An Update about Phase 2 of At Home Learning

Hello Everyone. I just wanted to give a brief update about what I have learned about the expectations for students over the next few weeks. As you are probably aware, the Ministry has indicated that students are expected to be provided with approximately 5 hours of learning activities per week. We have been informed that this should be broken up with about 2.5 hours of mathematics and 2.5 hours of literacy, which includes French.

As a grade 3 team, we will be preparing weekly Hapara workspaces much like what I provided this week for students to work through each week. We will do our best to ensure that the amount of work should only take about 5 hours per week. If you find that it is taking your child significantly longer than this then please let me know and I will do my best to assist. If you would like your child to do more than this, then please feel free to use any of the digital resources we have provided over the past few weeks, such as Khan Academy, Prodigy, Readworks, and Raz-Kids.

In addition, we will do our best to ensure that the work students are given will have a digital choice and a printable choice. We understand that access to computers, printers, paper, etc, is different for everyone, so we want to provide some choice in how your child completes their weekly tasks. To be clear, students do not have to complete both the printable task and the digital task. They are only expected to complete one, whichever is more accessible for you.

To submit the digital assignments, students can simply complete the work in the website (eg. Khan Academy, Readworks, etc). We will be able to see students level of completion and results within those websites. If completing a paper task, then please take pictures of the completed pages, and have students upload them into Hapara workspace.

I will make a short video on the weekend to explain this in more detail and to show how to submit work if doing it on paper.

Our aim is to make this as easy as possible for parents and families, so please feel free to let me know what it working for your family and what you are finding challenging. I am always available to support you in any way possible. Thank you so much for all you are doing!