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Me Contact Me Homework Here is the Word- Squires’ Stars- 30 March 2020- Hello to my students who are at home staying safe! I am in our room and going the training we need for this week of the soft roll out of online work in ELA. First- do not get all worked on this new platform for learning while we ride out the CV Pandemic. At this point you will be doing 45 minutes of iReady a week and we can see who has done the work and passed it. You can do that in one sitting or over several days. Also we encourage all of you to be reading at least 15 minutes a day. Keep a log of the book or books and number of minutes as I will need that information later on. I am doing as much pleasure reading as I can and have finished 4 novels in the last two weeks. On my 6th now. I will also be assigning some reading in SCOPE as you have access to that online and there are videos to watch, we just won’t be able to do the written work unless something should change in the next few weeks. We can ZOOM for discussions. More on that later. Hold on to your essay assigned two weeks before break and due last Friday March 27. I cannot accept emailed work, but save everything as we may have a collection at the end of the quarter. No grades will be entered electronically so do not check the gradebook as nothing will be there. I am sure you will be diligent and complete the iready and other reading and perhaps some fun writing. April is National Poetry month and I submitted your poems to SCOPE and Creative Communication before I left for Spring Break. Hopefully we will have some winners for publication! Fingers crossed. Some good news from the Florida Council on Econcomic Education: Our two poster winners are Liana S.and Laura H. Their beautiful work will be hanging in the Capital buidling in Tallahassee. As soon as I receive your prizes, I will get them mailed to you. Congrats girls and well done! I am signing off for now- you have iready to do and enjoy reading some good books which you can also access with ONE PASS cloud library by using your N# and Pin#. I miss you and be safe. I pray for your good health and well-being. Love, Mrs. Squires xoxo 2 April 2020: Hey guys! I hope all of you are well and staying in and washing hands a lot! I hope you are finding enjoyment in reading and working on your iReady. Slow and steady wins the race. Just work thru the lessons and pass them! I will be sending out office hours and a goggle phone number soon as i just got connectivity at home after several glitches. All of this is new to us so be patient and don’t fret. My expectations are to do what we have been doing. I will assign a reading on SCOPE next week and there is no school on Friday April 10 due to the scheduled holiday. The Easter Bunny is coming I hope with a mask on. Ha! Everything is going to be alright! Hugs to all, Mrs. Squires OFFICE HOURS should you need to contact me: Wednesday from 1-3 and my Google Phone Number is : 941 275-2672 or via email of course. You know I am confident in your ability to read and complete the iReady lessons as well as enjoy reading, keep a log of your minutes per day and follow CDC rules for keeping safe. Fingers crossed this will be over soon... 3 April 2020: Hope all of you are doing well and looking forward to the weekend! If you do not have internet at home, please let me know. I am sure by now that you all do but there are options if you do not but I must know asap. I did survey all of you early in the year and believe that I have that information, but we have to supply it to the office. Thanks so much! I will be zooming with SCOPE editors and all of the other national teacher advisors next week on Tuesday afternnon. They are working on some SCOPE at home activities for us as you have SCOPE online. Remember that we would be doing writing and reading for state testing and since we are not doing testing now, we have reading still to do. I know that we may be able to work out some components, but just try to keep reading and keep your log on the books you are reading both fiction and nonfiction. I have seen some really funny poems about the CVirus and staying in so all of you poets- consider trying your hand at an ODE, or a HIAKU, or a regular poem like we were writing in #67. I should be hearing if any of you had your poems selected by SCOPE or Creative Communication poetry contest. I will pass on that good news as soon as I receive it. This is an unprecedented time and we are all doing our best to deal with it. I miss you and need you to check the website for updates as that is how I will communicate with you. Thanks for your sweet emails and stay safe. Love you guys! 6 April 2020: Hello all- I sent you an email via your school email on Friday as you need to fill out that forms information that the school must collect and send to the County re: use of internet. It was sent to your school email acct. N# email. Please take care of it today as I only have 51 replies and we are late on this matter. Thanks so much. Hope you are all well and staying in to read and complete the iready work. I will me zooming with SCOPE editors and other national teacher advisors tomorrow afternoon. I will assign a SCOPE reading in April issue this week. I know this is a special week for us with Passover and Easter and there is NO SCHOOL on Friday for the observance of Good Friday. I will all you every blessing and great joy on these special days! Remember to keep your reading logs. Thanks! Mrs. Squires 8 April 2020: Mid-week and all is well with me and hopefully with you. You must be doing the iready lessons for 45 minutes a week. I can see when you are in and what is done as well as if you pass the lesson. That is a record that will be part of your final grade. Thanks for getting your survey completed. It was important and you must be checking the website daily as that is our regular form of communication. Yesterday I did a zoom meeting with all of the National teacher advisors for SCOPE as well as the editors. I met Jennifer Dignan who writes the poetry that we have enjoyed and emulated this year. She was so gracious and appreciative of the praise. I shared that my Esther N. had written a cool poem about CVirus and will share that with the editors as soon as I get the go-ahead from Esther. :) Those of you who are not checking the website each day, please do that. Last week was the soft roll out of the virtual programs. It is not without glitches and things to work out. We are all learning new things and it a challenge for sure. Be counting your blessings each day. I am keeping a journal of this momentous time in history. It is good to write freely and record what is going on and what we are doing each day. It helps keep me on a routine. If you are observing Passover as sundown tonight, every blessing and good wishes. Good Friday means no school, and Easter is Sunday. I will be observing it alone this year. I will be thinking of you and grateful that you are safe. I miss you. I will update you with anything I need to. Expect to see posting for SCOPE work and Scope at home activities coming soon from the editors who are working on that as we speak. Much love to you all! Mrs. Squires Update on 4-8: I have spoken with Kyan W.’s mom- he came home from spring break in Arizona quite ill and he is in St. Pete at All Children’s Hospital and going thru a tough time. Mom has confirmed that we can send Get well cards to him that she can take to him or have for him once he is released from the hospital. Please make the effort to do this as I know he will appreciate it and doing good things for others is a VERY GOOD THING! He is an important member of the Blue Team and our grade 6. So make a card or use a store bought one and send to: Kyan at 11751 Breadfruit Lane Venice, FL 34292 Thanks so much everyone! 13 April 2020: A new week and I hope you had a wonderful Easter or Passover! If you experienced any issues with slow internet in North Port or on iReady, just understand that...