I want to inform you beginning on Monday, March 30th, the kids will no longer be working out of their paper packets.  Instead, your child will be expected to spend 60-90 minutes daily completing online learning and practicing skills.  This will come in the form of videos and activities and practice opportunities I assign your child online.  

I posted a video below from Mr. Montgomery that shows you how to access "Clever" from the West Hills Primary website.  Your child's assignments will be posted there. I will continue to update my web page though and provide you messages through it.  Please continue to check the my web page!

I recommend that your child practice accessing his/her "Clever" account this week so that he/she will be ready to go next week.  If after watching the video you are still having problems, please let me know.  I'd like to have most of those issues ironed out before Monday.  I know Monday will have its own set of issues!    

I will be providing more information as I develop and plan next week's instruction, but my plan as of now is to post all the assignments for the week on Sunday evening.  That will allow your child to work through them as it fits into your schedules, as many of you are still working, while others are trying to work from home.  My hope is that the videos/links/apps I assign your child will be sufficient teaching and practice, allowing him/her to master the skills.  Your child should need very little guidance as far as the work goes (maybe a little help with the technology piece of it at the beginning), but I'll try to use the same format daily/weekly so that they can get the hang of it.  I will be monitoring your child's progress through the apps, and will contact you if I feel there is an issue.  

Our on-line learning will resemble our in-class learning in that we'll have a set of skills to learn and practice all week, with our goal being mastery by the end of the week.  For example:  Next week's skills will be: Long a (ai, ay), Telling Time (to the hour & 1/2 hour), Adjectives (describing words), Drawing Conclusions.  So a lot of our assignments will be focused around these skills.  Others however, will be review of already taught skills.  

I know there will be a lot of questions/issues as we move forward so please do not hesitate to contact me.  We are all in this together. Open communication is the only way this will work so keep letting me know about the good, the bad, and the ugly!  I appreciate all that you are doing for your child, please keep up the good work and do the best you can.