This is our daily remote learning schedule. Students are expected to follow this schedule to the best of their ability.

Color Code

White: Classwork assignments on Google Classroom

Green: Visit cluster teacher’s Google Classroom for assignments

Blue: Students work independently (On their own)

Yellow: Teachers and students will be on lunch

Updates 4/19/2020

Please fill out the Chanellor's survey on remote learning as soon as possible:

https://www.schools.nyc.gov/RLsurvey

Past Updates:

For Families that might in need of assistance:

FoodHelp.nyc (Call 311 for more information)

Bensonhurst Council of Jewish Organizations

8635 21st Ave Brooklyn, NY 11214

Service Speciality: Kosher

Salt & Sea Mission Church Inc.

2417-2419 Stillwell Ave

Brooklyn, NY 11223

Grab & go meals will be available at the following sites:

David Boody MS: located at 228 Avenue S (between West 5th and West 4th Streets)

John Dewey HS: located at 50 Avenue X (corner of Stillwell Avenue and Harway Avenue)

PS 95: located at 345 VanSicklen Street (corner of Avenue U)

PS 215: located at 415 Avenue S (between East 2nd and East 3rd street)

PS 216: located at 350 Avenue X (between West Street and East 1st Street)

PS 238: located at 1633 East 8th Street (between Avenue P and Quentin Road)

** David Boody is the closest to PS 97**

Free wifi options for parents

Please see below for options that may be available to you:

• AlticeUSA is providing free internet service for all students for 60 days. Please call 866-200-9522 to enroll.
• Comcast – Comcast is offering an internet essentials package for free. To sign up for a free internet essentials package for 60 days, applicants can simply visit www.internetessentials.com. There are also two dedicated phone numbers 1-855-846-8376 for English and 1-855-765-6995 for Spanish.
• Spectrum – Beginning March 16, Spectrum is offering free internet for 60 days to households with K-12 or college students who don’t already have a Spectrum subscription. To enroll, call 1-844-488-8395.
• Charter – Charter is offering free internet for 2 months. 1 (877) 906-9121
• AT&T – AT&T COVID-19 response. AT&T will offer open hot-spots, unlimited data to existing customers, and $10/month plans to low-income families.
• Sprint – Sprint is following the FCC agreement, providing unlimited data to existing customers, and, starting Tuesday, 3/17/2020, will allow all handsets to enable hot spots for 60 days at no extra charge.
• T-Mobile – T-Mobile is following the FCC agreement, plus unlimited data to existing customers, and, coming soon, will allow all handsets to enable hot-spots for 60 days at no extra charge.

*Please note there is no affiliation or legal responsibility between the Dept of Education and these companies. Any concerns, please contact the company directly

Updates 3/21

Getting Ready for Remote Learning

Our class will be starting remote learning on Monday, March 23, 2020. It is expected for teachers and students to be on Google Classroom Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 2:20 p.m. Attendance will be recorded daily to ensure that everyone is participating in remote learning. Due to the various information that parents must learn in order to help their children with remote learning, we have broken down the process into step by step directions.

Step 1: Please check ClassDojo often. ClassDojo is the most convenient way for teachers to send updates about classroom information and communicate with parents.

Check our classroom website often to stay informed as well:

htps://sites.google.com/ps97.org/1-206/home

Step 2: Log into your ps97.org email address.

• Please visit this website: https://accounts.google.com/signin/v2/identifier?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F&service=mail&sacu=1&rip=1&flowName=GlifWebSignIn&flowEntry=ServiceLogin
• Type in the email address provided to you.
• All students’ default passwords are welcome97. Please create a unique password.

Please watch this video for more information on how to change your password: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkekDnqIhQE

• Once the email is set up, please look in your inbox. All students have received requests to join Google Classroom.

Step 3: Join Google Classroom.

• Watch this video for more information about Google Classroom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVJHM5V7l2M
• Once in Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/c/NTAxNDU5NDA4Mlpa ,please add cluster teachers’ classroom codes. The students will be joining their cluster teachers in different Google Classrooms.

The following is a list of Google Classroom codes for cluster teachers:

• Reader’s Theater (Mrs. Komissaroff)- yzn5nfz
• Science (Ms. Regina)- 3spfbx7
• Gym (Mrs. Bohm and Mr. Valle- 3spfbx7

Step 4: Set up Lexia on your device. Lexia is a program that provides students with differentiated literacy instruction.

• Please visit this website: https://www.lexiacore5.com/register or download the Lexia Reading Core5 app on your device.
• When asked to enter a teacher’s email, type in: mgiordano@ps97.org
• Watch this video for more information on how to use Lexia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pHl1133m7U

Step 5: Set up i-Ready on your device. i-Ready is a program that provides individualized instruction based on each student's unique needs in Reading and Math.

• Please visit this website: https://login.i-ready.com/ or download the i-Ready app on your device.
• Click on K-1 Card Login (It is a blue button on the right-hand side of the page)
  • Click your student’s name and enter the class number and password that was provided to you on Dojo

Thank you for your patience. You are all set up! We look forward to remote learning with all of our students and parents.

Important Message from the Department of Education to Parents:

Please check out this message from the Department of Education!

https://pwsauth.nycenet.edu/learning/learn-at-home

Parent's Guide to Google Classroom:

https://youtu.be/2Iowi-gmbys

Here is some information about what the students will be learning during this time:

Writing Realistic Fiction Unit Map

In this unit, students will create a character and write about many different adventures the character goes on! We will begin to pay attention to adding details such as dialogue and feelings to make our stories more interesting.

Standards:

1W2: Write an informative/explanatory text to introduce a topic, supplying some facts to develop points, and provide some sense of closure.

1W6: Develop questions and participate in shared research and explorations to answer questions and to build knowledge.

1W7: Recall and represent relevant information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question in a variety of ways

By the end of this unit, students will be able to:

- identify the elements of a realistic fiction story.

- invent characters.

- think of adventures that characters can go on.

- create pretend characters and come up with a small adventure for that character

-take charge of their own writing.

- create a problem for the character.

- create satisfying endings by telling how the problem is solved.

- add dialogue, actions, feelings to bring their stories to life.

- use everything I know about spelling to tackle sparkling words.

- use checklists to review their writing and set goals.

- create a series for a favorite character.

- bring my characters to life by telling a lot of important details about them.

- add realistic details to my stories by using adjectives detailed drawings

- include interesting details to tell more about my problem

- end my story by showing how the problem was solved.

- provide a sense of closure by providing feelings.

- use punctuation marks to give orders to my readers. (p. 134-137)

- use illustrations to tell important details.

Assessments:

Your child’s writing will be assessed daily to make sure they are staying on track with their writing. Teachers will be providing tips and feedback to make sure the work is progressing on a first grade level. At the end of the unit, multiple stories will have been written about your child’s character!

Resources:

Writing a short story video on Brain Pop Jr.

https://jr.brainpop.com/readingandwriting/writing/shortstory/

Character video on Brain Pop Jr.

https://jr.brainpop.com/readingandwriting/storyelements/character/

Setting video on Brain Pop Jr.

https://jr.brainpop.com/readingandwriting/storyelements/setting/

1st Grade Reading Realistic Fiction

In this unit, students will be reading realistic fiction. They will continue to work on story elements such as describing and understanding characters and setting. They will be working on retelling important events in stories. They will use pictures as well as words to understand the stories they are reading.

Standards:

1R1: Develop and answer questions about key ideas and details in a text.

1R2: Identify a main topic or central idea in a text and retell important details.

1R3: Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, or pieces of information in a text.

1R4: Identify specific words that express feelings and senses.

1R6: Describe how illustrations and details support the point of view or purpose of the text.

1R7: Use illustrations and details in literary and informational texts to discuss story elements and/or topics.

1R8: Identify specific information an author or illustrator gives that supports ideas in a text

In this unit, Students will be able to:

• Tell what the story is about
• Name important parts of the story
• Describe actions, thoughts, and feelings of a character.
• Describe how characters change over time
• Describe how characters respond to major events in a story
• Describe the setting of the story
• Use pictures and words to understand what is happening in a story
• Make their own connections to the story they are reading
• Retell events of a story

Tasks: Students will be assigned reading tasks on their google classroom.

Assessments: We will be assessing students through their assignments on Raz Kidz, I Ready, and Lexia

Please encourage your child to continue reading each day during their time home.

Each teacher will be adding resources to their class website to help your child be as successful as possible during this time.

Math Unit Topic 7

We can use what we already know about counting to count past 100. We will be learning how to count by 10s to count forward and back using a 120 chart.

Standards in this Unit:

*NY-1.NBT.2c: Understand that the two digits of a two digit number represents amounts of ten and ones (10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90 refer one two three four five six seven eight nine ten)

*NY-1.NBT.1 Count to 120 starting at any number less than 120

At the end of the unit, the students will be able to:

*Count by tens to 120

*Count by ones to 120

*Count on an number line to 120

* Find number patterns on a number chart

*Count to 120 using an open number line

*Write numerals to show how many objects are in a group

*Find better and faster ways to solve problems

Assessments and Tasks:

Work will be assessed daily to make sure it is being done on a first grade level. Additionally, children will complete an online assessment at the end of the learning unit.

Resources:

• iReady lessons
• Counting to 100 by 10s video:

https://youtu.be/W8CEOlAOGas

3/16/2020:

As you are all aware, due to the COVID-19 pandemic (Corona Virus) schools will be closed until, at least April 20. The City Officials will continue monitoring the situation and keep us updated during this time.

In the meantime, to ensure that your children will still receive their education, remote learning will take place beginning on Monday, March 23. At this time, we are still unsure of what that looks like, but teachers will be getting training this week, and I will be able to provide you with details as I get them.

In the meantime, place take note of the header on top of this page- two new pages have been added: "COVID-19 Updates", which will serve as place to see all up to date information from the city as we receive it, and "At Home Resources", which will serve as a place for parents (and kids!) to keep track of the many ideas educators from across the country have shared to ensure your children remain interested, motivated, and challenged during these difficult times. Please check these pages regularly.

I am also asking that any parent that has not signed up for Class Dojo at this time please sign up! If you do not have the sign up sheet, please email me at mgiordano@ps97.org so I can send you a direct link to sign up. I am also asking that parents send me their email address, phone numbers, and technology capabilities (do you have access to the internet/a computer or tablet/ a printer) at this time.

As always, THANK YOU for all your support! I hope to make this transition as easy as possible for all the students and families, and I thank you on advance for the patience, understanding, and hard work that tis transition entails. Stay safe, and be well.

Snacks:

Please send your child in with a healthy snack each day, as we have lunch at 12:00, and the children get hungry mid-morning. Please make sure that the snacks do NOT contain any nuts, since children have allergies and this can be very dangerous!