I have documented your student’s progress with their homework asynchronous learning. It is on the second tab of the Attendance Spreadsheet. A lot of progress was made this week.
Please encourage your students to use their time of during the break to catch up on their asynchronous learning.
Class Blogs on Seesaw
This week I set up the class blogs on Seesaw. This is the way your students will be able to see each other’s work. I will demonstrate how to view the blogs during assembly. Activities have to be manually approved for the blog. I will be responsible for doing that every week when I document which assignments your students have done.
Important Dates
Community Hanukkah Celebration today @ 2pm.
Winter Break December 20-January 3 (School resumes January 4)
We will have 1:1 and Monday/Wednesday drop in this week.
9:15-12:15 High School 9:30-10:00 Socializing with Friends (optional) 10:00-10:15 Assembly 10:15-10:55 Lower El – Hebrew; Upper El – Judaism (including video recordings for Hanukkah, see below) 11:15-12:55 Lower El – Judaism (including video recordings for Hanukkah, see below); Upper El – Hebrew 11:55-12:10 Mr. Mannaberg’s Hebrew Through Movement (4th & 5th Grade plus Jake)
Important Dates Community Hanukkah Celebration Sunday December 13 @ 2pm. Winter Break December 20-January 3 (School resumes January 4)
Video Recordings for Hanukkah
Please record your students’ answers to the questions listed below. The video recordings will be edited and shown at the Community Hanukkah Celebration on December 13. I suggest that you do this during your Judaism class time and recognize it will cause you to go over your usual time limits for that class. Here are the questions:
Here are the questions:
1) Name a miracle that happened on Hanukkah 2) What is your favorite fried food to eat on Hanukkah? 3) What is your favorite Hanukkah song? 4) What is your favorite flavor of sufganiyot? 5) What is your favorite topping for latkes? 6) Which is better: sufganiyot or latkes? 7) What material would you make a dreidel out of? 8) How many presents do you get during Hanukkah?
I’m thinking that the littles may only know the answers to #6 and #8. Please feel free to eliminate any questions that you don’t think your students know the answer to.
If you use the Spotlight feature in Zoom, you should be able to get good videos of the person answering the quesiton. Record to your hard drive and then upload to the Video folder on the Teacher’s Portal.
HTM Hanukkah Lesson
This week and next we will be doing the HTM Hanukkah lesson Level 1 on page 84-5. Our NEW vocabulary will be:
לְהַדְלִיק נֵר חֲנֻכִּיָּה שַׁמָּשׁ
I am thinking that שַׁמָּשׁ will not be a new word for most of your students so I think you can break your new word limit of 3 and teach all 4 words each lesson.
Teach the blessing. PreK-3 should teach the first line of the blessing at the bottom of page 85. Mr. Mannaberg, if your students have learned other lines of the blessing you can sing them together.
Remember to use the HTM sequence: warm up/review, introduction of new vocabulary (using script on page 85), integration of old words with the new. End the lesson by singing the blessing again.
Do not teach any other new words these next two weeks.
Home Learning – Let’s Call it Asynchronous Learning
Maybe if we use the term “asynchronous learning” parents and students will consider it to be “real work” that is required.
I reviewed Seesaw and plotted all of the assignments that students did on a spreadsheet. Here is what I learned:
K-2: All of the students but one have done at least one activity. About half of the students have done most of the activities.
3rd Grade: NONE of the students have done any assignments
Upper El: One student did NONE of the assignments. About half of the students have done most or all of the assignments and the other have have done a few assignments.
The spreadsheet is the second tab on the Attendance Spreadsheet. I will keep this data current and we can use the information for progress reports.
LATER ENTRY: There is a flurry of activity on Seesaw. Parents and students are emailing me. Many are working hard at getting caught up. I will reassess next week and let you know the progress.
9:15-12:15 High School 9:30-10:00 Socializing with Friends (optional) 10:00-10:15 Assembly 10:15-10:55 Lower El – Hebrew; Upper El – Judaism 11:15-12:55 Lower El – Judaism; Upper El – Hebrew 11:55-12:10 Mr. Mannaberg’s Hebrew Through Movement (4th & 5th Grade)
Thanksgiving Break
No school Monday 11/23 through Sunday 11/29. School resumes Monday 11/30.
Beginning 11/8 we will transition to new Zoom login credentials. As a part of this transition the new login to our Zoom account has changed to zoom@okcjs.net. The password has not changed.
See instructions for logging in by clicking on How to Host a Zoom Meeting in the sidebar of the Teacher Blog.
PreK-7 Hebrew Assessments Due this Week
Teachers, please bring your students’ Hebrew assessments up to day. See instructions in last week’s blog post for instructions.
Schedule
9:00 Upper El Team Meeting (Rabbis & Cary) – Upper El Main 9:15 High School begins – HS Main 9:30 Zoom classroom opens for socializing – Lower El Main 10:00 Assembly begins – Lower El Main 10:15 PreK-3 students stay in Lower El; 4-7 students to Upper El Main 10:30 Parent Coffee – Parent Coffee 10:45 Nomi, Sam and 3rd graders to Naomi Main 11:15 PreK-3 students to Lower El Main & 4-7 to their teacher’s classrooms 11:50 4-5 & Jake to Mr. Mannaberg’s classroom
Rob & Nora: Zoom Setup
Disable ability to write on shared screen
All teachers will be co-hosts (Rob will be host)
Nora will set up the following breakout rooms before 9am. (Breakout rooms will be open before making Rob the host.)
9:00 Upper El Team Meeting (Rabbis & Cary) – Upper El Main 9:15 High School begins – HS Main 9:30 Nava, Sam and Nomi join HS – HS Main 9:30 Zoom classroom opens for socializing – Lower El Main 10:00 Assembly begins 10:15 PreK-3 students stay in Lower El; 4-7 students to Upper El Main 10:45 Nomi, Sam and 3rd graders to Naomi Main 11:15 PreK-3 students to Lower El Main & 4-7 to their teacher’s classrooms 11:50 4-5 & Jake to Mr. Mannaberg’s classroom
PreK-7 Hebrew Assessments
At 1:1 this week, be sure to assess your students and document that assessment. Links to the assessment spreadsheets are in the sidebar of the Teachers’ Blog.
Instructions for Hebrew in Harmony
Each student has a separate tab.
Tabs are color coded by teacher (Mannaberg = purple, Spivak = red, Schicker = blue).
Assess students at each 1:1.
Date your assessments at the top of the column so progress can be shown over time. (See Gabe’s tab for example.)
Instructions for Hebrew Through Movement
All students on the same tab with each student having a separate column.
Each teacher’s students are grouped together with older students to the right.
Assess each student every week in class or at 1:1.
Under student’s name, enter date student demonstrates understanding of vocabulary word.
Instructions for Shalom Uvrachah
Each student has a separate tab.
Assess each student at each 1:1.
Document date objective met in “Date Met” column.
Zoom Upgrade Available
Security update to Zoom available. Current version is 5.4.1.
Seesaw Trial Period
You will be getting a notice that your Seesaw Pro Trial has ended. It is my understanding that we can continue with only one Pro account since that account is the teacher of record and everyone else is a co-teacher. If you find anything you are unable to do after your trial is over, please let me know.
Rob & Nora: Zoom Setup
Disable ability to write on shared screen
All teachers will be co-hosts (Rob will be host)
Nora will set up the following breakout rooms before 9am.
If you need help with Zoom during school, contact Rob by phone or text or go back to the main Zoom room.. Don’t contact Nora for Zoom help. Feel free to contact Nora by phone or text for anything else.
Please be sure that you have the current version of Zoom (5.3.2). Parents have been reminded to update as well. With this version, we will all be able to be in one Zoom classroom. Participants will be able to move from room to room on their own.
Here is how we will use Zoom:
Everyone grades PreK-HS should come to the Lower El Zoom classroom tomorrow. Login links can be found in the sidebar of the Teacher Blog and the Parent Blog.
We will all be in the Lower El Classroom. We will not use the other Zoom rooms.
All teachers will be co-hosts (Rob will be host)
Nora will set up the following breakout rooms before 9am.
Lower El Main
Nava Main
Sam Main
Sam 1
Sam 2
Sam 3
Naomi Main
Naomi 1
Naomi 2
Upper El Main
Mannaberg Main
Mannaberg 1
Mannaberg 2
Spivak Main
Spivak 1
Spivak 2
Schicker Main
Schicker 1
Schicker 2
Schicker 3
High School Main
HS 1
HS 2
HS 3
HS 4
HS 5
Upper El team meeting is scheduled for 9am. Cary and the two Rabbis will be assigned to the Upper El Main breakout room as they arrive and their meeting will be held there. When their meeting is finished, they can join everyone in Lower El Main breakout room for the PreK-7 assembly.
As students and other teachers arrive, they will be assigned to breakout rooms. Upper and Lower El students will be assigned to Lower El Main breakout room as they arrive. High School will be assigned to High School Main.
At 10:15 Upper El students will move to Upper El Main. Students with the current version should be able to move themselves. For those who can’t move themselves, Rob will move them.
At 10:55 4th & 5th graders plus Jake will go to Mannaberg Main for Hebrew in Harmony.
Put a P in the column if your student attended and A if they were absent.
Each week on the spreadsheet begins with a Sunday when we have school. Since we didn’t have school on 9/20, Week 1 actually spans two weeks and therefore has two columns for 1:1’s.
Both of these forms can be found in Teachers’ Portal/Forms. Steph will make sure the madrichim access them before class and know how to use them. The madrichim who are assigned to track their observations will complete the forms, take a photograph of them and send them to the teacher who will use them for both self assessment and for progress reporting in Seesaw (see Assignments in Seesaw).
Assignments in Seesaw
I have scheduled the following assignments in Seesaw.:
Sukkat Shalom Lesson 1. I put a link to the activity videos for PreK-3 and the Challenge videos for 4-7.
Hebrew in Harmony Lesson 2 for your respective prayers.
Shalom Uvrahchal Lesson 2 for Naomi Verne’s students.
Shalom Hebrew Lesson 1 for Jake to use with Naomi in his 1:1.
At the bottom left of the screen where the student posts their work you will see this:
You can like, comment or make private notes. If you click the mortarboard, you will see the Skills that we will be assessing and can document that the assignment has been completed. What you mark here will not be visible to students or parents. It will be reported out for you to use when completing your progress reports.
Use the following rating scale:
one star (below average)
two stars (average)
three stars (above average).
Please mark each completed Judaism and Hebrew assignment that I schedule for you and rate it. Optionally you can rate any assessment of the student’s Derech Eretz behavior in each class based upon your observations also considering the madrichim’s tracking documentation. This will give us an objective basis for our progress reports. Here is an article about Skills tagging and reporting in Seesaw.
Announcements
Security update to Zoom available. Current version is5.4.4.
Important Dates
Community Hanukkah Celebration Sunday December 13 @ 2pm.
Winter Break December 20-January 3 (School resumes January 4)
