Cardinal Connection
April 2015
"Telling isn't teaching and told isn't learning."
Yellow Transportation Cards!!!!!! Please send them home on Monday(4-7-14).
Ipad Restricitons
We really need for everyone to comply with changing the restrictions on your student iPads or any other devices students have access to in the classroom.
JCPS internet has restrictions on the computer, but students are able to get around this and access adult content on YouTube and other sites. If you think your students will not search porn, boobies, sex, etc… think again… If you think they are “too little”, “too disabled”, or “too naive” to search such topics… think again! This will help you avoid having to deal with these issues in the future.
ALL TEACHERS PLEASE COMPLY WITH THE FOLLOWING to keep our kids safe at school:
How to set up Restrictions on your iPads
1. Delete the apps for YouTube, Netflix, or any other app you may have where students can access adult content.
2. Change restrictions on iPad by touching “Settings”
3. Touch General and look for "restrictions off”
4. Touch restrictions
5. Touch “enable restrictions” to set passcode as “0102”. It will prompt you to enter this twice.
6. One enabled, turn OFF “installing apps, deleting apps, and in app purchases” (they will no longer be green)
7. Scroll down the screen to “Allowed Content”. Change “Music and content” to turn off “explicit”, Touch “movies, TV shows, apps, etc” (go down the column) and set appropriate ratings (i.e. as in Rated G movies only)
8. On websites you can block certain sites. Please block YouTube or any other site that has adult content (if you can suggest some, let me know… Evann is not an expert in this area!! ;-)
ASK Evann, Helen, Ronda, or me if you need help, but please try going through the steps FIRST.
Where’s Kurtis Wolf? Can he help us do this, Nina?? :-)
THANK YOU SO MUCH for your cooperation. I know you all have so much on your plates, but this is really important. Many of us have already experienced this within our classrooms and it’s so disruptive to instruction! Talk about getting off task!!!
Chancey Grade Level Vertical Alignment with Math & ELA Standards
Due April 29, 2014
Guiding Questions:
1. When students enter your grade in August, what are some critical skills they must possess in order to be successful from day one? What should the previous years teachers focus on in the last 6 weeks of school in Math and in Reading? Please be specific. Refer to standards that students must know before entering your grade.
Good examples J: Students should know basic phonics rules (silent e, adding suffixes, prefixes, etc)
Students should know grade level math vocabulary (operational terms, shapes, etc)
Poor examples L: Students should know how to read.
Students should be able to add and subtract.
2. Please compile a list of resources that the previous grade can share with parents at the end of the year Report Card so that students can begin preparing for the next grade level over the summer.