Be sure to view the following on the Parent Blog post for Sunday.

• What parents have been told about asynchronous assignments in La-bri’ut and Hebrew.
• What HTM students have been asked to bring to class

HTM

Here is a link to the HTM pictures for Pesach and Purim. Students have these photos in their yellow folders. Be sure to use these photos as props if you don’t have actual matzoh, chametz and maror. I will do a brief English review of the day’s vocabulary during assembly. I will screen share the pictures and you could, too, if you want.

If you need help logging in to Zoom during school hours, text Rob Manson at (269) 270-2825.

Grade 3-HS Teacher’s Meeting the Sunday at 9:30

We will meet to discuss students choices to turn off video and discuss our concerns and how to best respond. This is a discussion, not teacher training. Sam will take charge with the students from 9:30-10.

Progress Reports

If you have not received your progress reports in the mail, please let Nora know. Please plan to put your completed reports into the mail to Nora no later than March 1. If you can’t meet this deadline, please let Nora know.

Instructions for progress reports can be found in last week’s teacher’s blog post here.

Asynchronous Learning

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.

Sunday’s Schedule

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:

1. 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.
2. 3rd Grade: NONE of the students have done any assignments
3. 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.

Sunday’s Schedule

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.

New Zoom Login effective this Sunday

Where to find new login instructions

1. Linked from the sidebar of the Parent Blog.
2. Linked here.

New Login for OKCJS Zoom Classroom

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

1. Disable ability to write on shared screen
2. All teachers will be co-hosts (Rob will be host)
3. Nora will set up the following breakout rooms before 9am. (Breakout rooms will be open before making Rob the host.)
   • Lower El Main
   • Upper El Main
   • High School Main
   • Parent Coffee
   • Cats & Dogs
   • Sports
   • Girl Talk
   • Best Friends
   • Play Time
   • Nava Main
   • Nava 1
   • Nava 2
   • Sam Main
   • Sam 1
   • Sam 2
   • Naomi Main
   • Naomi 1
   • Naomi 2
   • Mannaberg Main
   • Mannaberg 1
   • Mannaberg 2
   • Spivak Main
   • Spivak 1
   • Spivak 2
   • Schicker Main
   • Schicker 1
   • Schicker 2
   • Schicker 3
   • HS 1
   • HS 2
   • HS 3
   • HS 4
   • HS 5

Schedule

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

1. Disable ability to write on shared screen
2. All teachers will be co-hosts (Rob will be host)
3. Nora will set up the following breakout rooms before 9am.
   • Lower El Main
   • Upper El Main
   • High School Main
   • Cats & Dogs
   • Sports
   • Girl Talk
   • Best Friends
   • Play Time
   • Nava Main
   • Nava 1
   • Nava 2
   • Sam Main
   • Sam 1
   • Sam 2
   • Naomi Main
   • Naomi 1
   • Naomi 2
   • Mannaberg Main
   • Mannaberg 1
   • Mannaberg 2
   • Spivak Main
   • Spivak 1
   • Spivak 2
   • Schicker Main
   • Schicker 1
   • Schicker 2
   • Schicker 3
   • HS 1
   • HS 2
   • HS 3
   • HS 4
   • HS 5