April 27th to May 1st Agenda

Here is a look at the activities for next week:

Have a great weekend!

Online Learning April 20-24

Dear families and students, 

It is hard to believe we are already on our 3rd week of Online Learning! I miss the boys and girls so much but I have absolutely loved seeing pictures of their beautiful work in our Google Classroom. 

Moving forward, please remember that these activities are meant to strengthen students' early literacy and numeracy skills. I do not expect them to be able to write all of the sounds they hear in words, write full sentences or always count properly. I encourage you to please let them do and submit their own work and you can show them how you would do it after they are done.

After listening to feedback, I have tried to create less assignments and more engaging activities for the students to do at home. As always, if you have any questions or need support in any way, please email me at tlbenison@cbe.ab.ca.

Here is a look at next weeks activties:

Dear students and families,

I hope you are all enjoying your long weekend. Here is a look at our schedule for next week (April 13th- 17th). 

You will notice that all of our activities next week are listed as "Assignments" in the "Classwork" section of our Google Classroom. I made the change to assignments so that it would be easier to organize our work and for me to look at your beautiful pictures! 

Please note that although they are listed as assignments there is no grade attached and uploading pictures is completely optional - although I love looking at student work and giving them feedback.

You are welcome to continue posting pictures and messages in our "Stream" section of the our Google Classroom as long as they are kind and helpful. I know that it is a great place for children to go and look for news from their peers.

Mrs. Beaton

A brief look at Monday

Hi there students and families,

Here is a brief look at the activities we have planned for next week.

Remember, we are all learning how to use Google Classroom together. Next week, I encourage you to explore the classroom and ease back into learning activities. There is no pressure to complete every activity. 

There are also some templates provided in the classroom that you can print off. However, if you do not a printer, that's ok! You can complete them on a piece of paper found at home. 

Here is link to CBE help pages with log in instructions and student/parents help if you are still have trouble accessing your account. You can also email me directly at tlbenison@cbe.ab.ca

: https://www.cbe.ab.ca/support/Pages/Google-Apps-Gmail.aspx 

Have a great weekend and I look forward to starting classes on Monday!
Mrs. Beaton

Using our Google Classroom

Dear families and students,

Thank you for all your cooperation this week as we set up our Google Classroom! 

I wanted to share with you a quick look at how to navigate the classroom and get to some of those fun activities, videos and more!

After logging in, you will see an image that looks like one of the following:

PM Kindergarten:

Or AM Kindergarten:













Above these images, you will see a toolbar that looks like this:

If you click on the "Classwork" tab

It will bring you a list of topics:

Feel free to click on and explore some of the items and links in the different topics.

For example, if you click on the "Whole Body Movement" topic it will bring you here:

If you click on "Cosmic Kids" it will bring you to a youtube channel full of fun yoga videos for kids!

You can even find a "Frozen" Yoga Story!

On Monday, our weekly activities will be posted in the "Weekly Lessons" topic. 

Please email me if you have any questions!