At our school, we use Hapara and Hapara Workspace to support our students use of technology and to differentiate their learning. Each teacher has a Hapara account for their classroom, which they use to monitor student activity on the computer. They also use it to push out documents, share links, and send messages to students. We use Hapara workspace to offer students individualized practice in math and language. It also provides an efficient way of presenting a unit of work in one space with the development of learning sequences using a series of cards.
You can access your child's workspace material by clicking the Hapara icon in the OCSB Student Portal. In Math, students have access to a Math Up workspace designed to help support their learning in class. An image of a unit of study as it appears in the workspace is shown below. The Learning Goals for each unit are described on the left with links to math games that support your childs learning in that unit available below. The next series of cards contain PDF's of parent guides, entitled SUM IT UP, which summarize the key ideas that your child is learning in Math and can help you support your child's work. Underneath that, there are links to PDF's of Mathletics workbooks that support the concept being studied that you can print off for extra home practice if you feel it is needed. On the right hand side, there are PDF's of manipulatives and resources provided by Math UP should you wish to have your child play some of the games provided. The workspace is organized sequentially according to the units of study as we have studied them in class. Please keep in mind that although this workspace is organized in units, we also spiral in our Math class. Spiralling is organizing topics that might traditionally be taught in blocks, chapters, or units of study over a short period of time and introducing topics in smaller chunks and spreading them out over a longer period of time. It is common in our class to come back to a topic multiple times over the duration of the grade in order to go deeper into our learning each time and help ensure comprehension of key concepts.