previously announced
Our staff and board of directors are available and ready to assist in whatever way you may need. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to let us know how we can help. Keep up the AMAZING work!
We are all in this together. Be well.
Thank you,
Maureen Highland, PEF
More Zoom Tips
Zoom Etiquette
Zoom Etiquette - a reminders page for you to share with students and families (it's referenced in my Monday Message also.
Coach K's Brain Breaks, Workouts & Other Silly Things
Coach K's Brain Breaks, Workouts and Other Silly Things (this will be updated weekly so just include the link on your hub).
Mrs. Lutz reading "A Fine, Fine School"
Art Project Videos from Laura & Sophia
Hello,
I hope everyone is doing well. Sophia and I have been coming up with art projects that you can send out to your students if you like. I had Sophia demonstrate everything in the videos because......... let's face it, she's way better at it than I am. This week we have made 4 different videos with different kinds of bookmarks. They vary on levels of difficulty so hopefully at least one of the designs will work for all different ages. The top link in the doc is the easiest bookmark and then they get harder as you go down the list. I put all of the pictures and video links to each bookmark tutorial in one doc because a parent or sibling can help make any of these with their child. Next week, we will be featuring different crafts you can do with toilet paper rolls. Stay tuned!
The shareable link is below.
I miss everyone but I feel thankful to have Zoom so I can see all of your smiling faces.
Laura Easley
https://drive.google.com/open?id=11h6yu6TfL7WMADUTUAvfPoCfxVoys0lT7lj3r5oZ6L0
So sad to see you go, Leslie!!!!
Dear Penngrove Staff Members,
It is with mixed emotions that I share with you all that I have accepted a position to be the speech therapist serving Petaluma High School next year. I have truly enjoyed the last 23 years at Penngrove, seeing the growth in our students and the evolution of our amazing school! Helping kids communicate is my passion, and I am very excited to continue this adventure at my former high school, doing what I love each day. I have appreciated being a member of "Team Penn" and also part of the Learning Team at this site. The compassion you all put forth for your students each day is truly amazing, and I am thankful to have been part of it for so long! What a gift it has been to work with each of you. Thank you for the joy and laughter over the years, I will miss you all!
Announcing this now, and over the computer was definitely not the way I wanted to communicate, also considering what everyone is processing at this time. I just wanted you all to hear this from me first before the news traveled through the district. I value you all as colleagues and even more as my friends. Thank you for so many wonderful years at Penngrove! Hopefully, we can see each other in person very soon.
With love,
Leslie
--Leslie S. Ransom, MS,
Speech-Language Pathologist
Speech Therapist Department Chair
Mary Collins School at Cherry Valley
Penngrove Elementary School
Thanks Dr. Seuss Fans
I imagine if Dr. Seuss were alive today, he'd write something like this:
(Read with Dr. Seuss book rhythm).
The buildings were big and people would smile
And travel they would mile by mile.
But sick they become, in numbers it grew
Businesses worried, communities too.
Things stopped for a bit, the world slowed its roll
The virus had certainly taken its toll.
But what they then saw from slowing things down.
Is in fact they now had less reasons to frown.
Families now gathered, what game shall we play?
Pass me the blue crayon, give mommy the grey.
Dad's home guys! He'll read us a book
then all of us together will cook.
The lungs of the planet caught a small break
less travel meant less pollution to make.
People did realize they'd all be ok
They don't need so much to get through the day.
Maybe this virus that caused so much stress
Showed the whole world that more can mean less.
Written by XXXXXX
Inspired by Dr. Seuss
#TeamPenn All Day Every Day
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