Thank you for everyone hanging in there this week and getting online! It was
a tough week with 1000’s of emails, phone calls, Google Hangouts, and Google
Classroom interactions. I have almost all of my 4 subject classes and 80ish
students online and working.
One thing that I am missing is the interaction with the students to tell them
what I need/missing from them. They are all using Google Classroom for other
subjects so I am going to require that all are
logged on to the Google Classroom for math. A majority of you
already are so this is not a problem. This way I can make announcements and tell
them what they are missing for the week without inundating parent emails.
6th Math Google Classroom Code: ulrosaq
7th Math Google Classroom Code: cjlk7kx
8th Math Google Classroom Code: g6j44db
Algebra Google Classroom Code: xyzfmw5
If at all possible, please encourage your
child to use bigideasmath.com instead of handing in papers over email...they
get one or two chances at the bottom of each question, online tutors, and help
videos within each assignment and it is immediate feedback. I WANT/NEED them to
be working the problems on paper before entering answers and not guessing. I
WANT/NEED them to be going through the lessons in the upper left hand corner
(textbook), skipping past warm ups is fine, and watching the videos I post as
that is the “teaching” part of my lessons. If you like to work with your child,
you can still enter it into bigideasmath as each problem is the same as the book
assignment.
Google Hangouts is the fastest way to get help rather than emailing a picture as
I found it takes several minutes for the problem to download. If you are afraid
of me seeing chaos in the background- your child can turn off the camera so they
can see me and hear me and I can just hear them.
Reminder that attendance is taken per class period- if you have logged
on and communicated with me AND started/completed your work, you are considered
present for the week. Despite rumors to the contrary, we are grading work. Of
course, all learning environments and conditions are taken into account. This is
all new to all of us.
Mrs. Liebig has google hangouts or phone call
and is available for questions also, her email is tamara.liebig@k12.sd.us