IMPORTANT FOR ALL STUDENTS IN GRADE 6K, 6T and 7C

Please log in to your school email account this week.

We are moving to TEAMS for all weekly assignments except for Currents4Kids.

Each of you has been assigned to a CLASS TEAM!

You will find your invitation in your email.

To login to your email you need your school username and the password you would have used to login to a computer at school. If you have forgotten your username or password please send a message to me by any email address you can access or by asking your teacher contact when they get in touch this week.

To get into your email: Google "office.com" or click the link: https://www.office.com/

Choose the "Outlook" icon

Enter your username followed by @nbss.nbed.nb.ca

Example: WHOAMI12345@nbss.nbed.nb.ca

You should see an invitation to your Team, which will have a link. You click to go to the Team. There is a Welcome message in Posts, which you can read, and you can look in the Class Notebook. Where we have placed some background information for you to read.

Although this unexpected school closure has caused us to implement these changes now, we have always planned to use Teams for teaching, assigning, and grading. This is a great opportunity to get use to technology that we will be using instructionally in the Fall. We are committed to ensuring that you can learn seamlessly in school and at home. No more lost papers, no trying to find your drafts, no more misplaced notebooks---everything you do can be kept in your personal notebook in your class Team. Even better, if you have a partner, you can both use your collaborative workspace to work on your project. You can actually work together from anywhere as long as you have internet. If your partner (or partners) is (are) absent, you can still work.

If you have ideas to share with the class, you can chat in posts to the whole class or if you are assigned group work you can chat with just your group members. If you want to share links or helpful resources, you can send me a message with what you found, and I can add it to our class content. As we grow and learn the capabilities of Teams together, I am sure we will continue to find ways that we can use Teams to make learning, sharing, and connecting easier.

I will be setting up a Class Meeting. You will receive an email about this giving you a date and time for the meeting. Check back in your school email for messages later this week.

Please let me know as soon as possible if you are not able to get to your email, cannot remember your password, or do not have an invitation to the class meeting (later this week).

Remember, we as teachers are all learning this with you and we will be making changes and asking you to provide feedback about how things are working for you. We will be asking what we can improve and how we can make this a great educational experience for all of you.

So, for this week:

1)       Log in to your email, navigate your way to Teams, check out the posts and assignments there

2)       Read and complete the quizzes and response questions for Currents4Kids

3)       Read each day

You may also select a topic from the previous Writing Choice Boards that have been posted and complete a writing assignment or two.

This seems like a lot but accessing the Teams site and the short assignment there are the only extras.

Send me an email if you have problems.

Stay safe,

Mrs. C.