Starting Our Blended Learning

North Hudson Staff,

Thank you for all the hard work getting our students off to a great start! Staff that can, please help out with transitioning our new Kindergarten students from Door #6 into the building at 8:45am. K-2 Classroom teachers, continue to assist your walkers to the front of the building at the end of the day.

At this week's staff meeting, we will be digging into media center online resources available for literacy stations during Reader's Workshop. Some of the resources could also support Integrated Units of Study. The following link will give you access to our media center webpage where these programs are located. Online Resources for Blended Learning Opportunities. You and your students can access the following programs using this username:  northhudsonel and password:  northhudsonel (book/true/science/freedom flix, brainpop/brainpop jr, pepple go and grolier online).

During the staff meeting please dig into these resources, list the reasons you may use some of the resources and when/where (e.g. literacy choice in Reader's Workshop or for researching during Integrated Units). Here's a link to the google doc we'll use to record your ideas. Online Media Resources Brainstorming Document. Please bring your laptop or ipad to the staff meeting. This will allow you to become more familiar with these programs, and how you may use them in the content areas mentioned above or other areas such as Writer's Workshop.

2nd-5th grade teachers, you should have received a link with your Scootpad account information. To log in use your school email as your username, and your temporary password is changeme. I thought some of you may be interested in looking at how you could potentially use this online literacy/math site.