Parents of 4th and 5th Graders,

We are providing lessons that will encompass online learning and book/paper learning. The goals for homebound instruction are to provide some continuity of instruction, and to facilitate the student's return to a regular school setting as quickly as possible.

When Homebound Learning begins, a proper setting for learning is to be provided:

-Instruction should be held in a clean, smoke-free, well-lighted room that is free from distractions. 

-Keep to a schedule. Children strive in a consistent, predictable environment where they understand the expectations. 

-A responsible adult must be present in the home, but not in the room.

-Parents should not expect their children to sit for hours without breaks. An example of a reasonable expectation for a 4th and 5th grader would be 45-60 minutes of working, and a 15 minute break.
 

4th and 5th Mustang Daily Responsibilities

• Pray. 
• Stay healthy.
• Check your Gmail account.
• Plan/budget time for schoolwork. It won’t be a full school day, but you will need to do some planning. If you are sharing devices in your home, you will need to be even more responsible about planning.
• Ask questions!!! We can be reached through all the Google Classrooms or by email. Don’t fall behind, ask for help. 
• Download Zoom and join in Zoom meetings when you get an email invitation. 
• Stay in touch electronically with your friends. Reach out to those that you might not have heard from.
• Be a support in your family, not a problem. Be willing to help, work and push yourself. We won’t be there in person to push you...but we know you can and will continue to grow and learn.
• Take care of the SMS materials that you have at home.

To get started learning from home...

• Log into Zearn. Your classcode is ZV6W4P
• Log into your Google account. Your username is your email. (first name, first letter of your last name and smsmustangs.com) (ex. juliej@smsmustangs.com) Your password is Mustangs.
• Use your waffle in the upper right to quickly go to your Gmail, your classrooms, drive, Google docs…
• You must accept the invitation to be in our class.
• Once in your classrooms, you should see a square window for each of the classes you have joined. 
• You should be in the following classes: 

4th- Math/Science/Religion and ELAR, Social Studies

5th-  Math/Science/Religion and ELAR, Social Studies

• Click on a class to see if you have any assignments. Your Gmail will also alert you when you have an assignment, but you should regularly check into your classrooms. 
• ​​​​​​​If you have any questions about using Google Classroom, just go to Google and ask them. There are tutorial videos available that are much better than we can make. You can also ALWAYS email us and ask for help. We have several ways we can reach out to you and offer support. 
• Download Zoom. Zoom is a chat/meeting platform. It is free and we hope to use it often to meet with our students. 
• If needed, the blacktop at SMS is a hot spot now. We can get you information on how to access the wi-fi if needed.  Just ask!

This is going to be a learning curve for all of us. I will keep in close contact with you so that we can keep the homebound learning goals at the forefront of our minds. We are in this together. Please contact me with any questions, concerns, and feedback about your child and/or the lessons we have provided.

Thank you,

Mrs. Snider and Mrs. Dougherty

Did you zearn today? www.zearn.org  (class code ZV6W4P)

What about IXL?
https://www.ixl.com/signin

Don't forget to check your google classroom everyday!classroom.google.com (class code f6dag2u)

Here is the link for a google classroom tutorial. 
https://youtu.be/xfgqtCi7hdo

If your student would like to take Accelerated Reader tests, they are welcome to do so. Click Accelerated Reader!

Need to break up school work? Have a little fun on abcya while still learning! 

You can also do any IXL work. They have Math, Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies!

Accelerated Reader (AR)
Please note the correction for required number of AR points:
The following is the requirements PER NINE WEEKS FOR THE 1ST AND 2ND QUARTERS, for the 4th and 5th grade AR points 
                                         First Semester                                   Second Semester
Fourth Grade              8 points for each quarter                      10 points for each quarter 
Fifth Grade                 10 points for each quarter                      12 points for each quarter