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Week 7 – May 4 to May 8:<\/em>
School Closure Planning<\/a>
Week 1<\/a>
Week 2<\/a>
Week 3<\/a>
Week 4<\/a>
Week 5<\/a>
Week 6<\/a>
Week 7
Week 8<\/a>
Week 9<\/a>
Week 10<\/a>
Week 11<\/a>
Week 12<\/a>
Week 13<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recap of week 6:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Happy Star Wars Day!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Happy Star Wars Day! During week 6 I devoted quite a bit of my time to contact families that I haven’t from in a while. I texted 17 parents from whom I have not heard on Bloomz and whose kids have either not checked or responded to me on Classcraft, or they have checked in on Classcraft but have turned in no work. I used Google Voice and heard back from 13 of them! I contacted six more via email and heard back from three. I messaged nine more parents on Bloomz and heard back from six of them. So of the 32 families that I needed to check in with after not hearing from them, I got through to 22 of them and have still not heard back from 10. Together with the rest of my team, the ELA teacher, the Math teacher, and our school counselor, we called and got through all but four. We are hoping that they are okay and are just too overwhelmed with life to focus on school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A timely Random Event<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Kids Taking Advantage \ud83d\ude42<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

After contacting parents I started seeing work come in from students who hadn’t been doing anything for Science. Turns out that quite a few of the kids who have not been working were not being completely honest with their parents. Some told their parents they were working when in fact they weren’t. A couple of kids even told their parents that they didn’t have any Science work because I wasn’t assigning any. That one perplexed me because I can’t imagine anyone believing that. Either way, some families were saddened because they thought they could trust their 6th graders and now know that they are going to have to monitor their kids more closely. One more thing to do. ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since my course branches out based on what students complete, sometimes they get a choice of what to do next. So the assignments that are getting done tell me that students must prefer those. It’s no mystery to me that students who are starting to catch up are choosing to start with a Kahoot or a Pear Deck or a Google Form check-in survey. Those are small, engaging bites of work compared to the projects that require more work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Update Classcraft Ocean Guardian School Quest Chain<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

So currently, in order of most popular based on student completion I have my Week 3 Pear Deck check-in is still on top with 31 students, number 2 with 29 students completing is a brand new Advice Google Form Survey, in 3rd with 25 students completed is my Hydro Dynamics Challenge Check-in (now an old one), in 4th place with 19 students completed is my Earth Day Pear Deck, tied for 5th with 18 students completing each are my Water Pollution Kahoot and COVID-19 Escape Room, tied for 6th place with 15 students completing each are the HYDRO DYNAMICS CHALLENGE and a Physics Gimkit game that we created through a Pear Deck vocabulary activity, and in 7th place with 13 students completed is my Scientific Thinking activity<\/a> that launched the Climate Change project (which of the 13 that completed the Scientific Thinking activity<\/a>, four have completed the Climate Change research phase!). The only shocker for me is how few students are even interested in playing games from my Legends of Learning playlist<\/a>. Many might not even be aware it’s there depending on where they are on the above image showing the branching of activities. And some just know they don’t like “educational” games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macros Zoom a Success<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Last week’s Science Zoom Meeting with the guest presenter was a hit, kids loved it. About 24 kids joined, which was still not as much as ELA and Math are getting. I’m not sure why but they are getting 30 to 33 kids and I’m not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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