February 22 – 26

by Melanie Sylvester · Published February 19, 2021 · Updated February 23, 2021

Welcome back everyone!

Thanks for all our your efforts to make Virtual School the best it can be for our students. We have been jumping into Google Meets and hearing meaningful discussions, seeing “entry tickets” using Jamboard, watching the young ones exercise and chat about the color wheel, and listening to fabulous read alouds. Thanks for the tremendous effort in getting your learning packets ready as well!

Grade 2: Virtual School Wellness in Action!

Travel Questionnaire: If you travel outside of HCMC (even on a weekend trip), you must fill this in before you travel. Thanks!

Virtual School Wellness For Students Idea:

One approach for ES teachers could be to design a plan through a lesson guiding the students to brainstorm on the topic of what it means to be well during virtual school. You could guide your students to come up with wellness categories as in fitness, diet, etc. to then list them in your wellness template. An inquiry and self-directed approach could then have the students drawing on their current understanding of each category to then research to find out more. The next step could be to set goals and implement action plans to reach the goals. Students could then pair up to have wellness buddies to support each other which connects to the R in PERMAH of having a buddy during virtual school.

Here is a draft for an elementary virtual school wellness plan to get you started.