Dear Parents
It’s going to be a FABULOUS year! This year will be filled with excitement, fun and lots of learning. Your child will be given the tools and the opportunities to really explore knowledge. I believe that learning can be an enjoyable journey, where in the end we can all grow and develop a true love of wisdom and discover our strengths and passions.
Technology serves a major function in the Grade 6 classrooms to collaborate and connect with students across the globe. Safety and proper usage of the chosen technology is therefore vital for our classrooms to be successful in its implementation.
As part of our continuing growth as educators, we would like to videotape and take photos of learning activities during classroom time. The primary focus of the videotaping and photo taking is for professional learning and not on the students in the class. During the course of videotaping and photo taking, your child will appear.
Videos and digital cameras:
Students use cameras throughout the year to capture their learning for documentation and making learning visible to you and their colleagues. These images/videos are often used for publication on our classroom website/blog and sometimes they are included in presentations or professional blogs to share with other educators.
Skype/ Google Hangout:
Skype and G+ Hangout are used to connect with others schools/students, authors, professionals on a global scale. We use this service to speak, share and answer our inquiries through experts, other classrooms, and anyone else we may be reaching out to.
Blogging: This student blogging website is an integrated part of our learning. Blogging will provide us with an incredible chance to welcome others into our room as well as to practice our writing craft in multiple writing formats. Students will have individual accounts that we, the teachers, facilitate and will have the ability to access them from home.
Twitter: Twitter will allow our classroom to reach out to authors and other classrooms around the world as well as allow us to share our learning.
These tools are the ones most frequently used in our classroom. Other apps and GAFE (Google Apps For Education) will be introduced throughout the year.
I value open communication between school and home. I will keep in constant communication with you concerning the events in our classroom through the REMIND app as well as twitter and my blog. I have attached a postcard with all my social media contacts and blog website.
I look forward to seeing everyone at our Meet the Teacher night on Tuesday September 18, 2018. During this evening, I will explain classroom procedures and our homework routine.
If at any point, you have questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at the school at (613-521-5894). I look forward to a fabulous year!
Your partner in your child’s education
Porcari