Here is the family note going home this week. Copies will be made for your classroom:
December 5th Letter
Wednesday night our school had a great representative at Canyon Ridge. It was the district strategic planning meeting, and we had a young lady from fourth grade participating. Student voice at the elementary level is sometimes forgotten, but she represented very well. She was contributing to discussions, providing ideas, and very professional. When the meeting was over, she walked right up to the facilitator and said thank you:
Music to my ears is this young man from third grade walking into my office asking for assistance with gmail. He had a chromebook with a document in his drive, and he wanted to email his writing paper to Mrs. Sweet. We had a quick tutorial on how to share a document and how to type an email. When a student asks for this request, everything else is set aside:
This is great example of blended learning, Title 1, school improvement money, 21st century skills, and more. He had worked at home typing the paper, and at school, and used his google drive for the writing assignment. He even added a great background to his gmail to personalize:
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