ELD during CDL

 Hello everyone!

Welcome to the 2020-2021 school year! We are well underway; we are doing this!

I do not plan to add posts here very often. If you have questions, please email me. Also, the district websites for families have a lot of information and links. pps.net/student and https://www.pps.net/fall2020 and https://www.pps.net/familyresources

In case you do not know what the acronyms in my post title above are:

ELD = English Language Development

CDL = Comprehensive Distance Learning

During distance learning, I am supporting students with their core learning in language arts / social studies and in science. I have designated ELD small group support times as well as drop-in support times. Students can find the schedule of times by going into my Seesaw class (ELD - Ms. Kjome). They see my class as one of their choices when they are logged in to their Seesaw account, just like they see their homeroom class, their art class, and their PE class. The schedule is found in the "inbox" of Student Announcements in my class.

I will also sometimes post optional supports as Activities in my Seesaw class. We have some great resources to help students with their learning. We have BrainPOP ELL, for example. We have Kids A-Z, which is a great source for many online books. More details will appear in my Seesaw class. For these great resources and more, students log in easily through Clever.

I miss seeing everyone in person in the building, but I am very glad we are being safe and preventing the spread of COVID-19 in our schools. I hope that together, we can all make the best of distance learning.

Along with the online schoolwork, teachers are providing some work for offline too-- math work in notebooks, writing with pencil on paper, handwriting journals, and more! I am glad that students can do some work off the screen. Seesaw makes it possible for students to share their work by taking a picture of it to post to their Seesaw journal. I enjoy looking through the work students do for their classes on Seesaw.

I am on my own this year as the only ELD teacher at Grout. The range of content across K-5 is wide. However, I hope I can be supportive with the learning of Grout's Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Learner students. Along with the support times in my schedule, I am also collaborating with teachers.

I wish you all the best this fall!

~Kristin Kjome -- kkjome@pps.net

Virtual Learning Days

Hello,

I, along with my teaching colleagues at Grout and in PPS, embark on Virtual Learning Days this week. We, like you, are staying home and social distancing to slow the spread of COVID-19. Thanks to the internet, we will all try to keep connected. Of course I also look forward to the future day when we will be able to return to connecting in person at school.

If you are one of my students or a family member of one of my students, hello! I hope you are staying healthy and safe at home.

My plan for this week is to engage in a lot of online learning that has been created for teachers in our district. By the end of this week, I also expect to be added as a teacher to your classroom teacher's google classroom, so that I can work with your teacher to support your learning.

You have already received communication in a variety of ways from Grout and the district about visiting pps.net for many resources to guide your learning at home. You also hopefully know about being able to pick up grab and go food at Grout from 11-1 Monday-Friday starting again tomorrow. Along with that food, there are also printed learning materials available.

All the best,
Kristin Kjome