Parent/Student Communication

Some of our greatest joys and greatest challenges center around communicating with our families. These are a few of the resources that have been developed to overcome those challenges.

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Chromebooks ENG.mp4

Parents' Introduction to Take-home Chromebooks

(English version)

Chromebooks SPAN.mp4

Parents' Introduction to Take-home Chromebooks

(Spanish version)

Chromebooks MIX.mp4

Parents' Introduction to Take-home Chromebooks

(abbreviated Mixteco version)

For Parents: Intro to Chromebook, Clever, Classroom

English

Thank you, César Ruiz, Librarian (Arellanes Elementary)


For Parents: Intro to Chromebook, Clever, Classroom

Spanish

Thank you, César Ruiz, Librarian (Arellanes Elementary)

Video sent through ParentSquare, explaining how to access the Classroom. They will have to click two or three things the first time they log in to the classroom.

How to make a YouTube channel and upload a video.

What can I do at home? (TK-1)

"What can I do at home?" for parents Eng/Spn (make a copy and edit)

Click2Speech

This is a Google extension that has been pushed out to the Chromebooks for TK/K/1st grade students that allows text on the screen to be "read" to them in English and Spanish by text-to-speech technology. If you are interested in giving this extension a try, follow these directions for installing the extension.

Directions for installing Click2Speech extension:

1) Go to this link

2) Search Click2Speech

3) Click Add to Chrome

4) Click Add extension

It can easily be toggled on and off from the menu bar.

If it's green, it's on. If it's clear/black, it's off.

Mouse over text and click to have it read to you.

Click the icon to turn it off.